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Tonight, HBO airs the first season finale of the Run TV series. Though the cable channel has been quiet about whether the series will return for a second season or not, we now know that Ruby and Billy won’t be back.
The Run TV series stars Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson, with recurring guest stars Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rich Sommer, Tamara Podemski, and Archie Panjabi. In college, Ruby Richardson (Wever) and her boyfriend, Billy Johnson (Gleeson), made a pact. They promised that, if either one of them texted the word “RUN” and the other replied with the same, they would drop everything and meet in Grand Central Station and travel across America together. Now, 17 years later, Ruby is shaken out of her humdrum suburban life with that text and she walks away from her ordinary suburb life and flies to New York. There, she reunites with Billy and boards a cross-country train. As their adventure begins, Ruby and Billy fight the tension that still exists between them while attempting to root out each other’s secrets.
Airing on Sunday nights since April 12th, the first season of Run has averaged a 0.08 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 236,000 total viewers in the live+same day ratings. The traditional numbers are certainly not impressive and Run is one of HBO’s lower-rated series.
Though HBO’s press release for tonight’s finale (“Trick”) merely designates the episode as the “season finale”, HBO’s site notes that it’s also indeed the “series finale” (see below). While the HBO execs could change their minds and renew the Run series for a second season at some point in the future (ala Big Little Lies), it seems that the seventh installment was designed as the show’s last.
What do you think? Did you watch the Run TV series on HBO? Would you have watched a second season?
Update: The series creator of Run is still hoping for a second season renewal from HBO.
There HAS to be a second season, you cannot just let it end there
Please make a Season 2 – loved this show sooooo much. Devastated when I heard Season 2 had been cancelled
Omg!! Just hears this was cancelled and I’m so upset!! I really, really loved this show!!! Please, please, please don’t let it end!! I NEED Ruby and Billy in my life, seriously!! Love them and the show! I mean how many of us haven’t wanted to run away at some point in our life?? I beg you to change your mind and renew!!
I really enjoyed the first six episodes of Run, a good story, good lead characters with lots of chemistry. However, the final episode was terrible and rushed with minor characters and a subplot abruptly introduced to no real purpose. The plotting was poor and forced, it stumbled into Union Station and fizzled out. There was no resolution, nor was there a cliffhanger that would set anything up for a second season. Jones just decided that not writing any sort of ending, then sorting it everything out when it got renewed. It’s impossible to seen how you could write a second… Read more »
Yes loved RUN. VERY CREATIVE.
I would definitely watch a second season. Anything that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a part of, I completely support. Please don’t let bad timing get in the way of a good series.
It’s a great show I want to see more of Billy and Ruby you have to have more seasons!!! Please
I loved this series and watched it several times. Please give us a second season. I need to know what happens next!
Absolutely I’d watch another season of Run! It needs to be tied up.
It was a very good show, with an original plot. That’s hard to find. Characters and actors were grrat.
I don’t know how you can think of canceling it. There are so many more shows that should be cancelled before this one.
Just discovered Run only to find out that they’ll be no more episodes? Bummer
I loved it! Am rewatching. Please keep it going!
I loved it. I really want to see a second season. I keep watching it over and over. Sometimes you need to run from your life.
Too much fun to stop after one season, especially following that unsatisfying anticlimactic season ending.
Please have a season 2! I really like this show. I think once people watch it, it will take off! Please at least give it another season!