Netflix boss denies Boots was cancelled due to 'woke garbage' backlash
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Netflix boss denies Boots was cancelled due to 'woke garbage' backlash
""Absolutely not," he said when grilled on whether The Pentagon's remarks had anything to do with its cancellation. "These are all business decisions based on audience relative to the cost of the show. do the people who push play watch it 'til the end? Do they give it a couple thumbs up? Does it keep growing? All those things. That decision is made every day," he explained."
"Boots was the final project of famed American TV producer Norman Lear, who died in 2023 aged 101. Following its release back in October, Boots became a sleeper streaming hit for Netflix, creeping up the platform's top 10 chart. It starred 13 Reasons Why actor Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope, a closeted queer teen who signs up to a military corps boot camp to escape his stifling home life."
Netflix leadership rejected claims that Boots was axed due to Pentagon pushback, attributing cancellations to audience engagement relative to production cost. Boots attracted a substantial fandom and became a sleeper hit after its October release but was canceled in December, ending hopes for a second season. Boots served as Norman Lear's final project and starred Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope, a closeted queer teen who enlists in a military boot camp to escape a stifling home life. The Pentagon criticized the series as having an "ideological agenda" and labeled it "woke garbage."
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