How could it be so good and so commercially unsuccessful???!?!

Because Fox screwed it over. You know the pilot episode on the disc? That wasn’t the pilot episode when it was on TV. They started with the train robbery episode, which although it was okay, really sucks as a pilot episode. Then they moved it around the schedule, bumped it off whenever they felt like, etc.

It’s sorta like what NBC does to Scrubs, but somehow Scrubs has survived.

Fox kills all sorts of good shows that start with the letter F: Firefly, Futurama, Family Guy… (which only by sheer fan power did they bring back Family Guy)
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I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar. – RIP Wash