Paramount Plus is demolishing Rhea Seehorn’s The Harper House
The series co-starred Jason Lee and Tatiana Maslany, and was created by Brad Neely
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Paramount+ has canceled its animated comedy The Harper House after a single season on the air, Deadline reports. The news came down from series creator Brad Neely (of China, IL and Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio fame), who announced the cancellation on social media today:
The Harper House is cancelled. I’ll always appreciate the show’s resilient crew and cast that came together during an unprecedented breakdown of normal life to make this family with me. I’m grateful to everyone involved and to anyone who gave it a shot. It’s time to get nuts.
The series starred a packed voice cast, lead by Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn and Jason Lee, and including Tatiana Maslany, Ryan Flynn, Gabourey Sidhe, and Gary Anthony Williams. The Harper House centered on a family (headed up by Seehorn and Lee) forced to move into a decrepit old mansion (complete with corpse!) after working mom Debbie is fired from her lucrative factory job. The various members of the family then work and scheme to try to regain their middle-class lifestyle.
Paramount+ is still pretty early in its life as a provider of original programming, so it’s hard to determine how unusual this sort of first-season kill-off is. (Dramas One Dollar and Interrogation both had similarly short lifespans, and some of the streamer’s reality offerings haven’t fared much better.) The Harper House was also operating, as much of Neely’s stuff has, at a significantly more subversive level than much of what the CBS-adjacent streaming service is offering.
The silver lining here is that it’s not like at least some of this cast won’t be keeping themselves perfectly busy, regardless. Seehorn will be back for the next season of Saul next year, obviously, while Maslany just showed off the first look at her transformation into She-Hulk for that other streaming service.
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I’m not shocked. The C tier streamers are throwing money at adult cartoons hoping for a win and will just as quickly abandon them if they don’t sniff out an instant hit. I hope for some better Brad Neely cartoons in the future. I’d be happy with another season of China, IL.Also on a side note, that kid looks vaguely Nick Cave like, and I just realized I would LOVE to have Nick Cave voice a cartoon character. I can’t believe that hasn’t happened yet.
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Paramount+’s biggest problem is that unless they are a Star Trek show, the rest of their original shows get very little promotion.
I saw ads for this constantly on PlutoTV, but since that is like the only thing I watch with ads other than youtube I don’t know how much it was promoted elsewhere.
I’m not trying to be flip when I say this article is the first time I’ve even heard of this.
Everything exists now, and it’s all a B-
Am I the only one disappointed this isn’t a Mama’s Family reboot?
Yes.
Hopefully this frees up Rhea Seehorn to be in literally everything else.
ok but please everyone watch Ten Year Old Tom on HBO Max so HBO doesn’t cancel another hilarious Steve Dildarian cartoon. I still can’t believe they cancelled Life and Times of Tim when it looks like his shows cost like $5 to animate.And hopefully [adult swim] or someone else gives Brad Neely another show, cuz Harper House was just not working for me like his other stuff.