Blue Mountain State is leaving Netflix on May 2, and the franchise’s 2016 movie, Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland, is set to go a day earlier on May 1. For fans of the college-football comedy, that means both titles will be gone from the streamer next month.
The series, created by Eric Falconer and Chris Romano, follows the players of fictional Blue Mountain State University as they stumble through games, parties and bad decisions. Darin Brooks stars as quarterback Alex Moran, Alan Ritchson plays team captain Thad Castle, Romano appears as Sammy Cacciatore and Ed Marinaro plays Coach Marty Daniels.
Ritchson has since become a bigger star, and he was blunt about where his cult following started. “Before Alan Ritchson was leading action franchises and getting fan-cast in basically every tough-guy role under the sun, he was Thad Castle,” he said. He also called the show “chaotic, ridiculous, and completely committed to its own brand of college-football insanity.”
That nostalgia now carries extra weight because a sequel series was in active development in 2024, with Prime Video and Netflix both floated as possible homes. No network was confirmed at the time, and the current Netflix exit means one of the show’s biggest discovery engines is about to disappear just as renewed interest has been building.
Blue Mountain State developed a cult following on Netflix, and Ritchson’s breakout hit War Machine is also available on the service. If the sequel moves forward, the franchise will still have an audience waiting for it — but not necessarily on the platform that helped turn it into a streaming favorite.
