AMC's Low Winter Sun Has Been Cancelled
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AMC’s Low Winter Sun, also known as AMC’s ‘Please-Please-Just-Keep-Watching-Even-Though-Breaking-Bad-is-Ending,’ has been canceled in its infancy after just one season. Based on the British mini-series of the same name, the show starred Mark Strong and Lennie James. Although it was given what is arguably AMC’s most valuable time slot, the series failed to garner any of that sweet post-Breaking Bad traction. Petering down to about 630,000 viewers for its season finale, Low Winter Sun seemed pretty likely to get axed, in retrospect.
Similarly, Low Winter Sun yielded lukewarm critical reception, too. Metacritic shows a “mixed” score of 59 and the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus is pretty harsh, as well: “Mark Strong makes for a compelling lead, but Low Winter Sun is too serious for its own good, sagging under the weight of its bleak, brooding tone.”
So, all smug Breaking Bad elitism aside – it seems that AMC really has a hard time keeping their series. Breaking Bad and Mad Men are both known to be successes that exist at the expensive of lengthy creative battles with the network. Other than that, AMC has a similar track record of mediocre shows with low viewership. Remember Rubicon (also canceled after its first season)? How about The Killing? Hell on Wheels seems to be hanging on by the merit of its decent critical reviews.
The Walking Dead is the only show in AMC’s arsenal with real staying power – with Breaking Bad over now and Mad Men ending soon on its final seventh season, Low Winter Sun is not likely to be the last experimental show from AMC that we’re going to see. As the network scrambles to find its next Walking Dead, who knows what we’re going to get? No matter what it is, hopefully it’s something a little bit more engaging and with less morbidity.
And maybe a little bit of creator input? How about it, AMC?
http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/low-winter-sun-canceled/
Similarly, Low Winter Sun yielded lukewarm critical reception, too. Metacritic shows a “mixed” score of 59 and the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus is pretty harsh, as well: “Mark Strong makes for a compelling lead, but Low Winter Sun is too serious for its own good, sagging under the weight of its bleak, brooding tone.”
So, all smug Breaking Bad elitism aside – it seems that AMC really has a hard time keeping their series. Breaking Bad and Mad Men are both known to be successes that exist at the expensive of lengthy creative battles with the network. Other than that, AMC has a similar track record of mediocre shows with low viewership. Remember Rubicon (also canceled after its first season)? How about The Killing? Hell on Wheels seems to be hanging on by the merit of its decent critical reviews.
The Walking Dead is the only show in AMC’s arsenal with real staying power – with Breaking Bad over now and Mad Men ending soon on its final seventh season, Low Winter Sun is not likely to be the last experimental show from AMC that we’re going to see. As the network scrambles to find its next Walking Dead, who knows what we’re going to get? No matter what it is, hopefully it’s something a little bit more engaging and with less morbidity.
And maybe a little bit of creator input? How about it, AMC?
http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/low-winter-sun-canceled/
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Expected. They really ? up with Rubicon back in 2010 tho. That ? was GOAT.
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I didnt wanna watch it simply because they was tryin to force feed me the ? , made me hate it off GP.
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hell on wells is great but a woat time slot
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well damn. i was just saying to my homie i was gonna try this out when my fall shows go on hiatus.
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Netflix....?
At least give it 6 episodes to wrap up the storylines.
It didnt help that even Ziggy Sobotka admitted that he thought the show sucked. -
CottonCitySlim wrote: »hell on wells is great but a woat time slot
I thought the same thing.. until the season ended and they renewed saying that it's Saturday slot had waaay better ratings than when it was on Sunday nights. They post their best season of it and the fans responded by actually watching on Saturdays. -
Btw I thought this show was cool.. but meh. Still a fan of the two lead actors.
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Critics really ? on the show, but I liked it.
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Low Ratings, Son.
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Good riddance
The show did seem bleek and broodie
I try to watch anything Lenny James is in but this ? was tough to watch -
never watched 1 episode
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I heard it was a good show.
I always turned off my tv after breaking bad though so i could recollect wtf just happened because my mind was so blown. -
Lou Cypher wrote: »I heard it was a good show.
I always turned off my tv after breaking bad though so i could recollect wtf just happened because my mind was so blown.
Unintentional ether -
It was boring with too much ? goin on......I would just slowly start to tune this ? out......hopefully this will free up the black guy to play Morgan on the walking dead
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1. Good, ? was wack...
2. If AMC wants to really get into the series game and compete with the other networks, they can't schedule erthing for Sunday...They're gonna have move shows to other weekday slots, and also change up the format...They def don't need a reality show, but there's no reason they shouldn't have a series that rivals "Modern Family" or "Arrested Development"... -
3. That other show about the cops that they tried to put after Breaking Bad was ass too...
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Low Winter Sun seems like a cool name for a TV show, but I think that was probably the only cool thing about it.
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nah that song they had for the opening was pretty dopeWill Munny wrote: »Low Winter Sun seems like a cool name for a TV show, but I think that was probably the only cool thing about it.
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what was it?
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I knew that ? wasn't getting a 2nd season
? was weak and couldn't get ratings with breaking bad as a lead in
