Ian Somerhalder’s Sci-Fi Horror Sequence On Netflix Ought to Have By no means Been Canceled – SlashFilm – The Imperial Wire Insider

Netflix and the idea of premature cancellations have turn into fairly synonymous with one another through the years. Granted, the streaming service was identified for saving TV reveals from being canceled by choosing them up and including them to its personal roster. Extra not too long ago, nonetheless, Netflix itself has canceled loads of TV reveals value watching, and the record of canceled Netflix reveals that ended on a cliffhanger is fairly spectacular (and solely continues to develop).

One Netflix present that actually may have accomplished with an extended life is “V Wars,” the 2019 sci-fi horror collection starring Ian Somerhalder (“Misplaced,” “The Vampire Diaries”). The present solely ran for a single 10-episode season earlier than its cancellation, and it was Somerhalder’s last challenge earlier than he retired from appearing and embraced farming. Nevertheless, “V Wars” stays a cult favourite, and its recent strategy on vampire villains makes it a really attention-grabbing collection that would have accomplished with many extra episodes (or, for that matter, seasons) than it really ended up getting.

Based mostly on Jonathan Maberry’s comics of the identical title, “V Wars” is all about vampires … however not the standard bloodsuckers you discover within the horror style. As a substitute, “V Wars” offers its vampiric villains a definite pandemic twist, because the present’s vampires are created by a prion launched from its historic ice jail by world warming. 

As a theme, vampirism as a virus is not precisely unparalleled, and “V Wars” is not the primary challenge to interpret it actually. (“The Pressure” and “Daybreakers,” take a bow.) Nevertheless, the place “V Wars” actually excels is its depiction of a world that is struggling to deal with the virus on all fronts. Other than human society splitting on the seams, the vampires even have their very own society often called Blood, inflicting a really actual divide between contaminated people and the uninfected inhabitants. Amidst all this, Ian Somerhalder’s Dr. Luther Swann works tirelessly to avoid wasting each factions as chaos continues to reign, new variations of the vampire virus emerge, and notable characters drop left and proper. 

Nicely-regarded by those that’ve seen it, the primary and solely season of “V Wars” has time to introduce the world, present simply how actual the stakes are, and — after all — finish with a brutal cliffhanger. Had the collection been capable of discover its bloody, superb setting for just a few extra seasons, who is aware of how good it may need turn into?