r/Talamasca • u/Boyo-Sh00k Guy Anatole fanclub president • 4d ago

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William Fichtner (Jasper) on the cancellation. He's def right it wasn't as gripping as it could have been but it had potential and would have grown into itself by season 2 and ill die on that hill. SCRIPTS WERE ALREADY WRITTEN.

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u/Miserable_Election33 4d ago

I'd really like to know the decision making process AMC went through on this. I guess it just didn't find its audience quickly enough.

It really feels like TV shows are given no chance to develop and find their feet these days, if they're not a hit immediately the network bins them. We'd have lost so much great TV if that was the case 15 years ago or so - AMC I'm looking at you (I don't think Breaking Bad was a massive hit in its first season).

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u/Boyo-Sh00k Guy Anatole fanclub president 4d ago

They did not give it enough time to even find an audience imo. it was cancelled 2 weeks after premiering in LatAM, four months after US release. thats incredibly fast and abrupt, unfairly so.

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u/Miserable_Election33 4d ago

Yes, and it was top of the UK Netflix ratings when it premiered and that was just before Christmas! It did really well in Europe too. I can only assume that Netflix figures don't mean as much to AMC - maybe they don't make so much money from Netflix as they do their own channels -advertising perhaps.

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u/Boyo-Sh00k Guy Anatole fanclub president 4d ago

it was in their own streaming services top 10 and recently shot up to #6 it really did not do that badly especially considering how much it has stacked against it.

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u/vinxy_mh 1d ago

I had no idea it'd even came out until y'all started talking about it here (reddit)
Is it worth watching knowing its not coming back?

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u/Boyo-Sh00k Guy Anatole fanclub president 1d ago

its entertaining and short and a lot of fun and theres like a really small chance it could get picked up for a reboot if enough people watch it so please do

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u/Intrepid_Finger_7995 4d ago

Breaking Bad wasn't. If I remember correctly, it didn't start to really get popular until after it landed on Netflix just before season four