Deadline reports that "Here and Now," the HBO series set and partially filmed in Portland, has been canceled after one season. The one-and-done status of the show is a disappointment, considering "Here and Now" was created by Alan Ball, whose previous HBO series, "Six Feet Under" and "True Blood," were long-running hits.

The drama about a progressive Portland family starred Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter, as the parents of now-adult children adopted when young from Liberia, Vietnam and Colombia. The family also included a biological daughter, still in high school.

The cast delivered strong performances, including Robbins and Hunter, along with Jerrika Hinton, Raymond Lee, Daniel Zovatto and Sosie Bacon as the Bayer-Boatwright children. Peter Macdissi, who was also an executive producer, played Farid, a therapist struggling with his Muslim upbringing and traumatic memories.

The show, which aired its season -- and now, as we know, series -- finale on April 15, combined stories about the Bayer-Boatwrights, and their varied identity crises, along with a supernatural element, including son Ramon's (Zovatto) strange visions.

Unfortunately, the finale left major questions unanswered, including what was going on with Ramon (what was up with his "11-11" visions?) And from the first episode on, the characters were difficult to like, or simply care much about.

Portland viewers at least could get an eyeful of locations around the city, but viewers elsewhere didn't even have that for entertainment value.

The Deadline report quotes from a statement from HBO, which says: "After careful consideration we have decided not to move forward with a second season of 'Here and Now,'" adding, "We thank Alan for his dedication to innovative storytelling, and we look forward to his next endeavor."

In The Hollywood Reporter, Lesley Goldberg writes that "Here and Now" suffered from low viewership numbers.

"The drama starring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter launched in February to a lackluster 541,000 same-day viewers," Goldberg writes. "With DVR and nonlinear viewing, the 10-episode season averaged 2 million total viewers."

"Here and Now" is the second Portland-filmed series to be canceled this spring. In early April, word got out that Netflix had axed "Everything Sucks!" after one season on the streaming service. Fans of the '90s-set high school comedy-drama set in Boring, Oregon, have launched a campaign to bring the show back, but as of now, there's no sign of that happening.

-- Kristi Turnquist



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