Juvenile Justice – Picture. Netflix
After waiting for almost a year, we’ve finally learned that the K-drama Juvenile Justice has been canceled after one season on Netflix.
Juvenile Justice was a South Korean Netflix original crime drama directed by Jong Jong Chan and written by screenwriter Kim Min Sook.
A judge who is infamously known for their dislike towards juveniles becomes the newly appointed judge of a juvenile court in the Yeonhwa District. A victim of juvenile crime in her youth, she faces various cases involving juvenile delinquents and other youths, which helps her discover what it truly means to be an adult.
Juvenile Justice Season 2 Netflix Renewal Date
Official Netflix Renewal Status: Cancelled (Last Updated: 27/01/2023)
As reported by the Korean news network Naver, the second season of Juvenile Justice has been canceled. The series was in the pre-production phase before the cast and crew learned that the K-drama had been canceled.
Why was Juvenile Justice canceled?
We could argue the case that it was incredibly surprising that Juvenile Justice has been canceled. After viewing the weekly data from the graph below, the series didn’t perform poorly, but it wasn’t performing exceptionally either. In total, the series had 134,560,000 million hours viewed while in the top 10s for seven weeks.
| Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 20th, 2022 to February 27th, 2022 | 17,410,000 | 3 | 1 |
| February 27th, 2022 to March 6th, 2022 | 45,930,000 (+164%) | 1 | 2 |
| March 6th, 2022 to March 13th, 2022 | 25,940,000 (-44%) | 1 | 3 |
| March 13th, 2022 to March 20th, 2022 | 17,220,000 (-34%) | 4 | 4 |
| March 20th, 2022 to March 27th, 2022 | 12,510,000 (-27%) | 6 | 5 |
| March 27th, 2022 to April 3rd, 2022 | 9,340,000 (-25%) | 8 | 6 |
| April 3rd, 2022 to April 10th, 2022 | 6,210,000 (-34%) | 10 | 7 |
The second season saw an exceptional rise in the number of viewing hours, an astonishing 164%; however, in the weeks following, the number of hours viewed decreased quite significantly. Overall, for a K-drama series, it did enough where we could have seen a renewal; however, if Netflix is choosing to invest in more exciting K-dramas elsewhere, we can understand the reason for cancelation.
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