At the start of the season, we wondered which new NBC medical drama had the best chance at survival — Mercy or Trauma. It was hard to decide but now, they’ve both been cancelled anyway.
Mercy follows the lives of three very different nurses at Mercy Hospital in Jersey City. The cast includes Taylor Schilling, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Tupper, Diego Klattenhoff, Guillermo Diaz, James LeGros, James Van Der Beek, and Delroy Lindo.
The medical drama got off to a pretty poor start last September, attracting a 2.3 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 8.25 million total viewers. Unfortunately, viewership fell even lower from there.
Despite the ratings, NBC ordered a full season of episodes, likely because the network needed the original programming. Though NBC’s Primetime Entertainment President Angela Bromstad said she liked the show creatively, she noted that the show’s ratings had to improve for it to survive.
The ratings didn’t improve. The most recent episode attracted only a 1.1 rating in the demo and 4.01 million viewers.
To no surprise, the Mercy TV show’s now been cancelled. The 22nd and final episode aired last Wednesday, May 12th. Unfortunately, it wasn’t intended to be a series finale and didn’t wrap up the show.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that Mercy won’t be back for season two? What would you have liked to have seen happen?
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The show had a great plot and amazing acting. Sometimes I did not like an episode or two, but the ending to season 1 and aparently the whole show was a clif hanger.
BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!
I love this show so much that I think if there is another season it might turn out like ER. I love both shows and I am very sad. I did like Trauma but i really really enjoyed Mercy and I wish very much to see the second season of it.
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I totally loved this show too. The issues were real and people go through these problems every day. They should have kept it, it’s therapy!!!
I also just finished watching Season 1 and am so disappointed! I really liked the show. Wish Lifetime, TNT or some other network would pick it up.
Ok, so I just watched season 1 on netflix this weekend and googled what network it was on and I see that it’s cancelled!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW!! If I would have known it was on NBC I would have watched it. The characters were real and the storylines were awesome. Much better then Grey’s anatomy or Private Practice. Somebody didn’t do a good enough job promoting this show.
Love this show! Really wish they would do something to wrap it up.
BRING MERCY,TRAUMA BACK THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST TV SHOWS I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME AN YALL JUST GOIN TO TAKE IT OFF AIR LIKE THAT NBC WISH SOMEONE ELSE WOULD PICK IT BACK UP IT MAKES YOU THINK BOUT ALL THE OTHER DUM SHOWES ON NBC THAT NOT AS GOOD AS MERCY ,TRAUMA BRING THEM BACK
sad to see Mercy go. watched it on hulu, all 22 episodes are free so u dont need hulu+, but i had never heard of it. it was poorly advertised by NBC but if they had the rating s would have been much higher. BRING MERCY BACK!
I loved Mercy! I really wish they would AT LEAST wrap up the current story line!!! It was really unfair to leave us all hanging like that!!!
I really wish they would bring it back! It was a GREAT show!!!
I just watched the 1st season, all 22 shows online. What a great show! I can’t imagine why it got low ratings unless it was in a bad time slot. I would really like to see the show continue. It dealt with serious medical and human problems of right and wrong. The romantic involements were complicated and interesting. I also appreciated that it showed the problems soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq face when they try to go back to their normal lives.
Both my husband and I loved that show.We can’t believe that it wasn’t given a little more time to gain a larger audience. We also loved Friday Night Lights and they dropped that one too. It makes you wonder who is making these decisions when good shows are dropped and others with poor acting and no story line are kept. Guess I’ll read a book.
IM SO FREAKIN PISSEDD! I loved this show 🙁
Um hello, bring Mercy back! You cant just have an ending like that and then leave us Mercy fans hanging
I LOVED THAT SHOW BRING IT BACK “STAT”
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