Why Jason Bourne TV Show Treadstone Season 2 Was Cancelled
There’ll be no Treadstone season 2, as USA’s Jason Bourne spinoff series has been cancelled after just one season. Here are the reasons why.
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Treadstone season 2 is no longer happening after confirmation that USA Network’s Jason Bourne spinoff series has been cancelled after just one season. There are a couple of main reasons behind this somewhat surprising decision, which chiefly stem from the show’s ratings, and the channel’s overall shift towards a different kind of programming. These two factors spelled a death-knell for Treadstone, which unsuccessfully tried to pour the international espionage-based thrills of the Bourne franchise into an episodic series.
Based on the Jason Bourne films (which in turn are based on the books by author Robert Ludlum), Treadstone season 1 is set in two different time periods. A 1973 storyline follows John Randolph Bentley (Jeremy Irvine), a CIA Operative who was captured by the KGB and put through a brainwashing program that programmed him to carry out assassinations and other missions for the Soviets. In the present-day storyline, a group of operatives who were turned into sleeper agents by the CIA’s own behavior modification program, Treadstone, begin to awaken.
Treadstone season 1 consists of 10 episodes and released internationally on Amazon Prime, which undoubtedly helped the series to reach a wider fanbase than its scheduled terrestrial programming. Unfortunately, its viewership still wasn’t deemed strong enough to guarantee a future for the show. Here’s why Treadstone was cancelled and what season 2’s story might have been.
Why Treadstone Season 2 Was Cancelled
USA Network’s cancellation of Treadstone was reported alongside the channel’s cancellation of the horror spinoff series The Purge. These announcements form part of a move away from scripted programming and towards live and unscripted programming, such as WWE Raw. Regarding scripted content, USA has stated it will be focusing on event series rather than long-running shows in line with its viewership data, which the Network states is compelling. Treadstone’s premiere episode attracted 645,000 live viewers and had pulled in a total of 1.84 million through delayed viewing by the following week. However, ratings had declined to just 371,000 live viewers by the season finale, and Treadstone attracted mixed reviews, both of which were key factors in USA’s decision to cancel the show.
What Treadstone Season 2’s Story Could’ve Been
Treadstone season 1 ends by merging its two key storylines, as an older Bentley is confronted by his former captor and lover, Petra Andropov (Gabrielle Scharnitzky) who wants his help to bring down Treadstone. Season 2 would likely have continued the 1970s storyline and shown the origins of Treadstone, which was modeled after the notorious KGB program Cicada. Meanwhile, in present-day, awakened cicada SoYun (Han Hyo-joo) discovers that her family allowed her son to be sent off to the same facility where she was once turned into an asset. It also seemed that Ellen Becker (Michelle Forbes) was set to take over Treadstone and its assets. Much of Treadstone’s season 1 finale was spent setting things up for season 2 rather than wrapping up plot threads, so it’s unfortunate for fans that the story will definitively end there.
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