Netflix has canceled the animated preschooler series Ridley Jones, which features a young female bison who identifies as gender “non-binary” in its fifth and final season.
The series, which debuted in 2021, follows the adventures of a young human girl who discovers that the exhibits at her local natural history museum come to life at night.
Creator Chris Nee recently confirmed the show’s cancellation while also blasting Netflix for failing to promote the series.
“Oh and yes, this is the end of the series,” she tweeted last week. “They cancelled us after what they just put out. They threw all the specials, the xmas special (now?), the feature length special, the CYNDI LAUPER episode and just quietly slipped it onto the service. So this is it.”
Oh and yes, this is the end of the series. They cancelled us after what they just put out. They threw all the specials, the xmas special (now?), the feature length special, the CYNDI LAUPER episode and just quietly slipped it onto the service. So this is it.
— Chris Nee (She/Her)🏳️🌈 (@chrisdocnee) March 9, 2023
Nee described the series as “the first preschool show that has a non-binary character coming out.”
Doesn’t surprise me that Netflix has quietly dumped the first preschool show that has a non-binary character coming out. Ridley Jones 5 episode Happy Herd Day Fred tells their Grandma played by #CyndiLauper that they’ve changed their name and pronouns. Watch it. Tweet about it. pic.twitter.com/IUQ05ftshb
— Chris Nee (She/Her)🏳️🌈 (@chrisdocnee) March 8, 2023
The “non-binary” character is a young female bison who has renounced her biological gender, changed her pronouns to “they/them,” and now wants to be known as “Fred.”
Watch below:
With everything going on, this feels like it was written in a totally different time period. I’m so glad that Fred and their grandma were able to positively model talking about name and pronoun changes! pic.twitter.com/uYHNMH8cgm
— Mia Resella (@MiaResella) March 10, 2023
This isn’t the first time Netflix has added a “non-binary” character to a children’s show.
In 2019, the Netflix cartoon She-Ra and the Princesses of Power introduced the character Double Trouble who was born male but claims to be “gender-nonconforming.”
The following year, Netflix canceled She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
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