Out Of Luck

I was getting to like Luck, the HBO series centered on a race track, so I'm sorry to see it go.  Earlier, two horses had died during production. When a third horse died, they shut down the show and then decided to end it.

At the very least, this is a CYA move--after this much warning, if they kept the show going and another horse died, the publicity would be impossible.  I'm not enough of an expert, or an insider, to know if what they were doing was especially dangerous to horses, but HBO sure wasn't going to wait to find out.  Though I get the feeling if the ratings had been better, they might have found a way.

The show was no Mad Men (new episodes soon) or Game Of Thrones (new episodes soon) or Breaking Bad (new episodes later this year), but the characters were starting to fill in a little, and it felt like things were going somewhere.  I liked the relationship between Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Farina, and especially liked the four track touts who won the Pick Six and started their own stable.

Can't HBO figure a way to keep this thing going?  I hear they can do wonders with CGI.