The lights are out and doorways have closed on The Residence, as Netflix has canceled the White Home-set homicide thriller after only one season. Starring Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, the “biggest detective on this planet,” Shonda Rhimes‘ whodunnit joins freshman medical drama Pulse on the chopping block of canceled reveals.
Additionally starring Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Bronson Pinchot, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Edwina Findley, Mary Wiseman, and Jane Curtin, information of the cancellation broke on July 2. Deadline first reported the information.
The Shondaland-produced thriller adopted detective Cordelia Cupp (Aduba) as she investigated a homicide throughout a state dinner. Throughout eight episodes, she questioned workers and visitors to uncover hidden motives whereas exposing private dramas contained in the presidential residence.
However what may have been had the present continued? If the sequence had gone ahead, the present would have grow to be an anthology with Cupp on the middle, taking over a brand new case every season. Based mostly on Kate Andersen Brower’s 2016 ebook, The Residence: Contained in the Non-public World of the White Home, the tome lined true accounts shared by White Home workers members, however featured no quirky detectives, leaving the door open for Cupp to presumably discover different iconic residences, vacationer points of interest, and so forth.
Nevertheless, that isn’t the one growth the present may have expanded upon. Aduba revealed that the present possible would have additional explored Cordelia and Edwin’s relationship.
“I like excited about the connection that Cordelia and Edwin are forming,” Aduba instructed TV Insider. “They’re within the budding part of their friendship and have developed a shorthand between one another… They’ve one nice case beneath their belt, and I’m blissful to think about what else they could do [or] get into,” she provides.
Sadly, the potential partnership and their future adventures at the moment are a factor of the previous, as the primary season of The Residence can even be its final.
The Residence, Season 1, Streaming now, Netflix