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

Firefly

FIREFLY

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

The expanse.

The Walking Dead.

Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.

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.

Better Off Ted

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Star Trek: Enterprise

Freaks & Geeks

Sense8

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

Firefly. Sons of Tucson.

I'm sure there are others.

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 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.

Firefly, and Clone High.

Freaks and Geeks.

Santa Clarita Diet

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

Mindhunter and Lockwood and Co

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.

Carnivale

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

Firefly

Legends of tomorrow

The Finder

Raised by Wolves

Permanently Deleted

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.

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.

Pushing Daisies

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.

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.

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.

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

Fringe. It was cancelled by being given one last short season. It deserved far more seasons.

"The Peripheral" on amazon.
They should have canceled the pathetic Wheel of Time instead.

Music videos on MTV Science shows on discovery channel History shows on the history channel Well-produced soft porn on Cinemax Comedy shows with actual writers and actors News shows with actual journalism

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

Permanently Deleted

The OA

Rocko's Modern Life =(

Dark Matter 😢

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

Raised by Wolves, such a great show axed for no reason

Permanently Deleted

Friends. It should have been cancelled right after the pilot.

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

Inside Job.

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 Dark Crystal. That first series was a great build up and the preview at the end of it for the next looked awesome.

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 really enjoyed "last man on earth"

Pushing Daisies & Don't Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23 are my big two

My name is Earl, mission Hill, Santa Clarita diet, Kenny vs spenny

Farscape

Deadwood

Infinity Train

Sarah Connor Chronicles. They'd just jumped into serious weirdness and the world building lore had developed in a really interesting way.

Reaper. It was a fun show with a great premise. Basically, a couple sells their sons soul to the devil before he is born. Then on his 21st birthday the devil arrives and informs him he is going to be a bounty hunter for hell. Also, Ray Wise played an awesome devil.

Santa Clarita diet, fun little zombie show on Netflix

@Cheems

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I was in awe with this show. Had waited years for it and was not disappointed! I loved the story and the set pieces were absolutely gorgeous. You could tell a lot of love and care was put into it. I was hoping they’d go all the way with this show and that it would end naturally as a full prequel story to The Dark Crystal.

But no. Netflix pulled the plug on Age of Resistance after the first season because it was too expensive. It still stings to this day.

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...

Humans.

Travellers. Magicians. If I had to choose only one, it would be Magicians, that show really needed one last season.

Utopia

great soundtrack too

I'm glad to see Carnivàle has already been mentioned. If I could choose only one, that is it. There are many others that have been mentioned that are also on my list though. About the only shows I can think of that I haven't seen mentioned but would also add are Penny Dreadful and Jupiter's Legacy.

Snowpiercer, damn you Discovery

This appeals to Hongkongers only, but I miss 頭條新聞 (News Headlines) (I made up this translation)

Despite its name, this was a sarcastic show aired on RTHK, an official government channel. It talks about a lot of events, poor decisions and wrong-doings of the government in a funny way. Unfortunately it was shut down in 2020, by the government.

Our democracy and freedom have been declining since then.

Here's a playlist of them archived

Codemonkeys, and Clone High.

Key & Peele. But they're probably right. Better to go out on a high note.

Deadwood. It is still a classic top 5 HBO show, but unfortunately with so much wasted potential and unexplored storylines. I do rewatch it from time to time, but the knowledge of what could have been is kinda detracting from my full enjoyment of it.

Boardwalk Empire. It got more seasons than Deadwood at least, and also had a final episode which kinda wrapped things up, but it was so rushed and contrary to the general pace of the show that it is very jarring to watch.

Videogame Highschool...i just want to see more of 'The Law'

Colony

still salty about Glow and Legends of Tomorrow. Both were set up for, and could’ve been finished with, a final season.

Legends of Tomorrow

I mean, come on, we just got Donald Faison as Booster Gold in the final episode of season 7 and then they go and cancel it

I haven't watched TV in many years so these are pretty old. Super disappointed they were canceled.

