The other two, The comedy series starring Heléne Yorke, Drew Tarver and Molly Shannon concludes its third season on Max.
The decision wasn’t cancelled, however, but was made by co-creators of the swinging comedy, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, who said they’d run out of opportunities to “humiliate” Tarver.
“It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to the Dubek family after three seasons, but we always knew, both creatively and personally, that this is where we wanted their stories to end. And since we literally have no way of humiliating Drew Tarver, what’s the point?
The move comes ahead of the Season 3 finale, in which Shannon’s billionaire mogul mother Pat and her ex-lover/manager Streeter, played by Ken Marino, strategize how to address difficult conversations with their children, Cary, played by Tarver and Brooke from Yorke. The episode will air on Thursday June 29th.
The other two began life at Comedy Central before moving to then-HBO Max for the second season and being renewed for a third season in September 2021.
The show follows the exploits of Cary and Brooke, the siblings of their much younger pop star brother ChaseDreams (Case Walker), who is now an adult and dealing with his own problems, such as trying to keep his fans from enforcing his civilian ex-girlfriend to move to the woods.
Josh Segarra plays Lance, Brooke’s ex-boyfriend, a nurse-turned-people’s sexiest man alive, Wanda Sykes plays superflack Shuli, and Brandon Scott Jones plays Curtis, Cary’s boyfriend-turned-boyfriend.
Simu Liu, Edie Falco, Ben Platt, Dylan O’Brien, Lukas Gage and Kiernan Shipka join Fin Argus, Ann Dowd Lawrence O’Donnell, Spike Einbinder, Andrea Boehlke and Dana Delaney as new guest stars for Season 3. Richard Kind, Kate Berlant, Jimmy Fowlie, Alison Rich, Ali Ahn and Marcia DeBonis return as guest stars.
The show was created, written and executive produced by alumni SNL Lead authors Kelly and Schneider. Also executive producing are Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer and Blair Breard.
Kelly and Schneider co-directed episodes with Charlie Gruet. Authors also include Allison Silverman and Gilli Nissim.
The series is produced by Broadway Video, Above Average and MTV Entertainment Studios.
“We are deeply grateful to everyone (gay people) who watched the show, Max for giving us a second home and life, and to our writers, producers and crew who put so much time, talent and passion into this one show.” for the last 45 years. And finally a huge thank you to Heléne, Drew, Molly, Case, Wanda, Josh, Brandon and everyone in our brilliant cast (except Ken) for making this show better than it should be and who we will be too I miss it terribly (especially Ken). Long live ChaseDreams. #chasedreams #globsaregay #feet,” added Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider.
Suzanna Makkos, EVP, Original Programming, Max and Adult Swim added, “From the moment we met the Dubek family, we knew we had to get this show to stream as one of our very first and signature Max Originals .” We are so proud to have delivered a hilarious and poignant third and final season of The other two. With their creative and unconventional commentary on the entertainment industry, Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider created a pop culture classic that has kept reaching new heights and resonating with so many. As the series finds its natural conclusion, we wish this wonderful cast and crew all the best.”