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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How horrifyingly sad! To leave a show hanging in such an obnoxious way!! If television wants (needs) support they should stop doing poor PR stunts like this. To have 22 episodes building up..engaging..hooking our emotions and entangling our expectations..to just drop off with no resolution..cruel..inhumane..unspeakable injustice. A season 2 should be made just to bring resolution to the poor heart broken peoples of the world.
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO MERCY FOR SO LONG I HAVE BEEN ANXIOUSLY AWAITING ITS RETURN BUT NOW KNOW IT WON’T BE BACK! IAM SO DISAPPONTED WE WERE LEFT HANGING ON A FEW SITUATIONS -CAN’T THEY AT LEAST HAVE A FINALE EPISODE TO BRING CLOSURE TO THE CHARACTERS WE HAVE BECOME ATTACHED TO???PLEASE CONSIDER AT LEAST A FINALE EPISODE!!
All this 18-49 stuff is going to have to stop soon – it is the time of the Baby Boomers, after all!
Seriously though, this is why NBC doesn’t get watched – they start something good, but don’t advertise properly, and then are flabbergasted that they don’t get watchers? I would have watched this in a heartbeat – it is a GREAT show, but I never even knew about it until I found it on Netflix. Come on, people – how about finding someone to run a network who can find their spines with something other than an x-ray?
So bummed…..I just looked it up to see when the new season started….
Dude dat sux I found this show on netflix tooo I never heard of this show but when I watched it I felt in love,please make a season two.what happen to mike.
Dude dat sux I found this show on netflix tooo I never heard of this show but when I watched it I felt in love,please make a season two.what happen to mike.
i am really upset that they did not make a season two they should go back and do it or sell it to smoe one else to do another company or something lkike that something to make in end better then they way that it did ….. at least make a few more episodes or something …. a tv movie to finish it something not like nthey did….
I watched it every Wednesday! Please bring show back!
I am INCREDIBLY dissapointed! I just finished watching the series on netflix only to find out that the show was cancelled and I will never find out what happens! Got me hooked only to cut me loose at the worst possible moment! 🙁
i’m so sad to hear that the serie has stopped, I found it more interressting than all the medical films, it’s just soooooooo sad, NBC shouldn’t have stopped!
I just found Mercy, I also found this website looking to find out what happened. I am disappointed that there aren’t going to be any more episodes. The last episode left everyone hanging.
So im real upset theres not a season2 I watch it on netflix!!!!!tht was not tha way toend it
Season 1 was terrific and I am so happy I found it on Neflix! Too bad they didn’t do a second season – I’d watch it in a heart beat!
I am so sad that they are not making any more of this show, i bought the season and watched the whole thing in 2 days and I wanted to see more. NBC NEEDS to finish this show it was awesome, I am a nurse myself and i fell in love and i was sad at how it ended, there was now resolution. PLEASE finish it
Like everyone else here, I just watched this on Netflix, and loved it. Found this looking to find Season 2 to find out what happens. I hadn’t even heard of the show, though. Maybe they didn’t advertise it well enough, I don’t know. But, i wish they would wrap stuff up, too.