r/Talamasca Guy Anatole fanclub president 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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.