Netflix Throws 'The Waterfront' Overboard

Sorry folks, but the boat's been rocked at Netflix - "The Waterfront" is making its last splash. The decision to cut the series loose was confirmed two short months after it first set sail.

"The Waterfront," a Kevin Williamson creation, zoned in on the Buckley family household - a North Carolina-based fishing empire taking a plunge into the turbulent waters of shady shenanigans to keep their business afloat. The cast was chock-full of talent including Holt McCallany and Maria Bello playing Mr. and Mrs. Buckley, Melissa Benoist and Jack Weary embodying their financially challenged offspring, and featured other captivating stars like Rafael L. Silva, Humberly González, Danielle Campbell, and Brady Hepner.

The audience was thrown overboard with all eight episodes of its first season on June 19. The series had a fair wind for over a week on Netflix's Top 10 before being capsized by the colossal "Squid Game," which launched its third voyage less than two weeks after.

Netflix viewership generally seemed to be on board with "The Waterfront", noting similarities with previous Netflix crime success stories, such as "Ozark" and "Bloodline". Variety’s chief television critic, Aramide Tinubu, labeled it a "highly bingeable family soap". Tinubu also suggested that the numerous unresolved storylines had the potential to make it another "long-running fan-favorite show" from Williamson's casting net.

In fact, Williamson had entertained ideas for a ‘season 2’, even hinting at a power struggle brewing within the Buckley family ranks in a chat with Variety about the Season 1 finale. He was quoted saying, “I’m all about scribbling family stories - but who likes happy families? That's no fun. I wanted to spin a yarn about this dysfunctional family trying to glue itself back together, loaded with secrets, grudges, traumas; basically a ton of skeletons in the closet!” Well, it seems that the teeming drama of the Buckley household has come to an end, leaving us to wonder what might have been.