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'The Waterfront' Canceled at Netflix After One Season
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"The Waterfront" has gone overboard at Netflix. The streamer
has canceled the crime series, Variety has confirmed. The
decision comes just over two months after its first season
debuted.

Created by Kevin Williamson, "The Waterfront" centered on
the Buckley family, a North Carolina fishing dynasty that
starts on a slippery slope of illicit activities to save
their business. The series starred Holt McCallany and Maria
Bello as the Buckley spouses, along with Melissa Benoist
and Jack Weary as their hard up children. The ensemble also
included Rafael L. Silva, Humberly Gonzalez, Danielle
Campbell and Brady Hepner.

"The Waterfront" had all eight episodes of its first season
bow on June 19. The series spent over a week atop the
streamer's Top 10 before being overtaken after the premiere
by the juggernaut "Squid Game," which debuted its third
season less than two weeks after.

The series earned mostly positive reviews, drawing
comparisons to previous platform-defining crime hits for
Netflix like "Ozark" and "Bloodline." Variety chief TV
critic Aramide Tinubu calling it a "highly bingeable family
soap" and arguing that the story's many loose ends "set
itself up to be yet another one of [Williamson's]
long-running fan-favorite shows."

Williamson had discussed plans for a potential second season,
teasing a power struggle within the Buckley family dynasty
in an interview about the Season 1 finale with Variety.

"I love writing about families - I think that's what I always
gravitate toward. But no one wants to write about happy
people, that's not fun. You want to write about messy people
doing messy things," Williamson said about the series.
"I wanted to tell a story about this broken family that's
trying to fix itself, and why they have to do it individually
and together. There's a lot of secrets going on, and there's
a lot of resentment, there's a lot of trauma and there's a
lot of the past poking through the cracks."



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