‘Cruel Intentions’ canceled after a season at Amazon
“Cruel Intentions” “Long Road to TV has finished quite cruel.
Variety Exclusively learned that the TV series ‘Cruel Intentions’ on Amazon Prime Video has been canceled after just one season. The series originally debuted on the streamer in November 2024. The show served as a TV update for the 1999 film, which was itself based on the classic novel ‘Dangerous Liaisons’.
A TV program based on the film was set up in 2021 on IMDB TV (AKA Freevee) before it was formally ordered on Prime Video at the end of 2023.
The Amazon series played Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, Savannah Lee Smith, Sara Silva, John Harlan Kim, Khobe Clarke, Sean Patrick Thomas and Brooke Lena Johnson.
Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher served as co-showrunners, writers and executive producers. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty from the original film also produced together with Roger Kumble. Moritz produced the original film, which was written and directed by Kumble. Bruce Mellon together with Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi from Iervolino & Bacardi Entertainment were producers. The series was produced by Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios and Original Film.
According to the official description, the show “follows the elite students of Manchester College, a University of Washington, DC-ADJACENT, where reputation means everything, brotherhoods and sororities are the golden standard and two ruthless stepbroers and sisters, Caroline Merteuil (burgers) will remain a little to do the cutthoarchy. After a brutal hazing incident, the entire Greek life system threatens, they will do what is needed to maintain their power and reputation – even if that means that Annie Grover (Smith), the daughter of the Vice President of the United States, seduces. Hearts will be broken, loyalty will be tested and secrets will be revealed in this modern royal court that is Manchester College. “
Amazon usually does not provide information about viewers about their shows, so it is difficult to gauge how many people are tailored to ‘cruel intentions’. However, the series did not appear on the streaming graphs of the Nielsen Top 10 and also failed to find a lot of love with critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series had a 24% critical approval classification with 10 counted reviews.
Prior to this version of the show, NBC ordered a pilot for a follow -up of the film in 2016 with Sarah Michelle Gellar, one of the original stars of the film, to resume her role as Kathryn Merteuil. However, it did not make it in the series in the end. For that, Fox tried a prequel series “cruel intentions”, which was canceled before it was broadcast. Three episodes of that show were eventually assembled to become the Direct-Video film “Cruel Intentions 2” in 2001. In 2004, Sony Pictures produced a second direct-to-video follow-up, “Cruel Intentions 3.”
