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Sex/Life Netflix series has been cancelled after the second season after the show’s star Sarah Shahi criticised it for being “gimmicky”.

Popular hit series Sex/Life has been cancelled by Netflix after the second season - days after the show’s star Sarah Shahi criticised the second season and described it as “gimmicky.”

Following its successful debut in 2021, the streaming platform’s erotic thriller returned for a second season in March. Shahi returned as series lead Billie Connelly, while Mike Vogel and Adam Demos (Shahi’s real-life partner) came back as the two men she is in a love triangle with.

However, in a recent interview, Shahi claimed that she was not happy with the second season of the drama and had not received the same levels of “support”. She said: “I mean, I’m never gonna work for Netflix again now after saying all this, but I can’t lie.”

Sex/Life was cancelled by Netflix on Friday, (April 7, with season two being the show’s logical conclusion. Just days before, Shahi had made her comments on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, where she admitted to “struggling with the material”.

The actor said that she’d been excited to work with Demos, who she met filming the show and has been in a relationship with since 2020, but rarely was given the chance to. She said:

Sex/Life hit series cancelled by Netflix after second season but viewers say it ‘ended perfectly’