Prime Video has decided not to renew the teen drama “Motorheads” for a second season. The cancellation comes more than three months after the show’s 10-episode first season was released on May 20, 2025.
Fans of the show may still have reason for hope. The producers have received permission from Amazon to shop the series to other platforms and have already begun talks with potential new homes.
“We set out to make a show with no agenda and a lot of heart, to give families something they can watch together,” said Jason Seagraves, executive producer of the series, in a statement. “Despite going into release with impossibly low audience awareness, our passionate and vocal fan base led the charge and made the series impossible to ignore.”
“Motorheads” follows twin siblings Zac and Caitlyn (played by Michael Cimino and Melissa Collazo) who move with their mother Samantha (Nathalie Kelley) to Pennsylvania to live with their uncle Logan (Ryan Phillippe), a former NASCAR driver who now owns an auto body shop.
The show received positive reviews, earning a 78% critics score and an impressive 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Vernon Sanders, head of TV at Amazon MGM Studios, previously praised the show’s performance among viewers who discovered it.
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“What I’ve been excited to see on that show in particular is we’ve got such great completion rates,” Sanders noted last month. “Folks who start that show tend to watch it all the way through, and that’s a great sign.”
Despite this positive audience engagement, “Motorheads” never broke into Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 streaming rankings. On Luminate’s Top 50 weekly charts for streaming series, it peaked at No. 19 with 3.29 million hours viewed during the week of May 23 and remained on the chart for five weeks, mostly in the 40s position range.
The show did demonstrate staying power on Prime Video’s own platform, remaining in the service’s daily Top 10 shows in the U.S. since its release, occasionally re-entering the Top 5. According to FlixPatrol, which tracks streaming performance, “Motorheads” briefly held the No. 1 spot globally on Prime Video early in its run.
Industry observers suggest the show’s title might have limited its appeal to female viewers despite its teen romance elements. The series reportedly performed well in Brazil, where Prime Video’s similarly themed “Culpa” film franchise has been popular.
The first season ended with two major cliffhangers: a street race crash leaving a character’s fate uncertain, and a mysterious phone call possibly from the twins’ estranged father. These unresolved storylines have fueled fan campaigns on social media platforms like X and TikTok pushing for the show’s renewal.
“Motorheads” is part of Amazon’s expansion into young adult (YA) programming, alongside titles like “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “Maxton Hall,” and “We Were Liars.” Unlike some of these other titles, “Motorheads” is not based on bestselling books, which likely contributed to what Seagraves described as “impossibly low audience awareness” at launch. The cancellation was announced on August 29, 2025. The series was created by John A. Norris and produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Jax Media.
It’s rare for streaming platforms to allow their original series to seek new homes after cancellation, especially when produced by the platform’s internal studio, making the “Motorheads” situation unusual in the streaming landscape.
