[Netflix Series] Archive 81

Rocket River · Mar 25, 2022

It was too slow and drawn out
Overall it is ok
but
Why not make this decision like last year?

Rocket River

The Captain · Mar 25, 2022

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Wife and I watched this last weekend and really enjoyed it......so of course it gets cancelled.....

Archive 81 has been 86ed by Netflix, so looks like Dan is permanently stuck in the '90s

Netflix is not going any further down the rabbit hole with Archive 81.

The streamer has canceled the horror-mystery series after one season, EW has learned. The news comes after the show hit No. 1 on Netflix in the U.S. upon its release in January.

Archive 81 starred Mamoudou Athie as Dan, a young man who takes a suspicious job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994 for enigmatic billionaire, Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan). While restoring the tapes — which belong to a woman named Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi) who was investigating a dangerous cult at the creepy Visser apartment building when she went missing — he forms a mysterious connection with Melody and her investigation.

Fans of the series will be particularly disappointed given the shocking nature of the first season's ending, where Dan learned that Melody was not actually dead or missing, but instead was stuck in a different dimension, and, in the process of saving her, he himself ended up stuck in the '90s while she safely made it to the present day.

After the show's release, showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine said the first season was made with a sequel in mind. "It was always meant to keep going. We are always thinking about season 2," she said at the time. Sonnenshine also reassured fans that a second season would answer what really happened to the first season's big-bad Samuel, Virgil's true motivations, who was really responsible for the fire that killed Dan's family, and more.

Archive 81 marked the third collaboration with Netflix for Athie (with Uncorked and The Getdown being the other two), whose next big role is the upcoming feature Jurassic World Dominion. Shihabi's next project is with Netflix as a series regular on the upcoming Painkiller, from Eric Newman, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, and Alex Gibney with Peter Berg directing.

All eight episodes of season 1 are currently streaming on Netflix.

https://ew.com/tv/archive-81-not-moving-ahead-for-a-second-season-at-netflix
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God ****ing dammit f***** f****** Netflix cancels another series?

That’s it. Canceling until Stranger Things hits, then canceling again.

Entropy · Mar 25, 2022

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God ****ing dammit f***** f****** Netflix cancels another series?

That’s it. Canceling until Stranger Things hits, then canceling again.
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Yeah this is a headscratcher. They're killing good series left and right.

jiggyfly · Oct 19, 2022

I finished this as well, I really liked it, not many shows these days keep me interested.

I'm kind of glad they are not bringing it back I liked that it ended on a what's going to happen, I liked that they answered most of the questions and even had a bit of a curveball.

I don't really care what happens to the people in the otherworld, seems a second season would have had a lot of fillers and not much mythos, I mean at the end of the day the evil god just wanted some company.

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