No More Merry Happy Whatever For You This Year As Netflix Cancels Season 2

After nearly five months of suspense over Netflix investing in a second season for its festive family sitcom Merry Happy Whatever comes to an end. The word is final, there will be no season 2

Premiering in November last year, Merry Happy Whatever was your typical festive season special, watch-with-family drama. It had a widowed dad with 3 kids who are come home for Christmas with their families.

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Source: IMDb

There is perfectly clean, drawing-room comedy for all ages with a patriarch at its heart, holding the reigns of the family rather tightly. 

While the viewers remained split about the show, for the critics, it was renowned disapproval. For some, the daddy Don was a bit too uptight for a modern-day father while to others, he gave deja vu moments about their own fathers.

However, the critics were unamused and called out the show’s premise as well as the comedy for lacking in imagination. 

Don’s character was especially criticized for evoking the same old masculinity panic in his son Sean and sons-in-law Matt and Todd with constant disapproval and rejection.

However, his gay granddaughter Kayla’s character, played by Ashley Tisdale, was received with much enthusiasm. 

While Netflix has officially announced to bag the show forever, it remains to be seen if its creators find another platform for the same. A lot of which will depend on the fans who may want it back in the next festive season. But as of now, Merry Happy Whatever is definitely not returning any time soon. 

Merry Happy Whatever | Official Trailer | Netflix

There was some excellent talent involved in the show’s production: creator Tucker Cawley had earlier worked on Everybody Loves Raymond and Men Of A Certain Age.

The show’s directors included experienced comics Betty Thomas and Pam Fryman, as well as One Day At A Time co-creator Gloria Calderon Kellett.

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