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Crime drama series "City on Fire" will not be returning to Apple TV+ for its anticipated second season.
"City on Fire" is based on the novel by Garth Risk Hallberg, and followed how the murder of an NYU student led to the discovery of a city-wide web of secrets.
According to Deadline, Apple TV+ has elected to not order a second season continuation of the story. It follows Apple's recent decision to also cancel the Uma Thurman thriller, "Suspicion."
However, while Deadline says that "City on Fire" was planned as a series, rather than a one-off, its first season did complete the dramatisation of Hallberg's book. An expected second run would have been an entirely new story, which means that Apple has effectively turned "City on Fire" into a limited eight-episode serial.
"City on Fire" was dramatised by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who together wrote, showran and executive produced the series. It starred Wyatt Oleff and Chase Sui Wonders.
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We were two of the few who watched this steaming pile of video.
Not only was the acting cringeworthy, but the story devolved into a huge cesspool of absurdity. Spoiler ahead, so don't go further if you want to waste your time watching this absolutely terrible series.
At the end of the show, it's revealed that the kid is the son of the mother who gave up her baby for adoption.
This, in a city of 7-8 million people? What are the chances? Well... about 1 in 8 million. How stupid.
And the less said about the acting of the rich dad, who's supposed to be suffering from dementia...
It was absolutely dreadful. Glad they put it out of our misery.
Shows that focus on a cast of young, inexperienced, inexpensive performers tend to be crap, IMO. “Another Life” on Netflix is a shining example of this.
So, this was nothing to do with the Ringo Lam classic of Hong Kong cinema? Pity, I'd have watched that.