Netflix has announced that it will discontinue "Brother's Sun," the hit action-comedy drama from "Glee" and "American Horror Story" co-creator Brad Falchuk and newcomer Byron Wu, after one season.

The news, first reported by Deadline on Friday, comes less than two months after the eight-episode first season premiered on January 4. Since then, it has garnered more than 11 million viewing hours and spent most of 2024 in the Netflix Top 10. Inexplicably, it appears that Netflix did not do enough to move forward with a second season.

"Brother's Son" stars Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh ("Everything, Everywhere, All at Once") as the former matriarch of a Taiwanese gang family. When her son Bruce (Sam Song-Lee) is born, she takes him away from her family to America to lead a life free from the criminal underworld.

He grows up thinking he is a Taiwanese-American child living in California, but at the beginning of the show he learns that most of his relatives have returned to Taipei, where not only are they involved in crime, but the family business is alive and well. When an assassination attempt on the patriarch puts the entire family in danger, his older brother Charles (Justin Chen) travels to the United States to protect Bruce and Irene from a rival gang vying for supremacy in Taiwan's criminal underworld.

The show's first season currently has an 84% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with many critics praising Yeoh's performance in particular as a "tour de force." Variety magazine described Yeoh as "fierce and commanding" and called the series "a thrilling and brilliant drama about family obligations, buried skeletons, and bonds that can never be broken." The magazine also called Chien and Lee "two mega-talents who will undoubtedly continue to grace our screens," with a 91% rating on over 500 reviews and even higher ratings from viewers.

Netflix has a long history of discontinuing beloved shows, but knowing that does little to ease the sting of seeing a great show unceremoniously axed. in 2023, "Inside Job" and "Disenchantment " and other animated series for adults, as well as teen shows like "Sex Education" and "Never Have I Ever."