Last year I watched Reunion on Fox. Reunion followed the story of six high school friends. One is murdered and the other five are suspects. There was supposedly at least an entire season, an episode for each year between high school graduation and the killing. FOX aired exactly 12. Enough for me to get hooked on the show, really wanting to find out how it all plays out. Instead, FOX said screw the millions of people who actually watched our shows, we’re going to take it off the air, because not enough millions of people watch it.
Last year I watched Invasion on ABC. Millions of little orange things falling from the sky, taking over humans. What the hell were those things? I have no idea, even though I watched every episode.
This year I watched Smith on CBS, enjoyed it, and watched it get canceled after only 3 episodes. But CBS has done the right thing. I can watch the other four episodes online that were produced but never aired. Also, according to the CBS Website, and specifically the Smith page, which is still up, I can “also read how the story arc plays out, what happens to all the characters, and how the series concludes, with detailed synopses of the last five episodes.” Mother freakin’ right I can.
If only I could’ve found out who killed Sam on “Reunion” or how the humans killed the orange gaseous aliens I might be able to watch Dave Annable on “Brothers and Sisters,” Eddie Cibrian on “Vanished,” or William Fichtner on “Prison Break” without remembering that I’m still wondering what happened on each of their previous shows one year later.