The cast of Orange Is the New Black released a video Wednesday afternoon announcing that the upcoming seventh season would be the last of the groundbreaking, award-winning Netflix series. That’s not necessarily terrible news. Seven seasons is a good, healthy run and more than most shows get. It’s also true that Orange Is the New Black has lost some of the oomph that once made it unmissable TV—there are limits, it seems, to how far you can take a narrative inside the confines of prison walls.

Orange Is the New Black’s series finale will follow somewhat closely behind the final season of House of Cards which premieres next month. It may be hard to remember a time when Netflix didn’t have a new original series premiering every week, but back in 2013 when the company went from a convenient place to binge Frasier to content creator in its own right, House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black were two of the first shows launched. They were also the shows that instantly made Netflix a home for prestige, award-winning storytellers when they landed the streamer Emmys for directing and guest actress in its first two years in the game. Fast forward five years later and Netflix tied HBO for the most statues won at the 2018 Emmy awards. But now the platform has set its sights elsewhere and it’s time to say goodbye to the stories that launched an empire.

In addition to House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, the rest of the first wave of Netflix’s algorithm-based original dramas—Hemlock Grove, Marco Polo, Bloodline, Sense8, and (technically) Narcos—are already gone. At one point it seemed like the endlessly deep pockets of Silicon Valley combined with top-secret ratings data meant Netflix would never cancel a series, but the platform has recently become a bit more judicious and started snipping shows here and there.

Even the Marvel superheroes—too big to fail at the box office—fell to Netflix’s axe for the first time this past week when the much-maligned Iron Fist failed to get a third season. That doesn’t mean an end for comic-book shows on Netflix, but it does mean this particular universe is not endlessly expansive. The Marvel Netflix shows have been on a slippery downhill slope for awhile now, but Daredevil Season 3—which debuts this week—is a return to form and a sign that if the platform reigns in its TV ambitions slightly, there’s still plenty of juice left in street-level superheroes.