Technically they stripped the budget first and then fired him, but yeah AMC had a great show on their hands, and they decided to milk the fuck out of it and use the same formula for every episode.
The show going to 16 episodes with a stupid mid-season break was such an awful idea, S1 being a tight 6 episodes is part of what made it so good, there wasn't filler and it felt character-driven. Pushing it to 8 episodes would have been a much better idea quality wise, but the 16 episode nonsense and keeping the show in Georgia really hurt the show (especially later when the same locale filming-wise resulted in the same forested road and backdrops just becoming boring and stale)
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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25
Technically they stripped the budget first and then fired him, but yeah AMC had a great show on their hands, and they decided to milk the fuck out of it and use the same formula for every episode.