So I guess the season finale for GOLDEN BOY was tonight, now series finale since the show got cancelled after one season.

I think the core reason for why it failed (despite getting hell of a lead-in from CBS heavyweights NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles) was the whole premise that this guy will someday be the youngest police commissioner in NYC history 7 years from now, see how he did it.

Yeah OK whatever, but why should we consider that an interesting premise? Why should we care? Didn't help that the lead character, this future badass or whatever, is just bland and uninteresting.

If you did a prequel series for Norman Bates or Superman, yeah that can work because we know what and who they'll become and thus "The Early Years" might actually be interesting to invest yourself into.