And the Next Cancelled Show is...

[Captain Shaw]

Talk is fine, except it hasn't (yet) led to me buying in... mostly because I've already got Netflix, Hulu, and CBS All Access, none of which I'm getting as much use out of as I'd like. And then Disney+ will have Hamilton next month, so I have to sign up for that at least for a little while. Sorry, HBO, but you'll have to get to the back of the line there.

I've been regretting signing up for UK Disney plus. Since Mandolin finished I haven't watched anything on there.
But will give Hamilton ago.

 

[Masiral]

But you can sign up for HBO Max without subscribing to HBO through your cable or satellite provider, right?

Yes. However, if you use Roku or an Amazon device, you can't get the app because AT&T hasn't made a deal with them yet.

 

[Aragorn]

Supposedly Quibi was projecting 7.4 million subscribers by the end of the first year. Instead, it doesn't look like they'll even get to 2 million.

 

[Snaploud]

Supposedly Quibi was projecting 7.4 million subscribers by the end of the first year. Instead, it doesn't look like they'll even get to 2 million.

1 million is more subscribers than I would have predicted.

In a world of binge-watching tv shows with hundreds of episodes, their bright idea is to have people pay for shows with less content. I realize Tik Tok is still somehow a thing, but nobody has to pay for that one.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I guess their idea was to tap into the ADD market.

 

[Caretaker]

Manifest is... renewed.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Manifest is... renewed.

How!?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You got to be kidding.

 

[Aragorn]

Something called Indebted got canceled by NBC. And ABC canceled Baker and the Beauty.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Something called Indebted got canceled by NBC. And ABC canceled Baker and the Beauty.

Indebted was a bad Sitcom with Fran Dresher, Stephen Webber, Adam Pally and Abby Elliot.

The Baker and the Beauty was a vweak but enjoyable romance. Happy people with transparent obstacles. The chubby gay teen sister trying to come out, was a better story.

 

[1001001]

How!?

Manifest is hilarious.

It's Under the Dome without the gravitas.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Manifest is hilarious.

It's Under the Dome without the gravitas.

Hilarious in a good way or not?

I couldn't get past the first five episodes

 

[1001001]

Hilarious in a good way or not?

I couldn't get past the first five episodes

As is often the case these days, they have a fascinating premise and no idea what to do with it.

I would call it a guilty pleasure at best. My wife and I say "Oh, come on!" at least twice an episode.

The humor, such as it is, is unintentional.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

As is often the case these days, they have a fascinating premise and no idea what to do with it.

I would call it a guilty pleasure at best. My wife and I say "Oh, come on!" at least twice an episode.

The humor, such as it is, is unintentional.

Ah I have had that kind of reaction to shows but not with Manifest. The idea intrigues me but how the first few episodes played out just did not grab me.

But then you have other shows which seem to have some sort of gimmick plot device like this and Emergence, Reverie, and Absentia... They all seem to rely on some sort of gimmick to string along the viewer for the whole series and some shows make that work and some just can't sustain interest.

 

[137th Gebirg]

As is often the case these days, they have a fascinating premise and no idea what to do with it.

I would call it a guilty pleasure at best. My wife and I say "Oh, come on!" at least twice an episode.

The humor, such as it is, is unintentional.

This. I was surprised to hear about the renewal as well. I've been watching it too and I never thought it would have gotten another season. It's kind of good, but it's really taking too long to get answers and building nothing but more questions. I have a sneaking suspicion that the suits told the producers, "we're giving you one more season to wrap everything up" because, as you say, it has a fascinating premise and they actually do want to see what it's all about.

My prediction is that...

Spoiler

It's all been a Matrix-like simulation. If the whole targeted visions wasn't weird enough to imply some serious intelligent design intervention post-return, then there was the bolt of lightning out of nowhere in the last season's finale, in the middle of winter, resurrecting Zeke and fixing his frostbite problem, all at once? I wasn't sure until I saw that, now I'm damn near positive. The serendipitous supernatural activities are getting far too numerous and frequent for it to be anything else. There is no way they're in the mundane world.

Either that or we're dealing with a multiverse/wormhole scenario, hence the second matching tail fin of the plane that exploded on the tarmac in season 1.

Or both...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It's like the ending to God Friended Me, that they wrote out of their asses.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Never watched that one.

 

[Aragorn]

If a group of humans vanished without a trace and returned five years later without having aged, they'd be locked up somewhere at a government black site with experiments being done on them. And if that didn't happen, no way would they ever be able to live normal lives again. The hate groups and cult worshipers that the show gives lip service to would be 1000 times bigger.

 

[Danny99]

Hilarious in a good way or not?

I couldn't get past the first five episodes

Same with my wife and I. I wanted to like it, especially after Under The Dome started off well only to tailspin after season one. We just couldn't get into it. When you don't like any of the characters, it's hard to keep connected with the story if its pedestrian.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

'Vagrant Queen' Canceled at Syfy.

Bummer. I only watched one episode thus far, but I was looking forward to finishing it (still am, actually). Showed a lot of promise.