HBO Cancels J.J. Abrams' New Thriller Duster After Just 1 Season: 'We Are Tremendously Proud'

Just 2 months aft releasing to an fantabulous captious and assemblage response, J.J. Abrams’ caller HBO thriller Duster — starring nary different than Lost fable Josh Holloway — has been officially cancelled and volition not person a 2nd season.

In a connection issued to GamesRadar, the streamer insisted it was blessed with the bid contempt not ordering different round. "While HBO Max volition not beryllium moving guardant with a 2nd play of Duster, we are truthful grateful to person had the accidental to enactment with the amazingly talented co-creators,” the institution said. “We are tremendously arrogant of this series."

Abrams, champion known for directing 2009's Star Trek reboot and the Star Wars sequels The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, and co-showrunner LaToya Morgan’s bid was a captious hit. It secured a 92% critics standing connected Rotten Tomatoes with a bully 83% assemblage standing connected the tract arsenic well. That said, erstwhile the amusement premiered mid-May, it failed to onshore a ample viewership — and adjacent failed to marque immoderate of the viewing charts.

According to the authoritative synopsis, Duster "explores the beingness of a gutsy getaway operator for a increasing transgression syndicate that goes from unsafe to wildly, stupidly unsafe erstwhile a tenacious young cause comes into municipality hellbent connected taking his transgression household down.”

Holloway plays the driver, and it was decidedly a reunion infinitesimal for him and Abrams, who worked unneurotic extensively connected six seasons of Lost. The histrion precocious spoke retired astir having to instrumentality a interruption from the manufacture owed to a deficiency of work, which made Duster the cleanable task to instrumentality with — being that it was with a longtime person moving the show.

"I couldn’t adjacent judge what I was hearing," helium told The Hollywood Reporter successful a caller interrogation astir getting the telephone for Duster. "That was close earlier the pandemic, and past HBO was sold twice. But we kept making it done everything. [We wondered] ‘Are they going to cancel us?’ No, no. We kept chugging along."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.