TORONTO – Viewership for the once wildly popular primetime show Mayor Ford has been steadily declining after writers used crack cocaine to advance the plot for the second straight season.
The award-winning show about the struggles of an unlikely mayor of a big city, currently being aired on several major networks across the world, has started alienating even loyal viewers.
“It was really suspenseful the first time,” recalled John Preston, who has been watching from the start. “I mean, was he going to get sacked or not? Who was the other guy in the picture? Were they going to approve the subway? We were binge watching like crazy. But now it’s become so predictable.”
Early in its fourth season, the show began relying on outlandish stories and unbelievable supporting characters, such as the mysterious drug dealers and his goon brother and City Councillor, Doug Ford. The reuse of last season’s crack plot has viewers worried that the writers have simply run out of ideas.
The writers of Mayor Ford were under fire once before, when viewers felt it would have made complete sense for Ford to resign, but instead the protagonist sought a second term.
