Question of the week #55

[treonb]

The Americans has received widespread critical acclaim, but has thus far failed to grow an audience equal to the size of a lot of other "prestige dramas." What do you think the reasons are for that?

You can expect spoilers for the entire first three seasons in the comments.

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Comments

[sistermagpie]

Yeah, the problem with the "it's depressing" idea is that it seems like there'd need to be something in the actual premise that signals "this is going to be depressing" and there just isn't. On paper it sounds like fun hijinx. It's not like The Wire where people got "depressing" from the subject matter.

When I've looked on the Facebook page people there often do also seem to be watching a different show, despite the fact that they're actually watching the show. They're still looking out for shocking twists and action movie type plot things.