It is truly tragic

Not sure if it counts as a cliffhanger, but Westworld set itself up for a second season and then just nothing.
- Err weren't there 3 seasons of Westworld?
  
  Doesn't look like anything to me
- Westworld is my answer to but unironically. Second season wasn't really bad, third season seemed pretty bad but after the fourth season it made much more sense. The fourth season was pretty interesting actually, and seemed like it was setting up a fifth season that tied everything together.
  I'm convinced a fifth season would have justified the decisions they made in the middle seasons.
- i was told if i enjoyed it, i should stop watching after season one and watch the movie instead.
- damn was it ever a good season though

Can we please FUCKING stop censoring SHIT words like FUCK, or RAPE, or whatever?
Just write what you want to write. If you feel the need to crawl into a fetus position under your bed when you see any of these words then maybe put some space between yourself and the Internet. Go touch grass, live happy! Just stop being so... Childish?
- i think people who make this argument generally take the whole thing a little too seriously. at this point i’ve started censoring fuckwords in memes bc i think it’s funny that it seems to upset some folk so much.
  
  The irony is the woke people weren't the ones asking for DEI or genderless bathrooms. It was the removed forcing people to resort to "seggs" instead of sex. "Unalive" instead of kill and "unhoused" instead of homeless and can go on and on. It's fucking dumb lol.

Santa Clarita Diet :(
- Finding out that Netflix cancelled this was up there with Firefly getting cancelled. This show was so damn good
  
  Careful, you'll upset the Firefly fandom.
  The worst part for me is they built up 3 seasons worth of story and lore just to forget it completely. Such a waste.
- I don't consider that a cliffhanger though. It kinda works as a "and they lived happily ever after". It's just that everybody wanted to see what the ever after was like.
  
  Maybe we are remembering it differently, but i remember it was a huge cliffhanger, she was falling apart and not healing properly, and there was the stuff about the knights of serbia, none of it was resolved.

My Name Is Earl's series finale is now a reddit post
- Every cancelled show should be so lucky as to have a writer finish the story, even if it's just the outlines of a script.

Raised by wolves had so much potential. So did stargate universe.

Any love out there for ReBoot? Absolutely revolutionary show and it ended on a cliffhanger.
- Reboot was the first one I thought of too. Such a fantastic show that didn’t get a real ending.
- I came on here to mention ReBoot, how they gonna save Mainframe from ole Megabutt this time? He's got webby powers and he's fuckin pissed!

So 'The Lost Room' had a lot of unrealized potential. It at least managed to tie up and close the main loop.
Maybe it came too soon vs the concepts of anomolus objects become popular later.
- I really feel like that mini series was a “backdoor pilot” that just never got off the ground there was so much potential for an episodic show in there.

"Two by two, hands of blue."
- I'm a leaf on the wind.

TV producers and showrunners are too fucking greedy.
They all act as if it's still the year 1995 and they're dropping cliffhangers like crazy as if they're gonna run for 8, 9, 10 seasons - despite knowing full well that most of the shows out there these days are never making it past season 1 or 2.
Compare this to almost every popular book series. Books works on the basis that although it's a series, each individual book holds up as a satisfying experience with a beginning, middle and end. Every book leaves you wanting more, but yet, still happy with what you're read.
The Jack Reacher TV series works wonderfully in this way because - surprise surprise - it's an adaptation of the books. Every season is its own crime, and every season wraps that case up nicely.
More of that please - I want to watch shows which respect me as a viewer, not shows which mess me around.

Terriers.
It's a great crime drama with comedy mixed in. Has nothing to do with dogs and is just one of those unfortunately names shows.
As a mild spoiler the show actually has a great ending. It certainly sets up for future seasons and I really want to watch those seasons, but given that it was cancelled, it's actually a solid ending.
- It certainly sets up for future seasons and I really want to watch those seasons, but given that it was cancelled, it's actually a solid ending.
  This is fine, and if you are writing your season finale with no new deal in place for more, this is what you should do. You don’t have to close the door on the characters’ adventures, just leave them in an appropriate place for the previous season’s threads.
  You have to “Calvin & Hobbes” the finale.

Flashforward and Stargate Universe both ended on cliffhangers after two seasons within a year of each other. Just as I was healing and willing to give TV a chance again, they canceled Helix. Also on a cliffhanger after two seasons.
- 2005 was a bad year for cancelled sci-fi series that were good, actually. Surface, Threshold and Invasion, all excellent, all cancelled after one season. I'm still upset.

rip Duckman

Wanna talk about cliffhangers? I got into the dark tower book series in 1995, and devoured the 3 tomes which were published at the time. Without spoiling, let's just say that #3 ends with all of the main characters in immediate mortal danger. Then there was an author's note where King basically wrote "don't hold your breath I have no idea where this story is going and will probably never finish it in my lifetime lmao".
So there's that... Then one fateful morning in 98 I got a call from my best friend whose parents had a book store : "hey zos we've just put on the shelf a new Stephen King book, isn't that from the series you keep yapping about?".
That was probably the peak moment in my bookworm life...
- Ka, like a wind.
  
