We both agree that Slings & ...
Question: We both agree that
Slings & Arrows is a brilliant show and deserves to receive accolades and awards from peers and the TV industry. I just read in TV Guide that the third season (which hasn't aired in the U.S. yet) is its last. Is this true? If so, why? Is it being canceled, or have the producers and creators decided to call it quits? I need to know whom I need to write to! I want them to know that they shouldn't end it now! This show means so much to me, more than any other show ever has. I am an actor and a director, I work in community theater and this show speaks to me as an artist! I can't face the possibility of it ending. What can I do?
Answer: Enjoy it while you can. (The third season of this Canadian gem is currently airing on Sundance Channel on Sundays; do yourself a favor and check it out.) When you get to the end of the current season, you'll see that
Slings & Arrows bows out gracefully, tying up a number of threads with satisfying closure. I hated seeing it end as well, but all good things must. It's kind of like the best of theater that way. And I like to think of
Slings as being on the level of the best of British TV, which also tends to come in shorter seasons and for limited runs. It is very bittersweet in this case to be left wanting so much more, but what we're left with is something awfully close to perfection. As I said in my
review,
Slings does for the theater what
Studio 60 intended to do for the world of live late-night TV comedy. Final thought: It's also possible that several of the producers' success in the actual legitimate theater (with Broadway hit
The Drowsy Chaperone, soon going to London) may also have hastened the end of this series. But honestly, it would be nice if every TV show were allowed to end on such a high.
