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The Brothers Solar, starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien and Sam Tune Li, is not going to be returning for a second season on Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter realized Friday.
Whereas the rationale for the cancellation was not instantly identified, the information comes months after the eight-episode first season of the action-comedy-drama premiered on Jan. 4. The present was created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, and likewise included Joon Lee, Highdee Kuan, Alice Hewkin, Jenny Yang, Rodney To and Madison Hu within the forged.
Brothers Solar adopted Charles Solar (Chien), a Taipei gangster who has settled into his life as a ruthless killer, however when his father is shot by a mysterious murderer, he should transfer to Los Angeles to guard his mom, Eileen ‘Mama’ Solar (Yeoh), and youthful brother, Bruce Solar (Li).
Whereas it had a stable opening on Nielsen’s streaming charts, the sequence took a notable leap ahead in its second week, rising by 38 p.c in comparison with its debut week. It additionally spent 5 weeks in Netflix’s High 10 for English-language sequence, peaking at No. 2.
In her assessment, TV critic Angie Han wrote the sequence “serves up loads of violent motion and dramatic twists — however that, above all, goals to ship on a very good time. And though the top consequence looks like one thing lower than the sum of its components, it nonetheless yields sufficient enjoyable to make Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk’s action-comedy-drama as bingeable as a tray of freshly baked cookies.”
Falchuk additionally served because the present’s showrunner and govt produced alongside Wu, Mikkel Bondesen and Kevin Tancharoen.
