Stephanie Hsu‘s well-received Peacock rom-com series Laid has been canceled. (And the Decider team is seriously bummed about it!)
Deadline reports Peacock canceled the series after it failed to make the Nielsen streaming rankings or generate enough buzz.
Laid premiered on Peacock in December 2024 where the eight-episode season was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews.
The fresh romantic comedy starred Hsu as Ruby Yao, a self-absorbed woman who learns all of the people she’s had sex with are tragically dying, one by one. Ruby sets out to warn the others. But it proves to be an ugly wakeup call as she’s forced to realize the fault in many of her failed relationships and hook-ups lies with her. Though she and her best friend AJ (Zosia Mamet) are convinced this is the work of a crazed stalker, their messy investigation – and a major twist in the season finale –
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