  You say true and i say thankee Sai 🌹

Incorporated and Alphas. I'm still really annoyed at Netflix for cancelling Altered Carbon and Shadow and Bone as well. They don't deserve my money if all they do is back out of finishing stories.
- Man fuck Netflix in general. The big one for me was The Society, which hit especially hard because they renewed it, and then cancelled it just says before they started shooting season 2. Sure "because COVID" or whatever, but heaps of other productions just hit pause, rather than cancelling outright something that had already received the green light. And because it was a show literally founded on its mystery. Its genre is literally "mystery drama", so not being able to reveal the mystery and satisfactorily pay off the clues is so much worse than any story where there isn't a mystery driving the story.
  Also First Kill, a sapphic vampire romance drama/coming of age. And Lockwood & Co. which only really grabbed me near the end, but I found out about from others who were way more into and were very disappointed once it was cancelled.
  At this point I don't even try starting a Netflix show unless it's already got a few seasons under its belt. And I know I'm not alone. Which undoubtedly just reinforces the problem.

Lol I don't watch new shows these days. Can't get fooled again.
- Yeah I just can’t get invested in a plot like that solely depends on some corporate shithead being happy with the profits to get a proper ending.
  If you started creating the show you should be obligated to give it some kind of damn ending.

I'm still bitter about Reaper getting cancelled

The Dark Crystal series. ;_;

Fuck.

The O frickin A.

Outlaw Star deserved more than 1 season
- For me it's Big O
  
  Now there's a name I have not heard in a long time.

Clone High’s first season did this. Two decades later, the show got revived. Good news too, because IMO the new seasons are even better than the original.
If you started the show ages ago but haven’t checked out the new episodes, I highly recommend it.

Not a TV show, but there was a book my 6th grade teacher read (i forgor the name) where some unknown nuclear disaster happened, and a very small village in a valley survived due to the geography. Pretty much everyone dies trying to explore outside the valley to find answers, leaving only the main character left.
At some point a stranger in a radiation suit wanders in, finds the untouched valley, and immediately drinks from a radiation contaminated river and gets sick. Some stuff happens between the two of them, but in the end the main character takes the radiation suit and wanders out into the wasteland. As far as I know, there's no sequel despite heavily emplying the story isn't over
- Z for Zachariah
  
  Thanks!

I was pretty upset when Kaos got cancelled. I didn't even think I'd like it, but absolutely loved it. I guess the creator has three seasons in mind, a short series, and they cancelled it after one.
Mad disappointed. It still plays okay as a first season, but my god I want to know what happened next

Colony
- The story was going so well too. It should be illegal to cancel shows without at least disclosing how the series was supposed to end.

If you are a television show and end a season, any season, on a cliffhanger, fuck you, I'm not watching, I will not endorse anymore you using tired cheap tricks as a crutch for a lack of creativity, talent and regard for your audience.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2. (I know not a TV show, but still)
Stargate Universe.
Limitless.

Teenage Bounty Hunters!

Stargate Universe. Still hurts.
It was such a good show, and such a huge cliffhanger, and it hurt so much.... That for awhile it literally stopped me from watching any show that wasn't already concluded with a guaranteed ending.
Heck, my friends tried to get me to watch Firefly for YEARS, and I was like heck no. They killed it before its time.
These days I'm better. Watched Firefly, it was awesome, and worth it, but belongs here too. At least it got a movie to wrap it up.
Funny enough, they just cancelled another show I like, Resident Alien, and the posts are right next to each other:
- goddamnit

Ash vs Evil Dead AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- In a similar vein "Stan Against Evil".

I have to assume you have never loved a person like I did.

The moment a show ends in a cliffhanger, it gets removed from the fave show list.

Finder

Utopia

Revolution
Technically 2 seasons, and man it had a lot of potential building up before canceled. Shame.

I'm still not over the Dark Angel cancellation 🙁

... did you censor the word fuck here?
- Fuck no it was like this when I got it

Last Man on Earth
- NOOOOOOOOOOO IM WATCHING S3 RIGHT NOOWWWWW

Fuck you for posting censored garbage
- I know it's fucking annoying, that's how I found it though
  
  I would just uncensor it first. Emphatically.
  Here, like this. I want to do this to every meme.

"Bookie". Damn dangling ending.

not really an answer but i think dollhouse’s second season hits worse than if it had just been cancelled outright. i’m glad joss got the chance to give it an ending, but CHRIST that timeskip fucking sucks.
- Funny enough, I just finished watching this series a couple of weeks ago. It felt like they thought they were getting canceled after the first season, then somehow got renewed and had to think of a way to further the story at the last minute. No idea if that's true, but that's how it felt.
  I like the more episodic story of the week feel the first season had. Hated the way they Neo-ized Echo in the second season. But I actually liked the season 2 finale, despite the time jump. Thought they wrapped things up in a pretty satisfying way.
  
  you’re actually pretty close!
  iirc joss had the plot planned out for like six or seven seasons. sometime either towards the end or immediately after season one he was told he was greenlit for one more season and that’s it, so he decided to just skip to the end of his intended story.