The comedy show “Unstable,” featuring Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe, won’t return for more episodes on Netflix after two seasons.
The show “Unstable” first came out on Netflix on March 30, 2023, and the second season followed on August 1, 2024. It was about Rob Lowe playing Ellis Dragon, a boss of a biotechnology company who was having a hard time after his wife passed away.
His real-life son, John Owen Lowe, played his character’s son, Jackson, who didn’t want to work with his dad because he was more into playing the flute. But he eventually joins the company, helps his dad deal with his mental health, and they start to get closer. The show was fun because it played on the real-life connection between the father and son actors.
Advertisement It took doing a TV show with each other for Rob and I to re-explore some of the deeper parts of our interpersonal relationship, so we figured, why not make it so that Ellis and Jackson have to literally play characters for them to work through an interpersonal conflict?. It’s literally a wink at what we’re doing on the show for our father-son relationship.
John Owen told Variety
Rob Lowe and his son, John Owen Lowe, were not just actors in “Unstable,” but also helped make the show as executive producers.
The show had a great cast, including actors like Sian Clifford, Aaron Branch, Rachel Marsh, and Fred Armisen.
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In the second season, the story ended with Ellis, Rob Lowe’s character, leaving his company and deciding to run for president of the United States!
I can’t wait to see Ellis stumble his way through and probably be kind of brilliant in his own way in just putting together his campaign. I want to see Fred Armisen [who plays Ellis’ live-in therapist, Leslie] running a campaign, maybe Jackson being Bobby Kennedy to Ellis’ Jack Kennedy. We’re very focused on Ellis being super excited about Jackson becoming the first son.
About a potential Season 3, Rob said
Source: Deadline