The Netflix mystery series “1899” ends after just one season

It was Swiss-German couple Baran Bo Udar (director) and Jantje Friese (screenplay) who announced the news themselves on Instagram. It is with a heavy heart that we have to tell you this 1899 It will not be renewed. We wanted to continue this amazing journey with seasons two and three as much as we did dark. But sometimes things don’t go as planned. this is life.”

Bo Oddar and Friese say they knew “a million fans would be disappointed.” “But we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being a part of this amazing adventure. We love you. Don’t forget that.”

multilanguage 1899, with an international crew speaking English, German, French, Portuguese, Cantonese, Spanish and Danish, is about a boat trip from Europe to America in 1899 aboard the Kerberos. Four months earlier, another ship, the Prometheus, belonging to the same shipping company had disappeared on the same route without a trace. When the Kerberos crew receives a message from the Prometheus, a mysterious tangle of time, secret passages, and parallel worlds begins with characters who are not who they pretend to start. The idea of ​​what is real and what is not is turned upside down.

Because of the previous success of the German series darkin which Bo Oder and Friese also experiment with time leaps 1899 An instant hit on Netflix. called the eagle 1899 What you get when you get it StartAnd the strange daysAnd the matrixAnd the westworldAnd the terrorismAnd the Eternal sunshine for the pure mind dumped in a clothes dryer.”

But the series also received criticism as a result: “V 1899 Sometimes it seems to the viewer or not, but Frisa herself is lost in the text, and the characters mainly explain their confusion. De Morgen wrote in a review.

The increasingly inextricable tangle of storylines that turns time and logic on its head now seems to have killed the series.