Culture news It's official ! The best series of 2024 on Disney+ will not have a season 2
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It is not enough to be successful to extend a television series: the ideas must also follow. An observation which is confirmed this week since the creators of the best Disney+ series of 2024 do not want, for the moment, to repeat the sequel.
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Shogun: one of the best series of the start of the year
Shôgun is, without a doubt, one if not the best series of the start of the year. Two impressive figures bear this out. The first, communicated by Disney+ in March, concerns the mobilization of spectators for the first episode. In a press release, the company declares that it has been viewed nine million times: enough to surpass the figures achieved by the second season of The Bear. This influx is combined with the rave reviews that the series generates. On the rating aggregator site RottenTomatoes, Shogun is not far from posting perfect scores with 99% validation by the press and 91% for the public.
While it is impossible to provide all the reasons for this success, several reasons can serve as justification. The intrinsic qualities of the series have been shared through word of mouth, especially since it is sometimes compared to Game of Thrones.
Shogun: an adaptation that remains within the framework of the original material
Despite the general enthusiasm caused by season 1 of Shôgun, this does not mean that a sequel is planned. It should be remembered that the television series is the adaptation of the book of the same name by James Clavell. And this is why the creators, Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, do not want to pursue a sequel at the moment. This is in an interview given to the media The Hollywood Reporter that they made it official:
We pushed the series to the end of the book, put a period at the end of this sentence. We love the way the book ends, it's one of the reasons we both knew what we wanted to do. We ended up exactly there.
If the directors of the Shogun series tell, in content and form, a story similar to that of Game of Thrones, they nevertheless decide to stop within the framework of the original material. A choice that DB Weiss and David Benioff did not make with GoT.