NetflixNetflix and Marvel's relationship? Consider it disassembled. After canceling Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, just Marvel's Jessica Jones and Marvel's The Punisher remained on the streaming giant. Until today. Netflix has canceled both shows.
The Punisher season two premiered in January and Jessica Jones season three has yet to premiere on Netflix. In a letter to viewers, head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb addressed the surprising cancellations.
"On behalf of everyone at Marvel Television, we couldn't be more proud or more grateful to our audience," Loeb wrote in an open letter posted on Marvel.com. "Our Network partner may have decided they no longer want to continue telling the tales of these great characters... but you know Marvel better than that.
"As Matthew Murdock's dad once said, ‘The measure of a man is not how he gets knocked to the mat, it's how he gets back up.'
To be continued...!" he added.
In a statement, Netflix addressed the fates of the shows.
"Marvel's The Punisher will not return for a third season on Netflix. Showrunner Steve Lightfoot, the terrific crew, and exceptional cast including star Jon Bernthal, delivered an acclaimed and compelling series for fans, and we are proud to showcase their work on Netflix for years to come. In addition, in reviewing our Marvel programming, we have decided that the upcoming third season will also be the final season for Marvel's Jessica Jones. We are grateful to showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, star Krysten Ritter and the entire cast and crew, for three incredible seasons of this groundbreaking series, which was recognized by the Peabody Awards among many others. We are grateful to Marvel for five years of our fruitful partnership and thank the passionate fans who have followed these series from the beginning," the streaming giant said.
Marvel recently announced a slate of animated shows, featuring characters such as Tigra, Howard the Duck, Dazzler and MODOK, are coming to Hulu. And like Netflix's shows, they will all culminate in a team-up series, but instead of The Defenders, they're The Offenders.
See what other shows Netflix has canceled below.
Stars: Keir Gilchrist, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Rapaport and Brigette Lundy-Paine
About: Sam, a young man on the autism spectrum, and his family
Length: Four seasons at time of end, 38 episodes.
Stars: Paul James, Callie Hernandez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jenna Dewan
About: Interconnecting love stories with musical numbers.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Aaron Paul, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins
About: Set in an alternate world of Hollywood, the show follows BoJack Horseman, a washed up actor.
Length: Six seasons, 77 episodes.
Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton
About: Queen Elizabeth II's reign over Great Britain.
Length: Five seasons, likely wrapping up in 2021.
Stars: Logan Browning, Brandon P. Bell, DeRon Horton, Antoinette Robertson, John Patrick Amedori, Marque Richardson, Ashley Blaine Featherson
About: Based on the movie of the same name, the series follows black students in college.
Length: Four seasons, with the final debuting in 2020.
Stars: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Sydelle Noel, Britney Young, Kate Nash
About: A group of women who come together to form the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling in the 1980s.
Length: Four seasons, 40 episodes when the fourth and final is released.
Stars: Amybeth McNulty
About: A retelling of the classic Anne of Green Gables story.
Length: Three seasons, 27 episodes.
Stars: Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Rachael Harris
About: The devil goes to Los Angeles and opens a nightclub to cure his boredom, he then ends up consulting with the LAPD.
Length: Two seasons on Netflix, with the final one coming, making it five total.
Stars: Dylan Minnette, Katherine Langford, Alisha Boe, Brandon Flynn, Justin Prentice, Miles Heizer, Ross Butler, Christian Navarro and Devin Druid
About: Follows a group of high school students dealing with the aftermath of a classmate's suicide.
Length: Four seasons, wrapping up in 2020.
Stars: Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda
About: Two former rivals become best friends when their husbands reveal they want to marry each other.
Length: After one final season, it will be seven seasons and 94 episodes, making it Netflix's longest-running show.
Stars: Brit Marling, Emory Cohen, Phyllis Smith, Brendan Meyer, Brandon Perea, Ian Alexander, Jason Isaacs
About: Uh, perhaps an angel?
Length: Two seasons, 16 episodes.
Stars: Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, Steven Yeun
About: The series followed two 30something best friend bird-women.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci, Kal Penn, Maggie Q
About: President Kirkman, having fallen into office after a terrorist attack, begins campaigning in the third season.
