Why Patricia Arquet and Ted Danson: CSI: Cyber ​​has been canceled

With their scary classroom, rotating the door of the guest stars and endless murders, “CSI” is one of the most famous network television franchise of all time and peoples. However, despite more than a decade of success and a broad call, the property created by Anthony Zuker actually came out of the ether for a five -year period. In 2016, the latest CSI show, which was still going on “CSI: Cyber”, bowed only after two seasons, and the television world of the criminal saga, which began at the millennium, was temporarily darkened.

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Like many procedures in front of him, CSI eventually returned, offering “Paula Newsome” and “Matt Lavria” “CSI: Vegas” in 2021. This series returned to the trend of the show to focus on another city (the past hits included “CSI: New York” and the shameful “CSI: Miami”), but it was enough to keep it. “Vegas” was canceled in 2024 after three seasons, which noted the other end of the long -standing franchise. But what exactly happened for the first time? A special agent is not required to resolve this case.

“CSI: Cyber”-it confesses that the unforgettable leader of the franchise history, partly because his title focused on the place makes the series less distinctive than its predecessors. The Cyber-Cyber ​​Division, based on Washington, actually has a surprisingly specific prerequisite for the CBS procedure, because it follows from a behavioral psychologist who forms a team approved by the government with criminal cases and releases them from the hook when they help to catch bad people online. So far, it makes sense that “CSI: Cyber” may not be related to the audience, though another factor has made the show clearly memorable: the acting.

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In a short series, Patricia Arquet, which used to be the queen of detective drama with a bad but big play (they really don’t make the show like “average” Favorite “dairy” Richard Lynclaater. As if an Archback that continued to earn on the praise after the “CSI” thanks to her work on Famous shows such as “Servance” And the “act” was not enough, season 2 also recruited the legendary Ted Danson to play the type of Sherlock Holmes. Unfortunately, although the series had the advantage of the IP and the Star Ensemble (James van der Bic, Hale Kiok, Michael Irbi and McKenna Grace had key roles), “CSI: Cyber” did not match the program theft to finish all the audience: on Sunday at night.

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To be clear, “CSI: Cyber” did not end after 31 episodes because NFL games were aired on competingfor a term). The days of game days made new episodes of the show much later at night, and it probably stopped viewers with a limited viewing window – or early times – from setting up consistently. However, the series ratings remained quite stable during the second season; They were just not high enough to compare with other CBS hits at the time.

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In the end, as noted by the term, CBS: Cyber ​​was canceled as a result of low ratings, a problem that the planning problems and inconsistent temporary interval did not help. It also didn’t help that, mostly, the show was not good. Just approximately a third of critics and spectators presented on rotten tomatoes The sympathy of the series was reported, leaving it with a rather flawless 34% critical score. (Viewers were 1% more generous by 35%.) Margaret Lyon picture called show “Useless work”, referring to another’s pilot story associated with stolen babies on children’s monitors, and auction on the Internet. Several other critics also mentioned the children’s plot, and while the second season was clearly designed to review some of what did not work with the first, “CSI: Cyber” was ultimately considered an unsuccessful experiment with a franchise backlog that was already strained.

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The purest silver lining of the show cancellation took place for Danson, which could have spent the next few years, which were trapped after the CBS tour, talking about how scary the Internet. Instead Famous NBC series “Good place” Just three months after “CSI: Cyber” signed up. This is the perfect crime: the role is so great in the show is so fantastic that it made everyone forget “CSI”, even existed.