Apple TV shock fans as a popular series about a survivor of a tragic event is axed after just one season
Apple TV executives have left fans shocked after cancelling a series centred around a survivor of a tragic event after just one season.
Dear Edward, a favourite with viewers and adapted from the novel released in 2020, told the story of Edward Adler, played by Colin O’Brien.
The character was orphaned after a traumatic plane crash which killed his whole family and he had to find a way to rebuild his life and make new friends.
Edward was partially based on a real-life survivor of a crash called Ruben, who was also sole survivor of a plane crash and lost his family.
The sad event had occurred when he was on the way back from a South Africa safari with them and he ended up living with his aunt and uncle.
Axed: Apple TV executives have left fans shocked after cancelling a series centred around a survivor of a tragic event after just one season
True story: Dear Edward, a favourite with viewers and adapted from the novel released in 2020, told the story of Edward Adler, played by Colin O’Brien
Fans took to Twitter to share their sadness after it was announced Dear Edward, which was picked up by Apple TV in 2022, would not be returning for another series.
One wrote: ‘Too bad it was a good show’ while a second penned: ‘Nooo.’
A third said: ‘Nooo I loved this show’ while a separate person added: ‘Am heartbroken… damn.’
Someone else said: ‘That’s also disappointing’ and another penned: ‘after I’ve fallen in love with the show.’
But others were not as sad that the show will be coming to a close.
A Twitter poster said: ‘I gave it a big chance giving it 6 episodes and loving Jason Katims’ work but I could not get into the story lines of so many characters.
‘Connie Britton can’t hold up a whole show alone.’
And someone else said: ‘I thought it started off strong kind of went off the rails.’
Sad: Fans took to Twitter to share their sadness after it was announced Dear Edward, which was picked up by Apple TV in 2022, would not be returning for another series
In the series, Connie Britton plays Dee Dee, a woman who lost her husband on the same flight Edward survives.
She recently opened up about how the show, which centers on grief and grieving, served as a conduit for her own experiences with grief.
Britton said in an interview with Parade: ‘I find having gone through grief in my own life that a lot of times we don’t have ways to work through it and to handle it.
‘We’re not given the tools or the language for it. This was really a wonderful opportunity to try to explore that.
‘And one of the things that I really learned playing Dee Dee was that grief comes in many forms. Because grief can certainly come from the loss of a loved one, but it can also come from the loss of your own sense of self or your own sense of what you know or what you perceive your life to be.’
In an interview with the Associated Press, Britton revealed that she studied up on playing a wealthy socialite by watching some popular reality television including The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771’s crash saw Ruben suffer fractures to his legs after he was the only person to survive.
Following surgery on them. his aunt and uncle picked him up and went on to raise him and gain custody of him.
Ann Napolitano, author of Dear Edward, previously said that Ruben’s story inspired the book but it was fiction because much of his life after the crash was unknown.
She told Library Journal: ‘I think I couldn’t let go [of Ruben’s story] because I was both deeply worried about Ruben and deeply curious about how he could go on after such a terrible tragedy.
‘His aunt and uncle did an amazing job of protecting Ruben’s privacy once he was released from the hospital, but that meant I couldn’t know that he became OK.
‘I had to create a set of circumstances under which a little boy in that situation could believably become a whole person, in spite of – or even because of – what he’d lost. I needed him to be OK, so I had to write my way into believing that was possible.’
Not bothered: But others were not as sad that the show will be coming to a close and took to Twitter to reveal their opinions on the show
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