By Charlene Badasie | 5 seconds ago
The major reorganization at HBO Max’s new parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, continues made for love gets his traveling papers. Based on Alissa Nutting’s 2017 novel of the same name, the Cristin Milioti-directed dark sci-fi comedy was canceled after two seasons. The news follows multiple cuts at the streamer as CEO David Zaslav has been tasked with cutting $3 billion from the company’s budget. He also reviews some of the studio’s more expensive overall offerings.
About the cancellation, HBO Max said the company is enormously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of the past two seasons. The streamer also thanked Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin, Billy, Ray and everyone made for love Cast and creative team for their dedication to the show. Zelda the talking dolphin and Diane, everyone’s favorite synthetic love affair, were also mentioned with affection. “Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds,” reps said via Variety.
the first season of made for love Premiered April 2021 on HBO Max. The story chronicled the turbulent, suffocating marriage between Hazel Green and her husband, Byron Gogol — a billionaire tech who implanted one made for love monitoring device in her brain. With this, he was able to follow his wife’s every move and collect her emotional data as she tried to regain her independence. After discovering the implanted chip, Hazel flees to her desert hometown to find solace with her aging widowed father Herbert, who lives with his synthetic partner Diane.
In the second season of the former HBO Max show, whose last episode aired in May, Hazel returned to her high-tech home to help her father fight cancer. Back again, Hazel and Byron became entangled in his company’s ominous new technology. The series ended on a cliffhanger as Hazel imprisoned her husband’s consciousness deep within his body, allowing her to take over Gogol and hold him as her prisoner. As an added twist, she was six months pregnant with his baby.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly ahead of HBO Max’s cancellation, Milioti said she has some ideas she’d like to explore if the show made it to a third season. “What does someone who’s been through what she’s been through do with that much power?” she told the publication. Pointing out Hazel’s unpredictability, hasty decisions and communication problems, the actress said she’d love to see what all that power does to the character.
Alongside Cristin Milioti as Hazel Green, the now-defunct HBO Max series has starred Billy Magnussen as Byron Gogol, Ray Romano as Herbert Green, Dan Bakkedahl as Herringbone, Noma Dumezweni as Fiffany, and Augusto Aguilera as The Liver. The show’s second season also starred Caleb Foote as Bennett Hobbes and Sarunas J. Jackson as Jay/Jasper.
made for love Executive Producers are Christina Lee, Alissa Nutting, Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos, Liza Chasin, Daisy Mayer and SJ Clarkson. Lee. Lee also served as showrunner for the first season and was joined by Nutting as co-showrunner for the show’s second and final appearance. The HBO Max series comes from Paramount Television Studios.