The premium cable channel skipped the pilot process and gambled that Blunt Talk would be a hit.
Ratings don’t matter as much for premium cable networks as they do for broadcast networks, but still, a Live+3 rating of 0.4 in the 18 – 49 demo for a season finale would make it hard to justify a third season.
Frankly, Blunt Talk may not have gotten a second season if not for the fact that Starz gave it a straight-to-series order for twenty episodes over two seasons right away.