Prime Video has decided not to proceed with a second season of Spider-Noir, and Nicolas Cage says that makes sense to him. The actor said one season was enough for the series, calling it perfect after he had said what he wanted to say with the show.
That reaction lands now because Spider-Noir did not fade quietly. The series posted a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, then went on to collect 11 Emmy Award nominations in 2026, the most of any Prime Video series that year. It also reached viewers in both color and black and white, a choice that fit the noir style Cage was chasing in his first TV role.
Cage framed the ending as completion rather than loss. In a Variety interview, he said that whether another season happened or not, everyone involved had achieved what they set out to do and that the show works on its own. He added, “Onwards, upwards, inwards,” a sign that he was looking past the cancellation instead of dwelling on it.
Spider-Noir came from co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal among the executive producers. Cage had already described the role in June as something built from older movie rhythms, saying he wanted to go back to old ’30s and ’40s films and thinking of Double Indemnity and Howard Hawks as part of the mix. That helps explain why the first season could stand alone: the series was built with a specific mood and a contained story, not a long runway.
The friction is obvious. A series praised by both reviewers and viewers, and decorated with 11 Emmy Award nominations, still did not survive its first season. The missing piece is not whether Spider-Noir worked; by every visible measure, it did. The question is whether its high price tag and respectable but not blockbuster viewership made the second season too expensive for Prime Video to justify, even with the awards attention.
For Cage, the next stop is already set. He said Prime Video’s Madden premieres November 18, keeping him in business with the service even as Spider-Noir closes after one season. For now, the verdict from its lead actor is simple: the story was told, and the ending was enough.
