It appears to be the end of the line for Bloodline.
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Warning: Spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of Bloodline discussed below.
Bloodline is slated to conclude after 2017’s third season, according to a new report by The Hollywood Reporter. They didn’t have almost enough time to develop the new characters or raise the stakes, while the season itself ended on a fairly abrupt note.
Netflix has reportedly chose to cancel its family drama “Bloodline” after its upcoming third season. Still, the two companies deny there are tensions between them. If Sony wants to take this show elsewhere to try and get Season 4 and beyond, it could easily happen.
Series creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman have previously said that they planned on doing five or six seasons of Bloodline. Netflix apparently recently told Sony that the 2017 season would be the last. “So we certainly have ideas for where everything could go and hopefully where everything will go”. In fact, it’s that sweat-soaked setting that could be causing issues, as Florida no longer carries the entertainment tax incentive that kept the costs down for the first two seasons. But now, with the incentives pot dry, another season of Bloodline would have been a pricier undertaking.
Todd A. Kessler, for his part, acknowledged the uncertainty of the show’s future at the Los Angeles premiere of Bloodline’s second season in early June.
Set in the Florida Keys, Bloodline stars Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz as the Rayburn siblings and Sissy Spacek as the family matriarch, with John Laguizamo also joining the cast in Season 2. “We made a decision to set the show there … because it’s crucial to what the show is, not because of the tax incentive, but it does affect things financially for us and the show will be challenged because of that”.
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Todd Kessler told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that the lack of tax incentives “makes things more hard”.
