I am hugely devoted to this show too. It's a great continuation of the book and I have kept up with every episode every week right from the start. But I just watched the last episode, and while the network does let us see it to the end of the 22 episodes, it's hardly an ending at all.
Obviously this one season was filmed all at once, and that was all the network committed to, with the option of filming a second season pending the overall success and ratings of the series. But they didn't go back and revise the ending of the story even a little bit to give it some sort of conclusion, instead choosing to leave it on a major cliff-hanger, knowing full well midway through this season that there wouldn't be a second one.
Of course, the network wouldn't be obligated to do this, since it only bought the first 22 episodes, but it would've been great if they tried to make the ending somewhat satisfying to its fans by tying up some loose strands; at the very least carry out Joey Morolto's promise to Mitch so we'd know the fate of McDeere and his family.
Not only was the story left inconclusive, it ends - and this is the SPOILER - with Mitch still running, 6 weeks later, which, following a logistic timeline, would likely not occur until after the trial of Patrick Walker. The trial would likely not have lasted another 6 weeks from where they stood in the proceedings at the end of the last episode. The jury had not been far off from deciding to convict or aquit Mitch's defendant, which leaves an enormous gap of unanswered questions and unexhibited events in the storyline.
If there were a follow-up season, this would have been a great place to end the story. But it's disappointing when it leaves you longing for more, when there is nothing more in the works.
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Goosfrabah
12 years ago
This is really depressing. The show is one of only 2 primetime shows I watch every week without fail. Seems NBC has a habit of cancelling their best series...
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