Summary
Arnold Schwarzenegger might’ve been one of the biggest movie stars of the ’80s and ’90s, but those days are long gone. It seems likeNetflixhas decided that trying to recapture that decades-old magic is a lost cause.
After getting out of the bodybuilding game in the early 1980s, eventualNetflixstar Schwarzenegger became an A-lister on the back of starring in films likeConan the Barbarian,TheTerminator, andCommando. The late 1980s and early 1990s solidified Schwarzenegger as one of the biggest stars on the planet asTerminator 2: Judgment Day,Total Recall, andTrue Liesbrought in hundreds of millions of dollars at the worldwide box office. Not content with being a one-trick pony, he successfully branched out into comedy films with movies likeTwinsandKindergarten Cop. Things began to turn around a bit for the megastar around the turn of the millennium, asThe 6th DayandCollateral Damagefailed to catch on with audiences. If Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t bring action fans to movie theaters anymore, what could he do? Politics! Schwarzenegger served as Governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and subsequently returned to acting, albeit far less successfully than the first time around.
Arguably the biggest victory of Schwarzenegger’spost-political careerwasFUBAR, the Netflix show that debuted in 2023. It was a hit for the streaming service upon release and proved that the former star had enough juice left in the tank to fuel a television series. Unfortunately, when the second season hit a few months ago, viewership numbers were way down.According toTHR, total viewership minutes decreased by 73% from season one to season two. After that news came out,FUBARfans feared the worst and simply assumed they wouldn’t be getting a third season. Following a lengthy period of radio silence from Netflix, that has now been confirmed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’sFUBARHas Been Unceremoniously Canceled By Netflix
Two Seasons Is All Fans Will Get
When Netflix signed up to release Nick Santora’sFUBAR, they probably figured they hadaReacher-level hiton their hands. Although Santora has created numerous shows over the years, like A&E’sBreakout Kingsand CBS’sScorpion, Amazon Prime Video’sReacherhas been the most accomplished of the bunch. With all due respect to Schwarzenegger, he is no longer in his acting prime likeReacher’s Alan Ritchson is.
Having established names like Monica Barbaro, Jay Baruchel, Fortune Feimster, Gabriel Luna,Carrie-Anne Moss, Adam Pally, and Enrico Colantoni did little to elevate the mostly mediocre contentFUBARwas providing. That’s not to say thatFUBARwas a bad show; it was simply familiar. A by-the-numbers genre show that was inoffensive and could be what you were looking for if you were in the right mood. Of course, shows likeFUBARaren’t cheap to produce andNetflixdecided it just wasn’t a big enough hit to keep going.
