What is one show you wish wouldn't have gotten cancelled when it did?

Still hurts

Honestly? With the benefit of hindsight, I'm actually pleased it wasn't given the chance to become a Dollhouse.

The movie gave closure, and we left the characters in a good place.

Dollhouse gave us 5 seasons of content in one, and ruined itself in season 2, and many other shows have just run until everyone was sick of them, before getting an anticlimactic ending anyway.

The correct answer.

Damn. Right in the feels.

😢

This right here showy how Lemmy is superiour to reddit. Back there I always opened the comments whenever this topic was posted (so, once a week) and usually had to scroll waaaaaay down to see the correct answer.

Here it's #1. And 2#.

Firefly

Edit: oh ya, and Farscape!

If you like firefly there's another show similar that was also cancelled too soon. Darkmatter. I actually prefer it over firefly tbh.

Re Peripheral …. Seems to be a victim of the strike, according to Wikipedia. Last I heard it was renewed for a season 2. But they canceled it anyway.

Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. "I think we've found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem...".

I stopped watching when they introduced horrible CGI and fake gun effects (no knock back, no shell ejection, no slide movement).

I'd argue the first few seasons - apart from the horrible acting from time to time, and prolonged passages just to stretch time, and filler episodes, and dumb people, and...

Yeah, it was shitty from the beginning.

On the other hand, I would have been happy if Z-Nation had gone on as long as The Walking Dead.

I was thinking the same for X-Files lol

Cas Anvar is a douchebag. He ruined the show for me.

Although I would've loved to see them complete the entire story I was still pretty satisfied with how they left it (other than the edits they made for Alex's story).

The Expanse could always be picked back up if Amazon would get it’s head out of its ass. It stopped where the books do a time jump forward and the characters are older.

It didn’t got cancelled to be fair. It was a great show that run much longer than it’s viewership can support, and it was announced way earlier that the story will be wrapped by 6th season.

The Expanse universe is not abandoned either. Telltale Games just launched a new Prequel adventure game a few days ago: https://store.epicgames.com/tr/p/the-expanse-a-telltale-series

I think the most we might get is a movie. But it would be wild if in ten years or so they actually got the cast back and continued the story like in the books

The time gap between books 6 and 7 would have been difficult.

Came here specifically to mention Stargate: Universe. It was so good until it got cancelled.

"That is one sweet potato" is still an inside joke I share with a couple of folks.

Yep. Was gonna post SGU if it wasn’t already here! It was an interesting show with a good cast.

It could still be rebooted since there were a ton of people on the ship and all of them were in stasis when the show ended.

Another property Amazon is sitting on.

SGU was a soap opera in space. So much drama between the characters instead of an outside force much of the time. SG1 was mostly focused on the SG team working together against something external like the goa'uld. Very rarely was there anything other than comradary or in jack and sam's case, romantic feelings and/or sexual tension. The chemistry between the main cast was great. SGA had some degree of intracast member tension but by and large they still worked together well. SGU had a lot of mistrust between Rush and everyone else and for good reason. He was an arrogant dick that put his own interests above others a lot of the time. Keeping secrets from them and generally being unlikable. Eli's arc was just sad. He was away from his mother who later became ill, watched the woman he had a crush on choose someone else and had to personally sever the connection between him and his new romantic interest to save Rush then if that wasnt bad enough, we dont know what happens to him after the finale. SGU might have been ok and I stress ok but not on par with SG1 or SGA if it was a completely separate franchise but alas, it was part of the same franchise and there was no justifying that it held its own against the others.

There it is. Didn't think I would find it.

It was amazing. Something completely different and much darker. Still sad it got cancelled :/

I finished season two after they canceled it thankfully. I’m glad I didn’t wait in anticipation for it.

Such a cool idea.

I dropped off of Limitless HARD after the "smell o vision" episode. I understand it's just entertainment and none of it is real...

But that was too much of a leap to make in terms of suspension of disbelief. I watched Stargate Atlantis, really liked a lot of the show.

