The dark comedy High Desert will not be returning to Apple TV+. The series starring Patricia Arquette earned generally positive comments from critics and viewers, but perhaps didn’t find a big audience.
Arquette herself made the announcement Sunday.
High Desert season 2 won’t ever happen
While funny, High Desert wasn’t a feel-good comedy. It centered on an occasional drug addict played by Arquette who becomes a private investigator in a small desert town.
The series pulled in a 70% critics approval rating on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, while audiences gave it a 79% approval rating.
But that apparently wasn’t enough for Apple TV+. Arquette took to Instagram to say, “A lot of you have asked about High Desert and if there was going to be a second season so I just wanted to let you know we just found out that it won’t be coming back. So that’s a sad bummer for all of us.”
She did not reveal any reasons why Apple TV+ made this decision.
Season one of High Desert is still available to stream, and we offer three reasons to watch it, including that it’s a showcase for Arquette to demonstrate her acting skills playing an exquisitely loopy character.
Watch on: Apple TV+
Arquette herself will be returning to Apple’s streaming service in Severance season 2, though that has been delayed by the Writers Guild of America strike.
Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 25 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh Classic II (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer. He’s written for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview, and Brighthand, as well as other sites.
