Oh, I know: I should leave Revolution alone. My hatred is irrational, but the burn feels so good. ANYHOODLE, three more shows were canceled yesterday, and most people probably already thought one had been canceled, while the other two you weren’t watching anyway. That is to say, these cancellations will in no way shatter your world. The best you can hope for is schadenfreude, but because you probably haven’t even seen the shows in question, their cancellation will bring you no satisfaction.
Let’s see what we got:
Mob Doctor — Really? This show is still on? I don’t think anyone saw anything beyond the pilot, but Fox stuck with it, all the same, probably because they didn’t have anything in the hopper to replace it until January. The Mob Doctor will finish out its 13 episode run before getting the axe. Poor Matty Saracen: The guy can’t catch a break. The good news is that it frees Zeljko Ivanek to do something worthwhile.
Emily Owens, M.D. — A 0.3 rating in the 18-49 demo is the reason that Emily Owens got the axe. That’s terrible even by CW’s low standards. In fact, there are probably more of you reading this post right now than ever watched Emily Owens. A 0.3 rating means that the Emily Owens cast probably couldn’t get their own families to watch the show. Infomercials probably get better ratings. I think the only reason the people that did watch the show turned out was to see Mamie Gummer, who is Meryl Streep’s daughter, and actually very good on The Good Wife. She’ll bounce back, I’m sure. But seriously: Who names their daughter Mamie?
The InBetweeners — I gave MTV a hard time when they decided to adapt the British show for America, but honestly, I watched the first half of the season, and I thought it was OK. A pale comparison to the original, yes, but not an embarrassment. It was actually quite amusing. I’m still not sorry to see it go. I do hope they don’t cancel Underemployed, though: It’s a low-key, genial, and easy-to-like show, and Inbar Lavi is lovely.
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I should leave Revolution alone.
Or try watching it past the first couple episodes. Its not the Wire or Justified, but I think it entertaining and has a storyline worth following.
I’m with you Chazz. The dialogue is bland and predictable, but the premise and the story are entertaining enough to overlook it. Unless you’re Dustin, in which case you nitpick the shit out of it and go watch Ben and Kate.
Also, I’m pretty much in love with Nora.
lolwut?! That show was garbage from the get go, and still is garbage. Of course it is no The Wire or Justified, THEY AREN”T GARBAGE. For shame good sir, for shame.
Well dang. I actually watched Emily Owens and thought it was quite pleasant.
And Revolution. It’s not that bad. It’s just something to watch between jerking off and raising children.
+1
I haven’t even watched Revolution, but I’m willing to bet it’ll be another Heroes, where it’s super popular at first and then it hits a plateau, and then it crashes and burns. I don’t know, I just get that feeling.
At least Ben & Kate is hanging in there. That show has grown on me.
No way. The first season of Heroes was actually really good. Revolution is much more of a turn your brain off show.
@Doctor, and Heroes Season 2 and 3 were complete turds hence the crash and burn reference.
Now, now, Revolution isn’t garbage. I find it a little silly, but I watch every week, and it has a fun, 80′s action movie vibe. Obviously not everyone’s cup o’ noodles, but garbage seems a bit strong. The bad guys’ hair/scraggly goatee is worth the price of admission alone.
underemployed is miserable worse than another season of Real World Road Rules Challenge. inbetweeners is not bad certainly better than underemployed.
I have barely even heard of these shows so…that sucks?
Revolution could have been ok. I mean it has some sort of weird mythos it could actually build but 2 episodes in my mind went numb. It really wants you to believe that we become Amish when the power goes out, and that there were no sources of electricity that weren’t intricately connected like we have now. Also, the shit is boring and the characters are hilarious. I could go on but I’m just stunned that it still has an audience. Well, not stunned, but surprised people are still eating it up week after week and haven’t abandoned it. Maybe I’ll watch it again when it inevitably has it’s one or two seasons on Netflix.
Netflix: A Graveyard for Cancelled Shows.
Nobody is trying to claim it is an amazing show, but it isn’t terrible either. Well episodes 1-3 kind of were but since then it has gotten better.
Except for the main girl, the acting has gotten waaaaaaaay better
Even Charlie isn’t so bad any more. I think it’s because she has had fewer lines lately. Now, the worst is the Google guy by far.
I don’t mind Google guy, if only because his whole backstory lends to the inevitable reunion with his wife (who probably married the guy who saved them if he’s not dead).
They need to give Giancarlo Esposito something else to do, and they need to expand Mark Pellegrino’s role, because he’s awesome.
My problem with Google guy is the same problem I had with Dale in Walking Dead. It’s the Apocalypse. Now is not the time to be a little bitch. I hope he does reunite with his wife and she’s like, “yeah. youre a bitch. im with this guy now.”
i agree with what you said about Giancarlo and Pellegrino 100%. It looks like Pellegrino is gonna get more screen time since all of Monroe’s henchmen keep dying off. (RIP Johnny Crowder)
Yeah the google guy has been a bit of a bitch. Killing the drug lord definitely helped his cause though. I assume due to his skill set he’s going to take on more importance as the power comes back on.
Mob doc featured at least two “what’s wrong?” Scenes per episode. That’s the scene where she’s got a moral conundrum and someone she works with stops her to ask why she is so preoccupied. AT LEAST two. It’s a show that recycles its own plots.
Still watching it, but I agree. It’s getting redundant. Love the Mob stuff, but I wish it wasn’t so “paitent of the week”. Would’ve been better if they had episodes where Grace does her own thing and the Mob does their own thing without interacting. Build the stories a little more that way.
i freaking TIVO it still. It is the worst show but i still watch it every saturday morning before college football starts.
Revolution is fine, but they dumbed it down more than they should have. It’s a poor man’s Lost, basically.
I like Revolution, so go f yourself. And this retarded “website”
Why is website in quotations? Are you doubting its existence?
perhaps ‘nacho’ perhaps
Valid evidence of criticism of people that watch Revolution.
And I “am” suddenly on the “fence” about this so-called “website”.
Revolution is terrible. Your hatred is justified.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand the idea of actively hoping a show gets canceled.
It is the same idea as bleeding people out to get rid of infections. Makes room for new blood (shows). Hey it worked out well for Washington didn’t it?
Revolution is another example of a post-apocalyptic universe where everyone has the latest hollywood hairstyles. Society may be gone, but apparently mousse and get remain in abundant supply.
I actually would have liked the show if it weren’t so “After The End”-ish.
I typed “gel” for chrissakes.
It’s not gel. It’s Ben Stiller’s splooge.
I’ve seen every episode of Revolution. I don’t want it to be cancelled particularly, but if it was, I wouldn’t be very upset. At all.
I am one ep behind on Revolution. Left off with that “bottle” episode of walking the same 20 feet of tunnel over and over. They sure hyped the hell out of the Led Zeppelin music. And we got, what, a minute’s worth of “Kashmir?”
Oh man. That was the dumbest thing about the show for me. Oh no! A really big tunnel is closed off now. There’s like, 5 of us in here. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OXYGEN!!!!!! I usually have no problem suspending reality for the sake of a show, but that was too much. And if, for some reason the oxygen really was running out that fast, why didn’t the extinguish one of the torches? Also, I’m no expert, but I don’t think the hallucinations associated with suffocation are the same as you would have on an LSD trip.
That being said, I still enjoyed Miles’ and Monroes’ “conversation” during that part as well as the episode on the whole.
FTR: Zeppelin was also playing on the radio while the mom was building the thing for Monroe
didn’t catch the walkman/iPod thing. thanks PC
THAT LADY IS PRETTY THANK YOU