Hulu’s Black Cake Not Returning for Season 2

Rebecca Iannucci

27 September 2024 at 5:45 pm·1-min read

It’s one and done for Hulu’s Black Cake, which will not be back for a second season at the streamer, TVLine has learned.

The cancellation comes nearly a year after Black Cake first premiered on Hulu in November 2023. Its Season 1 finale, now a series finale, dropped on Dec. 6.

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Based on Charmaine Wilkerson’s 2022 novel of the same name, Black Cake centered on two siblings — Benny and Byron Bennett, played by Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren and Them‘s Ashley Thomas, respectively — who learn about their late mother’s past when she leaves them a flash drive “that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America,” per the official synopsis. “These stories, narrated by Eleanor (Into the Badlands‘ Chipo Chung), shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin.”

The cast also included Mia Isaac (The Perfect Couple), Lashay Anderson (Rebel Cheer Squad), Faith Alabi (Industry), Ahmed Elhaj (Grantchester) and TV veteran Glynn Turman.

Friday’s Black Cake news marks Hulu’s second cancellation of the day: The streamer has also axed dramedy series UnPrisoned, starring Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo, after two seasons.

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