There won’t be a second season of American Odyssey. To little surprise, NBC has cancelled the dramatic TV series after 13 episodes.
On the American Odyssey TV show, an international cover-up explodes when the lives of a female Special Forces soldier, a disillusioned corporate lawyer, and a political activist from a privileged family unexpectedly collide. The cast includes Anna Friel, Peter Facinelli, Jake Robinson, Jim True-Frost, Sadie Sink, Omar Ghazaoui, Nate Mooney, Elena Kampouris, Daniella Pineda, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Treat Williams.
The series had a lackluster debut and the ratings got much worse as the weeks progressed. The 13 installments ended up averaging a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with fewer than three million viewers. The finale aired this past Sunday.
Series creator Adam Armus tweeted, “Thanks to the devoted fans of #AmericanOdyssey. I loved the tweets, the artwork and the emotional support. #odellelives in our [heart]️ always!” and “#AmericanOdyssey is not renewed for next season. The stories live on in here [head] and in here [heart]️! [Bravo] to the fantastic cast, crew and the fans!”
Of the cancellation, executive producer Peter Horton tweeted, “As you all know we have bn canceled. Had we been on cable wld have bn a hit Thx to all of u for bing our audience #thebest #AmericanOdyssey” and then, “#AmericanOdyssey Heartbreaking. But you all have been the best. xo”
Actor Treat Williams wrote, “American Odyssey has been a great experience. Thank you Peter, Adam, Kay,and a lovely cast for a great season. Thank you NBC for the gig.”
What do you think? Did you like the American Odyssey TV show? If you ran the network, would you have cancelled it or renewed the series for a second season?
This was a great show – A show with some thought to it.
This should have a 2nd season at least! It can’t be left hanging in the way it did.
Maybe it will be sold on for another company to make a success of it!
Wow! I don’t have time to keep up on cancellations , but am extremely saddened and a little ticked off that this show was cancelled! Looked forward to it weekly and was ready for the new season to start and I am heartbroken for the cancellation. How can you bring us in and then cut us out before at least giving us some sort of conclusion. Not fair to anyone involved. I wish someone would pick it up and continue on. Who likes to read half of a book and then put it down? Will miss Odele and entire cast.… Read more »
I really liked this series and was very disappointed when it was cancelled. I just don’t get it.
I really thought this show was very good and left me wanting more.
So sorry to learn no more Odessey. This last episode has left us all hanging not knowing the out come . Why show only thirteen episodes when you know there won’t be a follow up.
it needs to reach a conclusion one way or another one of the best programes on tv in a long time very unsatsfactory to end so bluntly
im really tired of the networks canceling shows. Some people get tired of watching reality shows. We like TV dramas with weekly episodes. I watched ever show in this season I truly liked the show. Resurrection / revenge/ shows just being cancelled I’m really sick of this. Bring back tv with family shows.
Once I understood the plot, i really enjoyed it and was very disappointed to learn that there was not going to be a Season 2. We were all left hanging on the last episode so it was obviously written to be continued and here in the UK, it would be warmly received.
UK viewer. They don’t know a good thing when they see it. Ok it had flaws but these would have been ironed out in the next series
I watched all 13 episodes and wish that had been a second series. It was good but not brilliant but it might have become so if it had continued and it puts me off US series altogether when you know how little commitment they have to the productions. The same thing happened to 76 Sunset Strip about a tv company.
Loved American Odyssey! Best show ever! So disappointed with all the other crap on TV.
American network T.V. is so full of ****. Unless they can see dollar signs in their eyes it get’s cancelled. Odessey was good. It was intelligent and well written – maybe that’s why it was cancelled. Bosses that know better when they really don’t – just like Firefly and a long list of others. Nothing is ever given a chance to take off properly. A conglomerate of risk free cowards!
Liked it from the start. Yes there were some odd things the characters did but the story itself was interesting and quite mostly believable. Disappointed at the ending but I assume there were plans for a second series. Will just have to imagine that good will prevail over evil and the baddies will suffer the consequences.
This is typical of American productions. If the ratings (in their view) don’t hit the figures they deem profit worthy then the show gets canned. This has happened so often, one such series, Smith, was starring Ray Liotta about a crew of bank robbers. A terrific cast, great plot & characters. It was scratched Before the end of the first series! Farscape was another but a least a TV movie was produced to bring about a conclusion of sorts. At least this series reached a sort of ending, unsatisfactory as it was, but left to many loose ends. Yet another… Read more »
You have to be kidding me!!!! All the other simple minded weekly shows on TV, like ALL the NCIS’, Law & Order and Hawaii 5 O shows to mention a few. Too many people are too lazy to have to pay attention to TV shows with a real plots. One season is not enough time to measure its popularity. The plot was riveting, the actor casting was refreshing and the little twists and turns kept me from being too comfortable. Perhaps they should have at least had reruns in the summer to give more people an opportunity to enjoy it… Read more »