Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir picked up 11 Emmy nominations. Prime Video killed it anyway.
'Spider-Noir' has been axed — and if you were waiting for more, the timing will sting.
Let’s take a stroll through the strange journey of Spider-Noir, arguably the least likely Spider-Man to headline his own show, and somehow one of Prime Video’s few real breakout hits in the superhero realm. In a media landscape already crawling with Peter Parkers—Tobey Maguire doing the classic, Andrew Garfield pulling brooding duty, Tom Holland as the chipper one—you’d think audiences would be all webbed-out. But then along swung Into the Spider-Verse and its collection of alternate Spideys, making Miles Morales the new main man and introducing everyone from talking pigs to, yes, a black-and-white detective in a trench coat.
Spider-Noir became the first live-action TV series to centre on a Spider-Man variant.
Now, Nicolas Cage voicing Spider-Noir in the animated film was already a wild bit of casting, but what followed was even madder: Amazon (or, more technically, Prime Video) handed the whole property its own live-action series. Not just a quick spin-off or one of those 'here’s five episodes, binge it if you like', but a full show with its own tone—a moody, hard-boiled version that somehow got greenlit in the first place. Still, cynicism aside, it found a proper audience and quietly racked up some serious wins.
A Surprise Hit
Despite sounding like the sort of thing some TV exec would dream up after too much prosecco, Spider-Noir seriously outperformed the usual expectations for yet another Spider-Man side project. Not only did it snag a robust 92% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes, but awards voters got in on the act, too, with the show earning 11 nominations at the Primetime Emmys. Not bad for a universe where your main competition is a pig in a mask and a Spider-Man with a woolly hat.
The Web Snaps
This week, however, Prime Video’s patience for superhero peculiarities appears to have run out. The platform officially pulled the plug on Spider-Noir, cancelling the series after its winning debut run. No detail yet on exactly why—viewing figures are a closely guarded secret and creative disputes haven’t spilled out into the open—but it’s all over, at least for this particular alternate web-slinger. The show joins a long line of genre series that got a strong start, won over critics, scooped up a few nominations, then vanished without much of a send-off.