Seven Days (1998-2001)

Life (2005-6)

Invasion (2007-9)

1899

Lie to Me

The Cowboy Bebop live-action adaption. See you space cowboy...

The F Word. It showed a different side of Ramsay and it was more about food than his other ones.

American Gods literally waited until right before the last episode to cancel it

Alien Nation

Space: Above and Beyond

Invader Zim

Mindhunter

Inside Job.

I didn't really watch shows on Netflix and I couldn't care less about people complaining about their shows being cancelled left and right. But Inside Job was recommended by my friend and I loved it. After finding out it was cancelled after 2 seasons, I finally understood the pain these people were feeling all along...

Deadwood

Twin Peaks

Venture Bros

Lie To Me

All good suggestions in this thread, but I'm going to throw it back to Sports Night. It had an incredible cast, great writing, and tons of potential.

Just one? Man...

Gotta go with The Owl House

Terra Nova was awesome... at least... I thought so.

:(

The Tick. All of them.

Knight Rider 2008

Penny Dreadful

Corporate.

The Black Donnelly's, only 1 season from NBC.

Alphas

Legend of the Seeker

Pirates of Dark Water.

Reaper (CW)

The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.

Wonderfalls

Freaks and Geeks

Odyssey 5

My name is earl

Wonderfalls

Stargate Universe. It was Stargate meets Battlestar Galactica and I loved it. It wasn't without its issues, but I felt it was really finding it's feet. Then it ends on a cliffhanger after 2 seasons

The Get Down was such a good show with a fun aesthetic. It was about the birth of hip hop but talked a lot about the politics and culture at the time. It lasted 2 seasons on Netflix and somewhat on a cliffhanger for a few characters, and I wish they got another season or two to fully wrap it up.

A couple that I have not seen:

Happy Endings
Newsroom

My constant responses to this question is obviously Flash Forward.

Boy was that a great show, with an amazing premise. I think about this show to this day.

The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself. Thought it was very interesting, I loved the magic system and the characters were well developed. It was a really fun journey and the production was such an interesting vibe.

Reaper

Crusade. The story was just starting to get interesting but JMS had used all of his pull just getting the fifth season of B5 on the air. I'm cautiously optimistic about the animated series that was hinted at by The Road Home but I'm also not holding my breath.

I’ll go with Ratched

If I had to pick one, I'd be very torn between Flash Forward, Odyssey 5 and Terminator TSCC. Probably the first one.

Terriers and Rubicon are my go-to answers for this. I do wonder how they hold up though, it's been a while.

Take my love

Take my land

Take me where I cannot stand

I don't care 'cause I'm still free

You can't take the sky from me

Journeyman

Drive, starring Nathan Fillion and Emma Stone. Didn't even last a season.

Tron: Uprising :( Wikipedia

Futurama, Utopia

The Dark Crystal

Bonding. First season was ridiculous wrt consent in bdsm but the whole shit was giving hilarious. S2 they tried fixing the consent thing and seemingly forgot to be as funny.

It voluntarily ended but one more season of Seinfeld. They said the show was getting too ridiculous but one more season of ridiculous would've been nice.

What about Brian. Mostly because I think it was the first show that I ever got into that was cancelled without resolving the story. Didn't know that was a thing that could happen.

Last man standing....such a cliff hanger

Firefly

My Own Worst Enemy. Got cancelled halfway through the first season and I still don’t know why.

MODOK was stupid fun and had robot chicken vibes at times. Sad it left off the way it did.

I don't know the scoop on whether or not it's actually cancelled or if season 6 is in Max/Cartoon Network limbo or what is even going on with it, but I'm saying Summer Camp Island.

Revolution

Ended right before it was going to start getting crazy.

Blood Drive.

Rome, Lilyhammer

Flash Forward I think the problem was filler episodes. Imagine it being launched today. Only 8-10 great episodes.

I am not okay with this - I was so excited when I watched that seried but then it was announced that it would be cancelled. The only season had a plot twist at the end that the comic didn't have and I was really excited to see where it goes. But Netflix couldn't let that happen.