And the BBC has been criticised for whittling it down into a mere six episodes.
In a mere twelve episodes, the show has covered, in largely undidactic fashion, a variety of themes.
With a mere eight episodes per season, each one 52 minutes a pop, hard-hitting French cop series Braquo is a bit more user-friendly than its marathon US rivals.
The richest treatment of these themes — and other, more searching considerations — occurred on "The Office," a BBC Two sitcom whose impact vastly exceeded the length of its run: a mere twelve episodes in 2001-02 and a two-part coda, "The Office Christmas Special," the following year.
Instead we are left with a mere six episodes and the closing credits of the cast frolicking in a field, itself an unconscious reference to the weekly end of Dad's Army in which Mainwaring's men marched on patrol practice through our green and pleasant land.
It was pulled after a mere two episodes after premiering to dismal reviews and ratings.
In an unbearable face-off between Dany and Tyrion, she trash talks "heroes" for doing the "stupidest, bravest" things the exact kind of deeds she committed a mere two episodes ago when she ignored her advisors and charged into battle to burn the Lannister army, or when she confronted the warlocks of Qarth, to name a few examples.
The NBC comedy, which was created by Michael Schur, débuted in September, then went on hiatus just before the election, returning in January — when it ran a mere four more episodes, thirteen total, a rarity for network television.
The first Doctor Who master videotapes to be junked were those for the serial The Highlanders, which were erased on 9 March 1967, a mere two months after Episode 4's original transmission.
In a mere four months, Ryan Lochte won five medals in the Olympics, appeared on an episode of 90210, made an awkward PSA for the water campaign and trademarked the term "Jeah" with the U.S. Patent & Trademark office.
