HBO Max’s Made For Love canceled after two seasons
The gone-too-soon comedy starred Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, and Ray Romano
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Here lies yet another casualty in the Warner Bros./Discovery merger. Made For Love is the latest cancellation over at HBO Max, following the recent announcement that Raised By Wolves also got the axe.
Made For Love was another high-concept sci-fi series, albeit of a very different tack than Ridley Scott’s epic drama. The comedy followed Hazel (Cristin Milioti), who escaped her marriage to billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen) and his oppressive company compound to seek refuge with her dad (Ray Romano) and his partner Diane, a sex doll. However, she soon discovered that Byron had implanted a chip in her brain allowing him to surveil her every move.
In a statement obtained by Variety, representatives for HBO Max said, “We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin, Billy, Ray and the entire ‘Made for Love’ cast and creative team–especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane. Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”
Have network cancellation announcements always been this loving, or is this a new mutation of the streaming wars? As warm as this statement is towards the series, programming decisions following the merger have been ruthless. The company also pulled the plug on J.J. Abrams’ Demimonde, and Deadline reported that his entire WB deal has fallen under scrutiny for budget concerns.
If J.J. Abrams and Ridley Scott couldn’t hang on, what chance did sci-fi underdog Made For Love have? It’s sad to say goodbye to the inventive series, which left a lot of juicy plots dangling at the end of season two. That included (spoiler alert) Hazel’s pregnancy, her hostile takeover of Gogol, and her father’s possible not-death.
“I would want to explore all the things we’re talking about: What does someone who has gone through what she’s gone through do with that much power? And she’s really unpredictable,” Milioti recently told Entertainment Weekly. “You’re always like, ‘Oh God, don’t do that.’ She can’t really communicate well, she doesn’t think before she leaps, all these things, but you still really understand why. And I wonder now that she is untethered, I would want to explore what that does to someone like Hazel. Fingers crossed. We’ll see.” Unfortunately, we will not.
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The 2nd season just seemed like it was dragging its heals, literally, with the whole cancer storyline and things. I liked the first season, but meh on the 2nd.
The 2nd season really seemed like they ran out of ideas to support their original plot. So they started making up much weirder ones like the AI body-snatching. The entire season was only like 8 episodes long and they couldn’t even fill that with just the relationship dynamic between Hazel and Byron as the main plot. I thought that was going to be the whole point of the season, and they kinda ‘fixed’ it in like 3 episodes.
I think the second season wrapped things up pretty well. While there could be some things to explore in another season, it would be a stretch.
There was a second season? Huh. We couldn’t make it through the first, got about halfway and said no thanks. Interesting concept, and Cristin is great, but…kinda weird overall.
yah, somehow was a real snoozer despite the cast and what should have been a good premise. Cristin is free to find better work now tho.
Free Cristin Milioti!
Aw damn, I just caught up with it
Too bad—I really liked the show and even though season 2 seemed a little disorganized, I would’ve liked to see a third season.
That’s a shame. I liked the show a lot, and was looking forward to the lingering threads.
Ugh, I really liked this show (and especially Cristin Milioti; HIMYM did her way wrong). I even got a survey from HBO Max about it and I sang its praises! I guess my positive feedback wasn’t enough.
HIMYM put her on the map for non Broadway acting jobs.
Same! Is your birthday in July?
That’s a darn shame! ‘Twas a swell program!
second season worth watching? I kinda liked the first, enough to plan on watching s2, but with this news, I’m thinking not? first to reply makes the decision.
I don’t like that dude. He looks like he should be on Million Dollar Listing.
Yup. It sucked. I gave up around episode who gives a fuck.
Never got around to this despite being fully in the tank for Cristin Milioti, seems like it didn’t take full advantage of her talents and the premise.
It had the same problem as Raised by Wolves. Decent and promising first season, but it went off the rails into nonsense in the second. With the way the second season ended it seemed that they were self-aware that there wasn’t going to be a third season and ended it on a good note.
I felt like this was a textbook example of a series that should’ve been a movie. It was a really interesting concept for a 90 or 120 minute feature, but a whole series felt like a bridge too far.
she deserves so much better. guess it’s time to watch Palm Springs again
The only suprise is that it made it to season 2. Nobody watched that fuckin show, ive never heard anybody mention it except on AV Club.