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Question: This is the first time I have ever written about a show, but I am so disappointed that NBC’s Grimm is canceled. I have loved this show right from the start. So unusual and I think a family favorite, but maybe not for enough people. There are plenty of other shows that should be gone instead. I guess I’ll just have to not get attached anymore. — Patricia
Matt Roush: It’s always disappointing when a longtime favorite ends its run, but there’s a difference between a show going off the air and being canceled — which would be a more appropriate response if Grimm had been yanked off the air without being able to prepare and promote a proper conclusion. No show lasts forever, and for a supernatural drama on a major network airing on Fridays to make it to a sixth season with more than 120 episodes is quite an accomplishment. To take away from this that it’s not worth getting attached anymore is to dismiss the years spent watching and enjoying Grimm.
On a related note concerning a supernatural drama ending after an even longer run, here’s a wonderful bit of TV trivia: On Friday, March 10, when The CW’s The Vampire Diaries with Nina Dobrev called it a night after eight seasons, it was 20 years to the date that The WB launched Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Sarah Michelle Gellar. How time flies.
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