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Terriers - Season 1 - Wednesdays on FX

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Fuck FX.
They shove bullshit like Always Sunny and all kinds of other crap down your throat all day and night every day and night but you barely hear anything about this show.
Fuck FX.
 
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So my take on it is they drove straight on, Britt paid his debt to society and went on to have a happy family life with Katie and their baby.

Hank on the other hand. I don't know that he could let it go, not with that addictive personality of his. Not sure about there being a happy ending for Hank. I hope so.

Brilliant show and a brilliant end to the story.
 
Cornballer said:
Not really, though I am looking forward to bitterly making fun of people in all of the LTTP: Terriers is awesome; Why didn't anyone tell me to watch this show? threads in the future.
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Here is my Facebook status update..
Sad to say that one of the best new TV shows in years, Terriers, was canceled today. You all will catch this a year or two later on Netflix and complain about only having 1 season. Well, not watching it despite my best efforts made that happen. Hrumph.
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This was better and more focused than Justified's first season. That gets a second and this gets fired in to the sun?

Fuck FX. Fuck the American public. Ugh.
 
Spookie said:
This was better and more focused than Justified's first season. That gets a second and this gets fired in to the sun?

Fuck FX. Fuck the American public. Ugh.
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Let's not bring Justified into this. It was an amazing show as well and I am anxious for Season 2.
 
As bad as FX's advertising for the show was, the pilot still got 1.61 million viewers. So I'm just going to blame it on people fucking sucking.
 
CajoleJuice said:
As bad as FX's advertising for the show was, the pilot still got 1.61 million viewers. So I'm just going to blame it on people fucking sucking.
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This is one of those rare times where blaming the network's advertising is correct. I hope that whole marketing team are feeling like the assholes they are right now.
 
Clevinger said:
This is one of those rare times where blaming the network's advertising is correct. I hope that whole marketing team are feeling like the assholes they are right now.
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I'm trying to switch it up because people are hating on FX and overall, the network is pretty fucking fantastic. This was just a really sad story of awful advertising and some FX viewers not warming to it. Example of a kid I know: loves Sons of Anarchy (even this season) and The Walking Dead -- he stopped watching Terriers after 5 episodes. People just suck.
 
Yeah, I don't want to blame FX but the marketing was awful. That and the idiot general audience are to blame.

@Meier and Cornballer:
Agreed; in 2 or 3 years so many people will ask "im loving this why was it canceled?!?" and then they'll realize it was their fault.
 
Clevinger said:
This is one of those rare times where blaming the network's advertising is correct. I hope that whole marketing team are feeling like the assholes they are right now.
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Not really. The advertising might be responsible for the weak start, but that doesn't explain why the ratings dropped like a rock after the pilot and never really recovered.

Once the season got going Terriers had the exact same advertising as any other FX show. For awhile FX was even encoring it after new episodes of Sons of Anarchy.

It's a true shame that it wasn't renewed, but FX had no choice with its pathetic numbers.
 
Dear FX,

FUCK YOU.

I am very saddened by this news, but Tim Minear was an Executive Producer and dude is like a kiss of death on TV shows. Here's hoping The Chicago Code is good...
 
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:(

RIP
 
Noooooo. :(

Yeah, FX gave me The Shield and Always Sunny and, yeah, I can't wait for the second season of Justified next year, and I know they were probably only taking the sound, viable option, and I know I'm probably being deeply irrational and getting caught up in the moment, but this has to be said: FUCK YOU, FX.

Otherwise, what can be said? It's probably the best and most cohesive one-season show to grace television. Apart from maybe Freaks & Geeks - and ignoring British serials like Edge of Darkness or The Prisoner or State of Play intended as such - there's no real argument. Perhaps solace can be taken in that it didn't end up a Wonderfalls or Profit or Firefly or, ahem, Rubicon. There was a resolution which satisfied the appetite provoked. The pain of absurdly vast potential going unfulfilled is the same, though.

big ander said:
anybody want to start a new topic with just the news story just to see how many people thought it was about dogs?
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The real villains of this piece.
 
Tim the Wiz said:
It's probably the best and most cohesive one-season show to grace television. Apart from maybe Freaks & Geeks
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No, it's better than F&G. Definitely more cohesive. EVERY episode was fucking good. Fuck.
 
Cornballer said:
Not really, though I am looking forward to bitterly making fun of people in all of the LTTP: Terriers is awesome; Why didn't anyone tell me to watch this show? threads in the future.
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:lol


:(
 
Booooooo! I was pretty ready for this, but still hearing it for certain definitely sucks. Absolutely the best new show this year, at least we got 13 great episodes. I just hope Donal Logue gets on another quality show soon that uses his great talent.
 
Seriously, what the fuck? It's Shawn Motha Fucking Ryan. He created one of the best cop dramas ever. How the fuck could you cut him loose with the amount of talent he brings into every show.


WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!

I'll fight you John Landgraf!

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Lambtron said:
I am very saddened by this news, but Tim Minear was an Executive Producer and dude is like a kiss of death on TV shows. Here's hoping The Chicago Code is good...
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Like so many X-Files alumni. But still, his record is pretty crazy: Wonderfalls, Angel, Firefly, Drive, Dollhouse, one here, one there, and now, Terriers. It took Vince Gilligan nearly a decade to break the curse, maybe it'll take Minear two.
 
Finished watching the final episode yesterday, and was eagerly awaiting the next season. :( Such brilliant writing and balancing of drama and comedy.
 
That sucks. I was really keeping my hopes up, but I expected the worst unfortunately.

What are the odds of another channel picking it up?
 
CajoleJuice said:
I'm trying to switch it up because people are hating on FX and overall, the network is pretty fucking fantastic.
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Agreed. FX does a lot of great stuff. They botched the advertising on this, and then they weren't left with much of a choice once the ratings bottomed out. Shawn Ryan says:
ShawnRyanTV said:
Thanks for all the condolences, #Terriers fans. Ultimately, we couldn't get enough people to watch. Don't blame FX. They're still 1st class.
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dead souls said:
Not really. The advertising might be responsible for the weak start, but that doesn't explain why the ratings dropped like a rock after the pilot and never really recovered.

Once the season got going Terriers had the exact same advertising as any other FX show. For awhile FX was even encoring it after new episodes of Sons of Anarchy.

It's a true shame that it wasn't renewed, but FX had no choice with its pathetic numbers.
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Ratings were unsustainable at the end of the season, but look at what Justified did (Premiere: 4.2 million viewers, 1.5 18-49; Finale: 2.0 million viewers, 0.8 18-49) versus Terriers (1.6 million viewers, 0.5 18-49; Finale 0.8 million viewers, 0.3 18-49) and it's hard to not blame the initial advertising. Retention looks similar to me percentage-wise.
 
Cornballer said:
Agreed. FX does a lot of great stuff. They botched the advertising on this, and then they weren't left with much of a choice once the ratings bottomed out. Shawn Ryan says:


Ratings were unsustainable at the end of the season, but look at what Justified did (Premiere: 4.2 million viewers, 1.5 18-49; Finale: 2.0 million viewers, 0.8 18-49) versus Terriers (1.6 million viewers, 0.5 18-49; Finale 0.8 million viewers, 0.3 18-49) and it's hard to not blame the initial advertising. Retention looks similar to me percentage-wise.
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Interesting numbers. I guess we'll never know what better ads would have done :(

Via televisionary:
"There's a relatively low correlation between excellence and commercial success." - Landgraf. #terriers
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:/
 
I feel really bad for Landgraf, maybe even most of all. I can't imagine enjoying a job like his when he's so obviously invested in the creative side.
 
Cornballer said:
Ratings were unsustainable at the end of the season, but look at what Justified did (Premiere: 4.2 million viewers, 1.5 18-49; Finale: 2.0 million viewers, 0.8 18-49) versus Terriers (1.6 million viewers, 0.5 18-49; Finale 0.8 million viewers, 0.3 18-49) and it's hard to not blame the initial advertising. Retention looks similar to me percentage-wise.
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That is really telling, wow.
 
Clevinger said:
I feel really bad for Landgraf, maybe even most of all. I can't imagine enjoying a job like his when he's so obviously invested in the creative side.
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Definitely. It sounds like he's truly lost sleep over the show tanking.
 
Also, my point regarding the ratings isn't to say that I don't understand Landgraf's position. Terriers probably isn't going to work for a lot of the general viewing public, but I think there are enough FX viewers to sustain it if it got off on the right foot.
 
Chill, Juice. I didn't start the fire. Make a blog post
that no one will read
. You'll feel better.
 
Half-glass full perspective: at least Terriers won't have a chance to go into the shitter creatively like Sons of Anarchy did after Season 1.
 
GitarooMan said:
Half-glass full perspective: at least Terriers won't have a chance to go into the shitter creatively like Sons of Anarchy did after Season 1.
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i thought most people agreed season 2 was better

season 3 sucked though
 
CajoleJuice said:
It has comments!
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Alt accounts don't count!

Just joking man. You are free to be butthurt over this. I know I was when Deadwood got shitbinned. I am still butthurt 3 years later, in fact.
 
Solo said:
Alt accounts don't count!

Just joking man. You are free to be butthurt over this. I know I was when Deadwood got shitbinned. I am still butthurt 3 years later, in fact.
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I'm so hurt, Solo. I lash out at those I love most. And by "love", I mean "respond to on the internet".
 
Solo said:
Just joking man. You are free to be butthurt over this. I know I was when Deadwood got shitbinned. I am still butthurt 3 years later, in fact.
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now that's a show i would reserve "fantastic" for
 
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