Renewals and Cancellations: 'Reservation Dogs,' 'Sex Education,' 'High Desert'

FX is not canceling Reservation Dogs, but it has announced that it will end after its forthcoming third season. Co-creator Sterlin Harjo said that it was his decision, but it’s still disappointing. With the end of Reservation Dogs, and the cancellation of Rutherford Falls, what once looked like a better future for series about Indigenous people feels less so. At least there is still Dark Winds, the second season of which debuts on AMC at the end of the month. Here’s the trailer for the final season of Reservation Dogs. The show returns on August 2nd.

Likewise, Netflix has also announced that the forthcoming fourth season of Sex Education will be its last. That makes more sense. Sex Education is fantastic, but after four seasons, half the cast has left, and the other half are still playing high schoolers as they near 30. This one doesn’t arrive until September 21st.

The fourth season of A Black Lady Sketch Show, which debuted last April, will also be its last. The sketch series from creator and star Robin Thede received 13 Emmy nominations and three wins.

Elsewhere, Apple TV+ has canceled Patricia Arquette’s High Desert after one season. I do not begrudge Apple TV+ this decision. I gave it a few episodes, and that seems to be the consensus among a sampling of the writers here, although Seth finished season one but would not have watched a second season. Great cast, lackluster series.

I wasn’t familiar with Freeform’s Single Drunk Female, but Allyson was a big fan of the series starring Ally Sheedy and Sofia Black-D’Elia. It has also been canned after two seasons. Not only that, but Hulu and Disney+ pulled it from its platform the next day along with The Watchful Eye, which was also canceled. What’s left on Freeform, anyway? Grown-ish is due to end after its sixth season, and Cruel Summer’s second season has been lackluster. I assume it will become another linear cable graveyard.

I am not sad to see Netflix cancel Snowflake Mountain, a terrible reality series that sought to capitalize on culture/generational wars. The series put a bunch of wealthy, entitled types out in the wilderness and made them do wilderness things and then tried to make us either hate or sympathize with the wealthy, entitled types. I watched maybe 2 episodes. It was unbearable.

Not much on the renewals side this week, except for MGM+’s sci-fi horror series From starring Harold Perrineau, which picked up a third-season renewal. I have heard good things, but not good enough to warrant subscribing to yet another streaming service. I do like Perrineau, however.

Meanwhile, it’s not a renewal, exactly, but the original Colombian telenovela that inspired Ugly Betty, Yo soy Betty, la fea is returning on Prime Video. The sequel series will follow its original stars, Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello, and will pick up 20 years after the original series ended with Betty as a wife, mother, and professional.

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