Will there be a second season?
So based on the tv ratings and reviews, do you think this show will get 2nd season?
We need to see the ratings for last night's episode to make a better guess about it. If it dropped this week, again, then it's not likely. If it went up, it's more likely to get another one (I actually think it could get renewed if the finale hit a 0.6 in the 18-49 demo). Cable ratings usually come out late in the afternoon, so we'll have a decent idea then.
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I've been ambivalent about this show, but oddly, I wouldn't mind meeting up with Joe and Jas (unless she's fled to Timbuktu) and Sid again. What the heck. Hope enough others felt the same and watched the final installment.
And as a tangential ratings comment, I wonder how the two-hour segments helped/hurt ratings?
I can say with certainty that had this show been stretched over 6 weeks with little 45 minute content increments, I'd probably have stopped watching. Or perhaps just taped it for 6 weeks and tried it much later...(which doesn't show up on ratings of course.)
There are SO many opportunities now for binge-watching great shows, that it almost seems sooooooooo 20th century to get a little nibble of 45 minutes once a week.
Those two-hour pops were very, very nice! I loved that format. Wonder if it helped?
TNT has talked a lot about binge watching, but this wasn't really set up that way. I definitely think the 2 hour blocks hurt it very badly. I think maybe having a 2 hour premiere was fine, but the other episodes all were very good as stand alone episodes (episode 3 would have been a great "hook" episode, as a stand alone). It just faced far too much competition for live viewing, and it was made worse by its second hour crossing shows that people would wildly prefer to watch live over this.
I heard the first episode had pretty good DVR numbers (maybe 5.3 million or something like that), so this is definitely a show that absolutely was not watched live, but was at other times. The only good news is that it didn't drop an iota from week 2 to the finale episode in the live ratings. It's just too hard to say whether that lack of a drop would be enough to save it, unless the DVR numbers remained steady the whole way, or increased. Even that would set a bit of a precedent, but TNT once renewed Men of a Certain Age, with absolutely atrocious ratings (worse than these), because they liked it so much. I really think Mob City needs another season to really spread its wings and find out what it really is. This show has, overall, been a major evolution through its run, with episode 6 being really outstanding, in my opinion, as well as setting up a second season perfectly.
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