Your Honor season 3 still 'too soon to tell' after Netflix success

Ever since its arrival on Netflix on May 31, the Showtime legal drama series Your Honor has not left the daily top 10 most popular shows ranking. As new fans discover the previously underrated Bryan Cranston series, its viewership has skyrocketed and made for sure that it's no longer going to be underrated. However, that still doesn't mean that a third season is immediately on the way.

CBS Studios President David Stapf recently spoke with Deadline about a wide-ranging number of programming from under the CBS umbrella, including the renaissance Your Honor has been enjoying this summer. While Stapf was hopeful about the show's future and confirmed that the studio would like to find a way to produce season 3, they're not in a rush just yet.

"We love the show, and we’re hoping that it can continue, but it’s a little too soon to know or to tell. We would like there to be a season 3, but we’re ways away."

- David Stapf, CBS Studios President

Unlike Suits, which took off in a big way on Netflix in the summer of 2023 and landed an order for a spinoff series set in the same universe on NBC, there's a bit more to consider with this particular legal drama. The USA Network fan-favorite had a procedural element, while the Showtime was heavily serialized. Bringing it back takes some intention to get the story right. Still, it's super promising that they're taking the streaming success into account and thinking of the best way to move ahead.

Your Honor tops streaming charts

Considering the success Your Honor has achieved thanks to streaming on Netflix, it's no doubt that viewers would definitely tune into another season. For the week of June 10-16, Nielsen reported that the series was the second most-streamed series, bringing in over 1.8 billion minutes watched. Your Honor ranked behind Bridgerton and before Amazon Prime Video's hit series The Boys. Those numbers were enough to make the show the top acquired title on streaming.

The previous week, June 3-June 9, Your Honor topped the chart with over 1.5 billion minutes watched, besting Bridgerton. These are the kind of numbers that help push Netflix to save Manifest from cancellation, but that was a much different situation and each one is always different. Showtime didn't cancel the series. In fact, it was meant to be a limited series, but because the ratings were sizable on the cable network, a second season was ordered.

Back in July 2022, word circulated that the show would end with the second season per comments Cranston made on a podcast. The Emmy winner later clarified what he meant by "one more season of that" and said he would be open to returning to the series as a producer, unsure if the story would necessitate another round with Michael Desiato. Of course, you can never say never and only time will tell what could happen in a potential third season.

It's unclear exactly what Stapf means by "it's too soon to know or to tell" when for fans, the viewership numbers paint an obvious picture in black and white. No one wants the creative team or studio to make another season just to make it as a response to the popularity. We all want any additional storytelling to be good and worth watching. Whether the show comes back or not, it's wonderful to see that shows like this, Evil, and even more can still revel in a bountiful second life on streaming.

Watch Your Honor seasons 1 and 2 on Netflix.