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We deserved more jealous haven't-realized-my-feelings-for-you-yet-but-I-get-a-funny-feeling-when-I-see-you-with-other-people Charah.

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It’s been months but I still get random sadness over Hudson & Rex and the fact that they ruined so much… ruined charah :(

As much as I keep saying they ruined the show, no, they didn't. They just ended it. There is no Hudson and Rex, there's just a show that pretends that it's Hudson and Rex with some remaining characters who won't even be the same characters, which is something that I'm sure of since them not grieving about Charlie, a person they deeply cared about, makes them soulless. So this is a different show, which is what the production would have done if they didn't want so badly to keep the brand intact. These are facts. Mark is "Hudson" because they want to profit off of the "Hudson and Rex" brand, nothing more. The remaining characters are there to maintain the illusion that this is the same show, not because the production was like, "these characters are too important to be thrown away". But no one, not even Rex (the character, not the canine actor, but also the canine actor) will be the same, character-wise.

So, if we never see Charlie again then the show has truly ended with S07E02. It's not something to pretend. It's something that the show itself is facilitating with its decisions regarding the characters and the continuation of this production by blatantly disregarding any emotion toward the core of the show. It may sound delusional to some, but it's more logical than one might think. What was the premise? Charlie Hudson and Rex. What will they be showing now? Not Charlie Hudson and Rex. So, it's not Hudson and Rex, the show has ended, and Charlie and Sarah are fine since anything after S07E03 is nonsensical towards the premise of the show.

And that's where fandom takes over. These characters can have any kind of adventure we want. No one can take them away from us, just like no idiotic writer/director/actor/production/network in the past has ever managed to get any fandom to stop writing about beloved characters, making up scenarios about them, dreaming up things about them, and loving them the way they deserve to be loved when canon has failed them. Charlie and Sarah's story has stopped belonging to Shaftesbury and co. for a while now. It belongs to the fandom, purely because it is us that care about them.

So, don't be sad. Be creative. Think of what they're up to now. What have they gotten themselves into? Are they pulling an all-nighter at the precinct? Are they having a cozy night at home, with Rex among them on the couch? Are they having a (hopefully non-murderous) vacation? Are they on their honeymoon? The story is yours. The story is ours.

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Since we're on the topic, the real stretch is not accepting that Hudson and Rex's story ended with S07E02. The real stretch is that Hudson and Rex has become a show that is trying to convince us of the existence of a guy named Mark who had no last name last season (since when do police officers not identify themselves by their last name?), who now has the last name Hudson, with no relation to Charlie (and I'd bet real money that no one from the team will even blink an eye next season at him being named Hudson), who was the only one who cared enough to go to Belize to look for Charlie under the guise of "I know the area" (um, unless Belize is a street corner, no he doesn't know an entire country), and there is a team who up to that point cared deeply for Charlie, all of whom apparently processed their grief in 30 seconds, including his canine partner who should be at the very least visibly upset and looking for Charlie at every corner, and the love of his life who had just moved in with him in a new house is suddenly ready to "move on" after a few months as if the nature of Charlie's "presumed death" and the not knowing what happened to him should not be eating her alive (and it won't, because the show won't let it).

And let's not forget that apparently the Hudson and Rex bond is now transferable by last name. Sorry but as a viewer I cannot suspend my disbelief that much. It's way easier (and plausible) to declare the show dead after S07E02 and decanonize the rest.

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“Just keep going” Ever since I was 5 years old I knew I wanted to be an actor. I took any job I could to pay for acting classes - washing dishes, painting houses, busing tables and bartending - just so I could squeeze in a scene study or improv class between paying the bills. I lived in moldy places in some bad neighborhoods where there were often gun fights just so I could afford to buy 3$ plays from book depository and learn about theater, the words, the worlds. After grunting through sharing a 200 sq ft apartment with 2 other actors I was able to take classes with some of the best in the industry @leslykahn taught me so much about acting and the business @royalacademyofdramaticart taught me Shakespeare and is where I met the teacher who inspired me to audition for the BA program at @the__lir where I went back to school full time at 30. No actor has ever come out of nowhere. They come from thousands of hours of hard work and community with other artists, teachers, creators, story-tellers, producers and studios who support each other. I respect them all. It takes will to persevere. I have yet to meet an actor who isn’t a beautiful combo of anxious, empathetic head-case who spends all their time dreaming. It takes guts to possess this and still step out in front of endless failure, embarrassment, heartbreak, rejection and judgement. To be able to amnesia all this doubt and re-open yourself to the world just for a chance to dive into a deeper pond or to catch a glimpse of what is beyond the world of mud and blood and fight or flight and reflect on what we are in the universe. What a beautiful mystery. I’m a lunch-pail actor. I grind daily and that keeps me doing what I love regardless of the outcome. So for those young actors starting out - just keep going. For the older actors - just keep going. For all the actors in between - you know the drill. I say this to myself always too. These aren’t my words. It’s a mantra. Told to me by an actor I greatly admire - who because of their contributions to what we do I get the luxury of standing on their shoulders to keep my head above water. A million thank yous for those life saving words. Just. Keep. Going.

