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I just started watching the series on Netflix.

I'm not a big TV watcher, so I missed it the first time around.  It's great not having to sit through the commercials and wait a week between episodes.
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My dad liked the show. He likes sci-fi to some extent. He also like Flash Forward.
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The first season was great.  The second season was awful.
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I did the same thing about 1 year ago. Unfortunately the writing fizzles out and the storyline starts to suck. I don't remember if it was season 2 that was just horrible or some portion through season 1. I wound up watching all of them. They canceled the series in season 2.
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If I remember correctly, they canceled it after Season 1.  But fans started mailing in ONE PEANUT each, as a protest to the network for canceling the show.  After they received about 10,000 envelopes with peanuts in them, they decided to restart the show.

But it wasn't the same.

The whole concept really has a limited run to it: You have the big TEOTWAWKI incident with shows like this, and then things immediately go down hill from there.  At that point, either you're going to have a great die off and you end the story with the main characters living in a hovel.  Or society pulls together and starts rebuilding into a shadow of it's old self... which then becomes an "emerging nation" story rather than a show about survival.
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We enjoyed it.  I warn you, though, don't hope for too terribly much to be resolved at the end.  The final cancellation was swift, decisive, and not particularly tidy.
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I finished it last night.

It's a shame that stories like this don't get more traction in the viewing public, because I thought for the most part it was well-written, well-acted and touched on a lot of interesting and timely topics.

It was fun to be able to plow through the whole series at once.  It would have driven me crazy waiting from week to week and season to season (without even knowing if there would be a season two) to get the next chapter.

I thought they did okay in the way they ended it.

I still wanted to know where those supplies came from that were dropped in by parachute.
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