ADennis Quaidshow with a 57% Tomatometer score has been canceled after one season. Throughout his long career in the entertainment industry, there have been many popularDennis Quaid sports movies, includingThe Rookie, where he plays a high school science teacher who becomes a Major League Baseball player.
Quaid is also known for playing Nick Parker, the father of Lindsay Lohan’s identical twin characters in the 1998The Parent Trap, along with paleoclimatologist Jack Hall in the 2004 disaster filmThe Day After Tomorrow. He more recentlystarred in the critically acclaimed horror movieThe Substance.
In addition to the vast number of films he has been in,Quaid has also made his mark on televisionwith his Emmy Award-nominated portrayal of President Bill Clinton in HBO’s television movieThe Special, along with playing Deputy U.S. Marshal Sherrill Lynn in Paramount+‘sLawmen: Bass Reeves. However, another one of Quaid’s Paramount+ shows has been cut short.
Happy Face Is Canceled
Dennis Quaid Played The Happy Face Killer
The Quaid-led seriesHappy Faceis not continuing at Paramount+. Season 1 of the true crime drama wasan adaptation of a 2018 podcast about the Happy Face serial killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson (Quaid).Happy Face’s cast of charactersalso includes Jesperson’s daughter, Melissa Reed (Annaleigh Ashford).
WhileScreenRant’sHappy Facereviewwas overall positive and praised Quaid and Moore’s performances, the series did not have an overall strong reception, which led to a 57% Tomatometer score and 43% Popcornmeter score.
As perDeadline,Paramount+ has decided not to move forward with season 2 ofHappy Face. The cancelation comes more than two months after the season finale aired on May 1. The decision also comes after the show failed to make it into Nielsen’s Streaming Originals Top 10 during its run on Paramount+.
It’s Disappointing, But Not Surprising
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While the cancelation is disappointing, it is not too surprising. The majority ofshows that Paramount+ renews are usually based on popular IP or come from Taylor Sheridan.Happy Facedid not fall into either of these categories, and without being a streaming hit or being received particularly well by critics and general audiences, the decision was made to cancel.
TheHappy Faceseason 1 finaledid set up a potential season 2, so there were definitely plans to continue the tense story. Unfortunately, those plans have been cut prematurely short after Paramount+’s decision, which nowmakes theHappy Faceseason 1 finale a conclusion for the entire series.
