Josh Friedman, producer of the recently-canceled Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, has updated his blog following the end of his series, giving a humorous, scathing, yet altogether educational perspective of life in television and Hollywood:
I had this little scary robot show and for whatever reason couldn’t convince enough people that it was a) scary enough b) robot enough or c) in English. Add that dim sum combo of factors to a red bean paste of non-monetizable early adopters dvring the show like motherf**kers and now I’m unemployed.
Everyone says having your show cancelled is like a death but I’ve been dead before and at least when you’re dead you don’t get thrown off the Warner Bros. lot for haunting your old parking space. They probably mean it’s like the death of a friend or a family member but that shit only hurts when it’s YOUR friend or family member and even then it’s mitigated by age, lifestyle and whether that person was a Hollywood friend or a real one and whether that family member left you money.
There is a ton of swearing in this post, BTW, but if you’re curious to hear his perspective — especially when the writing was on the wall — you should totally check it out. If you want a shorthand perspective on Sarah Connor’s hair-splitting loss to Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, just click here.
