What TV cancellations are you most upset by?
What TV cancellations are you most upset by?
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Expanse
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It was picked up and finished, though.
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Better Off Ted
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All that bossy Portia de Rossi 😍
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I don't even remember if it had a cliffhanger and I wasn't really invested in the love triangle. I just wanted more of the show itself. The two frazzled scientists, the critique of office culture and capitalism, the blatant evilness of the company, the snappy dialogue and fast pace. It was so good.
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"Now we both realize you aren't ACTUALLY a witch, but it's talk like that and the cottage in the woods made of candy that keeps that rumor alive."
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Dark Matter (2015).
Also, GLOW.
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Santa Clarita Diet.
I don't even know if more seasons would be good but I got very interested by the silly knight order and enjoyed all the characters a lot.
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Firefly is obvious,l...
But I wish Stargate Universe had gotten to give the show some kind of conclusion to a great franchise. The other two shows had gone a season longer than they would have, so I get the temptation to not drag it out, but it sucked to leave a great franchise hanging like that.
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I wish Amazon would bring it back. They own the entire Stargate franchise and have stupidly done nothing with it. David Blue pointed out everyone went into hibernation in the last episode, and there are a number of people on the ship (not just the original featured cast) so it would be easy to pick back up at any time.
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The end of Conan O’Brien’s run on The Tonight Show still can get me worked up with how badly that was handled, going all the way back to announcing Conan would get the show. Then you hear the stories about Conan and the then-president of NBC’s run-ins when they were both students at Harvard and it sounds even dumber.
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My name is Earl
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Pushing Daisies
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Don't tell me that. I just started watching it!
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Almost Human
Also, Firefly, duh!
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I did love Almost Human. I'd forgotten about that show. Pretty cool concept and the leads had great chemistry
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A coworker recommend Almost Human to me so I watched the first episode that night and thought it was great. It was cancelled the next day.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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It was so good!
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One that I'm sure won't be mentioned by anyone else: Westworld. I stuck with it all the way to season 4, and I can see what they were building to, and it makes the rough seasons make more sense. I sincerely think the 5th season was going to wrap everything up in a nice bow.
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That show was dead man walking by the end of S02E01. Even if they'd turned it into a masterpiece in the end, the damage was done and viewership gone. Not too different than what happened to Game of Thrones just earlier in its run.
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Imagine renewing a show that could have ended after a single season, only to cancel it three seasons later anyway.
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Right before the final season, too. In a show famous for little details that become important later. When they explicitly said they planned from the beginning how it was going to end.
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I’m in the same camp as you.
I rewatched the entire series earlier this year and beyond the sophomore slump of season 2, I think the series holds its own in terms of a strong and engaging narrative that is only becoming more and more prescient as time goes on.
Is anything, the main issue holding it back is the title - as the show moved away from the Wild West setting of S1&2 into a modern/future world.
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Avenue 5 :(
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Inside Job deserved better.
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I never even started watching the second Season because I knew there was no point.
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Obvious answer is Firefly, so thinking of another show:
Not "officially" cancelled, but it might as well be since there's literally been no news of any follow up: Extracurricular (on netflix).
Oh and Mindhunter.
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It's Your Move
Early Jason Bateman plays a "criminally precocious" teenager, pulls his sister into innumerable stunts under his busy single mother's nose, but the single guy across the hall always knows what's going on.
It was a brilliant show in 1984, only ran one season. But the kicker is that the last episode I saw was part one of a two parter, and part two of that one was not shown at its regular day and time, being interrupted by baseball or some shit. Next week, still didn't play. I didn't find out till way later that they did eventually broadcast it, but it was on a completely different day and time, and there wasn't really any way to find out about that because the printed TV schedules had already gone out and didn't include it.
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It was pre-empted by Reagan making a speech. My best friend at the time and I loved that show. We would imitate Eli operating "The Dregs of Humanity" to crack each other up.
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I'm watching a VHS rip on youtube right now and omg it is still a great show.
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Raised by Wolves and 1899.
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Raised by Wolves was a mixed bag for me, would've liked to see more though. Great intro.
Conversely, 1899 was a mess though.
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1899 is a textbook example of why I try to stay away from mystery box TV series until they're completed.
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Raised by wolves season one - great. Season 2 though - wtf was up with the flying snake?!
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S02 was a fever dream.
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Lodge 49
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Yes! Such a fun show. There was a whole bunch of interesting content from AMC around that time that got the axe so they could spend money on endless Walking Dead spinoffs instead.
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Rubicon
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- Raised By Wolves
- Moonhaven
- The original Battlestar Galactica
Pretty sure all of these were canceled due to budgetary constraints, not ratings. It’s like current network execs have never heard the term “loss leader”.
I’ll add Andor to this list even though it wasn’t “canceled”. It sure felt like it was cut short/rushed for the same reasons. Every couple of episodes of the final season felt like they could have been fleshed out into an entire 8-13 episode arc. It was great television but it still left me feeling like I got cheated.
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Andor was written to be five seasons long. Disney stopped it at 2 because it was way too expensive (they knew it was a hit, but not enough to pay that much for it). So the last four seasons were truncated down to the most important events. Each three-episode arc of season 2 represents what should have been a full season.
Also, lol 70s Battlestar. I wish Caprica had been given a fair shake.
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Last Man on Earth
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I agree. Talk about leaving us on a cliffhanger.
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Question for anyone who says Firefly: Have you seen Cowboy Bebop? The show it's inspired by? I feel like a lot of casual Firefly fans are mad they just got the one season and movie, and they don't know there's a much longer season (still one season but like 24 episodes), a movie, and a more modern Netflix adaptation of what actually inspired Firefly?
The same people behind Cowboy Bebop have another series called Michiko & Hatchin. Same energy but not in space. It's a modern Western, or "neo-Western" more like the stuff Taylor Sheridan is doing (Yellowstone and all its spinoffs, Hell or High Water, Wind River), but it's got that punk vibe to it like Firefly/CB.
Firefly fans got a ton of content, if not with the same name.
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The Finder but I understand why a season 2 could never happen. RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.
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Raised by Wolves and Alien Nation
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Alien Nation was so good
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First Kill.
It was corny as hell, and the digital blood was laughably bad. But it was unabashedly sapphic and I loved that.
Goddamn Netflix.
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star-crossed and copper bc i'm still not over the cliffhanger endings
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King of the Hill. Fox cancelled it 4 episodes early (which they didn't run) for The Cleveland Show of all things.
Thankfully Adult Swim picked it up and ran the missing episodes, but still fuck fox for cancelling it at all, and early no less, for one of the worst shows animation has ever offered.
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The Cape
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PBS
Firefly.
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+1 Firefly
Will never let that one go.