
Z has never been a terribly special effects-heavy series, but the period setting may have been costly to reproduce. If Amazon was going to need to shell out millions and millions more for Z Season 2, perhaps writing off that $7 million was the way to go. Amazon is evidently attempting to reduce spending on original series movie forward reducing spending by giving up on $7 million seems rather odd unless the costs of production would have been incredibly high. I have to wonder if filming Z was spectacularly expensive in the first season, given that Amazon was willing to write off $7 million in investment in the second season.

Amazon's move to cancel Z: The Beginning of Everything comes at quite a cost. Amazon’s A-to-z Guarantee covers two things the timely delivery of your item and the condition of the purchased items. It covers both the timely delivery and condition of your items. Amazon reportedly spent approximately $7 million on Season 2 before deciding to pull the plug, according to THR. The A-to-z Guarantee protects you when you buy items sold and fulfilled by a third-party seller.

In fact, the show was already in preproduction, with the writers prepping scripts for the second season.

The news of the cancellation now comes as a big surprise, as the Z team was hard at work on the second season.
