Netflix Confirms That Arnold Schwarzenegger’s FUBAR Is Canceled

Arnold Schwarzenegger might’ve been one of the biggest movie stars of the ’80s and ’90s, but those days are long gone. It seems like Netflix has decided that trying to recapture that decades-old magic is a lost cause.

After getting out of the bodybuilding game in the early 1980s, eventual Netflix star Schwarzenegger became an A-lister on the back of starring in films like Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, and Commando. The late 1980s and early 1990s solidified Schwarzenegger as one of the biggest stars on the planet as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, and True Lies brought in hundreds of millions of dollars at the worldwide box office. Not content with being a one-trick pony, he successfully branched out into comedy films with movies like Twins and Kindergarten Cop. Things began to turn around a bit for the megastar around the turn of the millennium, as The 6th Day and Collateral Damage failed to catch on with audiences. If Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t bring action fans to movie theaters anymore, what could he do? Politics! Schwarzenegger served as Governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and subsequently returned to acting, albeit far less successfully than the first time around.

Arguably the biggest victory of Schwarzenegger’s post-political career was FUBAR, the Netflix show that debuted in 2023. It was a hit for the streaming service upon release and proved that the former star had enough juice left in the tank to fuel a television series. Unfortunately, when the second season hit a few months ago, viewership numbers were way down. According to THR, total viewership minutes decreased by 73% from season one to season two. After that news came out, FUBAR fans feared the worst and simply assumed they wouldn’t be getting a third season. Following a lengthy period of radio silence from Netflix, that has now been confirmed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s FUBAR Has Been Unceremoniously Canceled By Netflix

Two Seasons Is All Fans Will Get

When Netflix signed up to release Nick Santora’s FUBAR, they probably figured they had a Reacher-level hit on their hands. Although Santora has created numerous shows over the years, like A&E’s Breakout Kings and CBS’s Scorpion, Amazon Prime Video’s Reacher has been the most accomplished of the bunch. With all due respect to Schwarzenegger, he is no longer in his acting prime like Reacher‘s Alan Ritchson is.

Having established names like Monica Barbaro, Jay Baruchel, Fortune Feimster, Gabriel Luna, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adam Pally, and Enrico Colantoni did little to elevate the mostly mediocre content FUBAR was providing. That’s not to say that FUBAR was a bad show; it was simply familiar. A by-the-numbers genre show that was inoffensive and could be what you were looking for if you were in the right mood. Of course, shows like FUBAR aren’t cheap to produce and Netflix decided it just wasn’t a big enough hit to keep going.

FUBAR is available to stream on Netflix.

Source: THR