Daniel Fienberg MTV Should Renew Rape Vigilante Series SweetVicious, the Best Show Youve Never Heard of. MTVs SweetVicious finished a strong first season last Tuesday night with a two hour finale full of emotional and exciting moments, but this article wont spoil much or any of the finale, for a pretty simple reason Not enough people are watching SweetVicious for that kind of piece to be the best use of anybodys time. Ill take my share of the blame for that, OK Every so often, I look at Live3 Day cable ratings and its disheartening to see SweetVicious consistently near the bottom of the scripted cable heap. The Jan. 1. 7 episode, for example, drew 3. Live3 overall viewers, ahead of IFCs Portlandia, but not much else. If you go out to the 1. Vigilante-Diaries-2016-Kung-Fu-Kingdom-770x472.jpg' alt='Watch Vigilante Diaries Youtube' title='Watch Vigilante Diaries Youtube' />Meet the vloggers making millions from makeup tutorials Beauty videos reach the 700 million hits a month mark. 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Ill be playing Dishonored Death of the Outsider, which we started today on Kotakus Facebook page. Spoilers guys get mad when you jump on them. MTV probably cares more about, SweetVicious fares a bit better, moving ahead of things like The Affair and HBOs ironically old skewing The Young Pope, but thats about it. SweetVicious probably isnt really the Best Show Youre Not Watching. Review is coming back this springsummer for a final season and it remains a scathing, tragic, hilarious show that the numbers suggest you are, indeed, not watching. Ive tried and Ill try again. Rectify is done forever after a four season run, but its finale is still recent enough that its eligible for BSYNW consideration. I tried to sell this one, too. Other Best Shows Youre Not Watching probably not the specific you, since youre reading an article like this, but more of a general, mainstream you that I might give such a crown to over SweetVicious include things like Documentary Now, Baskets, Insecure, Quarry and even ratings anemic network shows like Crazy Ex Girlfriend or Jane the Virgin. And thats before we get to streaming shows that you may or may not be watching in droves. I cant say how many people have watched Netflixs Happy Valley or Chewing Gum. It may be everybody for all I know. But one thing Ive found in conversations with very, very informed people in recent months is that most people I talk with, including colleagues, loved ones and hosts of radio shows I frequent is that people who arent TV critics or dont follow a lot of TV critics on Twitter or arent obsessive MTV viewers dont even get a glimmer of recognition when you mention SweetVicious. So even if SweetVicious really isnt the Best Show Youre Not Watching, its possible that its the Best Show You Havent Even Heard Of. Of course, you probably havent heard of at least one of two of the low rated shows I mentioned above, but lets stop the wormhole descent right now. This is sad because theres a big audience of people out there who would probably really enjoy SweetVicious if they knew what it was and its to that audience that Im appealing here, by not spoiling anything about the finale or anything that would harm your ability to do a big SweetVicious catch up during the free time we all have in such abundance. And maybe if you begin catching up soon, MTV will take notice because SweetVicious hasnt been renewed for a second season, which really needs to happen not because the ratings are there, but because MTV doesnt have many shows any shows that are better than SweetVicious, and given enough time this is a show that will find an audience and MTV doesnt want it to be something that slipped through the cracks while they were recycling reality stars through various challenges or presenting shows in which 1. Ive been able to get people curious about SweetVicious with the pitch Ive been giving since the show premiered in November. Its Greek meets Arrow. Come on. Admit that now youre curious. Created by Jennifer Katin Robinson and given its early visual shaping by director Joseph Kahn, SweetVicious did what the terrific first season of Lifetimes Un. Real did, leading with a light hearted comedy in a familiar genre and pushing into increasingly darker and darker terrain. Only SweetVicious boasted an extra twist by adding elaborate action set pieces to the mix. Now MTV needs to order a second season of SweetVicious if only to prove that this premise has more legs than Un. Real. I guess SweetVicious never really was all that light. It was always the story of Jules Eliza Bennett, a seemingly bubbly, hyper organized sorority girl, and Ophelia Taylor Dearden, a pot dealing genius with motivation issues, who join forces as ninja vigilantes punishing sexual predators on a college campus where the administration is either unwilling or unable to offer discipline or protection on its own. I still can lead the lightness, if thats more of a draw. Jules and Ophelia instantly formed one of TVs best friendships, with Dearden leading the way when it came to quippy one liners and references. I didnt watch her and think, Wow, shes just like her father, but when your dad is Bryan Cranston and you go into the family business,  comparisons are inevitable. Dearden and the writers helped turn Ophelia into a unique blend of goth, nerd, pothead, sexpot and action heroine, basically a particular and peculiar individual with no need or desire to apologize for anything she did. She was especially good and funny when paired with Brandon Mychal Smiths Harris, a rare TV friendship of pretty young people with simpatico interests and world views allowed to share the screen without any suggestion of will theywont they potential. Unrelated Smith is great and we need to get his Wikipedia to stop saying hes best known for things other than Youre the Worst. The solution is probably to get Youre the Worst better known, but since hes recurring there and a regular on SweetVicious, maybe my real crusade should be to get him best known for this. Spy Online Putlocker more. Oh and in a second SweetVicious season, the writers should find out what law students actually do. But MTV has to renew SweetVicious for that to happen. In the early episodes, my initial read was that Bennett was probably the casts relative weak link when it came to the funny, in large part because the British actress efforts to control her American accent were so evident. But she got better as she got to work with Dearden more, which made it easier to accept that Jules was just a young woman who was never encouraged to be funny, though had a sense of humor when she was given the room to express it. And as the show became more about the emotions that Jules was repressing and the material got more emotional, Bennett really shined. Its not spoiling anything and it shouldnt dissuade you from watching to praise SweetVicious for being aware that if youre hurting inside, vengeance against a few rape y douchebag frat boys might scratch an initial itch, but it wont get to the root of the problem. SweetVicious is empowering as hell, but its not as one dimensional as a Girls can kick butt too message. This winter it feels like every show on TV has characters coping with PTSD. But the shows that have done it the best arent the intense dramas about veterans newly returned from the Middle East, but rather the shows that have taken an oblique approach, including the multi cam laughs and tears of Netflixs One Day at a Time. The SweetVicious treatment of Jules pain her attempts to medicate with violence and newfound romance, her efforts to find support through therapeutic and institutional systems was nuanced and respectful of the experiences that too many women, college students and otherwise, have to go through, with or without extensive martial arts training. SweetVicious delivered weekly doses of cathartic, butt kicking fun, but forced both its heroes and its viewers to examine that fun. So theres your pitch SweetVicious is escapism that doesnt let you escape, and even if that doesnt sound like fun, it really is. I apologize again if I havent done enough to let you know that MTV had a really good, really different show that it aired this winter without enough viewers noticing. MTV, please renew SweetVicious.