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Netflix Cancels Excessive KAOS After One Season

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Netflix Cancels Excessive KAOS After One Season

By Movieguide® Contributor

Netflix has canceled Greek mythology comedy KAOS after just one season. 

News of the cancellation first broke in a since-deleted Instagram post from Aurora Perrineau, who played Eurydice. 

“Well… this one hurts. I find explaining how I’m feeling to be really difficult, but I’ll try,” she wrote. “For one of the first times in my life, I have found myself really proud. I’m, of course, proud of everyone’s work and the care they gave to this project, because, let me tell you, they left everything on the floor. But I’ve also found myself proud of me, and that is something I’ve struggled with.”

Perrineau continued, “Everyone was brilliant and uniquely themselves. Every performance surprised and excited me. I can’t believe I got to do this with all of you. We made something weird, dark, hilarious, deranged and absolutely tragic  something entirely human. THIS is a feeling I plan to take with me.”

A description of the show from Variety reads, “In a modern-day setting, Zeus has chained up Prometheus after interfering with his godly rule over humanity. Prometheus then attempts to overthrow Zeus with the help of three humans, Eurydice, Ariadne and Caeneus.”

KAOS starred Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, Cliff Curtis as Poseidon, David Thewlis as Hades, Rakie Ayola as Persephone, Killian Scott as Orpheus, Leila Farzad as Ariadne, Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus, Debi Mazar as Medusa, Stephen Dillane as Prometheus, Misia Butler as Caeneus, Mat Fraser as Daedalus, Stanley Townsend as Minos, Billie Piper as Cassandra, Suzy Eddie Izzard as Lachesis and Cathy Tyson as Alecto. 

While KAOS spent four weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 chart, it failed to connect with audiences, and critics were unimpressed. 

“Ultimately, KAOS fails to delight because the narrative buckles under the weight of its own ambition,” Variety’s review wrote. “More than anything, viewers are left to wonder why their petty squabbles should be of any concern to us, especially when there’s already so much to confront on Earth.”

A portion of the Movieguide® review reads:

The dominant worldview of the series’ first episode is one of ancient and neopaganism. A story about the deities of ancient Greek mythology is told with enough to keep one’s interest but very little if any, redeeming value. Most characters – god, human, or hero (demigod) – are almost entirely given over to sexual depravity, manifest savagery and selfishness, and abject boredom. For strong foul language throughout, sexual material both hetero and homosexual, and some brief but disturbing violence in Episode 1 with every likelihood of more to come, MOVIEGUIDE® advises families to pass on KAOS.

KAOS’ excessive content and lack of good morals and values were some of the key factors that led to its cancellation, proving that audiences will always support family-friendly shows with a positive worldview.