Hit and Run cancelled by Netflix after one season

Netflix has opted not to renew geopolitical espionage thriller Hit & Run, co-created, executive produced and headlined by Fauda’s Lior Raz, for a second season.

The news comes a month and a half after the release of Season 1, which ended with a major cliffhanger.

Hit and Run, which also starred Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt and Gregg Henry, was well received by critics and viewers, with 70%+ ratings from both official reviews and audience feedback. But the sprawling drama, whose first season, impacted by the pandemic, filmed in New York and Israel, is expensive.

Because of the Covid-related industry shutdown, the nine-episode Season 1 took three years to produce. It debuted on August 6 and broke into Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 the following week at No. 8.

Hit and Run was created and written by Raz and Avi Issacharoff, the co-creators and exec producers of Netflix series Fauda, and Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, creators of the Amazon comedy Z: The Beginning of Everything Next to Raz, the cast further consisted of Sanaa Lathan, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt and Gregg Henry.

Hit and Run centers on Segev (Raz), a happily married man whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, Naomi Hicks (Lathan), he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

In light of the kidnapping that closed out Season 1, sending Segev off on a new path, showrunners Prestwich and Yorkin have said in interviews that the hope was for the series to run for at least two or three seasons. Unfortunately, due to the cancellation, fans will not find out what happens to Segev.