Time to hop on that last shuttle back to Earth from Moonhaven‘s weird moon colony. In July, the sci-fi series was renewed for a second season—but AMC has since reversed course.
Two days after the network announced it was restructuring in order to “achieve significant cost reductions,” AMC cancelled the show. That’s got to be a rough blow for showrunner and creator Peter Ocko (Lodge 49) and the cast, especially given that—as Deadline notes—as of late July, “AMC Networks said that Moonhaven was its number one most-watched AMC+ exclusive series and number most-watched new series in the streamer’s history behind Dark Winds.”
Moonhaven is set one hundred years in the future, in a utopian moon colony run by an artificial intelligence. On what should’ve been a typical run, cargo pilot Bella Sway (Emma McDonald) finds herself caught up in some kind of conspiracy—and accused of a crime. Stuck in this disconcerting paradise, where cops (including one played by Merry Brandybuck himself, Dominic Monaghan) help people process their feelings, Bella also encounters diplomats and tough guys and listen, if this sounds like a bit of chaotic plot soup, that’s kind of how it felt, at least in the first episode. The show also stars True Blood’s Joe Manganiello and Daredevil’s Ayelet Zurer and yes, as in any dys/utopia worth its salt, people wear color-coded outfits.
Moonhaven won’t return, but you can watch the first season on AMC+.
