When the "Gordite Chronicles" debuted on HBO Max, it was filled with critical recognition and had a decent viewership with many accounts. Then why was he canceled after just one season? More than that, why was it completely removed from the platform it introduced to the audience in the first place?

The term "lost media" causes pictures of forgotten internet videos buried under the increasing part of the "content". But in recent years the same term can be unfortunately applied to the main TV series of large streaming platforms. Streaming services continue to cancel emissions early For a variety of reasons, the fact that more media is simply pumping, making it difficult for competition to the fact that it is easier to give up shows when you haven't watched the broadcasting schedule. But there is also the disturbing trend of followers that actually remove emissions together from their platforms, which have become a prominent issue since HBO Max began to disappear the series without any notes. "Raised by Wolves", for example, was frivolously removed The service at the same time has suffered the same fate.

Fortunately, you can still see the latter on tubes today, far from becoming a landfill for emissions that got the ax too early, quickly becomes one of the The best streaming services. But the trend of only complete deletion of the media shows remains just as disturbing no matter what - especially when they appear to be good. For the team behind "Gordita Chronicles", the cancellation of the show was surprising enough given the positive reception, but if it was removed from HBO Max it was simply disturbing. Why was it allowed to happen? Let me explain.

"Gordite Chronicles" has been created Claudia Forreteri and based on her real life experience. The series, which boasted with Zoe Saldasha and Eva Longoria, as producers (Longoria also directed the cockpit), focused on rapporteur Kuku Castelli (Olivia Goncalves), "Gordita" (or "Chubby Girl"). Kuku recounted a memory of her life growing up in the 1980s Miami after she and her family moved to the city of the Dominican Republic. HBO MAX's premiere series on June 23, 2022, just two months after The union of Discovery Warner Bros..What is important, because this merger is that he probably wrote the end for "Gordita Chronicles" before debuting.

The show debuted in positive critical estimates, and at one point had a 100% rating of rotten tomatoes. Moreover, Forreteri said Vulture That she heard that the ratings were strong. It was a surprise to say at least, when in July 2022, just a month after debuting "Gordite Chronicles" The deadline It has announced that HBO Max has canceled the series because of the changing priorities of HBO Max Warner Bros. owner. Discovery. At the time, a company spokesman acknowledged the fact that the series earned "critical recognition and loyal monitoring" and praised the "show break" for "Ing) deep with very important demographics". Unfortunately, it was supposed to intensify along with the radiation of other series due to the discovery of Warner Bros., which declined to certain genres. As a "exit" spokesman said, "Live children with action and family programming will not be part of our program focus in the immediate future, and as a result, we had to make a very difficult decision to put an end to" Gordite Chronicles "in HBO Max."

Just to make things worse, in December 2022, "Gordita Chronicles" disappeared entirely from HBO Max, along with several other series. In essence, the series has turned into a repayment of Warner Bros.'s detection tax before the year ended as part of CEO David Zadlav's ruthless campaign to deal with the company's spiral debt. But they were not just tax incentives that led to the death of the show. Much of the Streamers readiness to erase the entire show from their servers is to the way the debris work. If the show is not sure to bring subscribers with certainty, but the company still has to pay remnants of writers, essentially loses money, you should imagine, played in Warner's decision to remove "Gordite Chronicles" in December 2022. What's more, following the merger of Warner Discovery, the company plans to consolidate HBO Max and Discovery on its own discovery+ platform in an influx, to happen in 202, which occurred in 202, which occurred in 202, which occurred in 202, which occurred in 202, which occurred in 202 Year, which happened in 202, which happened in 202. "Max" that last only lasted a little longer than the "Gordita Chronicles" itself). It is clear that Claudia Forreteri's series did not embark on that special image.

After the cancellation of "Gordita Chronicles", HBO MAX continues to remove emissions including 16 seasons of Luni Tunes shorts. Meanwhile, people responsible for "Gordita Chronicles" did not stay in their assessment of what happened. In an interview with VultureCreator Claudia Forrestii revealed that she and the crew had heard through Sonny, who produced the series, that it was canceled. "They just told us that they would no longer do programming for children and family activities," she said, before explaining why it was originally skeptical:

"I thought it was just an excuse for the BS, until two or three weeks later, when all these other plays gave up. Then we seemed to be Canaria in the coal mine. They decided not to release the "Butger". And then I started thinking: 'Is that something against Dominicans?' Because (the "Butger" Starvers) Leslie Grace is Dominican. Maybe the new leadership in Warner Bros. Discovery just doesn't want the Dominicans for whatever reason, I don't know! "

However, shortly thereafter, Forreteri saw what she called "contraction throughout the streaming industry" and admitted that she "benefited from streaming wars" by being "creator for the first time with a limited TV writing experience", which was given her own show.

Meanwhile, executive producer Brigitte Munoz-Liboitz spoke Rolling stoneDiscovering that she and her production team were actually preparing to start shooting Season 2 when they heard about the cancellation. "It was a shock," she said, adding, "she felt very unfair. It didn't matter that our show was loved, it didn't matter that we had good audience numbers. It didn't matter what we wrote about content that was important for insufficient communities. None of that was important."

In the streaming era, the preservation of TV is more important than everBut, as confirmed by what happened to "Gordite Chronicles", which certainly does not seem to be the view that most directors take. As Mujoz-Liboitz told Rolling Stone, "We are in a strange kind of lime space, the transition of technologies, where we do not have (DVDs) to come back. This is our history and to make them unavailable to delete that narrative."