Do you hear that? The howl of the easterly wind? The distant screeching of a raven as it, no doubt, tears away at some poor decaying corpse? The clattering of old bones sounding like someone playing a fucking marimba? That’s right - the Angel of Death has come for some of your favorite Netflix original series. The company has announced which series are six feet under in 2021 and we’ve got the full insider’s guide. Keep reading to find out if your No. 1 Netflix fav has received the kiss of death and is destined to be dragged down into the torture pits of the underworld!
Lady Butchers: After only 2 seasons, Netflix’s gorgeous meatpacking mama’s are on the chopping block! This reality series gave audiences an inside look at the Romanian sisters, Sorina and Ruxandra‘s butcher biz as they slaughtered defenseless animals, dressed their flesh, and sold those big ass slabs of meat to customers. Fans and meat market aficionado's are shocked and disappointed to hear that the show was cancelled, however Netflix has received harsh backlash from animal rights activists after the Lady Butchers season finale where they killed a horse. Ruxandra told Vanity Fair, “I sad to lose big Netflix deal. PETA say they upset about horse! Ha! I Laugh! Horse NO BIG DEAL! More meat for butcher!” and she slapped her belly with both hands.
Potassium Black: After only 3 episodes, the cyberpunk sci-fi thriller is now out of Netflix’s orbit. The show took viewers on a hi-tech adventure through the seedy underbelly of Yellow-5 and focused on Quellvin Masterrace, a space-barber who gave cool haircuts to bounty hunters. Director Ari Frasier admitted “Yeah, the space stuff looks really cool but we were probably too focused on the haircuts. Looking back, I would say we should have focused more on the bounty hunters themselves and less on the barbershop scenes. That’s my bad. Hindsight really is 20-20”
Requiem For A Team: Trying to capitalize on the success of sports docu-series like Last Chance U and Cheer, Netflix thought they had another hit on their hands with this bizarre endeavor that followed around former high school sports stars who have since gotten into hard drugs. For those who thought The Basketball Diaries was too cheery, this bleak look at life after the lights fade is a grim piece of exploitation with no redeeming qualities. The scene where the filmmakers bet a subject a gram of heroin that he can’t still dunk is extremely repulsive.
Guinea Pigs: An animated show about a family of Italian police officers who are quite literally, you guessed it, guinea pigs. With the civil unrest around the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor as well as national calls to “Defund The Police”, even if this show was a straight and narrow police procedural (which it certainly was not), it didn’t seem long for this world. Conceived as a dark “comedy”, the family often uses racist language and abusive practices and the only “joke” seemed to be that the problematic behavior was coming from an animal that otherwise doesn’t normally speak English. The crossover episode with Paw Patrol where they frame an unarmed and innocent black lab is especially atrocious.
Sexy Little Babies: Yeah, this one shouldn’t have been made. The drama series focused on a group of toddler beauty pageant rejects whose parents go into business together, forming a toddlers-only dance club. Season one created intensely negative reviews for it’s sexualization of children. Sexy Little Babies executive producer, Taylor Partridge, commented to Breitbart “So I guess people are opposed to babies looking sexy and pole dancing? Cancel culture has gotten out of hand.” Many Republican leaders have come to the defense of the show including Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama’s 5th District, who brought it up, seemingly out of nowhere, on a recent Fox and Friends. “Gay folks can renew Will and Grace we don’t say a word. And don’t even get me started on the filth that goes on between species on Unlikely Animal Friends. But all the sudden Daddy Mo-Mo wants to unwind with an 18-pack of American brewed hops and a little pre-K striptease and it’s like I’m some monster. My niece and nephew won’t even look at me since I wore my SLB tank to Thanksgiving,” seethed Brooks, before pulling out a gun and putting it to his temple on live TV. “You tell Ted Serandos to greenlight season 2 before I paint the hallowed halls of Fox News with the blood of a patriot?!” Serandos issued an immediate statement confirming the cancellation in hopes that Brooks wasn’t bluffing, but alas, he’s as cowardly as he is horny for kids.
