However, Netflix has bad news for all the Trinkets fans out there: The show was canceled after two seasons, meaning the final set of episodes will be the show’s last.
While Netflix has been under fire in recent months and years by shows of certain shows for canceling them too early, like The OA or the recent I Am Not Okay With This, Trinkets is ending not because it was not popular on the platforms but because the makers of the show decided to tie up the story after Season 2.
The main reason for this is that the show is based on a book by Kristen Smith, who also created the Netflix show. As such, she clearly did not want the story to continue too far after the events of the book. After all, Trinkets Season 3 would have seen the cast graduate and go to college, making a very different show from the high school drama of the first two seasons.
In fact, when Trinkets Season 2 was announced in July 2019, it was also announced that this would be the final season of the show. This gave the showrunners the ability to write the second season knowing in advance that it would be the last one for show, allowing them to give Elodie (played by Brianna Hildebrand), Moe (Kiana Madeira) and Tabitha (Quintessa Swindell) a happy ending.
Co-creator Amy Andelson confirmed this in an Entertainment Weekly interview. She said: “We knew going into season 2 that this could be an opportunity. We were so happy to get a second season, and we also knew going in that it would be the natural conclusion of these characters in their journey. So it gave us a really great opportunity to bring their stories to this sort of dynastic, and I believe, very satisfying conclusion.”
She added: “It was very exciting for us as storytellers to be able to tell the complete story of these characters.”
WARNING: The following contains minor spoilers for Trinkets Season 2
This is exactly what happened, with the final scene seeing the friends choosing their friendship over everything else in their life and meeting on the beach.
Speaking about that scene with KVUE, Swindell said: “That entire moment was probably my favorite moment filming this season. It was just the connectiveness of the entire team together on this beach. I cried a bunch. I think we all did because it was the most satisfying ending any of us could have asked for.”
Trinkets Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming now on Netflix.
