Jupiter’s Legacy was canceled by Netflix after just one season: it had topped U.S. streaming

Netflix canceled Jupiter’s Legacy, its 2021 superhero series based on Mark Millar’s comic, after one season, roughly a month after it premiered. That came even though the eight-episode show opened as the most-streamed title in the U.S., with 696 million minutes watched in its first week, according to Nielsen.

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Anyone hoping for Netflix’s version of The Boys or Invincible got something else: the first major project to come out of Netflix’s 2017 Millarworld acquisition, a deal reportedly valued at $30 million to $50 million. Reports also said the series itself may have cost as much as $200 million. Drawing from Millar’s 2013 comic, it aimed for a darker story built around Sheldon Sampson’s Union of Justice, his children, generational conflict, and ideals coming apart.

If you keep up with comic-book adaptations, this is really only worth checking out as a curiosity. More missed shot than must-watch. Millar’s track record, from Civil War, Old Man Logan, Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Nemesis, wasn’t enough to carry it. Reviews landed around 38% to 40% on the major aggregators, a reported showrunner change in the middle of filming seems to have thrown off the show’s consistency, and Netflix appears to have decided that the cost, retention numbers, and franchise upside just didn’t make a second season worth it.

Jupiter’s Legacy is still streaming on Netflix. The planned shift to Supercrooks did lead to a Netflix anime in November 2021, but as of early 2024, there still hasn’t been any major live-action update.

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