Paramount+ has cancelled “The Good Wife” and “Evil” creators Robert and Michelle King’s crime drama series “Happy Face” after one season.
The axing comes nearly two months after the first season finale aired on May 1st and was one of the rare shows on Paramount+ that was not from producer Taylor Sheridan or from the “Star Trek” universe.
The series is based on the true-crime podcast and autobiography “Shattered Silence” which chronicles the harrowing true story of Melissa G. Moore. Moore was at a young age when she discovered her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was the notorious Happy Face Killer.
The killer, who got his nickname by drawing smiley faces on his letters to the media, killed at least eight women during the early 1990s and is currently serving life without parole.
In the series and after decades of no contact, Keith (Dennis Quaid) forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed.
In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity. Also starring were James Wolk, David Harewood, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne and Benjamin Mackey.
Jennifer Cacicio (“Your Honor”) served as series showrunner and executive producer alongside the Kings. The series failed to appear on the Nielsen streaming originals Tip 10.
Source: TV Line
