I loved that, it was just so apparent, it’s my favorite version of how Georgiou is written, so worried about and attached to Michael and being a whole mess at handling it. I think I’ve said this before, but I love her characterization is basically that of this grumpy mean cat who likes one person only and begrudges even that.
They really renewed Space Force but cancelled Away……………………………………………………………
And another anon:
I think Netflix is probs going for the lesser diverse stuff with the most famous actors. Like Space Force had zero hype online but it has Steve Carell and Lisa Kudrow. So while Away was extremely popular it’s probably too diverse for Netflix or something or doesn’t have enough big actors that are famous in North America.
Haha, first anon, you are so valid in your offended disbelief. Given one of the biggest guesses people have offered for Away’s cancellation is Swank’s salary, how can that be so much more than Carell/Kudro/Malkovich… And like, it was legit bad, how much more successful could it have been?
I don’t think Space Force had zero hype, not less than Away, it seemed to make a much bigger noise when it dropped, but that was for different reasons, the actual connection to the real Space Force, it was near the beginning of the lockdowns so everyone was watching anything new, and it just seemed to have so much more coverage that was effectively promo. I dunno if a second season’ll have all that, especially when it was not really that well received when people watched.
It would be pretty sucky if diversity hurt it, and I don’t think it does in itself, but I think they much prefer diversity that leads to increased views in other countries and I dunno that this cast did that, with Netflix not technically available in China, and the Indian actor actually being an British Indian TV actor, not really a blockbuster performer.
Just to add to the whole complexity of what covid has done to to filming. I know someone who was cast on a show for HBO in Jan, was filming the pilot in Mar and had to rush to finish everything because of how fast the shutdowns happened. They just got news that the show went from pilot, to picked up, to miniseries because of covid. Because they were tied to this series they couldn’t audition for anything else. HBO had to pay them to keep them along with all the crew and prod staff. 1/
2/3 Now times this by all the different shows the various streaming services have and all of them are paying hundreds of thousands for people that aren’t doing anything. For a business perspective I get it, personally it sucks and pisses me off, but I do understand which makes it suck more. It is better for them financially to cancel all these first seasons shows that while popular aren’t a big phenomenon and pay for the shows that they know will create hype. ST, Witcher, The haunting, etc.
3/3. My friend actually had to make the decision to leave the HBO series in order to audition for other things. The best thing that can hopefully happen is that the right people are paying attention and remembering the talented people both in front and behind the scenes. P.s. I happened to get the opportunity to meet Sydney earlier this year and she is badass and powerful in RL as she appears on the show. She also plays w/w in Fear the walking dead and might come back in the new spinoff FYI, 🙂
Hmm, interesting, and yeah, I think there were guesses that this would be what was happening when the first wave of previously renewed shows that would have been shooting now got cancelled instead. It did seem like it had to be a matter of costing just to delay, but…I dunno, can’t there be ANY other way around that? These are unprecedented times. Some of these shows won’t even tape for months yet. It bodes ill for their expectations of conditions in the US if they think that even into next year this won’t be resolved.
I remember there was a US soap, um…..Days of Our Lives. Last year it released ALLLLL its cast from their contracts and people were like, uh, is this a cancellation?? But it turned out they’d just shot way too many eps ahead and instead of keeping all those people around as they waited, they released them. I know it’ll be tough to renegotiate everything again later, but I’d prefer something like that and I feel like so would a bunch of the actors/writers. 😡
And oh, awesome! I had seen the gifsets of Sydney in FTWD but apparently it was pretty brief so I never got around to it and just spent the whole of Helstrom wondering why she seemed so familiar and then finally looked up her name and was like OHHHHH. I’m definitely going to keep an eye on her in the future!