“In the gripping season finale, the API team tries to find their footing in the aftermath of the explosion in Galveston Bay. Katherine sets up a meeting with Will shortly after being directed to a new safe house. And Will confronts Spangler, but will he get the answers he is looking for?” Find out Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010 (9:00-10:00PM ET)!

UPDATE: THE SEASON FINALE HAS NOW AIRED. WHAT DID YOU THINK? POST IN THE COMMENTS OR JOIN US IN THE FORUM FOR DISCUSSION.

“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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AMC has released several new promotional photos from the season finale of Rubicon:

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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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AMC has released several promotional photos for Rubicon Episode 12 “Wayward Sons”:

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A few additional photos from Rubicon Episode 11 “A Good Day’s Work” have been added to the gallery:

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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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Q: What appealed to you about Rubicon when you signed on for the role?

A: Everything has such an interesting way of revealing itself. You think you know what’s going on, and then you don’t know what’s going on, and all of a sudden you’re surprised by something else that’s going on. Also, it seemed like I was going to be a guy who had really mixed feelings, and that was fun to play somebody who’s torn… I guess the thing I like about it the most is I had told my son I’m going to be on this new show Rubicon. He’s like, “Yeah, great dad.” And then he started watching it and he sent me this angry email, because when he didn’t know anything about the show it was all chummy. Then he started getting hooked on the show and then he was extremely irate and forceful: Do not tell me anything more about what’s happening! So he’s really hooked.

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“Rubicon” refers to the river in ancient Italy whose southward crossing by an army signified an act of war. It has come to mean a boundary beyond which one cannot turn back. The blurring of the line between military and civil society, perhaps between a democracy and a police-state, is the subject of the new cable series.

That’s fine. However, when one considers the scope of the criminal enterprises engaged in by the US military and its intelligence agencies today, one may be excused for paying close attention and being quite critical of a series which ostensibly offers insight into those operations.

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