Edward Bluemel as Lord Guildford Dudley, Emily Bader as Woman Jane Gray, in ‘My Woman Jane’. Jonathan Prime/Prime Video
Prime Video’s choice to not renew My Woman Jane for an additional season has some followers devastated.
Deadline confirmed on Friday, August 16, that Prime Video selected to not order extra episodes of the sequence. Based on the outlet, My Woman Jane didn’t discover a extensive viewers or land on Nielsen’s Prime 10 weekly streaming rankings for originals regardless of receiving important acclaim.
Fan took to social media to begin a marketing campaign asking for an additional community to resume the present — and to query why the streaming sequence didn’t give My Woman Jane the possibility to seek out its viewers.
“My woman Jane being canceled for not studying [sic] a ‘broad sufficient viewers’ when it was barely promoted to start with,” learn a publish through X. “Amazon must be severe.”
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One commentator identified that they “by no means heard about” My Woman Jane earlier than it was canceled as a result of the “advertising funds” didn’t examine to that of different hit exhibits. One other viewer famous that Prime Video made a mistake not leaning into My Woman Jane’s campy tone.
“Cancelling My Woman Jane is such an enormous misstep. I can’t consider one other current present that has so rapidly overcome poor advertising and impressed such loyalty and dialog amongst seemingly everybody who watched it,” wrote a fourth fan. “It’s really so magical and enjoyable. It deserves extra!!”
Primarily based on historic YA novels by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton and Cynthia Hand, My Woman Jane is a radical reimagining of Woman Jane Gray’s (Emily Bader) very transient time as monarch after King Henry VIII’s son Edward (Jordan Peters) died of tuberculosis. On this model, Jane and her husband, Guildford (Edward Bluemel), aren’t beheaded and Edward isn’t killed off.
For others, it was disappointing to see My Woman Jane come to an finish when it spoke to them greater than different Regency-era exhibits — akin to Netflix’s hit sequence Bridgerton.
Prime Video’s My Woman Jane proves that investing in romance is at all times the proper method to go — particularly with leads like Emily Bader and Edward Bluemel. Primarily based on historic YA novels by Brodi Ashton, My Woman Jane is a radical reimagining of Woman Jane Gray’s (Bader) very transient time as monarch after King Henry […]
“Imo My Woman Jane was (considerably) higher than Bridgerton s3, and I’m simply so BAFFLED that individuals will watch the latter for the interval drama romance however not the previous!!! How is there an viewers for one and never the opposite?!” requested a viewer through X whereas one other added, “Amazon cancelling my woman jane?? they only hate enjoyable, hate whimsy, hate historic romance w an emphasis on the drama, hate enemies to lovers the place one in every of them is a literal horse, hate silliness!!!!”
There was additionally the problem of timing, with some questioning why Prime Video didn’t wait longer on a choice, writing, “My Woman Jane has been cancelled after 1 season when it’s solely been launched in June 2024?? @PrimeVideo once we catch you. Why can’t we’ve something good. The present has all the things from drama, romance, fantasy, comedy, attractive costumes with protagonists that has insane chemistry.”
Followers of My Woman Jane beloved the present for a number of causes, together with Bader and Bluemel’s onscreen chemistry. There was additionally the enjoyable twist that (spoiler alert!) Guildford was a horse, which was simply chaotic sufficient to get new folks intrigued by the present’s premise.
Despite the fact that there weren’t extra books within the sequence to base future seasons off of, present creator Gemma Burgess was decided to maintain going with the story.
“[A second season is] at all times a chance. We needed to actually lean into the visible storytelling of taking a lady as much as the purpose of being beheaded. It appeared like a possibility too good to go up,” the screenwriter advised Leisure Weekly in June. “I was an writer. If you’re an writer, you are able to do an terrible lot of first particular person current tense considering, however if you end up on tv, it’s important to have battle and motion and one thing to take a look at to result in the drama.”
Bader, 27, and Bluemel, 31, appeared simply as enthusiastic about returning for extra seasons.
“I want to see Guildford proceed backing up Jane and serving to her out on her journey. That’s what Guildford’s there for,” the actor advised Collider that very same month. “For plenty of causes, he’s a really completely different particular person on the finish of the sequence than he was at the start, and discovering his new lease on life and perhaps even a glimmer of pleasure, right here or there.”
Through the joint interview, Bader weighed in on the place she needed to see Jane and Guildford go from right here, including, “They’ve been by loads — however on the similar time — by Jane selecting to do what she does on the finish with saving herself, she places her household in danger. She must buckle down and work out what she’s gonna do. She feels very accountable. I feel badass Jane can take it up a notch.”
Since My Woman Jane caught the attention of followers and critics alike, Bader was forged because the lead of Netflix’s adaptation of Emily Henry‘s novel Folks We Meet on Trip. Bluemel, for his half, is presently filming Seven Dials Thriller for Netflix.
My Woman Jane is presently streaming on Prime Video.
