Rubicon Is the Best Show On Television You're Not Watching
Recently, the Nielsen Ratings for October 17th came out. For tracked new programing, football occupied the top two spots. At the very bottom of the list is, I believe, the best new show on television and one of the best shows on television Rubicon.
It certainly is the best show no one is watching. It got a .2 rating which means that 231,800 households are watching the program. Most weeks it was on the air, it got a .2 rating. There were a few .3 ratings and one .4 rating.
Rubicon is the smartest and most suspenseful show on television. The intricate and detailed storylines, full of surprises and Machiavellian maneuverings, elevates it to the same level as The Wire. And the complicated, obsessed, and paranoid characterization is evocative of the very best episodes of The X-Files.
I can’t tell you how many times in it’s brief thirteen episode season that it shocked me. It provided me a sense of paranoia I don’t think I’ve ever felt from visual media. Whether it was the protagonist trying to make sense of the madness he’s discovered to he and his team trying to stop the ultimate villains from manipulating events to create another 9/11 event.
I’m stunned when I think about how exceptional this program is, then I think about what beat it in the ratings. CSI Miami. Seriously, CSI Miami. How many more shows can the networks put on that are about women and children being murdered?
America’s Funniest Home Videos. I feel dumber for ever writing that. Honestly, nearly ten times the amount of households watched America's Funniest Home Videos than watched Rubicon.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Nearly eight times as many people watched that mindless drivel than watched Rubicon.
I have a great deal of hope that Rubicon will be renewed. Especially how the ending left so many questions to be answered. I’m hoping the shos will be rewarded come award-season as it’s a masterfully crafted piece of art. But I doubt it.
There is still time to save it. Watch reruns. Download it on iTunes. Buy it on DVD. Some cable services have V.O.D. where you may still be able to watch it.
If you ever complain about how awful television has become, then save this show. The creators deserve it.
The question is do you deserve it?
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