# Damn You, HULU!!!! (Endgame) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227 "2014-10-13T18:37:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/1 "2014-10-13T18:37:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/2 "2014-10-13T19:06:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/3 "2014-10-14T00:51:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/4 "2014-10-14T22:47:19Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > 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](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2650700/) 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… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/5 "2014-10-14T23:43:53Z")
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**. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/6 "2014-10-15T00:03:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-hulu-endgame/701227/7 "2014-10-15T04:42:34Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > It has been showing me commercials for a show called Endgame. 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.