The Cancelled CBS Sitcom That Offended Millennials

Television is an unforgiving business. Most shows merely end up as promising pitches, as the process of getting a pilot on the air is painstaking. Network television, while viewed as a primitive medium, is more cutthroat than any media outlet, as a show is only as good as its last season's ratings. Low viewership will squash any show's dreams. These are the kind of harsh realities of life that Joel McHale's character would impart to the so-called coddled millennials that he worked with in the short-lived sitcom, The Great Indoors. The CBS show experienced surprising success during the onset stages of the first season in 2016. During the second half of the season, The Great Indoors' ratings plummeted, and the show was cancelled upon the season's conclusion in 2017. Some would claim the show was not so much cancelled, but rather, a victim of "cancel culture," due to offending millennials, but in reality,...
- 8/11/2024
- by Thomas Butt
- Collider.com
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