2015 or 2022 ?

Thank you! I still watch it all the time.

That sounds like a Breaking Bad spin-off...

There aren't enough of us that appreciated and mourn Enterprise 😔

Oh, Terminator was so good. Lena Headey was great as Sarah Connor.

I am rewatching My Name is Earl at the moment. It is still great in my opinion.

If you want closure, here's what was planned for the ending:

Garcia said the finale would begin with Earl getting stuck on a really hard list item, frustrated that he would never finish crossing everything off his list. "Somebody shows up at our motel door," added Suplee recently, "finds us at the bar, and starts to make amends to Earl for something." Earl would then question where the man got such an idea and "goes back and finds all these people who have lists, who are out there trying to do good, and it all comes back to him. He was the beginning of this." Garcia concluded, "Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with lists and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.

I don't understand why Netflix doesn't just make movies instead of TV shows.

Or make short series instead of multi-season.

They are good at making great first season TV but then if it doesn't get their magic number they cancel it and leave their customers hanging.

Just make the one season as an open and closed thing and call it that so no one gets their expectations up.

If it becomes some awesome hit thing, make an actual series as an offshoot / spinoff type thing.

had this one in mind reading the question, made me sad !

fuck'em!

It had so much potential and they just threw it away :(

You think Netflix fucked over that Dirk Gently?

ITV made a Dirk Gently show that was FOUR EPISODES LONG and it was better than the other show.

It was too expensive to rebuild the set after the fire. I loved that show.

Clone High is coming back on Max.

One of the greatest!

Beat me to it. I complain loudly and frequently to anyone who will listen.

I'm still mad!

this is way too far down.

Oh damn I already forgot about Mindhunter. Definitely needs to come back.

Would of liked more Lockwood and Co

For SGU here’s what the writers were thinking about doing with it

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/09/where-was-destiny-going-sgus-sudden-ending/amp/

And a comic series was developed for it. Here’s an old article discussing it

https://gizmodo.com/stargate-universes-series-ending-cliffhanger-will-final-1795924573

Farscape is always my answer to these questions. I enjoyed Peacekeeper Wars, but it definitely felt rushed. Had it been a full season, it would have been frelling amazing.

Carnivale was so good. I don't remember anything about it other than it being good at this point and I'm not going to ruin it by watching it again.

Still pissed about that one.

Oh what I was about to watch that

I agree. The show was so much fun!!!

2015 or 2022 ?

Debutant balls are outdated, elitist, and sexist. You said so yourself in your review of Boyz n the Hood.

The Critic was hilarious.

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HARD agree

I totally get why it was not easy to promote, but damn it was good shit.

I tried watching it, but I can't handle a child at the mercy of a killer.

Arguably Enterprise should have ended before certain things happened in the last episode that fans HATED. Or reboot the friggen series and hand wave it away as part of the time cold war.

I didn't start watching it because I was afraid of Netflix cancelling it.

After Netflix cancelled it, I cancelled my subscription.

The cliffhanger at the end deserved a second season. Dark was amazing, I think 1899 was going to be as well

I really enjoyed it. Music was great too.

What makes me really mad is how quickly they canceled it after it aired. Like what the hell man.

I actually liked that the show got a proper ending. This post shows that there are too many series that just pucker out without getting any plotlines resolved. Fringe had coherent seasons that all did something different instead of staying with a monster of the week formula.

I took part in the campaign to save it 😭 really want to know what the final three seasons could've been like

At least Nickelodeon didn't run it into the ground like they did with Rugrats and SpongeBob or cancel it after one season like Invader Zim.

Did you see the Netflix revival special? It was so good!

I forgot how that show ended and convinced my SO to watch it. Imagine my absolute HORROR when that time came around and I realized what I had a just done to her. She was devastated.

When I first found Dark Matter I told my siblings that it filled the Firefly shaped hole in my heart... Now I have two holes in my heart.

I scrolled all the way down here to find Dead Like Me. I was so fond of that show. The movie was awful.