AMC President and General Manager Charlie Collier spoke with The Daily Beast’s Jace Lacob in the run-up to the network’s premiere of The Walking Dead and the fate of Rubicon was touched upon in his article:

The fate of Rubicon, meanwhile, remains up in the air, though Collier indicated a decision will be made in the next two to three weeks. Despite garnering the highest-rated launch for AMC to date this summer, the conspiracy thriller had a hard time attracting viewers on a weekly basis. Still, don’t count it out.

“We nurture projects like no one else,” Collier said. “Season 1 has been a great success. I think it is a remarkable piece of television. Our job is to make sure we can continue to scale and fit it all in.”

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When it started out, Rubicon seemed to be a straightforward homage to the Hollywoodparanoid-conspiracy classics of the 1970s. Like All the President’s Men, it featured an everyman hero—Will Travers, played by James Badge Dale—who doggedly uncovers a conspiracy at the highest levels of power. Like The Parallax View, it posited a secret organization that has the power to make people commit murder or even suicide on cue—the series opened with a distinguished-looking businessman receiving a four-leaf clover in the mail and promptly blowing his brains out.

Like The Conversation, it created a world in which everyone is under surveillance—a scene in which Will tears his apartment to pieces looking for bugs evoked Gene Hackman’s breakdown at the end of the Coppola movie. Most important, like Three Days of the Condor, it was set in a think tank—the American Policy Institute, Will’s employer—that turns out to be a government front. In the movie, the CIA ruthlessly orders the massacre of its own employees when Robert Redford accidentally uncovers a high-level conspiracy; in “Rubicon,” it is Will’s discovery of a code hidden in a newspaper crossword puzzle that results in the murder of his superior, David Hadas (played by Peter Gerety), and sets the series’ plot in motion.

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All the attention paid to the season finale of “Mad Men,” last Sunday night more or less eclipsed the finale of AMC’s other Sunday-night drama, “Rubicon.” It’s not clear yet whether Rubicon will be back for another season—it hasn’t exactly gotten rave reviews (New York Magazine’s verdict: “A promising show that started with a train crash ends up kind of a train wreck.” But complaints about the series’ slow narrative pace and uneven performances shouldn’t be allowed to obscure what made “Rubicon” so fascinating: its subversion, even deconstruction, of the very spy-thriller clichés it was built on.

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“I just don’t believe in wrapping it up that simply,” Bromell tells TVGuide.com. “It’s not interesting drama. It’s a little more conventional, a little easier. I just don’t believe in it in this case. The truth is that it’s not that easy to stop the bad guys.”

Rather than admitting defeat and giving Will all the answers, Truxton, who has also been marked for death by his associates, dares Will to go public with what he knows. “Truxton’s got a little Cheney in him, a little Rumsfeld in him. He does not chicken out. He will never fail for lack of nerve,” Bromell says. “He’s too convinced of his own righteousness no matter what he’s doing.”

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Rubicon finished its first season with 1.04 million. That’s down from the 1.26 million its penultimate episode averaged. I haven’t seen the demo numbers yet, but Rubicon has typically averaged a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. Sure, there’s a lot of critical acclaim, but the ratings have been anemic even by AMC’s standards

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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop in an old Meet Me in St. Louis DVD and watch last night’s season finale of Rubicon.

In a way, the finale played more like the second part of a two-part finale with the explosive penultimate “Wayward Sons” (indeed, its title, “You Can Never Win” could as well apply to the just-barely failure of Will and his API team to head off the terror attack that Atlas plans to profit from). But while the previous episode gave a definitive ending, if a depressing one, to the terror-hunt storyline, this finale did no such thing for the conspiracy plot—it simply set pieces in place for a future season.

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“Rubicon” focuses an organization known as API (American Policy Institute), which is a government-affiliated think tank. Working for this elite group are analyst Will Travers (James Badge Dale), his teammates Miles Fiedler (Dallas Roberts), Grant Test (Christopher Evan Welch), and Tanya MacGaffin (Lauren Hodges), their mysterious supervisor Kale Ingram (Arliss Howard), Kale’s loyal assistant Maggie Young (Jessica Collins), and man behind the curtain — the man in charge at API — Truxton Spangler (Michael Christofer).

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While Rubicon’s ratings have been anemic, particularly with adults 18-49, the penultimate episode on Sunday was up 50% from a 0.2 rating to a 0.3 rating (some of the increase is the benefit of only seeing the ratings rounded to tenths), and up 30% with total viewers.

While even at those levels the numbers are still tiny, it is hard to predict what AMC will do. I don’t love Rubicon’s chances, but even at those levels it’s not completely unfathomable that AMC will renew it.

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But I’m not writing this to talk about Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or even The Walking Dead. I’m writing to you to talk about a series that may be struggling just a bit with viewership, but deserves to have just as many viewers as everything else you’ve brought to the small screen. I’m talking about Rubicon, that brilliant little nugget of a show that has begun to make me feel so happy with myself for sticking with it through those slow first episodes.

I’ll admit, my faith was tested. Some episodes passed with minimal action occurring, and I was beginning to get worried that we’d only end up with a minor revelation about the overall conspiracy by the end of the first year. That would have been very disappointing, and thankfully, it didn’t turn out that way. Somewhere, things got really good.

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At one point, Rubicon was in prime position to set the world record for “slowest paced episodic television show.” I even joked that I wasn’t smart enough to understand Rubicon. As it turned out, though, it wasn’t particularly confusing, it was just boring. Through the first three episodes, no character ever seemed to turn on a light let alone say something interesting. Minutes of screen time would be spent watching a guy we barely knew sit alone in the dark. I’d think, wait, that’s what I’m doing right now; why would I want to watch someone else to that on television?

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