TV Dinner wrote:Touching Cowboy wrote:Why is everyone saying this is going to be cancelled? Have HBO said as much or is it just performing badly?
HBO haven't said anything but its ratings are appalling. I've just looked at Wikipedia and no episode in season 2 got over a million viewers. The average was about 600K.
AV Club summed it up:
Nobody is watching The Leftovers. Like, seriously nobody is watching it. “International Assassin” was beaten in its time slot by an episode of Law And Order: SVU. Not a first-run episode, not a sweeps-month crossover with Chicago [Insert Municipal Service], just a regular old repeat on USA, perhaps an episode where Olivia and Munch have to pose as a married couple to infiltrate a dog-fighting ring or some gooseberry fool.
Advent7 wrote:Anyone else think it would have been cool if
the song used in the karaoke was the theme tune for season 2? Would explain away the strawberry floating dreadful tune and give it some purpose at least
I was so sure that was what it was going to be.
Apparently though Lindelof wanted it to be Like a Prayer but they couldn't get the rights. The theme tune really grew on me over the season though and I prefer it to season one's now.
The theme tune grew on me in some sort of weird 'why the strawberry float am I having a hoedown sing-a-long to this madness' kind of way, but let's not pretend it could ever compare to the suspenseful piece (dat final note
) used to introduce episodes in the first season.
I can understand why people don't want to watch it. Today's successful television is about fast-paced action, gore and simplified storytelling. The Leftovers is very much not that.