caddington
caddington t1_j5kj2cy wrote
Reply to comment by thebetabruh in I'm astounded each time I watch Person of Interest's "If-Then-Else" by thebetabruh
They totally snuck it past CBS. The show starts off pretty procedurally and doesn't really hint it will become too much more for a majority of the 1st season. People got hooked and by the time CBS realized it wasn't really what they'd been sold on it was too popular to cancel.
caddington t1_j5l6f21 wrote
Reply to comment by saufcheung in I'm astounded each time I watch Person of Interest's "If-Then-Else" by thebetabruh
The 1st season was really popular because it fit pretty closely to the normal CBS fare. Then in the following season it lost audience but had built up enough of a base that CBS couldn't justify cancelling it.