According to Deadline, Netflix has just chosen to cancel the animated fantasy horror comedy series, Dead End: Paranormal Park after just two seasons. The series debuted back in June of 2022 and is based on Hamish Steele’s (The Tall Tales of Urchin, Badly Drawn Animals) graphic novel series, DeadEndia, as well as the 2014 animated short, Dead End.

Dead End: Paranormal Park tells the story of Barney Guttman, a gay transgender boy with family problems who finds a job as a security guard for the haunted run-down amusement park, Phoenix Parks, alongside Norma Khan, a seventeen-year old bisexual Pakistani American girl with autism, and his beloved pet dog, Pugsley. The series follows the ridiculous and at times heartfelt adventures between the young security guards and the ghostly residents who inhabit Phoenix Parks.

The show features the acting talents of stars such as Zach Barack (Spider-Man: Far From Home, LA’s Finest), Emily Osment (Hannah Montana, Young Sheldon), and Alex Brightman (School of Rock, Beetlejuice). Dead End: Paranormal Park also features a bevvy of gay, drag, and transgender actors, including Michaela Jae Rodriguez (Pose, Tick, Tick…Boom!), Angelica Ross (American Horror Story, Claws), Miss Coco Peru (Trick, Girls Will Be Girls), and Taylor Gibson to name just a few.

Steele revealed the cancellation of Dead End: Paranormal Park in a heartfelt post on Twitter, “It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you Dead End is over. Obviously, we never wanted this to be the case. In fact, we did a writers’ room for season three. We have scripts and designs and outlines ready to go. It was always the plan to give these characters the proper ending they deserve. But sadly, the powers that be don’t want any more.”

As written by Deadline, in the rest of his post, Steele took the time to thank both his fans and Netflix for the opportunity to tell the story of Dead End: Paranormal Park, before affirming to his viewers that he was “working hard” on the third and final DeadEndia book, which he hopes will offer fans of the series a sense of “closure.”

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— hamish steele! (@hamishsteele) January 13, 2023