Renewals and Cancellations: 'Mythic Quest,' 'The Last of Us,' 'Colin from Accounts'

After 16 seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (and counting), and four seasons of Welcome to Wrexham (and counting), here’s something Rob McElhenney is discovering for the first time: what it feels like to have a series cancelled.

Apple TV+ has pulled the plug on Mythic Quest after four seasons. I’m actually not that surprised. I’d noticed it wasn’t playing well in the Apple Top 10 during its fourth season, and honestly, the season was terrible. The series has been stuck in a rut, entirely too focused on the relationship between Ian and Poppy instead of what made the show work: the workplace comedy. And after an exhausting season, that finale twist was painfully bad. It made me so mad.

That said, Apple TV+ is going to update the final episode next week to give the series a legit ending. I hope it’s not a continuation of what happened in the season finale. I hope it’s a reversal.

Elsewhere, ahead of its second-season premiere on Sunday, HBO is renewing The Last of Us for a third season. I seem to recall that the original plan was two seasons — one for each game — but that creator Craig Mazin had contemplated early on splitting the second game into two seasons. He now apparently has a four-season plan. Hopefully, that won’t overextend it. I just hope we don’t have to wait another two years for the next season.

One of my favorite comedies of the last several years is the delightful Colin from Accounts from husband-and-wife team Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who both write and star in the series about a couple who come together over the injury of a dog (the dog’s name is Colin from Accounts). It’s genuinely one of the funniest, most heartfelt comedies on TV, a must-watch for any fans of Catastrophe. The second season wrapped in September 2024; I don’t know why it’s taken so long for a third-season renewal, but I’m glad to see it. (Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on a fifth-season renewal for the spectacular adoption comedy, Trying).

I could not make it through the first season of AMC’s Mayfair Witches, but all the same, AMC has renewed it for a third season. It will, however, get a new setting and a new co-showrunner in Tom Schnauz, who comes from the Vince Gilligan world, so it might actually improve. AMC put a lot of money into those Anne Rice books. They’re going to do everything they can to make the investment worthwhile.

One last note: After Max cancelled The Sex Lives of College Girls, they shopped it around elsewhere to see if they could find another buyer. No luck. It’s officially dead now. That’s a shame. It would’ve been a great addition to the Netflix library.