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

Firefly
- Still hurts
  
  Even Frasier got a reboot but not this one. How disappointing.
- 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.
  
  Wash would like a word with you...
- 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!

FIREFLY
- If you like firefly there's another show similar that was also cancelled too soon. Darkmatter. I actually prefer it over firefly tbh.
  
  Will check it out, cheers
  
  The comment from @resolved3874 just above this implies this would be a pathway to sadness.

Game of Thrones. Sad we never got to see past season 6...
Serious answer: I just heard The Peripheral got cancelled after Westworld also got cancelled :l
- 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.
  
  Shit I liked that show and the story. I guess at this point don't watch any streaming shows. They are getting to have the google effect it's all getting cancled before the story finishes so why start.

The Walking Dead.
Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.
- 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...".
  
  Yeah but for the first few seasons the problems were new and interesting at least.
- 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.
  
  That and the stupid Hyundai always looking like it just rolled out of the shop.
  
  I was with them up to the end of the second season with the farm.
  After that they fell into the cycle of characters having to be excessively stupid to inject drama.
  I stopped watching at the point where they pretended Glenn was dead, but he was actually hiding under the bin. Not because it was a cheap trick, but mostly because that was the point where I realised I no longer cared who was alive and dead.
- 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
  
  Heresy

The expanse.
- Cas Anvar is a douchebag. He ruined the show for me.
  
  At least we have the books which did a fantastic job wrapping up the entire story
- 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).
  
  Unfortunately, the changes to Alex's story were do to the actor's own actions.
- 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 haven't seen any reviews of the game. Is it any good?
  
  It did get cancelled. Twice. The show ended roughly where the 6th book ended and was intended to complete the last 3 books, but because it was cancelled, we didn't get to see how they would have handled those books without the time jump.
- 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.

I've got two:
Stargate: Universe. I never got into Stargate before, and I really liked what was going on with Universe. Longtime fans didn't. Though, after going back and getting into SG-1 and Atlantis, I very much understand why they hated Universe. The original shit is so much more fun, where Universe was overly serious. I still like the concept, but I think it would have been way better with the campyness of the original shows.
The second is Limitless. It was really fucking good. It was constantly pulling me in. And they cancelled it because too many people found it to be "unrealistic." I'm sorry the show about a neutropic drug that makes you into a super genius isn't real enough for you.
- 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 ?

Better Off Ted
- Thank you! I still watch it all the time.
- That sounds like a Breaking Bad spin-off...
  
  No, it's one of the funniest shows ever.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Star Trek: Enterprise
Freaks & Geeks
Sense8
- There aren't enough of us that appreciated and mourn Enterprise 😔
  
  It's been a long time...
  
  It was cancelled right as it found it's footing. It's like the studio forgot that every Trek show takes about 2 seasons to really find itself and that it then takes a few seasons for the people that wrote it off to give it another chance.
- Oh, Terminator was so good. Lena Headey was great as Sarah Connor.

Firefly. Sons of Tucson.
I'm sure there are others.

My Name is Earl. One of my all time favorites and it was surprise cancelled on a cliffhanger.
- 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.

Dirk Gently’s :( fuck you Netflix.
Seriously, cancelling the show WHEN THEY FUCKING OPEN THE HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY?? My boy Elijah Wood was soo good on this!!! :((
- 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.
  
  Netflix only cares about new subs. New IPs drive new subs. New seasons of old IPs are money spent on people who are already customers. They make one season of a show you've been waiting for, you sign up, you watch that season, they cancel the show, statistically speaking you probably don't cancel your subscription and then they redirect that money to running the same game on someone else.
  
  I really don’t understand their business model tbh.
  It seems like it’s just “burn as much money as fast as possible”.
- had this one in mind reading the question, made me sad !
  fuck'em!
  
  Literally one of favourite TV shows ever, and just two seasons*. So many good feelings and great characters. Awesome actors and some of Douglas Adams’s best books ever?
  Netflix fucking sucks man.
  edit: corrected by peep
- 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.
  
