American Vandal Creators Reflect on Netflix's Cancellation
It's been four years since Netflix abruptly canceled the crime mockumentary series American Vandal. Now, Show creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault reflected on the show's sudden cancellation.
The Netflix series garnered a reputation for being able to adequately and accurately parody crime documentaries while using juvenile humor like genitalia and poop jokes as motifs to entertain the audience. In spite of American Vandal's widespread acclaim during the two seasons that aired on the streaming service, the show was canceled anyway.
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In a recent interview with Comingsoon.net, Yacenda made note that it probably had to do with Netflix themselves wanting to stream new content exclusively made by them instead of projects by a different studio circa 2018. Nonetheless, he and Perrault are grateful they had the chance to make the show for Netflix. “I think it’s a bummer to have something you love canceled, but we also are so grateful for the opportunity,” he said. “If you describe the premise of that show to anyone, it’s crazy that somebody let us make that show in the first place. So I think there were a lot of external market forces that made it possible for that show to be made in 2016. And by 2018, the streaming market was very much changing. But I don’t think we could complain about the latter without being very grateful for the former.” Perrault added that working on the show together helped them learn how to work as a duo. «Tony and I had worked for years before Vandal, but that, in a way, really felt like another step for us in learning how best to work with each other,” said Perrault. “And I think a lot of the toolkit we used on Players comes directly from our
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