‘Boots’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season

It's the end of the road for "Boots" on Netflix, as the gay military drama was not picked up for a second season.

via: EW

The Miles Heizer- and Vera Farmiga-starring gay military show, which was the last series from the late, great producer Norman Lear, has been canceled after one season on the streamer, Entertainment Weekly has learned.

It is understood that Netflix is proud of the work that the producers, cast, and crew put into the show, which currently sits at 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes among critics and audiences alike.

According to Deadline, who first reported news of the cancellation, the announcement comes after Sony TV in August extended the options on multiple cast members, including Heizer, Liam Oh, Kieron Moore, Dominic Goodman, Angus O’Brien, Blake Burt, and Rico Paris. According to the report, this "was not a straightforward cancellation," given the "show had internal support, and Netflix held conversations with Boots studio Sony Pictures Television while analyzing long-tail viewership data."

Based on former Marine Greg Cope White's memoir The Pink Marine, the eight-episode series is set in the brutal world of the 1990s U.S. Marine Corps, at a time when being gay in the military was not legal. Per Netflix's official synopsis, it follows directionless, closeted Cameron Cope (Heizer) and his best friend Ray McAffey (Liam Oh), the son of a decorated Marine, as they join a diverse group of recruits.

Together, the group navigates the literal and metaphorical landmines of boot camp run by the ruthless Sgt. Sullivan (Max Parker), and in the process, forges unlikely bonds and discovers their true selves in an environment designed to push them to their limits. Farmiga plays Cameron's aloof mother.

The series first debuted in early October and performed well on the platform's viewership charts; enough so that it seemingly caught the attention of the Pentagon, which slammed what it called Netflix’s “ideological agenda" in the wake of the release of the LGBTQ-centric show.

"Under President Trump and Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos," Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement given as a reply to EW's inquiry about the project. "Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn't care if you're a man, a woman, gay, or straight."

The statement continued by noting that officials "will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children."

Boots hails from creator and co-showrunner Andy Parker (Tales of the City, Imposters), showrunner Jennifer Cecil (Umbrella Academy, One Tree Hill), and executive producer Lear.