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And the Next Cancelled Show is...

Showtime renews On Becoming a God in Central Florida in September, decides instead to cancel it in October.
 
Fuck! I loved that show. How many shows are going to be taken out by COVID I wonder when it's all said and done. I guess the next up is Black Monday also on Showtime.


Jason
 
I wouldn't mind either if they ignored the last season of Dexter. I forget how the season before ended though. Is that the season that ended with Deb seeing him kill Colin Hanks? I do kind of like the idea of following that idea up in a better plus. Plus I do recall she was going their to tell him she was in love with him so the show had already went down some not so great choices even before the final season. To me the show reached it's peak with Rita's death.


Jason
 
Season 6 was Colin Hanks and Edward James Olmos. Season 7 was Yvonne Strahovski and Ray Stevenson. Season 8 was a mess from start to finish.
 
Spectrum cancels L.A.'s Finest after two seasons. Season one is currently on Fox.
On one hand they poorly advertised that this was a Bad Boys Spinoff, on the other hand I just want more dark Angel... On the other other hand Michael Weatherly has been Me-Too-ed.

Oh?

You forgot he was in it?

Never mind then.

What is Original Cindy up to these days?

Oh.

She was in La La Land.

Cool Beans.
 
People are wondering how Away could get canceled but Another Life will return for another season. I'm guessing Another Life was significantly cheaper to make, especially when there's no writing staff. :D
 
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True. Anyhow, I think a big factor is in what people were generally expecting. It's not a hard sci-fi, it's more of a sci-fi character driven drama with what we felt was excellent writing and character development. Those going in expecting something like The Expanse would be disappointed. But for what it is, it's been great watching as a family, and there aren't all that many that could be considered family shows on Netflix.
 
My wife and I both loved Away.

Very disappointed.

It might not have had much scientific accuracy, but while my Dad normally nitpicks space dramas to hell, he was willing to ignore many of the mistakes because everything else about it was so compelling. The characters were interesting, the chemistry between them was good, and the writing was fairly good. It was refreshing to see characters treated as actual people and with flaws.

I've heard criticisms about the training and how they should have all been trained together and known each other before the mission. Well, yes and no. If you look at the ISS, you always have one group of astronauts in orbit awaiting a relief crew. The relief crew will arrive and spend several months with the current staff before that staff becomes the outgoing crew, so there is always a crew that will never have trained together and some astronauts might not have met before until getting aboard. This is especially true with astronauts via different nationalities that have their own training regimen.
 
It might not have had much scientific accuracy, but while my Dad normally nitpicks space dramas to hell, he was willing to ignore many of the mistakes because everything else about it was so compelling. The characters were interesting, the chemistry between them was good, and the writing was fairly good. It was refreshing to see characters treated as actual people and with flaws.

I've heard criticisms about the training and how they should have all been trained together and known each other before the mission. Well, yes and no. If you look at the ISS, you always have one group of astronauts in orbit awaiting a relief crew. The relief crew will arrive and spend several months with the current staff before that staff becomes the outgoing crew, so there is always a crew that will never have trained together and some astronauts might not have met before until getting aboard. This is especially true with astronauts via different nationalities that have their own training regimen.

When I recommended the show to others, I made a point of saying "It's not really science fiction. It's a drama, in a science fiction setting."

And I think if people went in with that point of view (and were interested in that) they would do fine.
 
Yeah, that's a good point. Or even maybe a drama with light sci-fi elements. Overall, it's much more about the human experience and the conquering of dreams. And I found the experiences they were sharing of being in space to be very relatable and actually quite realistic.
 
The scuttlebutt is that Quibi is going to shut down after six months to cut their losses. The investors got utterly destroyed, but I wonder how much the suits at the top are going to walk away with. It's MoviePass all over again.
 
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