'That's the state I want to leave our beautiful fans in. 'I like the idea of ending a season in a question mark for everyone,' MacIntyre said at the time. Vampire Academy bosses' 13-year fight for TV show And worse of all, we won't even know if Victor's still alive following what happened in season one's finale. Unfortunately, we might never get to see how that journey plays out now. We ended season 1 where book one began and that is so exciting to me that we now get to tell the story of the girls out in the human world, and that could last one episode or it could last 8 episodes.'

Plec added: 'The second book largely takes place at a school ski trip, which would perhaps be an episode or two and can't really be a whole season, so that instantly opens up our ability to take more license with the different elements from all the books. Then there's a little bit of new stuff we have planned,' MacIntyre said.

Like, what do the Communes actually look like in this world? We're expanding on stuff that was touched on in the books. 'If we do some of the things we've discussed, we're deepening and expanding some of the worlds that are touched on in the books. At times like these, it's hard not to wonder how a show like this would have fared ten years ago on a regular TV network instead of streaming.įollowing season one's finale, co-creators Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntrye told EW that they had plenty of material left to draw from in Richelle Mead's books. With a second season, Vampire Academy could have cemented its audience and become something bigger than it was. It's a shame the show wasn't given time to grow and evolve, especially as it had been sold to over 100 territories around the world. Peacock execs were apparently happy with the show from a creative standpoint, though.

When the cancellation was announced on January 20, 2023, Deadline reported that Vampire Academy (and another cancelled show, One of Us is Lying) 'didn’t find the requisite audience to justify further seasons'. These scores aren't the be-all and end-all, especially when there's a chance bigotry could have come into play, but it does suggest that Vampire Academy wasn't a humongous hit for Peacock. However, the audience score for the show is a bit less impressive with an overall rating of 48%. Season one received a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 77% with 13 critic reviews, which is quite a leap from the paltry 17% score that the film landed eight years prior. The initial response to Vampire Academy was quite decent, if not overwhelming.

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