When Netflix announced in August that The Waterfront would not return for a second season, it caught many by surprise. The Kevin Williamson ( Scream ) –created drama spent five weeks in Netflix’s global Top 10 and hit No. 1 for three of them , peaking at over 11 million views in its first full week. For a show cancelled after just one season , those numbers were unusually strong.

Williamson, who informed the cast and crew directly, admitted he was disappointed but grateful. “It was one of the best experiences of my life,” he wrote in an Instagram Story post after news broke. But viewers who invested in the Buckley family’s messy, crime-laced saga were left wondering why Netflix pulled the plug.

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