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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A great 1st season! Bring it back please!
Please bring it back! I’m devastated!!!!
What???!!! No season 2??!! We are so disappointed. The show was great and the cast extraordinary!! Please,please reconsider keeping it alive!
This show would survive 2014!!! Orange is the new black, weeds, and mercy stars all in one.! Ugh. I’m sure they won’t bring it back now that Orange is a huge success.
Just finished binge watching it on Hulu and I can’t believe it ended, this is such a great show- I love the plot and the characters and the drama. I would absolutely love to see it brought back! Please!
Pleeze, Pleeze, Pleeze bring Mercy back if there’s anyway in the world to bring the incredible cast back.
Please bring mercy back! It would survive 2014! I mean 2010 was a hard year for all!!!! Please please bring it back!!!!
NBC should Bring Mercy back. It is a great drama that everyone could really relate to. Please bring Mercy back!!
I also watch the show on hulu and love it. Maybe it could be something hulu bring tback to it line up .
I just finished watching the show on Hulu and I loved it also. I can’t believe that is how it ended. It was a great show bring it back.
Just finished watching the show Mercy on Hulu and what a great medical drama! Crazy to think most of the stars are in other hit shows. Wish there was an conclusion to the show and not the cliff hanger with what happened to Chris and Mike I can only guess. Bring back Mercy!
I too just finished watching it on Hulu.com. Can’t believe there was no Season 2. Loved all of the characters and the story line. I know it has been years but maybe they could round everyone back up for another season for as the previous poster stated on hulu or netflix. Now I have to find something else to watch. They keep getting rid of the good ones.
At least a conclusion! Leaving shows with such a drastic cliff-hanger is bad enough, much, much worse to cancel mid-stream. Totally unfair to your audience.
Yes, I just saw the show on Hulu and really enjoyed it! The characters and story started getting really good, so I’m disappointed to find out there is no Season 2!!! Darn, the last episode really left me hanging and wanting more:( Too bad it wasn’t a netflix or hulu sponsored show because I definitely think there would have been more viewers and maybe it would have survived. Anyways GOOD SHOW overall. 🙂
There needs to be more! How can you let it finish like that! Bring more mercy to Netflix now 🙂