Now Apocalypse: 3 questions that will never be answered due to its cancellation

Since STARZ officially decided to cancel Now Apocalypse, there are a few burning questions that will, unfortunately, be left unanswered forever.

At the network’s recent TCA panel, it was announced Now Apocalypse would not be moving forward with a second season. At least, not at STARZ. It is possible the show could be picked up by another network or streaming platform, but the odds are pretty unlikely.

Given how bonkers and sexual the series is, it would have to move to a platform that would be okay with that. Typically, that wouldn’t be a problem but Now Apocalypse never had stellar ratings. Despite STARZ releasing the complete series on their app early, it never got the chatter it needed to remain afloat.

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That said, with the sudden cancellation, the ending of Season 1 leaves us with tons of questions about what would have come next had the show been renewed. Is Ford dead? What the heck is Severine going to find in Roswell?

But there are three questions I’m most upset about not getting answers to.

3. What did Gabriel actually want from Ulysses?

What the heck was Gabriel’s deal dude!? We waited all season to find out what Gabriel’s purpose was only for him to basically ghost us the same way he ghosts Ulysses. Is he really supposed to be the archangel, Gabriel? Didn’t Supernatural already do that? At least their version made more sense.

He has the trumpet and everything and then claims he’s leading Ulysses somewhere, I guess, and then it’s over. So we’ll forever be wondering what the deal was with that guy, how they had such exceptional sex, and whether or not Ulysses made him up all in his head.

2. Is Jethro pregnant?

The season of Now Apocalypse ended in the weirdest possible way. I mean weirder than Jethro’s baby fetish, the BDSM dungeon, the fireworks orgasms, and Severine’s spit-roast fantasy, WEIRDER THAN ALL OF THAT. Jethro actually gets raped by a massive alien.

As if that fact alone isn’t bad enough, the entire thing is shown in graphic detail with an up-close-and-personal shot of the alien’s, well, you saw it.

So after forcing us to sit through that mind-numbing moment of television, they’re going to cancel the series and not let us know if Jethro is like, carrying alien babies now!? I mean I never liked the guy but no one deserves to go through that and not, at the very least, get closure.

1. What was the actual apocalypse!?

The entire idea of a series like Now Apocalypse somewhat predicates on the idea that an apocalypse is on the horizon. The problem is, one never shows up. Sure the aliens are alluded to and suggested, Severine is always doing weird alien-y stuff at work, Ulysses is having visions, etc. But until the aforementioned Jethro scene, we don’t really see the aliens as an actual threat.

There is no apocalypse despite the description of the show being about a foretold doom. So there isn’t much of a climatic stake in any of the storylines. For the most part, it’s just characters having sex a lot and sometimes getting weird. It was kind of disappointing to have all this build-up that ultimately goes nowhere. Maybe it was prepared to pay off in Season 2, now we’ll never know.

Are you disappointed that Now Apocalypse was canceled? What questions are you most frustrated you’ll never get answers for? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

You can currently stream Now Apocalypse’s first season on the STARZ app.