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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9893739" data-attributes="member: 18">I think the easiest metric is to look at why the show had problems and whether they could be corrected in a later season.Like, if you have cast a bunch of fundamentally uncharismatic or mediocre actors, or the premise of the show is just not working for the audience, that's hard to fix (people have fixed the latter, but requires some daring), probably just cancel. Also if the show doesn't have a clear path ahead and is being just written as it goes, that's another check in the just cancel column.But if it's something like excessively convoluted storytelling, a questionable tone/vibe, a complex setup to be established (weirdly common in sitcoms), that's probably worth another season to try and fix imho. Like, Supernatural S1 has this demented jumpscare-centric heavily colour-graded edgy deal, which was clearly not the right way to go and would have ended the show if they stuck with it, but they dumped it. Supernatural is really an interesting example of a show that was allowed to evolve, because S1 it's trying hard to be slasher-y horror with a vague metaplot but by S5/6 it's basically Buffy with male leads. It was a different era though, one where a moderately successful show was allowed to keep improving, whereas now if you aren't a huge hit out of the gate or a nepotism/employ my friends project you're unlikely to get S2 let alone S3.</blockquote>