Netflix’s Longest Running Series Is Ending

Netflix isn’t one to let a present linger round. Whether or not viewership drops off previous a sure level, or as a result of the corporate has some secret knowledge that’s guiding the choice, a lot of the firm’s unique collection get canceled after only a handful of seasons. Even “hit” Netflix exhibits are sometimes wrapped up after Season 3 or 4; solely the largest of the positioning’s collection, like Orange Is the New Black and Home of Playing cards, have damaged by that unofficial threshold and gotten near 100 complete episodes. (Surprisingly, no Netflix present has run for greater than 100 episodes.)

The present record-holder for Netflix’s longest working collection is Grace and Frankie, the sitcom starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin whose lives are thrown upside when their respective husbands announce they’re leaving them to marry one another. The subsequent batch of episodes coming to Netflix subsequent month will deliver the present to seven full seasons and 94 episodes, pushing it previous the aforementioned Orange Is the New Black, which ran for seven seasons and 91 episodes.

However that’s going to be it for Grace and Frankie, with Netflix confirming that this would be the collection’ closing run of exhibits. (As for what would possibly in the end exchange it as Netflix’s longest-running collection, that’s powerful to say; a lot of the few exhibits which have been round for about so long as Grace and Frankie have produced far fewer seasons and even much less episodes — like Stranger Issues, which can launch its fourth season later in 2022).

Right here’s the official synopsis for the ultimate 12 episodes of Grace and Frankie:

Seven years in the past, Grace and Frankie’s lives turned the other way up when their longtime husbands left them for… one another. Each sparring companions and partners-in-crime, Grace and Frankie fashioned an unlikely and unbreakable bond as they confronted unsure futures head-on, and hand-in-hand. They’ve laughed collectively, cried collectively, did shrooms collectively, and twice-over grew to become profitable entrepreneurs collectively. A history-making 94 episodes later, Grace and Frankie proceed to point out themselves, their households, and their followers what it means to dwell life to the fullest, fearlessly and unapologetically. Right here’s to seven seasons of snickers, tears, mood-enhancers, and good vibes. And, as Grace and Frankie would say, f— it. This can be their closing chapter, however they’re simply getting began.

The ultimate 12 episodes of Grace and Frankie premieres on Netflix on April 29.