It has been showing me commercials for a show called Endgame. The protagonist is rich champion chess player suffering from agoraphobia since his Fiance’s murder 4 months earlier. He cannot leave his luxury hotel (he had been living in hotels exclusively since he left Russia)
Nobody likes him very much, because he’s an insufferable prick. But he’s brilliant. His skill at games and puzzles transfers to solving crimes pretty well. He becomes an unofficial private eye. Since he cannot leave the hotel, he has others do the leg work of investigation.
Not all that original. Shades of Nero Wolf and they hit some detective story cliches right off the bat, including a Castle-esque ‘Who killed my…’.
But it was well done. Good production values, well acted, good dialogue (such as the antagonism between the chess champ and Hotel manager and Security Chief). I sat and watched 4 episodes back to back to back. Enjoyed it immensely.
Today I found out that it’s not a Hulu original as I had thought, but a Canadian series from 2011.
AND IT WAS CANCELLED!!!
A 13 episode run, that’s all I get. BASTARDS!!! :mad: I feel cheated, like I did when I came to ‘Firefly’ after it was already dead and gone.
SyFy has done this a few times, announcing “A New Original Series!!” that turns out to be a several-year-old already cancelled series from Canada or New Zealand or somesuch.
Hulu “originals” are never Hulu originals, I’ve found. Endgame is okay but I don’t think I could stand the lead beyond 13 episodes.
Yeah… I adore Torrance Coombs but even his presence in the show didn’t force me through all 13 episodes. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, but the main character…
Many of the originals on Hulu are series from the UK or Australia that ran a year or two and were cancelled. That doesn’t mean they’re not worth seeing. The Book Group is pretty good (if you’re a fan of House watch the first episode for a familiar face*), and Green Wing is surreal and funny. Both had short runs, so didn’t resolve, but they’re pretty damn good.
“Cutthroat Bitch,” and you can see why she was in House.
I find Hulu’s revivals of short runs from elsewhere very nice. They don’t last so long that you give up trying to keep track, ala Person of Interest or Castle, the runs are too short they will ever get syndicated, and I see things I wouldn’t see otherwise.
Sorry that you found the abrupt end to this series, but thanks for pointing it out. I’ve been looking for something like this since I started watching Perception for a while and then couldn’t find it again. I just watched the trailer for Endgame and think I might like it. I’ll know not to get too excited for more than 13 episodes. Thanks for the heads up.