I was thrilled to find out this show is on Hulu.
I only got to see a couple of episodes on TV before they took it off.
This is an awesome show. I really can’t wrap my mind around why this show didn’t last longer than one season.
Am I insane or does anybody else like this show?
I loved this show; I was so disappointed when it was cancelled. My theory was that it was just too good for TV. If it had been created a few years later, it probably would have done well on HBO or Showtime.
I completely missed this when it came out, I may have been overseas or something. I do remember reading about it when it was premeiring though.
I’ll have to look up the show now.
someone’s at the door.
That it came from the pen of Shawn Cassidy was pretty surprising.
Beware the DVD set. Fine in of themselves, but due to some inexplicable screw up all the episodes after the first couple are disordered.
Also after watching Deadwood I can’t watch the very distinctive looking Sarah Paulson without thinking of her character in that series :D.
Oh man, I loved the hell out of this show. Classic example of an excellent show butchered by network interference. CBS promoted it poorly, moved it from night to night without notice, ordered the producers to fire one of their leads (Jake Weber) and substitute him with a traditional hunky hero type, showed episodes out of order and destroyed continuity… Ugh.
AG was ahead of its time and on the wrong damn network. Even FOX would’ve been a better match for this than stodgy old CBS. (Would have made a good pair with Millennium.)
Gary Cole was brilliant as Lucas Buck. Sooo evil and funny and charming and hot. Man could wear the hell out of a vest, too. Brenda Bakke as slithery Selena, Jake Weber (sob!) as the tortured but compassionate alcoholic Dr. Matt, Nick Searcy as Lucas’s browbeaten yet somehow noble deputy… and espescially little Lucas Black as Caleb! Paige Turco’s boring heroine Gail was the weak link (at least before the dull new doctor arrived), but otherwise this was a terrifically strong cast.
Somewhere, long after the show aired, I read that Gary Cole and Brenda Bakke decided for kicks that the back-story of their characters’ relationship was that they were brother and sister.
It’s on Hulu, you say? The rewatch should be interesting. 
American Gothic is my favorite show from the 90’s.
I can’t remember where I read it, but I do remember reading that its early demise was due to pressure from a socially conservative group who disapproved of the show.
I’m on the mailing list of a lot of SC groups & I never heard anything about an effort against AG. Now, I’m sure at some time, Don Wildmon & his AFA complained about it because they complain about everything. I really think it died because it was niche programming & appealed to a very select audience. Remember it was just a few years after TWIN PEAKS which should have closed with the solving of Laura Palmer’s murder & maybe been followed up once a year with a mini-series/movie. TV Execs don’t have much patience with eccentric shows that haven’t made some major splash.
I loved this show. I also think it was ahead of its time and that CBS couldn’t handle it.
I found Lucas Black to be incredibly talented, charismatic, and compelling for someone so young.
Hearing a woman say in a soft southern accent “Someone’s at the door” still gives me the creeps to this day, just as certain sights and sounds remeniscent of Twin Peaks do.