Netflix cancels The Ultimatum: Queer Love after two seasons and fans are devastated
The Ultimatum Queer Love, which featured queer women and non-binary couples, has been cancelled at Netflix. (Netflix).
The Ultimatum Queer Love, which featured queer women and non-binary couples, has been cancelled at Netflix. (Netflix).
Netflix’s chaotic queer reality dating show The Ultimatum: Queer Love has been axed after just two seasons, and fans are up in arms.
The Ultimatum: Queer Love, a spin-off of Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, premiered on Netflix in 2023 and found a solid fanbase thanks to an abundance of drama and some gloriously chaotic sapphic and non-binary characters.
The first season managed to crack the Netflix top ten most-watched chart, though the second season, which premiered in June this year, did not.
One of the first additions to the LGBTQ+ dating series canon, The Ultimatum: Queer Love follows five to six couples, with one individual in each couple ready for marriage.
Each couple then splits, with the cast members going on to date someone from another of the season’s couples. They then decide one other cast member to enter a trial marriage with for three weeks. At the end of the process, they decide whether to get hitched with their original partner, their trial partner, or to leave the show single.
The show is created by Chris Coelen, known as the man behind Netflix hits Love Is Blind and the US version of Married At First Sight. Both of those shows, along with Queer Love’s original, heterosexual series Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, are still in production, with the latter preparing for its fourth season.
Yet Queer Love won’t be returning for a third outing, according to Variety.
Online, fans of The Ultimatum: Queer Love have expressed their fury at the show being canned, particularly while other, similar shows continue.
“Pls reconsider bringing back Ultimatum queer edition. That was the best show by far. Cancel Love Is Blind please I beg bring back Ultimatum,” one fan urged.
“I’m sorry, we’re in season NINE of Love Is Blind, the show about actual heterosexual psychopaths, but we can’t have more queer Ultimatum?” another questioned.
A third begged: “Can someone steal the concept of The Ultimatum: Queer Love and put it on another streaming platform pleaseeee.”
Others dubbed Netflix’s decision “idiotic”, as another raged: “Queer women can’t have s**t!”
While The Ultimatum: Queer Love was embraced by queer viewers, the show wasn’t without its controversies. Following the end of season two, contestants AJ Blount and Britney Thompson blasted the show’s edit, claiming that it missed “the majority of the story”.
Speaking exclusively to PinkNews, Britney argued that the edit suggested that she wasn’t bothered about her crumbling relationship with AJ; she said the opposite was true.
Queer representation on Netflix has been under the spotlight in recent days, thanks to billionaire tech bro and supposed free speech enthusiast Elon Musk.
In a post on X on 1 October, Musk urged his followers to “cancel Netflix for the health of your kids” after being alerted to a transgender character in animation series Dead End: Paranormal Park, which was cancelled almost three years ago.
The Ultimatum: Queer Love seasons one and two are currently streaming on Netflix.
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