Jeff Goldblum’s shiny-sweatpants-wearing-era is over after just one season. Netflix has already called it quits on Kaos, creator Charlie Covell’s modern-day take on the Greek gods and their whims, desires, and petulant nonsense. Variety notes that the series “did spend four weeks in the Netflix top 10 charts upon its release, but failed to garner a significant audience in that time.”
Kaos starred quite a list of folks as mythological figures: Goldblum as Zeus, Janet McTeer as Hera, Billie Piper as Cassandra, Debi Mazar as Medusa, Suzy Eddie Izzard as Lachy, David Thewlis as Hades, Cliff Curtis as Poseidon, and Stephen Dillane as Prometheus. The show also worked in an Orpheus and Eurydice take; Killian Scott played another rock star Orpheus, with Aurora Perrineau as “Riddy,” who was one of three humans (along with Leila Farzad and Misia Butler) with “cosmic significance” in the godly strife.
The series was generally well-received; Time called it one of the best new TV shows of the month, with Judy Berman writing, “It’s a clever, if not wholly original, premise, elevated by smart casting, sharp dialogue, and world-building that makes inspired use of some of Western culture’s most enduring lore.” But not everyone was fully on board. The Hollywood Reporter said, “With an impressive cast, a cheeky tone and little investment in substantive follow-through, the show goes from promising to frustrating to disappointing—albeit with tantalizing hints throughout of what could have been.”
You can watch the single existing season of Kaos on Netflix.
