The first season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the children’s animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender will be sticking around for at least two more seasons.
The streaming platform announced the news today, and shared a video of the cast finding out the news via Zoom call. The call, frankly, was rough: Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Fire Lord Ozai on the show, channeled his character’s villainous tendencies and first made it sound like the show was canceled.
Ultimately, however, Kim came clean (though just after Aang actor Gordon Cormier started tearing up), and the cast—which also included Matthew Yang King, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kiawentiio, Elizabeth Yu, Dallas Liu, and Ian Ousley—cheered with joy.
While the first season of the series didn’t fare as well critically as I’m sure Netflix would have preferred, the streaming platform has reported that it has remained the No. 1 English-language show since its premiere on February 22, 2024. That translates into 41.1 million views, according to Netflix, though what a “view” entails isn’t clear.
Whatever a “view” is, 41.1 million was apparently enough for the streaming platform to commit to the series for another two seasons. No news yet on when we’ll see any future episodes, but in the meantime, we can watch the video below, where the young actors in the series go through some real-life emotional turmoil.