  Gotta admit I didn’t watch that… I found out about it after I finished the Netflix show, and that it was cancelled. So I felt salty. Maybe I should watch it…

I don't think The Orville was officially cancelled but there doesn't seem to be any plans for more as far as I know. The last season was great and set up more potential storylines.

Rome on HBO was a solid show covering an exciting time in Roman history. Sucks that they only had 2 seasons.
- It was too expensive to rebuild the set after the fire. I loved that show.

Firefly, and Clone High.
- Clone High is coming back on Max.
  
  I saw the first 3 episodes. It's not a same.

Freaks and Geeks.
- One of the greatest!

Santa Clarita Diet
- Beat me to it. I complain loudly and frequently to anyone who will listen.
- I'm still mad!
- this is way too far down.

Mindhunter and Lockwood and Co
- Oh damn I already forgot about Mindhunter. Definitely needs to come back.
  
  I just finished watching Mindhunter, I want more. I need more.
  
  I've heard the rumor of it taking a ridiculously long break, 10-20 years, before it will continue. Fincher wants to jump the storyline ahead from the 70's to the 90's and have the actors looks age appropriate. Who knows it'll that's really true, or anyone involved will still retain interest. But, if Twin Peaks can pull it off...
  
  I need more Anna Torv in my life.
- Would of liked more Lockwood and Co

Number one show I wish wasn't cancelled was Firefly, definitely. And more recently, 1899.

Stargate universe ended on a cliffhanger, stargate atlantis ended without dealing with the wraith threat or the evil asgard etc. Star trek enterprise's cancellation resulted in one of the worst most hated last episodes in scifi. Quantum leap ended without ever resolving the main plot. Inside job like most of netflix's decent shows, got killed off for stupid reasons.
- 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

Carnivale
Farscape (imagine if that mini series had been a full season!)
- 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.

Firefly
Legends of tomorrow
The Finder

- Man Raised by Wolves first season was amazing. But the final season that came out was pretty weird, and the production quality really went down. Like they killed the show before it ended.
  But the fucking mysteries and plots for this show were some of the best ever. Pretty sad it ended without any revelation p much.
- I loved last man on earth!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzIMIJiCBE
  I still say this.

Raised by Wolves
- Still pissed about that one.
- Oh what I was about to watch that
  
  It's worth a watch anyway if you don't mind it ending on an insane cliffhanger lmao. Real shame, one of the most creative and interesting sci fi shows out there.

Limitless.
The movie was pretty superfluously a power fantasy, but the show had actual likeable characters, and long-term intrigue. As far as cop procedurals go, it was way up there.
- I agree. The show was so much fun!!!
- 2015 or 2022 ?
  
  .....there's a 2022 version?

This is an older one, but The Critic. It was on two different networks and lasted only one season on each network. It was a funny show, but the inconsistent schedule killed it way too early.
- Debutant balls are outdated, elitist, and sexist. You said so yourself in your review of Boyz n the Hood.
  The Critic was hilarious.
- Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!

Pushing Daisies
- HARD agree

Farscape

“Happy”, I think a lot of people overlooked it because Christopher Meloni having a cartoon unicorn as a companion seemed cheesy, but the show wasn’t afraid to dive into truly horrific plot lines.
The less-grounded corner of my brain thinks the show was cancelled because it was openly talking about skeletons in the closets of network executives.
- 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.

Star Trek: enterprise. Probably not the best Trek show but it got dropped right when it had found its stride. Also I enjoyed the temporal war arc, which most trek fans seemed to hate. Would have loved to see the stuff they later revealed in interviews that was planned, like archer himself becoming the suliban leader from the future.
- 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.
  
  That episode was so stupid. Even the producers agreed it sucked and that fans should consider the second to last episode the season finale instead.

