The collection was based mostly on the beloved youngsters’s horror books by R.L. Stine, which characteristic children in varied horror eventualities, from haunted masks to evil ventriloquist dummies to creepy cameras, and have been foundational to younger style followers like me.
The collection, which had two seasons (the second of which was referred to as Goosebumps: The Vanishing), was ostensibly performing properly. The primary season adopted 5 excessive schoolers as they investigated the dying of a teen named Harold Biddle and starred Justin Lengthy, Rachael Harris, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Ana Yi Puig, and Will Worth. It premiered in October 2023.
The second season featured David Schwimmer as a single father whose brother disappeared after they have been teenagers. His twins and their three pals turned entangled within the thriller of 4 youngsters who disappeared a long time earlier. It got here out in January 2025.
‘Goosebumps’ (Season 2)Credit score: Disney/Francisco Roman
There was loads of creepiness to discover in these episodes, which pulled from varied storylines within the intensive Stine catalogue with extra to spare (there are a pair hundred books within the franchise). The primary season had 10 weekly episodes, whereas the second had eight and got here out all in a block.
We might have an entire dialog concerning the launch mannequin right here—I’ve seen loads of complaints about how TV seasons maintain getting shorter, with big breaks in between. Simply take a look at Netflix’s Wednesday, which lastly launched its second season after a two-year hiatus. And for some purpose, these eight episodes have been cut up into two four-episode blocks. Keep in mind once we would recover from 20 episodes of TV per season, launched each single 12 months? These have been the times.
Anyway, Goosebumps appeared to be faring superb. In keeping with Selection: “The 2 seasons pulled in 75 million hours seen mixed within the U.S., on prime of 43 million hours seen throughout 16 worldwide markets.”
Whereas the second season did have a drop in viewership, we might probably attribute that to the lengthy break between seasons. Critically, it did superb, with Metacritic’s aggregator exhibiting favorable critiques from critics.
So what is the deal?
Disney hasn’t commented on the selection to ax the present, and it might be part of a graveyard of different prematurely canceled Disney+ exhibits except collection producer Sony Footage Tv is ready to discover it a brand new house.
As Contained in the Magic factors out, one in all Disney CEO Bob Iger’s important objectives has been to make the streamer worthwhile. That is seemingly guiding the corporate’s option to, in response to Deadline, extra totally combine Hulu into the worldwide model of the Disney+ app.
After that information broke earlier this week, rumors rapidly began flying on-line about Hulu providers disappearing, nevertheless it’s solely the app itself that’s merging with Disney+. Disney says that subscription providers will nonetheless be obtainable because the bundle in addition to stand-alone Disney+ or Hulu subs, though pricing is not clear.
Anyway, as all this restructuring occurs, it is seemingly Goosebumps and different exhibits have been unlucky casualties. Tell us what you suppose.
