10 TV Shows With Massive Budgets That Failed

10. Hemlock Grove

Hemlock Grove came early in Netflix's foray into original content, and they definitely did not hit the ground running.

This was the streaming giant's only second original title ever. The initial success of House of Cards was encouraging, but it did not carry over in the same way to Hemlock Grove. Based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, the series explored strange events in the titular Pennsylvania town. McGreevy himself was the showrunner and the cast was led by Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, and Landon Liboiron.

The critics' reviews after the release of the first season were mostly negative, and the show never really managed to create an audience of its own, but despite that, Netflix went ahead and ordered further two seasons.

The further it went on, the more the ratings decreased and the plug was eventually pulled. With an estimated budget of $4 million per episode, Hemlock Grove ended up costing Netflix around $130 million in total.