Length: Three seasons (one on Netflix), 53 episodes.
Stars: Uma Thurman, Tony Goldwyn, Sivan Alyra Rachel, Marcus LaVoi
About: The series followed a teenager who received a heart transplant and became haunted by unexplained visions connected to the donor's death.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson (season 1-3), Elisha Cuthbert, Sam Elliott, Debra Winger
About: Kutcher stars and executive produces the series about a dysfunctional family living in a small town in Colorado. He played Colt, a former football star who returns home to the family ranch.
Length: Four seasons, 80 episodes
Stars: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Skyler Gisondo
About: Joel and Sheila Hammond were your typical suburban couple...until Sheila became a flesh-hungry zombie.
Length: Three seasons, 30 episodes.
Stars: Justina Machado, Todd Grinnell, Isabella Gomez, Marcel Ruiz, Rita Moreno
About: After three seasons, Netflix pulled the plug on the acclaimed reboot. The series was a contemporary update of the Norman Lear sitcom about a single mother raising her two kids.
Length: Three seasons, 39 episodes.
Stars: Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Savage, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Jae Suh Park and Cobie Smulders
About: A tight-nit group of friends, from college, navigating life in their 40s in New York City.
Length: Two seasons, 16 episodes.
Stars: Jon Bernthal, Ebon Moss-Bacharach, Ben Barnes, Amber Rose Revah
About: The Marvel vigilante of the same name.
Length: Two seasons, 26 episodes.
Stars: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss, Eka Darville
About: The Marvel superhero/private eye who struggles with past trauma.
Length: Three seasons, 39 episodes.
Stars: Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D'Onofrio and more
About: The Marvel superhero of the same name, by day a blind lawyer, by night a kick-butt vigilante.
Length: Three seasons, 39 episodes.
Stars: Rev. Run Simmons, Justine Simmons
About: A multi-camera sitcom starring the real-life couple as fictionalized versions of themselves raising a family.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Colleen Ballinger, Angela Kinsey, Francesca Reale, Erik Stocklin, Steve Little
About: Based on Ballinger's Miranda Sings character, the series is about the YouTube character's family life. Miranda wanted fame at whatever the cost.
Length: Two seasons, 16 episodes.
Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, Presley Smith
About: Based on the Lemony Snicket novels of the same name, the series follows the Baudelaire children after they're sent to live with a distant relative, Count Olaf.
Length: Three seasons, 25 episodes. Season three, which will be seven episodes, has yet to drop.
Stars: Justice Smith, Jimmy Smits, Shameik Moore, Jaden Smith
About: Created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, he musical drama was set in the Bronx in the 1970s and followed the rise of hip-hop and disco.
Length: One season, 11 episodes.
Stars: Britt Robertson, Johnny Simmons, Ellie Reed, Alphonso McAuley
About: Created by Pitch Perfect's Kay Cannon and based on Sophia Amoruso's autobiography, the series follows Robertson's Sophia as she begins a vintage clothing business.
Length: One season, 13 episodes.
Stars: Aml Ameen, Donna Bae, Toby Onwumere, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai, Tuppence Middleton, Max Riemelt, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Brian J. Smith
About: The fan-favorite series followed eight strangers who shared a mysterious psychic connection.
Length: Two seasons, 24 episodes, and a wrap up movie.
Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup
About: Watts starred as Jean Holloway, a psychologist who infiltrates the private lives of her patients.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Peyton Kennedy, Patch Darragh, Claudine M. Nako, Quinn Liebling, Elijah Stevenson, Sydney Sweeney, Rio Mangini
About: The comedy followed the students of Boring High School, a small Oregon town, in 1996.
Length: One season, 10 episodes.
Stars: Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Dascha Polanco, Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Adrienne C. Moore, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Rodriguez
About: The dramedy, which was created by Jenji Kohan and based on Piper Kerman's book, follows the prisoners of Litchfield.
Length: Seven seasons, 91 episodes. Season seven will drop summer 2019.
No premiere date for the final season of Jessica Jones has been announced.