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Excellent series. AMC should have purchased this instead of ABC

posted 11 years ago by primemover
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Will the other six episodes ever air?

No wonder the ratings were poor, this is sooooo unlike anything ever airs. Those housewives who worship rubbish like Scandal and Grey's Anatomy were probably baffled by a show like this.

[–] dvonder100-1 11 years ago

Exactly. They ahould have let it run its course. Instead ABC keeps betrayal....

Betrayal?
Talk about crap

[–] mwchandler21 11 years ago

Ah, they cancelled Rubicon, which had a similarly slow story.

[–] Phylot 11 years ago

The ratings weren't just poor, dumbass, they were the WORST ever! It set a new record! 0.6! BWAHAAHAAAAHHAHAAHAHHA!

HAH!

[–] primemover 11 years ago

I'm a "dumbass"? How so?

[–] Phylot 11 years ago

Because "poor" doesn't even begin to describe how AWFUL the ratings were for this televised abortion! We Are Men got "poor" ratings, it was axed at 1.8. This lump of stinking monkey crap scored the LOWEST premiere ratings in the history of the big 4 networks! And then set an all new LOW record for the next episode. DAMN!

Idiot.

HAH!

[–] vpking77-276-694061 11 years ago

That's all well and good but I watched the first two episodes and I want to see the conclusion. Put them up on the ABC website or show them on Saturday night. Is it asking too much for ABC to air the remaining episodes somewhere. It's not 15 or 20 episodes. It's six. This isn't a serialized drama like Lost. It's self contained, six more hours.

[–] Phylot 11 years ago

Why exactly would they want to waste any effort on the "show" that earned the distinction of being the lowest rated original telecast of any Big 4 drama EVER! If anything everybody involved should be fired. What they're doing I expect is attempting everything in their power to distance themselves from this televised abortion.

HAH!

[–] dudestein 11 years ago

Why exactly would they want to waste any effort on the "show" that earned the distinction of being the lowest rated original telecast

Can't answer. Why do you?

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[–] Hancockenstein 11 years ago

why's anyone arguing with this guy? you see someone like him on every show forum with low ratings, they literally all sound like the same guy. online bullies using Nielsen ratings as a tool, they don't even watch the shows they're trolling. seriously, look at his profile and prepare to feel pity lol

[–] dudestein 11 years ago

But I do pity the fool. Imagine how empty his life must be. How even the most tangential human contact pains him. So empty his life he has come to pissing on complete strangers in a computer bulletin board. Yes, I do pity the fool.

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[–] journalist1 11 years ago

The networks flood the channels with garbage but the moment something edgy and clever arrives; gets low ratings because it scares or confuses Joe Public they cancel it like the drones they are.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (41638798) 11 years ago

Ah, they cancelled Rubicon, which had a similarly slow story.

True.

I knew we were in for a fun ride when Will bounced into the office from his ride on public transport where he'd been reading a thick book on String Theory! And given it was on AMC in 2010 before AMC started doing too much mass crap, thought it would find a viewing audience that would sustain it.

WOOHOO! The game was ON! Our star is into string theory!

In all seriousness, thought "Rubicon" was one of the better intelligence/covert stories ever televised on US television. The cast was superb.

Sadly, we'll never know if Will got the clover....but one has to presume he did not live long.

And sadly, also, the writer Henry Bromell who created it has died. He was the one whose dad was in the CIA and he had a lot of familiarity with the whole "world." He was one of the team of writers on "Homeland" after "Rubicon" was cancelled.

Bromell was brave enough to take on the notion shared by anybody who spends any serious time inside the Beltway that the people whom everybody thinks are in charge aren't. It's really others you've probably never heard of.

We really needed a second season of "Rubicon." Such an amazing ensemble of analysts! Loved all of them.