{"id":52879,"date":"2025-07-10T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52879\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:45:09","slug":"hbo-max-cancels-duster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52879\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max cancels Duster"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her review of\u00a0Duster\u2018s season finale last week<\/a>, The A.V. Club\u2018s Saloni Gajjar noted that the Josh Holloway-starring series seemed to be deliberately leaving some narrative doors open for a second season, somewhere down the line. Said doors have now been officially slammed shut, as HBO Max announced today that it was canceling the infectiously fun series, produced by Holloway\u2019s old Lost\u00a0buddy J.J. Abrams via his Bad Robot banner,\u00a0in the wake of its first season.<\/p>\n

This is per\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, which reports that the series\u00a0did\u00a0get the minor consolation prize of its home streamer giving a statement to press about how sorry they were to shitcan the whole production. \u201cWhile HBO Max will not be moving forward with a second season of Duster\u201d the public statement read, in that very careful \u201cWe would still like to be in business with you\u201d language, \u201cWe are so grateful to have had the chance to work with the amazingly talented co-creators J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, and our partners at Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. We are tremendously proud of this series led by Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson and we thank them along with our cast and crew for their incredible collaboration and partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-created by Morgan<\/a> (previously of\u00a0Into The Badlands\u00a0and\u00a0Turn),\u00a0Duster\u00a0starred Hilson as an FBI agent who recruits a veteran getaway driver (Holloway) to take down a crime syndicate, the latter lent a little extra gravitas by dint of being headed up by the always-great Keith David. The series got strong reviews from pretty much everybody who watched\u2014which was kind of the problem, because \u201ceverybody who watched it\u201d turned out to be an amount of people that fell far short of HBO Max\u2019s hopes. (After all, these new sci-fi multiverse Big Bang Theory\u00a0spin-offs<\/a> aren\u2019t going to fund themselves.)<\/p>\n

Abrams and WBTV reportedly tried to shop the series around for a second season, unsuccessfully. The series was a rare remaining original drama for the streamer, which has put more of its focus on comedy in recent years; the only other ongoing drama currently on Max\u2019s books is breakout hit The Pitt, recently renewed for a second season.<\/p>\n