Netflix: The 1899 series made you lose 7 hours? Change your life!

After 8 episodes of 50 minutes, the 1899 series will not be renewed for a second season. Netflix had the intelligence to communicate on this abandonment only once the first season had come to an end and seen by the widest possible audience. Smart. The series started with a bang with a second place in the category of the most watched series. She quickly saw her scores halved the following week and then halved again after 7 days.

In short, 1899 bored the spectator and it is quite normal.

Netflix cancels the 1899 series, there will be no season 2. pic.twitter.com/tU979LqvYq

— Series Info (@SeriesUpdateFR) January 2, 2023

Spoiler alert!

From the first episode we see that we are dealing with a typical series Lost : authors who do not know where they are going with weird artifacts (the pyramidWTF?), bite-me-the-knot cliffhangers (“ho you saw there’s a TV while it’s happening in the past”), elements that make you believe that you have understood something when even the authors are looking for each other (“ho the design on this decorative element is the same as the tattoo of the pregnant lousy girl who never washes her face”) and sci-fi clichés (“Come let’s say it’s a time loop” and “yes, but she has lost her memory”). In short, we wade. It looks like a project of zealous students who want to do as much as possible.

Netflix and clumsy inclusiveness oblige, we have the right to a black character who has been betrayed by a white man (a helpless dirty Frenchman who gets his wife swept away) and we also have a couple of gay men who pretend to be brothers. Creepy.

Of course, the authors knew that the mayonnaise would not take: the end of the season was written as a kind of swan song. This series which takes place in 1899 sees a character waking up in “Matrix” mode in a space station. The authors during the brainstorming: “Come on, we don’t care, anyway we did shit all along, with this crazy ending we will look like geniuses when Netflix announces that there is no season 2. »

End of spoilers!

In short, if you watched 1899 and felt a little like you wasted your time, there are several good lessons to be learned:

• Never follow a series that hasn’t already ended. This will avoid unpleasant surprises. Lately we have made a selection of the best series with a real ending.
• Why not stop watching series and fill your gaps in the field of cinema? On Netflix there are very good films: The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Taxi Driver, Gladiator, Pulp Fiction…
• There are the badgers who immediately wanted to sign a petition against the end of the series (these are brain dead, they are lost, do not try to save them) and then those who had a healthier reaction: that of leaving Netflix.

Do it. Truly. Let these 400 minutes be the last you lose in your life in front of this empty factory that is Netflix. We can do things in 7 hours: ride a bike, read, learn a language or to play the guitar, have sex, play with your children, go and get your ass kicked boxing, give blood, but stop spending that precious life time on Netflix! Same thing for Paramount+, Disney+ or Prime Video…