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**** Netflixhas shut the blast doors on ****** Billionaires’ Bunker, a series that was panned on its arrival but scored a number one win on the streamer’s global chart back in September. With just a single season under its dystopian belt, the Spanish show is the latest in a long line of Netflix shows that have failed to make it beyond a single season.

While another series, Berlin, has been given a second bite of the streaming cherry,Spanish outlet El País reported that* Billionaires’ Bunker* (El refugio atómico in Spanish) had been quietly dropped by Netflix Spain. The series followed a group of billionaires – as suggested by the title – who intend to wait out World War III inside a luxurious retro-futuristic bunker. However, things take a turn when the past grievances between two families bubble to the surface.

One of the biggest problems faced by Billionaires’ Bunker was its similarities to many other “end of the world” shows that have played out recently. It was also slammed by both critics and viewers for having “terrible acting,” and “the most unimaginative writing on TV.” For others, the show was simply too much like a soap opera being played out in a “bargain-basement” take on other shows likeSilo, Paradise and even Fallout.

However, the series’ cliffhanger ending will now join the many unresolved storylines from numerous canceled shows that have not been allowed to play out as planned, but considering its less than impressive reviews and the fact that it fell off the radar as soon as it slipped from the chart, the end result is probably not the most shocking of the year.

‘Billionaires’ Bunker’ Had High Ambitions

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Originally, there were some very high hopes for *Billionaires’ Bunker, *with Netflix’s VP of Content in Spain, Diego Ávalos, declaring that there had “not been a series as ambitious in the history of Spain.”

At the time of its Season 1 debut, creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato, who were also behind the successful Money Heist, teased plans for a second season that would go more “hardcore.”

“We have thought about how to start things back again, since we had to do it in order to write the season finale. So what happens immediately afterwards is laid out, as well as ideas on how to get even more mean and hardcore. What we have not thought about yet is how Season 2 would be mapped out.”

However, despite scoring a top five place in Netflix’s range of Spanish-made shows, where its 14 million views in the first two weeks was beaten by* Two Graves, The Gardener*, and Money Heist spinoff Berlin with its huge 33.6 million, it looks like the plans for Billionaires’ Bunker will remain just that as its long-term success was not that great, with it averaging just 20 days in Top 10s globally and 36 consecutive days in the Spanish chart.

Release Date 2025 - 2025-00-00

Network Netflix

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Miren Ibarguren

Uncredited

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Joaquín Furriel

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Natalia Verbeke

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Carlos Santos

Genres Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Creator(s) Álex Pina, Esther Martínez Lobato