“Spider-Noir” may be finished at Prime Video, but its final week delivered one more dramatic turn: two days after Amazon’s streaming service announced the series would not return for Season 2, the show collected five wins at the Emmys Night 2 ceremony.
According to awards observers cited in the source material, that makes “Spider-Noir” the biggest Emmy winner ever among series canceled after a single season. The previous benchmark noted in the record belonged to “Lovecraft Country” in 2020 and “My World And Welcome to It” in 1969, which each won two.
For co-creator and showrunner Oren Uziel, the timing made the night complicated — but ultimately celebratory.
“I thought it was going to be disappointing timing at first,” Uziel said. “I didn’t want people to go to this big night on Sunday having to worry or think about something disappointing or sad. But the truth is, it became kind of a big celebration of what we accomplished together.”
The five Emmy wins came after the show entered the night with 11 nominations. Uziel said that meant 11 different groups of crew members were present, creating what he described as a large gathering of the people who made the series.
“It’s my first TV show, so it was my first Emmys experience,” he said. “We had 11 nominations, which meant we had 11 groups of crew members there. It felt like everybody that I had made the show with was there, because they kind of were. Even the people who weren’t nominated showed up! It felt like a giant family together there to celebrate.”
A five-win farewell
“Spider-Noir” began its Emmy run with a win for stunt performance, then added victories for sound editing for a comedy or drama series (one hour), title design, special visual effects in a single episode and cinematography for a series (one hour).
“When we won an award, we all got very excited and then, it started to snowball,” Uziel said. “It felt like when you’re at a softball game for your kids, and you just want them to get hits. Then they start to get hits, so you start to feel good about it.”
Still, Uziel called the moment bittersweet. “Making this show was the best experience of my professional life and we all got to make exactly what we set out to make,” he said. “My biggest regret about not having another season is that I don’t get to do it again with these people. Like I don’t have the show or the movie lined up to get everybody back together.”
Prime Video and Sony Pictures TV have not been confirmed to be reversing course, and Uziel said he does not know whether a revival or a move elsewhere is legally or practically possible.
“We haven’t gotten there yet,” he said of any effort to bring the series back. “I literally do not know the legalities and complications of that. But I expect that it’s a complicated proposition.”
What Season 2 might have explored
Although “Spider-Noir” is not moving ahead with a second season, Uziel had already considered where the story could go. Season 1 ended with Ben Reilly, played by Nicolas Cage, keeping his powers as the Spider, leaving room for another case.
“If I had my druthers, it would be probably another location,” Uziel said. “There are so many L.A. noirs we could have dove into. There are European noirs we could have dove into. There are other places to go. You’re starting in 1933. Where is that heading? It’s heading toward just a most cataclysmic time — World War II. There was a lot of storytelling that could have happened there.”
The first season was set in New York but filmed in Los Angeles, which made the idea of relocating the story to L.A. particularly appealing to Uziel.
“L.A. for L.A., how great would that be?” he said.
At the same time, Uziel said he views the existing season as a complete story rather than an unfinished arc.
“We made a very closed-ended show,” he said. “There’s a reason we were honoring these old noirs. The story begins when the client comes into the private detective’s office, and it ends when they solve the case. So, it was nicely buttoned up. We told a story. It felt a little bit like a long movie. So, it’s bittersweet to not get right back to work with this cast and crew. But also, I have no regrets.”
Uziel also said he does not love the word “canceled,” because he considered the eight-episode season self-contained.
“We told a story, and it’s like, ‘Do you want to invest in spending the money?’ These things are expensive,” he said. “Not nearly as expensive as the internet keeps claiming it was, by the way. People keep saying it was $400 million. I was like, ‘Wow! That would be great.’”
Could the team reunite elsewhere?
Even without “Spider-Noir” continuing, Uziel said the experience has left him eager to work again with the show’s cast and crew.
“It’s finding something fun and juicy and unexpected and singular to work with this crew on again,” he said. “What happened on Sunday [with the Emmy wins] is not a huge surprise because they’re all so good at what they do. They all elevated everything that I wanted to do and I became better for working with them. So it’s finding another thing and then gathering the troops and having a good time again.”
That includes Cage. Uziel said the two have spoken and share similar feelings about the end of the series.
“We’ve talked a bit and we feel the same way,” he said. “It’s sad to not do this again, but we also got to do exactly what we set out to do. And he’s such a star. He’s such a leading man. To make these eight episodes, his first TV show, was just a dream. So I would love to do it again with Nic.”
When Prime Video and Sony announced the end of “Spider-Noir,” they said they were close to picking up the next series in the world of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. Uziel said he will not be involved with that project, though he remains open to offering guidance.
“They have people working on all those things,” he said. “I would always love to advise and take part because I loved it. I know like what the challenges are and what the rewards can be.”
For viewers, Uziel’s suggestion is simple: revisit the season. Because “Spider-Noir” was released in both color and black-and-white versions, he encouraged fans to try the format they did not watch the first time.
“It was about making something that the fans of Spider-Man and noir would love,” he said. “So I’m deeply appreciative. I’d also watch it again. There’s so much in there, there’s so many layers. It’s black and white. It’s color.”