Four months, eight episodes, and that’s the whole run for Nicolas Cage as a private eye with spider powers.
Cage’s live-action stint as the wall-crawler is over: Prime Video has pulled the plug on Spider-Noir after a single season, a decision that lands not long after the streamer dropped all eight Season 1 episodes at once in May 2026.
The numbers looked good until they didn’t
Across the first six weeks following the premiere, Nielsen clocked 2.6 billion viewing minutes — a genuinely strong opening. The trouble was staying power: the series slid off Prime Video’s top 10 charts in short order, and that early surge never translated into sustained interest.
Audience response certainly wasn’t what sank it. The crime-drama spin on the character drew 92% favorability from fans on Rotten Tomatoes alongside 90% from critics. We scored Season 1 an 8/10 ourselves.
“Nicolas Cage’s Bogie-meets-Bugs Bunny pulp hero invigorates the highly entertaining, genre-bending Spider-Noir,” was our verdict back when it arrived on Prime Video.
A detective story with a color switch
The role Cage took on was Ben Reilly, a spider-powered investigator taking cases for friends and clients around 1930s New York City. Robbie Robertson was played by Lamorne Morris, with Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy and Karen Rodriguez as Janet Ruiz. Sandman (Jack Huston) and Tombstone (Abraham Popoola) also made appearances.
Casting aside, the show’s real quirk was a viewing option: the entire series could be watched in black-and-white or in color, a toggle that handed audiences a built-in excuse to revisit scenes. Even that novelty couldn’t hold them.
Marvel isn’t finished with Amazon
As the second Marvel series Prime Video ordered, Spider-Noir’s cancellation still leaves the door ajar. Additional superhero titles may yet land at the streamer via a multi-title arrangement between Amazon MGM and Sony Pictures Television. Reports suggest several projects are in motion at both companies, with one said to be close to a series order — though no announcement has been made.
What Amazon, Sony and Prime Video intend for Marvel on a bigger scale remains murky. Silk: Spider Society, another project in the Spider-Man mold, had been developed at one point before being scrapped.
Cage’s gumshoe wrapped up his final case in 1930s New York — in whichever color you picked to watch it.