‘Spider-Noir’ has been cancelled by Prime Video after one season, the Nicolas Cage comic book noir having landed on the streamer in May 2026 with 11 Emmy nominations and near-perfect critics and audience scores to its name.
The decision landed despite the show being the most nominated Prime Video series of the year, as reported by Deadline. Awards heat and warm reviews were not enough to buy a second run, which tells you exactly where the priorities sat.
‘Spider-Noir’ cancelled despite near-perfect reviews
Eight episodes dropped in May 2026 and the reception was immediate, a 92% critics approval rating sitting alongside a 90% audience score. Rare air for a comic book adaptation, and rarer still for one that then gets shown the door.
Cage’s casting was the whole sell, and it worked well enough to put the show at the front of Prime Video’s awards queue this year. That kind of haul usually reads as a safe bet on a renewal board.
The numbers that mattered were not the review scores. Viewership was respectable without being outsized, and the production was expensive in a way few streaming shows are, having been shot in both black-and-white and full colour.
Streamers run renewal decisions as a sum, cost on one side and performance on the other. A lavish period piece with good but not enormous numbers is exactly the shape of show that loses that maths, awards cabinet or not.
Where the ‘Spider-Noir’ story was left
Season one told a mostly complete story, which softens the blow. A handful of loose threads were left dangling, but nothing resembling a cliffhanger, so nobody is stuck waiting on a resolution that will never arrive.
Swisher Post covered the show’s Prime Video launch in May 2026, when that dual black-and-white and colour release was the talking point rather than the ending. The very flourish that made it a curiosity is now part of why it did not survive.
What the ‘Spider-Noir’ cancellation clears the way for
Prime Video is reportedly circling a greenlight on another series drawn from Sony’s wider stable of Marvel characters, the same corner of the universe this show came from.
That suggests the streamer is not walking away from the material, only from this version of it.
What comes next for Prime Video and Spider-Noir fans
Sony and Prime Video hold the next move, with that other Marvel series still sitting at the greenlight stage rather than a confirmed order.
Until something lands, season one stands as a closed eight-episode run, and Cage’s turn in the role stays a one-off that the awards voters rated far higher than the accountants did.
