Netflix's fantasy series Lockwood & Co., adapted from Jonathan Stroud's novels, was cancelled after a single eight-episode season despite strong performance on the platform. The show topped the streaming charts in numerous countries and earned a "Best TV Drama Series 2023" nomination at the National Film Awards, yet was axed before it could resolve the mysteries and character arcs the books had set up, leaving fans and critics arguing it deserved another season.

The series ends on a major cliffhanger mirroring the conclusion of Stroud's second novel, with Lockwood (Cameron Chapman) finally opening a long-forbidden room at 35 Portland Row in front of Lucy (Ruby Stokes) and George (Ali Hadji-Heshmati), only for the show to cut off there. With just one season, Netflix never got to adapt much of the source material's stronger later content, and the article argues the cancellation cut short a story with clear potential for growth.