Netflix cancels the series 'The Residence' and 'Press' after a season

Netflix applied the guillotine to two of its original series, the murder comedy The Residenceand the medical drama Pulse.

Both series They have been canceled officially After the broadcast of your first season.

Regarding the reception of criticism, The Residence obtained positive reviews, while Pulse It was paralyzed from the beginning.

The audience of both was similar, with both series keeping Netflix Global for four weeks: The Residence debuted on March 20, 2025, in the second place on Top 10, without being able to overcome the phenomenon Adolescencerepeating the second place the following week. In the weeks to come it was losing impulse, being Pulse (premiered on April 3), one of the series that pushed her steps below the Top 10. Pulse reached its maximum point in number 3.

It should be noted that Pulse He marked Netflix's first incursion into the genre Television Medical Drama, one of the most successful genres on the small screen.

The cost of production was one of the key factors.

As we know, in the end this type of decisions are always reduced to one thing: The money. Netflix not only analyzes audience figures, but also consider how many users completed the visualization, production costs and competition, focusing on the best way to maximize subscribers and income.

El “whodunnit” The Residenceproduced by Shondaland, is starring The way of natural (Orange is the New Black) As Cordelia CUPP, a consultant detective of the Metropolitan Police Department that seeks to resolve the most recent mystery: A murder in the White House.

And to make the events possible, An almost complete recreation of the White House was made, Building a great scenario on the set of the Raleight studios in Los Angeles. Details shared by streamer are spectacular: The set connected 132 rooms in seven scenarioscon 16 kilometers of moldings and 200 functional doors.

But achieving all that result requires a high budget, it is said that this It is the largest recreation ever made of the White House. The show also required visual effects in postproduction, and in the cost-benefit analysis, the benefits did not prevail for the point of view of the important for Netflix.

The plan for a second season of The Residenceera turn it into an anthology serieswith the detective CUPP in charge of a new case in each season. The main cast includes Aduba, Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Susan Kelechi Watson, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

In The case of Pulseit was not possible to generate the required impact on the audience or criticism to justify a second season. But not everything was a matter of the product itself, but also, In competition and Netflix launch plan. The streamer decided to release Pulse On April 3, a date on which other series of the same genre in Fox had already been released (Doc), NBC (Brilliant Minds), CBS (Watson), and the new favorite, The Pitt De Max, who swept criticism and audience bluntly.

The medical drama, created by Zoe Robyn, follows the personal and professional life of doctors and the staff of a busy Traumatology Center in Miami. The main cast make it up Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell, Jack Bannon, Jessie T. Usher, Justina Machado y Jessica Rothe.

As counterpart, this year the streamer has renewed other of its new original series to a second season, such is the case of Running Point, The Four Seasons, Ransom Canyon, Man on the Inside, Beauty in Black, North of North, Bet y Forever.