Last year, ABC Family introduced three new dramas — Twisted, Ravenswood, and The Fosters. Ravenswood (a Pretty Little Liars spin-off) has been cancelled while The Fosters has been renewed. What will become of Twisted?
Airing on Tuesday nights, Twisted is a mystery/thriller series that revolves around 17 year old Danny Desai (Avan Jogia). Six years ago, he was charged with killing his aunt and he ended up spending five years in juvenile detention. Now, he’s been released and has returned to his small hometown in New York. As he tries to resume his life, a classmate is killed and Danny becomes a key suspect. The cast also includes Madelaine Hasson, Kylie Bunbury, Ashton Moio, Kimberly Quinn, Denise Richards, and Sam Robards.
The pilot episode aired as a special preview in March 2013 and drew 1.19 million viewers. It wasn’t a great start but the ratings picked up when the regular season started in June. They quickly fell again but ABC Family ordered 10 additional episodes of Twisted anyway. That decision may have been influenced by the fact that they had recently cancelled Bunheads and The Lying Game.
When the second half of the season kicked off in February and viewership nearly hit a new low, despite the fact that it had popular Pretty Little Liars as a lead-in. Last week, when Twisted no longer had that strong lead-in, viewership hit an all-time low with just 726,000 viewers.
The second half of the season averaged 1.11 million viewers. Ravenswood was cancelled with higher viewership. Based on these numbers, it’s looking unlikely that ABC Family will order a second season of Twisted.
But, what do you think? Are you a fan? Should Twisted be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
8/13 update: ABC Family has cancelled Twisted after one season.
Please don’t cancel the show. I just started watching this on netflix i finished the last episode and would like to see what happens next so please don’t cancel it!
Ong. No Don’t Cancel The Show , Bring Out Back. I Love This Show. Its Like A Mystery & Puzzle Pieces. & The Way That The Show Ended , You Have To Bring It Back. Im Curious As To Know What Happens Next.
Twisted is a great, extremely enjoyable show. I really hope that it is not being cancelled as i look forward to watching what will happen each week in everyones lives. Please bring Twisted back & don’t cancel such a fantastic show. Thank you.
Love Twisted bring it back!
How can you leave us hanging like this!!!!! Bring it back!!!!!
i love it!!!and i really wanna know what secrets had vikrum!!
We didn’t discover Twisted until we found it on Netflix. We saw the whole season in a weekend. Couldn’t look at anything else, it was so compelling. Don’t tell me ABC will be foolish enough to let this series go. Remember Seinfeld, the icon of the 90s took a while to catch on.
Like Seinfeld Twisted has an increadable ensemble cast.
Noooooooo! Please don’t cancel this show! I started watching and now I’m hooked only to be left hanging! 🙁 they have do another season! Please bring it back!!!!!
Why the hell are they canceling so many shows?
First The Tomorrow People had been canceled on the CW, then Star-Crossed, now Ravenswood and maybe Twisted, dammit, just stop canceling great shows, it sucks for the people who actually like it!!!!
You need to make another season. I really like this show. I would think you would have to do something with the ending, don’t just leave it like that.
You can’t cancel Twisted!! I have to know what happens! Was somebody shot and killed?? First “The Lying Game” and now “Twisted”? It makes it hard to want to get invested into new shows… I’d rather watch reruns on Netflix than get invested into a new show, just to see it get cancelled after one or two seasons, just sayin’.
didnt get a chance to watch twisted until it got on netflix but really hope they have a season 2 or else I sat up nights n a row for nothing.
Please dont cancel twisted!!!!!!!!!! I love That show!!!
Please make a second season this is such an awsome show i love it and cant wait to see what happenes next u cant just leave it like that please make another season .
((HONEST REVIEW)) I lost all the genuine respect and interest I had for Twisted after the mid-season finale… being where I’m from, I can neither watch the live premieres on ABC Family (since it’s not a channel option) or online (since live streaming isn’t available “in my area”) so that was a turn off immediately (but I watched Pretty Little Liars & The Fosters online hours after they came out and was satisfied with most episodes so I said what the heck). I’d heard of Avan Jogia from Victorious and I absolutely adored the original synopsis of the show and… Read more »