Well, apparently good reviews and 11 Emmy nominations still aren’t enough to keep a television show alive anymore.
Prime Video has officially canceled Spider-Noir after just one season, meaning Nicolas Cage’s black-and-white, trench-coat-wearing Spider-Man detective is now one and done.
The live-action series starred Cage as an alternate version of Spider-Man working as a private investigator during the Great Depression. Viewers could even choose to watch the show in full color or old-school black-and-white, which was a pretty damn cool way to lean into the entire noir concept.
And the show wasn’t some embarrassing disaster everyone quietly agreed to forget.
Spider-Noir received generally positive reviews and earned 11 Emmy nominations—the most of any Prime Video series this year.
So naturally, Amazon canceled it.
Because apparently the modern streaming strategy is to spend millions developing a series, get Nicolas Cage to play Spider-Man, earn more Emmy nominations than anything else on your platform—and then pull the plug before audiences have time to become emotionally invested.
The cast also included Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson, with Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serving as co-showrunners.
Spider-Noir was the first series produced under Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios’ agreement to develop shows based on Spider-Man and his extended collection of friends, enemies and random people who happened to walk through a panel once. Another project from that partnership is reportedly still in development and expected to be announced soon.
Great.
I’m sure everyone will be eager to get invested in that one now.
All eight episodes of Spider-Noir remain available on Prime Video, so you can still watch Nicolas Cage fight crime in the Great Depression—just don’t get too attached.
