"College friends" canceled by Netflix – Variety

Netflix canceled the comedy series "Friends From College" after two seasons.

"College friends will not be coming back for a third season," a Netflix spokesman said in a statement on Monday. "We thank designers Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco for creating a wise, entertaining and extremely compelling show. We would also like to thank the team who worked hard and raise a glass in front of the incredibly talented cast, including Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Savage, Cobie Smulders, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, Jae Suh Park and Billy Eichner. "

Co-created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, the series features Key, Savage, Smulders, Fazon, Parisse, Park and Eichner in the role of Harvard's classmate, whose life remains mingled two decades later. graduation.

Stoller announced the cancellation on Monday night on Twitter by writing: "The College's friends will not be coming back for a third season. Thank you to everyone who watched it. Have a good day of presidents!

The second season of "Friends From College" was premiered on January 11th on the streaming service. The first season of the series began in 2017 and has received mixed reviews. Critic Maureen Ryan wrote in her review of the first season of the series: "The problem with the terrible" Friends From College "is not that its main characters are often selfish, misguided or indifferent; that is what we could expect in the most difficult realms of the vital scene of half an hour. The main problem of the series is that it shows a weak capacity to create or to deepen characters who are worth watching, in spite of their personal deficiencies. "