Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [NEWS] Amazon cancels "Cruel Intentions" TV series Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:31:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:31:26 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5e657da2bedfabf27fe32f1eeece2ece"; logging-data="2105894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19B1PnQzbf6yqHkNoic3RQh5zqFa6n8DuE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vLWMjs7O3crHeI7FrS62EdvgqjM= In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250311-0, 3/10/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On 3/10/2025 5:43 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote: > On 3/10/25 4:27 PM, Your Name wrote: > >>     'Cruel Intentions' Canceled After One Season at Amazon >>     ------------------------------------------------------ >>     "Cruel Intentions'" long road to TV has ended rather cruelly. >> >>     Variety has learned exclusively that the "Cruel Intentions" TV >>     series at Amazon Prime Video has been canceled after just one >>     season. The series originally debuted on the streamer in >>     November 2024. The show served as a TV update to the 1999 film >>     of the same name, which was itself based on the classic novel >>     "Dangerous Liaisons." >> >>     A TV show based on the film was set up at IMDB TV (a.k.a Freevee) >>     in 2021 before being formally ordered at Prime Video in late >>     2023. > > Not surprising. I still haven't even gotten to this series, and not sure > when I will, and I'm sure I'm not alone. > > They also were not complimentary about it on Reddit. And it got pretty > much zero "buzz", including there. > > I finished the season, but didn't bother to post about it. It was pretty forgettable. It started out OK, but went downhill getting bogged down in too many plot threads.