High Fidelity has taken its final spin on the turntable.
The Hulu series, starring Zoë Kravitz and based on the 1995 novel by Nick Hornby, has been canceled after one season, according to Deadline.
The series premiered in February on the subscription streaming service. The show had originally been developed at a different streamer, Disney+, but was later moved to Hulu, which is majority-owned by Disney.
The original novel focused on 35-year-old Rob Fleming, the English owner of struggling North London record store Championship Vinyl. After he’s dumped by his longtime girlfriend, Rob decides to contact past girlfriends to figure out why his romantic life is such a mess. As Kirkus’ positive review put it, “his own inability to put two and two together somehow endears him to the very women whose affections he seems least able to requite.”
The 2000 film version moved the action to Chicago and made the main character an American named Rob Gordon, played by John Cusack. The well-received movie provided a breakout role to actor Jack Black, who played one of Rob’s employees. The Hulu series changed the story’s location again—this time, to the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn—and starred Zoë Kravitz as Robyn “Rob” Brooks. (The record store is called Championship Vinyl in all three versions.) Kravitz’s mother, actor Lisa Bonet, appeared in the 2000 film as one of the protagonist’s exes.
The book also inspired a 2006 Broadway musical, set in Brooklyn.
Kravitz has co-starred in other notable book-to-screen adaptations, including the ongoing HBO show Big Little Lies, based on Liane Moriarty’s Kirkus-starred 2014 novel, and in three films based on Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy.
David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.
