Netflix’s “The Residence” differentiates itself from different political exhibits by focusing its homicide thriller on the decrease rungs of the White Home workers. Although the President of america (Paul Fitzgerald) and different main gamers very a lot seem on the present, its investigation facilities across the White Home’s Chief Usher Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito). Equally, Uzo Aduba’s Detective Cordelia Cupp usually offers with of us like FBI Particular Agent Edwin Park (Randall Park), Wynter’s assistant Jasmine Haney (Susan Kelechi Watson), White Home Govt Pastry Chef Didier Gotthard (Bronson Pinchot), and Govt Chef Marvella (Mary Wiseman).
Together with a beneficiant splash of comedy and Cupp’s eccentric fixation on birds, this method makes “The Residence” distinctive among the many many exhibits Netflix has to supply … or maybe made is the extra correct tense. Per data obtained by Deadline, “The Residence” has been canceled regardless of the homicide thriller’s chart-busting exhibiting and important appreciation. Two particular issues labored towards “The Residence:” Not solely was the present expensive to make because of its large seven-stage White Home set and big solid filled with main names, however Netflix additionally launched the sequence on March 20, 2025. At that time, the streamer’s unnerving crime drama “Adolescence” was nonetheless the speak of the proverbial city, which robbed “The Residence” of the cultural highlight it might need in any other case acquired.
The Residence is not the primary sequence to have gotten steamrolled by one other Netflix present
Streaming companies are notorious for canceling exhibits early, and Netflix is definitely the best-known offender in relation to nipping fascinating new sequence within the bud. As “The Residence” demonstrates, even essential success and good numbers do not essentially assure survival within the dog-eat-dog world of streaming — and for those who have a look at the platform’s previous, this is not even the primary time a Netflix present has acquired an abrupt finish simply because it occurred to be on the costly facet and ended up operating towards one other, extra profitable sequence.
Actually, these precise circumstances have occurred earlier than. Netflix notoriously canceled its sci-fi thriller sequence “1899” after only one season because of manufacturing and funds considerations. Very like “The Residence,” that present additionally had the misfortune of debuting concurrently with a extra standard sequence. In that case, “1899” was up towards “Wednesday,” which went on to hog all of the obtainable house within the popular culture zeitgeist. Since each “The Residence” and “1899” had been good exhibits that had potential for even better issues, their cancellations had been little doubt a large blow to the followers. Time will inform whether or not such blows make viewers ever so barely extra cautious of investing their time in testing promising new Netflix sequence sooner or later.
