We were robbed: Spider-Noir got canceled — season 2 could’ve gone World War II
Spider-Noir was poised to take its 1930s New York noir someplace much darker for Season 2 — plans scuppered when Prime Video cancelled the Marvel show.
This one’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Spider-Noir, Prime Video’s spin on the Spider-Man universe, had only just started to find its feet – and already it’s been chopped after a single series. The real twist? The show collected a nice little pile of Emmys almost instantly after its cancellation. Showrunner Oren Uziel isn’t keeping schtum either; he’s spilled exactly where series two could have gone, and let’s just say, it wasn’t going to stay in 1930s New York forever.
‘You’re starting in 1933. Where is that heading? It’s heading toward just a most cataclysmic time — World War II. There was a lot of storytelling that could have happened there.’
That’s Uziel talking to Variety, laying out what he saw as a goldmine of potential for the next series. If you’ve not caught up yet, the first season had Nicolas Cage starring as Ben Reilly (not Peter Parker, keep up), skulking about as a private investigator and vigilante known only as The Spider. The setting was right out of a noir pulpy comic – post-World War I New York, so basically jazz, shadows, and a lot of men in hats. Uziel reckoned that by pushing the timeline ahead, they could have swept from the dark alleys of Manhattan to Europe or even Los Angeles, and straight towards the looming disaster of World War II. Bold move, if you ask me.
Spider-Noir premiered on MGM+ in May 2026 and swept five Emmys just two days after the series was axed.
The plot thickens. The series dropped all eight episodes in one go – launching on MGM+ on 25 May 2026, and showing up on Prime Video the day after. Less than four months later, Amazon MGM Studios simply pulled the rug. By the time anyone had time to yell 'unfair!', Spider-Noir walked away with statues for stunt coordination, sound editing, title design, visual effects, and cinematography. That’s not to be sniffed at, though it obviously wasn’t enough to shift any suits’ minds on a renewal.
Alongside Cage, the cast was stacked: Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson were all showing up in one capacity or another. Shame to waste all that talent, but, you know, modern TV.
As for the broader universe, it’s not all doom and gloom (or shadows-in-the-fog, if we’re sticking with the theme). While Spider-Noir’s been binned, Prime Video and Sony are reportedly about to nab themselves another show connected to this web of characters. So, the broader Sony Spider-Man Universe is still kicking – it just won’t look quite as moody as Uziel’s take.