Actually, the first season's story was over -- the final episode you saw was the season finale -- however, you're right that the show's larger story was not.

It's part of the cruelty of serialized storytelling on TV that it left you hanging at the end of the first season, without knowing if it would get a chance to rescue you from the cliff with a second. And NBC decided not to give it the chance -- "American Odyssey" has been canceled.

There was indeed more story to tell, but the network wasn't convinced that enough people wanted to see it. The show premiered to 5.4 million viewers on April 5, but it lost more than half of them by the end -- its finale drew just 2.2 million sets of eyes.

That ratings drop could have something to do with the bad reviews the show got from the beginning. Perhaps those viewers who abandoned the show agreed with reviewers at "The Guardian" newspaper, Deadline.com and elsewhere that it was too much like Showtime's hit series "Homeland," but not as good.

Many didn't agree, though, and there's been a push from forlorn fans to have the show picked up by one of the web-based distributors that have come to be seen as the saviors of canceled shows.

The producers have complied, and series co-creator Peter Horton has been keeping fans apprised of the progress on Twitter. He recently posted that Netflix (which rescued "Longmire," among other shows, from the grave) passed on "American Odyssey," but that negotiations were continuing with Amazon.

As a thank you to disappointed fans, NBC has made an alternate ending to the season finale available at NBC.com. It doesn't necessarily provide more closure, but it provides a little extra, at least.

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