No more Teacup for us. According to a Variety exclusive, Peacock has canceled the horror series after just one season.
Premiering in October 2024, Teacup was one of two new horror shows released by the streaming service alongside Hysteria!. No word yet on the future of Hysteria!, but we now know that Teacup will end with its eight-episode run.
Inspired by the novel Stinger written by Robert McCammon, Teacup follows a group of people trapped on a rural farm in Georgia. By the end of the first episode, a mysterious man wearing a gas mask shows up and paints a line around the farm, one that acts as a boundary trapping everyone inside. We quickly learn why. Any living being that crosses the line trying to escape disintegrates into a bloody mess. And that's just the beginning of the threats these characters must face.
Peacock doesn't share viewership data so we can't say conclusively that those numbers contributed to the show's cancellation. Teacup seemed to do well with critics, earning a 77% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes, but that wasn't enough to save the show.
I wasn't impressed with it myself, as I found Teacup too over-explanatory with poor writing that failed to build suspense in a meaningful way.
The series was created by Ian McCulloch, with James Wan serving as an executive producer for his company Atomic Monster. The season (now series) finale aired on Halloween. Wan and Atomic Monster will continue to collaborate with Peacock as the companies are working together on a drama series starring Simu Liu (Shang-Chi). In it, Liu will play an intelligence analyst whose brain has been hacked by a shadowy organization.
On the positive side, Teacup had a satisfying finale, with the main storyline getting wrapped up with an emotional and climactic finish. Plus, in this era of streaming and television, you never know if a project is truly canceled or could find new life elsewhere.
You can still check out all episodes of Teacup on Peacock.