‘Galavant’ season 2: On renewal odds, what we’d like to see

Tonight, ABC is closing the door on a series that we have much enjoyed in “Galavant,” and the thought of this does ultimately make us sad. We’ve adored the music, the performances, the setting, and of course the laughs. This has to be our favorite comedy of the 2014-15 season, even if there have been others with flashes of brilliance here and there.

Now, we have to wonder this: Where could the series go if there was another season? While we feel like we’ll get some sort of temporary closure tonight, the thirst is going to be there for more! This will be especially true when people start to discover this series a little bit after the fact. Given all of the competition it has been against (the AFC Championship Game, the Golden Globes), quite a few out there may have not given the series much of a chance.

Unfortunately, ABC cannot account for viewers that are not currently there. Unless the ratings spike tonight, we feel like the odds of a renewal are not particular great. We would be fine if it aired at the same time next year, and that may be the one real hope that it has at coming back; it is something that the network can plug in during January, when there is not much else to put on the air without throwing it to the metaphorical wolves.

But what about elsewhere? If ABC does cancel it, we could see the show being a potential winner somewhere like Netflix or Hulu, where you could just blitz through the entire season. This is a show that really works well upon binge-watching, since one episode carries directly into the next.

One thing that is worth considering here is the episode order. While having only four hours worth of content is a bummer, we don’t really think that this show would work with anything more than, say, a ten-episode order. Otherwise, you run the risk of having so many musical numbers that they start to dilute the others, and it becomes much harder to tell a serialized story the longer you go into a season.

Ultimately, we just want there to be more of the show. We don’t quite care where it airs, just so long as it does. Update: Clearly, the writers went in a bold direction with the finale, making it almost a challenge for ABC to renew the show. We did not anticipate that.

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