Tarnation! 'Damnation' has been axed!
Cable USA (Optimum Channel 38) has dropped, after just one season, it's '30s period drama "Damnation." Drat!
'Damnation' Canceled at USA Network
"With live-plus-3 returns, Damnation bowed to a not-insignificant 1.4 million viewers. Subsequent episodes, however, dropped dramatically."
Double drat! I really liked that show!
Set in the start of Depression-era Iowa, the 10-episode series was singular in that it featured no clearly defined "white hat" good guy standing against a wind-swept field of false prophets, corrupt law enforcers, brutal strike-breakers, rapacious capitalists and a not-all-that-secret group of black-hooded and robed vigilantes yclept the Black Legion.
(In 1937 Warner Brothers released a thematically similar film of that name featuring contract players Humphrey Bogart and Erin O'Brien-Moore.)
The putative protagonist is a preacher with a lethal past and his antagonist, a murderous Pinkerton, is (O boy!) his brother.
The production has a cast of unknown and little-known actors working with compelling material on some well-realized period sets with Alberta, Canada shot for the farm country of Iowa.
The cancellation notice is unfortunate, but since Netflix was a co-producer, there's always a possibility that the streaming service might okay another season.
