Sandra Oh's 'The Chair' Reportedly Canceled at Netflix

01/18/2023 11:19 am EST

Sandra Oh's academic satire The Chair is officially done at Netflix. The series, which released its first season on the streamer in August 2021, was not renewed for a second season, co-creator Amanda Peet revealed during the Television Critics Association's Winter Press Tour earlier this month. 

Peet, who co-created the Pittsburgh-shot series starring Oh as Professor Ji-yoon Kim with Annie Julia Wyman, confirmed that the streamer had quietly canceled the series. "We weren't picked up," Peet said, as per the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Sandra and I wish we had been." While Peet had previously suggested there were more storylines ahead for The Chair, Netflix never renewed the show for a second season and never announced an official cancellation. 

Oh previously doubted a second season of The Chair was in the cards in early 2022, telling Variety in February 2022, "No one's called me, so I'm guessing that's not happening. I would have loved it, because I just thought that there was so much material there to potentially explore." She continued, "Because the setting and the characters were established... I'm just happy that it happened, it was a great experience. But I am sad that it's over."

Oh's performance as Kim earned the actress a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. The series, which was shot at the height of COVID, was a fast and furious production, Oh and co-star Holland Taylor told The Hollywood Reporter in November 2021.

"How long were we together – two months? Three months? We shot The Chair while we were sprinting," Oh recalled in the interview. "I felt like every scene began with an announcement," added Taylor. " 'OK, we've got to get through this by 11.' I was there thinking, 'It's 10:43!'"

"It was an amazing and challenging experience to shoot," Oh continued. "I think The Chair worked because everyone who was involved had a tremendous amount of experience in television. Everyone who came had, like, 20-plus years. That's the only way we could have made it because everyone immediately could sense what was needed. For me, it was like instead of running a mile, suddenly you have to do the 100-meter sprint."

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