If you're increasingly wary of committing to a show for fear that it'll join the ranks of Netflix's cancelled shows just as you're getting hooked, you're not alone. And a new show, the young-adult drama Penelope, is trying to do something about it.
Penelope stars Megan Stott from Little Fires Everywhere as a disaffected 16-year-old girl who leaves her family and her life behind to forge a new existence in the wilderness, learning to live off the land alone. It was written during the pandemic, but when the creators attempted to get it commissioned nobody chose to make it. So they decided to go the indie route instead. The show was a big hit at the Sundance festival, and Netflix has now snapped up the US distribution rights to the first eight-episode season.
