...but after the Jesse L. Martin show got through a second season, I really had high hopes for a nice long, cozy run.
By now, I really should know better.
Like so, so many shows before it, The Irrational has fallen to The Curse of GB Likes Me.
At this point, I have lost track of the great concept shows that have died early deaths, seemingly for no better reason than the fact that they are shows that turn my crank. Off the top of my head, with a little help from the Google box, here's a list of GREAT recently come and gone after one or two season shows:
Firefly
Limitless
Forever
Pushing Daisies
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Painkiller Jane
Alphas
Almost Human
Dollhouse
Jericho
FlashForward
Constantine
Revolution
Sense8
Terra Nova
Rome
Agent Carter
Pitch
Alcatraz
Carnival Row
Lovecraft Country
Copper
The Bondsman (yep, they cancelled Kevin Bacon's new one)
Brimstone (yep, they cancelled the show Kevin Bacon cloned...)
Mindhunter
A League of Their Own
Gentleman Jack
Now, aside from being collectively depressing when laid out like that, what else do these shows have in common? With only a couple of exceptions (Almost Human, Mindhunter, Copper, Carnival Row) they're none of them procedural cop or lawyer shows. There's a smattering of medical drama with Forever, a couple of FBI/CIA agent main characters, but for the most part, all these shows dared to look for an audience that wasn't looking for another "cop/lawyer/doctor solves/wins/cures" show. Even when they embrace the procedural, non-cop main characters are not often embraced by the mass audience, as Limitless, Carnival Row, Forever and The Irrational learned the hard way.
Those of us who are always looking for a new show that isn't a retread of the last 70 years of television success are left holding the cliffhanger. We hope for more, but are rarely rewarded.
How dare we expect our shows to last?!?
So Irrational of us.
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