Mozart In The Jungle just became the latest victim of Amazon's shifting TV goals

Starring Lola Kirke and Gael Garcia Bernal—who won his own Globe for Best Actor that same night—the series tracked the intrigues and politics lurking behind New York’s cutthroat classical music scene. The series aired its fourth, and now final, season back in mid-February.

It’s hard not to see Mozart’s cancellation as yet another casualty of Amazon’s recent shift in TV priorities. The directive—supposedly coming down from on-high, courtesy of CEO Jeff Bezos—is for fewer critically beloved, small-scale projects, and more big, expensive, inescapable blockbusters, like the company’s upcoming Lord Of The Rings TV series, which will allegedly cost as much as a billion dollars by the time the dust has settled. That doesn’t necessarily leave a lot of breathing space for enjoyably bingeable takes on eccentric, passionate music-makers, it seems.