AMC's Low Winter Son cancelled

[Dream]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/12/06/low-winter-sun-canceled-amc/

AMC canceled drama series Low Winter Sun after a single season, marking a rare freshman season axing at the network. Based on a British miniseries, the Detroit-set crime drama starred Mark Strong as a homicide detective.

The show premiered in August to a relatively modest 2.5 million viewers despite a strong Breaking Bad lead-in, then fizzled during the course of its run. Low Winter Sun joins 2010′s Rubicon as the network’s only hour-long original drama to get canceled after a single season. Though fellow dank crime show The Killing was rather spectacularly and repetitively revived post-cancellation, it seems very unlikely that low-buzz Winter will receive the same reconsideration.

For the two people here who might be interested in this news.

I think only the Breaking Bad viewers who kept getting bombarded with LWS commercials knew about this show's existence. AMC forcing the BB fans to watch LWS to see the previews for the next BB episode hurt it too.

 

[bigdaddy]

Yeah this is the least shocking news ever. If the ratings didn't go up like BB did than it was doomed.

 

[Harvey]

I didn't even bother -- the reviews were terrible.

 

[Borgminister]

I wanted to like it, but it was a meandering mess.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

Mark Strong is awesome, but he couldn't save this thing. It was so BORING. I forgot what the fuck was happening episode to episode. Now put Strong in something decent, please.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It's creative and dramatic bankruptcy mirrored the financial bankruptcy of its Detroit setting. The only reason I even gave this a chance was because it followed Breaking Bad, and once that ended, I didn't have anything to keep me even mildly interested. Mark Strong and Lennie James deserve much better vehicles for their acting, so hopefully this will allow them to move on to bigger and better things. This is one of the least surprising series cancellations ever.

 

[Anwar]

Well, at least the series had an ending instead of a cliffhanger. It was all wrapped up.

 

[od0_ital]

^

That's good to know. I may have to check it out when it becomes available on DVD.

 

[Professor Zoom]

What a crap show. I gave up. I mean, for fuck's sake, why do you name a show "Low Winter Sun" and have it set in the summer? It was a poorly conceived show in desperate need of a fire to get the story going.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I bailed after part of the pilot. Not a shock.