“A ‘gripping’ BBC crime drama has been axed after just two series”.
Streaming service Max’s decision to cancel Tokyo Vice has left fans furious as the show earned a whopping 92 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The drama was based on American journalist Jake Adelstein’s account of the police beating in the Japanese capital.
Broadcast on BBC One in the UK, it starred Ansel Elgort, who only signed a two-year contract, and was originally published as a book in 2009.
The reason for the cancellation has not been confirmed but according to The Hollywood Reportercould be attributed to Max’s strategy of checking his list of television shows.
BBC’s ‘gripping’ crime drama Tokyo Vice has been axed after two series, leaving fans furious as the show scored a whopping 92 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Max’s drama was based on American journalist Jake Adelstein’s account of the police beating in the Japanese capital. It starred Ansel Elgort and was originally published as a book in 2009.
Tokyo Vice has been a hit with fans, earning a score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for its average audience score and an 89 percent score for the average Tomatometer.
The show’s cancellation devastated fans, who flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their displeasure.
One of them said: ‘Tokyo Vice cancelled? Why would I still pay for Max?
‘How the hell is @Max$WBD going to cancel TokyoVice? What’s your deal? That’s completely stupid considering all the junk you keep there. Damn. END THE F*****G STORY (angry emoji)’
‘How is @SteamOnMax going to cancel Tokyo Vice when it’s their best drama?’
‘@HBO can you explain why you cancel shows that are amazing or eliminate the potential of knee deep shows? This is almost as bad as the last season of GOT. Why would you cancel Tokyo Vice when it was so good? pick up that. He’ll go crazy
‘Why did you cancel Tokyo Vice?????? ‘Horrible decision!!!’
”Tokyo Vice’ canceled by Max after two seasons This is so disappointing. I love this program. So angry. Why would you cancel? It was the only thing he was currently seeing on Max. Why do I need Max now? I don’t do it until Dragons. So cancel it.’
The show’s cancellation devastated fans, who flocked to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their displeasure.
Throughout the two series, fans watched as Jake moved to Tokyo to work as a rookie reporter.
However, he had to pass a written exam to become a staff member of a major Japanese newspaper in Tokyo.
As a cadet, he was under the guidance of veteran detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe).
Initially, Jake was assigned to the “tacky” Saitama, and the memoir covers his next 12 years as a member of the newspaper’s staff, describing 80-hour work weeks, relationship difficulties, and interactions between crime reporters and the police. .
Specific cases involved the search for Lucie Blackman’s killer, and the memoir also details death threats, after she published an exposé about Tadamasa Goto.
It also discovered that Saitama Prefecture was altering scientific data on dioxin contamination.
The season two finale of Tokyo Vice was released in April and at the time the The Fault in Our Stars actor, 30, revealed that the final season had returned to the pilot.
The reason for the cancellation has not been confirmed, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, it could be attributed to Max’s strategy of revising his slate of television shows.
In a March interview with The Hollywood Reportersaid, “In episode eight we finally get to the first scene of Michael Mann’s pilot where Jake and Katagiri go and meet the yakuza.”
“We finally got back there, and it was amazing for me to be there now, because it was a few years later and I speak Japanese in the scene and I’m much better now,” he said.
Celebrated film director Michael Mann (Heat) returned to the small screen for the first time in more than a decade after directing the pilot episode.
The series was created by JT Rogers with stars Jake and Hiroto serving as executive producers with Rogers, along with Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).
The series was created by JT Rogers with stars Jake (right) and Hiroto (left) serving as executive producers with Rogers, along with Destin Daniel Cretton.