From John Reardon's Instagram

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Just Meghan being touchy with John 💕

And one focused on John

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Happy 50th Birthday John. Thank you for being our (only) Hudson.

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HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO JOHN REARDON! (JULY 30, 2025) [on how his outlook on life changed after having cancer] "...just appreciating the things that we have in our day-to-day that we often just kinda brush over. Family, obviously, friends, other connections that you care about and the people who are there and support you. And then little things too. [...] Just stuff like that...the things you enjoy in life become a little more obvious and the things that aren't worth the time become obvious too." (x)

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Happy Birthday John Reardon 🥳🥳🥳

I hope that you will receive all the health, happiness and success that you deserve and I had a lot of fun watching yours and Meghan's youtube channel Iplay1ontv

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JOHN REARDON | Gone Gardening (via iplayoneontv)

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A simple moment where John does not enjoy his time with Diesel and Diesel does not enjoy John's affection 😅😅😅

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AI Slop

So, there appears to be an AI generated image floating around on social media of Rex on Charlie's tomb (a gravestone and everything) with a similarly AI generated (or so it seems, I highly doubt that a person who wanted an AI generated image and generally their account has AI slop sat down to write themselves) text for S8. And it's been shared on every single social media on Hudson and Rex related content. With fans, especially on Facebook, believing and commenting as if it's real, even though it's pretty obvious that it's AI generated and the dog doesn't even look like Dillon.

Ma'am. Sir. Gentle boomers. This image was created by a blender. You are falling for the prose of a toaster that has access to a thesaurus. I am begging you to use your brain.

As for the rest who didn't fall for it, please avoid reposting this image and any other such related images. Regardless of what one thinks of AI and AI generated content in arts, this only makes people generate more of it and more people (especially of old age) fall for this scam. And if you think this is innocuous, it is often the same people who are using John Reardon's image to lure people and make them believe that they are communicating with the actor to scam them and get money. This is rarely "fan content", it's usually content weaponized for one reason or another.

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I would gladly push anyone to watch Hudson and Rex up to S07E02, y'all know I would.

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JOHN REARDON | Kitchen planning gone haywire! (via iplayoneontv)

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Why does UpTV have these S7 promotional photos and we never saw them?

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Hi there. Just to add to the archive, lol. On a recent reddit post, the former crew member answered a question about John, and even if most of us knew that the slandering reddit post was full of lies, it's good to have confirmation from someone from set. Here's the transcript and link

Redditor: Was John a lovely cast member? The reason why I ask is that post that someone made 2 months ago saying he was a problem. On set. I don’t believe he was. Crew member: In every instance that I saw him, on set or out in public, he was nothing less than kind and gentle. I certainly don't know everything, I worked full time on the show for one season, and then sporadically or other seasons--but I'll say this: I have never heard anyone say a bad thing about John, in any capacity, until this drama all started. Redditor: Thank you so much. Like I said I didn’t think John was anything but nice and professional.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HudsonAndRex/s/oLPcupu4LC

Ah yes, I did not necessarily mean to post that but I was sent the screenshot too yesterday so why not, since for a few months now speculation has sparked over how much of all this was due to John Reardon's alleged "ego". (And by speculation I mean it only was sparked after that one Reddit post/hit piece, which some other Reddit users adopted too easily so that they could continue watching the show.)

[Again, same crew member the identity of whom I've personally verified. The other username asking is a fan.]

There. One more character testimony, as they say in court lol. And I will verify for anyone who doesn't want to bother to check Reddit (I don't fault anyone at this point, it's rough in there) that no one has gone to these posts of that crew member to counter any of their claims. And there are at this moment more crew members in there.

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The timeline of all this is confusing. At which month did the production allegedly make a decision? As the Reddit user said.

(Sorry, this is a few days old but I wanted to give it the time and not rush to make an estimate. I certainly took way more time than the person who made the Reddit post did, and more time than them to deliberate on whether I should post it at all too.)

