What’s up with all the franchises? Just after Marvel cancelled Agatha All Along, a show fans genuinely connected with, The Boys Presents: Diabolical has now met a similar fate.
Despite a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes and heaps of praise for its creativity, Prime Video has quietly pulled the plug on the animated anthology.
The series, which released in 2022, was a rare gem. Each episode brought a new animation style, a fresh tone, and a different slice of The Boys universe.
It didn’t rely on the same characters or storylines but instead expanded the world in exciting, unpredictable ways. Yet according to creator Eric Kripke, the show didn’t generate enough viewership to justify a second season.
This feels like a familiar story in streaming today: acclaimed, experimental content gets shelved while bigger, safer projects continue to dominate. Prime Video seems focused on The Boys live-action universe, Gen V, Vought Rising, and The Boys: Mexico are all moving ahead, leaving Diabolical as an ambitious but abandoned experiment.
And that’s the real disappointment here. Diabolical proved that audiences were open to something bold and different within a familiar world. But once again, numbers outweighed creativity.
Maybe that’s the “diabolical” part after all, in today’s streaming wars, even a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score isn’t enough to survive.