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Maggie

Maggie is an American single-camera romantic comedy television series created by Justin Adler and Maggie Mull, based on Tim Curcio's 2019 short film of the same name. It stars Rebecca Rittenhouse as a psychic in her thirties who can see the future of the people she touches but avoids romance because she always sees how relationships end, until she meets Ben (David Del Rio) and glimpses him in her own future. The series premiered on Hulu on July 6, 2022, with all 13 episodes of its first season released that day, and was canceled after one season in September 2022.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Network and premiere	Hulu, July 6, 2022, with the full 13-episode first season released at once²^•³
Creation	Created by Justin Adler and Maggie Mull, adapted from Tim Curcio's 2019 short film¹
Development path	Ordered to series at ABC in May 2021; Disney moved it to Hulu in January 2022⁴
Premise	Maggie, a psychic, sees others' futures on touch, then begins seeing glimpses of her own destiny after meeting Ben⁵
Lead cast	Rebecca Rittenhouse (Maggie), David Del Rio (Ben), Nichole Sakura (Louise), Chloe Bridges (Jessie), Ray Ford (Angel)²
Reception	Metacritic Metascore 65 (generally favorable, 8 critics); Rotten Tomatoes 62% from 13 critics and 78% from audiences²^•⁵
Fate	Cancelled in September 2022 after one season; removed from Hulu on May 26, 2023¹

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Premise and characters

Maggie (Rebecca Rittenhouse) works as a psychic, reading the futures of friends, parents, clients, and strangers, but avoids romantic relationships because she always knows exactly how they will end.⁵^•⁶ When she reads a stranger and sees herself in his future, she begins to glimpse her own destiny, which complicates her love life.⁵

The man is Ben (David Del Rio), a history teacher who becomes her will-they-or-won't-they love interest; the complication is that Maggie also had a vision of him marrying his longtime girlfriend Jessie (Chloe Bridges).⁷^•⁸ The supporting cast includes Nichole Sakura as Maggie's best friend Louise, Ray Ford as Maggie's fellow psychic Angel, Angelique Cabral and Leonardo Nam as Ben's sister Amy and brother-in-law Dave, and Kerri Kenney and Chris Elliott as Maggie's parents Maria and Jack, who own the duplex where Maggie, Ben, and Jessie live.⁷

Maggie's visions work by touch, producing glimpses of a person's future that she then interprets, sometimes correctly and sometimes very wrongly, and the flash-forward device lets misread visions drive plots.⁸ A first-season arc strips Maggie of her visions, which she goes through the stages of grief trying to recover.⁵

Production and release

The series grew out of a 2019 short film by Tim Curcio and was developed for television by Justin Adler, creator of Life in Pieces, and Maggie Mull, a Family Guy and Life in Pieces writer.⁹ ABC ordered it to series in May 2021, but parent company Disney moved it to streaming on Hulu in January 2022 before its summer premiere; it was produced by 20th Television.⁴^•² Episodes run about 23 to 30 minutes and carry a TV-14 rating.¹⁰^•²

Reception and cancellation

Reviews were mixed but leaned favorable. On Metacritic the season scored 65 out of 100 from 8 critics, described as generally favorable, while the user score sat at 5.7 from 10 ratings.² Rotten Tomatoes recorded 62% approval from 13 critics with the consensus that the show can feel flimsily slight but has disarming unpretentiousness and a charming cast, against a 78% audience score.⁵ The Chicago Tribune's Nina Metz gave it 3.5 of 4 stars, calling it unexpectedly smart, funny, and self-deprecating, and judged it superior to Hulu's companion romcom How I Met Your Father, while the Wall Street Journal's John Anderson noted that, unlike vintage psychic sitcoms such as Bewitched, it has no laugh track.²^•¹¹ Critics repeatedly placed it in the lineage of How I Met Your Mother, praising ensemble warmth while faulting thin characters and familiar formula.⁸^•²

Hulu canceled the series after one season on September 9, 2022, with Variety first to report the news.⁷ TVLine noted that in the weeks after its July 6 debut the show never cracked Nielsen's weekly Top 10 ranking of U.S. streaming originals, though streamers do not disclose viewership figures.⁷ The first season ends on a cliffhanger.¹² The series left Hulu on May 26, 2023, a removal that puzzled subscribers who expected a service's own originals to stay available.¹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Sitcom and comedy series › American sitcoms and comedy series › 2020s cable and streaming comedies

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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