1899
It's a mystery show made by the same people that made Dark and I was so down for it. Then Netflix cancelled it after season 1
- 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.

Pushing Daisies really deserved another few seasons, but the (previous) writer's strike left it with a really abrupt and unsatisfying end. There wasn't any other show quite like it.
And of course, the perennial winner of such threads, Firefly. At least that got a movie though.

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Firefly Rome (the last season got cut, and 3&4 got smashed into one season) Sense8 (though the wrap up movie was great) Gargoyles

Fringe. It was cancelled by being given one last short season. It deserved far more seasons.
- 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.
  
  Hard agree! They pretty much ended with a bang! I love how they wrapped things up.

- This is how I learned it was canceled. Such a shame.
- So much this.

The OA
- I took part in the campaign to save it 😭 really want to know what the final three seasons could've been like
  
  I didn't know about the campaign...

Rocko's Modern Life =(
- 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!

Dark Matter 😢
- 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 really enjoyed Travelers, although I'm glad they were able to end it as they did.
- That said and although rushed, Travelers had a fantastic ending.
- After finishing Timeless, I went straight to El Ministerio Del Tiempo and it was everything I wanted Timeless to be for 4 more seasons.

Dead like me was just starting to get interesting, when they canceled it and spat out a movie that didn't even try to wrap things up
- I scrolled all the way down here to find Dead Like Me. I was so fond of that show. The movie was awful.

Friends. It should have been cancelled right after the pilot.
- Friends is good, there I said it
  
  I will agree only as far as it could be worse.
  Kidding aside, it's just not my type of comedy - neither are The Office or Seinfeld if you'd like to use this fact to gauge my taste - but I can't deny the wide appeal of any of these shows.

Inside Job.
- Netflix really screwed with it by renewing it for a second season just to reneg on that renewal a couple of months later. I'm still bitter about that.
  
  Meanwhile, they also renewed multiple lazy, creatively dead shows, like Big Mouth. "We've never cancelled a successful show".
- Aw, that one is cancelled? I rather enjoyed it.

Sarah Connor Chronicals. Was pretty good throughout but then ramped up to off the walls amazing, just in time to be cancelled on a cliffhanger
- This and Firefly - what the fuck, Fox...

I really enjoyed "last man on earth"

Not exactly a cancelation, but Star Trek TNG. All of the characters were far more developed than TOS's, which is why they didn't work as well in movies. Better for them to have their own episodes than to unsuccessfully have them share a movie. Any of them could have been just as good, if not better, as multi-part episodes.
- I think TNG ended at just the right time. Cracks were showing during the final season with the writers running out of ideas.
  
  People need to remember- by then we'd had the 'Beverly fucks a ghost candle' episode. I think they were done.
  
  I'd say that's mainly a consequence of needing to produce so many episodes per season, not an indication that there were no stories left for the characters.

My name is Earl, mission Hill, Santa Clarita diet, Kenny vs spenny
- This is my list but replacing Santa Clarita diet (I just couldn't get into it) with Undergrads.
  
  Also a fine choice.
  Santa Clarita required the right mind set to watch too

Constantine. It had it's problems, like many Arrowverse shows at the time, but Matt Ryan was a fantastic John Constantine and I thought the show had a lot of untapped potential.
- The arrow started out so good and then got so awful I couldn't finish it
- he has a fantastic run on Legends of Tomorrow, never seen the Constantine show as its not on any streaming I’m aware of so not sure how different the character is, but I imagine he plays it similarly. Legends itself is probably the best arrowverse show, after they get past the first season and stop taking it seriously.

The Dark Crystal. That first series was a great build up and the preview at the end of it for the next looked awesome.
- I was crushed they cancelled this.

Final Space deserves to be mentioned here. I know there's a wrap up graphic novel slated and I'm super excited to see where Olan goes with Godspeed. But having the whole ip basically wiped off the face of the earth as a tax write off has to be one of the most messed up ways to cancel a show...