After a season of lackluster ratings, The CW took a chance last May and renewed Life Unexpected for year two. They hoped that the audience would grow this season but it certainly hasn’t.
Season one of Life Unexpected averaged 2.0 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the network’s target demographic of women 18-34. This season, the show’s lost more than half of the demo audience, averaging just a 0.7 rating with 1.53 million viewers.
As the network’s lowest rated show, CW execs asked for a couple additional scripts but didn’t order them into production. Life Unexpected is the only series on the network that’s been limited to 13 episodes this season.
While The CW has not officially cancelled Life Unexpected yet, it’s impossible to imagine that they’d renew it for season three. The ratings have just gone too low. Series creator Liz Tigelaar thinks so too. She told the TV Addict back in September that she believed that, if they didn’t get an order for a full season, the show was finished.
The season (likely series) finale will air in January. Deadline is reporting that the writers are treating it like the series finale and will wrap up many of the ongoing storylines.
Tigelaar was skeptical about how fulfilling the end could be. In September, she said, “Obviously if you were doing the end of this story, what I feel the fans want are Cate and Baze together, so that would be a natural series end in someway. Unfortunately, that is not going to to happen by episode 13, at least I don’t think in an artful way. So we’re just going to hope for more and if 13 ends up being our last one we will have some closure, it will feel good and the end, but it won’t be the true end.
What do you think? Should The CW have renewed or canceled Life Unexpected last spring? Why have so many viewers stopped watching? How would you like the series to end?
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I would go for season 3…. Looking forward to it
I absolutely hated the last episode for the show. When it skipped to her graduation i was so confused. How did this all happen? Are they going to show us how? like what the heck. I loved watching the show it was really good. I would have loved to know the details of how Cate and Baze got back together.
Please please please do another season me and my daughter love it and are so upset there is no more
the whole show is just about everyone cheating on each other, cate cheating on ryan, lux cheating on bug however many times, it’s stupid and it gets boring
I think the show should go on it is an awesome show the better you right it with a happy ending you will get more viewing
They should keep going on with more seasons, I believe that Erik and Luk should get back together and everything else should stay the same, there should be a twist
This is one of the best shows ever ,I found it on Netflix and I will cry if they don’t make a 3rd season.
I am so upset that there still is no 3rd season for this amazing show I think it needs to be renewed. I have no idea why it got cancelled I mean I would love to see a story line about Lux in college an now how baze an cate are finally a couple that should of been from the beginning
This series is great! I’m sad to find out it only made it 2 seasons. Maybe Netflix could do more seasons 😉
Make a season 3 this show is really entertaining
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put the show back on!!! We loved it!!!
Please renew it it is a really Good show I have been watching it on Netflix it is awesome I would be really sad if they cancelled the show please let there be a season 3 =)
I read through all of the comments and let me just say, everyone commenting lives this show. I don’t know why it would have been canned. The producers should have advertised way better because like many of these other commenters I didn’t even ever hear about this show until I cane across it on Netflix. This show is so relatable. It’s amazing. I love the characters. I love the sorry line and how relatable all of the situations can be too a ton of people. The ending was okay but it could have been much much better. It was ebbed… Read more »
I think they should have renewed it because it was a great show and i just found it on Netflix and it was amazing! It was so sad when Eric and Lux had to break up! I loved them!!!
I think they should deffinantly air a 3rd season I was so sad to find out there were only 2 and I was in love with this series the second I watched the first episode , in all conclusion were I watch this is on Netflix and it almost has a 5 star rating with only less than a quarter of a star left to make it five star, this was one of my favourite shows and I’m sad to see it end, I want another season.