It was a cold and lonely hooah for FOX's military comedy.
The Big Picture Television shows are canceled for all sorts of reasons. Most of them are due to things like low viewership and profitability, others are due to production costs that are just too high, and of course, every once in a while, they’re canceled due to backlash from the public It’s the finicky nature of the TV industry to chew up and spit out some shows and lovingly nurture others.
Enlisted is, at its core, a story about brothers Pete , Derrick , and Randy Hill . Pete is a Staff Sergeant — or super-soldier, as he likes to call himself — who was serving a tour in Afghanistan and got sent home after punching a superior officer. He’s sent to Fort McGee in Florida where the cynical and mischievous Derrick and overly enthusiastic Randy are stationed, and placed in charge of their platoon.
The episode deals with the topic of PTSD rather well. Pete needs space to work out his feelings about being back home and understand how the things that happened in Afghanistan affected him. This is revealed in a talk with Command Sergeant Major Donald Cody , a friend of Pete’s father who was injured while deployed, who says that he understands how Pete feels and helps him tell his brothers about these feelings and how he just needs a little quiet sometimes.