"Luck"'s Unlucky End

           This article was about the recent TV series "Luck" getting cancelled. It was a show about Santa Anita horse race track and all the crazy people you meet there. The main cast is a disgruntled and pretty unlucky people. They all bet on the horses at the track and you get behind the scenes view of the trainers, horses, and jockeys. I'm guilty of watching it a few times, but I was more interested in the horse and jockey aspect, not the crazy gambling. It ended up getting canceled because of financial reasons and the fact that a third horse has to get euthanized due to injuries they got while racing for the show. I think thats extremely sad. Racing can be fairly safe, when the proper precautions are followed, but it can also be extremely dangerous and secretive. i think the racing world is extremely interesting and the horses are beautiful and talented, but the show was a bust.
          The author uses a lot of puns between the gambling and the shows end. She writes "Sometimes, you bet on the wrong horse, and instead of a long-running series, you get nine self-contained episodes of television. The only thing to do is bet again." (Paskin 1). I think thats a good way to describe it, and a clever choice of words. She uses some logos evidence as well. She explains, "the show, despite all its talent, was attracting about 500,000 viewers a pop, which is not much" (Paskin 1). She makes the articles audience broad by explaining the show, to give a non-viewer a general understanding of what's going on. 


http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/luck_ending/