First of all, I need to make it clear that I'm still not sure we should be giving credence to any of what was written on Reddit. That person had their own agenda, and now they've disappeared on their own volition by deleting their Reddit account. Even if we were to say that they are who they claim to be, they clearly want to paint John Reardon as the bad guy here, and most of the "information" is tainted by that. Some of it is outright false and they even contradicted themselves in the same post a couple times. Not to mention the edit (by them), and ultimately the deletion of the post (by the moderators).

Using that information only to construct a timeline, though, I'll try to break it down. This is all still conjecture.

Another person from the production said that John Reardon found out about his cancer while the show was already in production, and based on the fact that he filmed two episodes, I think we can safely say that this is accurate. This is important.

The redditor said that soon after S7 started he found out about his cancer and that's when he went "radio silent" (read: he had cancer treatments far away from Newfoundland and probably couldn't even speak, as it's quite painful when you get tonsil cancer treatment). Well, not that "soon" as he had to film two full episodes (out of eight), and record the phone calls for the next few episodes. So, by that point he would have been communicating with the production as he still had to be in studio.

The two episodes already put us in July without taking post-production requirements into account (such as ADR for episodes 1 and 2). Depending on the way he had to record Charlie's phone calls, that could have put us in August or even in September if they actually had to get him to do them separately for these episodes in ADR. His voice sounds progressively worse to me in each of these episodes, which makes me assume that they (stupidly) got him to record in separate dates, while he was receiving treatment, thus making it even more difficult for him. But let's say that he finished the job in August, which sounds more reasonable, and then "disappeared".

There is a two-week hiatus on the final DGC production list for S7 in October. That's the point where I suspect, (based on timing, not direct evidence), that the decision to move forward without John Reardon was made. It lines up with the scrapping of two episodes (9 and 10), and the sudden hiring of Luke Roberts. It's basically them changing their plans.

This, of course, makes the claims that John Reardon "abandoned them" all the more ridiculous. A two-month period (and not "months") is apparently enough for them to make the decision to move on and change the entire show instead of waiting to see what would happen with him? They clearly have no idea what tonsil cancer treatment entails. I don't want to post the details here, also I'm not a doctor, anyone can do their own research, but "missing" work for about 6 months is the good case scenario for an early to middle stage cancer (treatment plus remission), and it's still painful as hell. I repeat, this is the scenario where everything goes well. His doctors must have told him to focus solely on this too, as any good doctor would have done (this part is not conjecture). I mean, it was his fucking life, and no job can trump that. Which, speaking of jobs, this is hardly a prestigious one to risk your health for (I personally don't believe any job is worth health risks but still there are better jobs to risk your life for than others). He was the lead on a show the makers of which believe that he can be replaced with a random guy. And if he didn't think it before, he does now. (Again, no hate to Luke Roberts, he's in exactly the same position right now.)

The way this person went to Reddit in what I presume they thought was justifiable anger and left "information" (some of which might be correct), which if examined carefully is more damaging to the production's image than John Reardon's is pretty funny, actually. If I'm even remotely close to the correct timeline, even if I'm a bit off, I want to scream at them. And honestly, I don't care about that person's job one bit after this. I'm not sure if they got information from somewhere, if they were making up information, or if some of this is even hearsay from people in the production who where mad about the delay and were badmouthing him. They had no right to ask from John Reardon (or anyone) to not follow medical advice and to instead focus on his job during that time, or during the time of his recovery, nor to be in the right headspace to discuss contracts or anything else. They should have an ounce of sympathy and respect for the job he did for them all these years. Although it's hard to see it that way when as a production you think that we're still sticking around to watch Rex do dog tricks.

Having said all that, and while there is no doubt that this is a horrible treatment, I wouldn't want us to focus only on that. I'd also like us to focus on the simple fact that we have been watching a show titled Hudson and Rex for six years, seven seasons, and that show's premise can't just change because someone decided they got tired of waiting or because someone decided that John Reardon wasn't worth what he was asking (another unverifiable piece of information). Having a valid reason (in their mind) for not wanting him back is one thing. Believing that we should just follow and applaud their thinking and actions just because the show must go on, is very different and I vehemently disagree with that. You don't move on from changing the entire DNA of the show. You don't want to have Hudson on Hudson and Rex anymore? Have the integrity to build a new show. Trying to keep a show going, a show that you've based on the back of a man who you now refuse to get back and on a character and partnership that you now refuse to acknowledge, is a very poor business decision.

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