Boots, a show about two boys who sign up for the Marines in 1990, thinking that it will be like camp, who find out very quickly that it is not.
They and the other recruits are abused both mentally and physically by their commanding officer. It gets so bad that one of them dies because of it.
Basically, it is how Pete Hegseth wished he could run the military. And I did not even mention that several of the cadets and a commanding officer were in the closet because it was before Clinton’s policy of don’t ask, don’t tell.
Anyways, it was a well-received show that did well with viewers. However, not well enough to be promoted to a second season. Therefore, Deadline reports that Norman Lear’s last show is one-and-done.
They also said that Boots cannot be shopped around because it is owned by Sony, and Netflix does not allow outside studios to shop series cancelled by the streamer.
Since there is no clear reason for the cancellation, I have my theories on why it was not renewed for a second season. I wonder if the current administration asked for it to happen because it was Hegseth’s dream playbook. Or if Netflix is going to start cancelling shows because they need the money to buy Warner Bros? Or maybe the second season did not sound like something people would watch because they were going from Boot Camp to the Gulf War.
I don’t usually watch military shows, but I could not stop watching this one. However, I was not looking forward to them fighting the war. There was something about them in Boot Camp that made it different than most of those other shows.
