What Netflix Just Did To ‘Inside Job’ Season 2 Is Brutal

Paul Tassi

Senior Contributor

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Jan 9, 2023,08:10am EST

While Netflix cancelling a show is not exactly breaking news at this point, this week we have a unique case with Inside Job, and its newly aflame mob of angry fans.

Inside Job was not just cancelled after season 1, it was actually un-renewed, a rare move that is sadly becoming increasingly more common in the tumultuous streaming era. Inside Job is a series from former Gravity Falls writer Shion Takeuchi that posits a world where conspiracy theories are real. It started with a 20 episode order that was broken up into two parts, and back in June of 2022, after the first slate of 10 episodes aired, it was renewed for season 2.

Then things…changed. What apparently may have happened is that Netflix didn’t like some sort of metrics attached to the second batch of 10 episodes which arrived in November of 2022. And that has led them to cancel the series this week after previously renewing it, which was confirmed by Takeuchi herself online: