The second season will be the last one for “The Vince Staples Show.”
According to Deadline, Netflix has decided to cancel the show due to low viewership.
Season 2 of The Vince Staples Show topped out at 1,446 on Netflix’s Second Half of 2025 viewership report. Approximately 1.7M views tuned in after its Nov. 6 release. In its first season, the show “drew 4.6M views for its first season over a period that was twice as long, from Feb. 15, 2024, through June 30, 2024.”
Netflix also noted that The Vince Staples Show “never found a wide audience.” During its run, the show never made it on Netflix’s Weekly Top 10, although it received critical acclaim. It scored “94% with critics and 88% with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes.”
In an interview with Billboard, Staples shared the concept of the series.
“A lot of the times people undermine the intelligence of the audience. And then that becomes learned behavior,” Staples explained. “I feel like a lot of the time we just have to have conversations like, ‘OK, we’re making a dark comedy in the streaming era. Some are on television and have commercial breaks.
We ended up putting title cards in the show because it was important to have tonal breaks in this dry, slow show, or else we would end up boring. There’s a big difference between boring and interesting. But there’s also a fine line between the two.”
Staples also shared how executives mixed up Vince Staples the actor vs Vince Staples the character.
“The way the show was written — and this was always the intention — The Vince Staples Show is not about Vince Staples as a character,”he said. “It’s about a perspective. And it’s The Vince Staples Show because I made it not because it’s about me.
“I think that was a hard thing for a lot of people to grasp. Going from writing for me and then writing for the characters, it became kind of a disconnect,” he said. “Because they’re expecting me to come in and write a show about myself. But I’m writing a show about other people and how they view me in the world.”