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Firefly.
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+1 Firefly
Will never let that one go.
Expanse
It was picked up and finished, though.
Not… quite.
They could come back to it though.
The storyline within that period of time was completed, which I believe is all that was planned. So in effect, the TV series was finished.
Yes, but there’s like 30+ years between books
Amazon did them dirty. In the last seasons it was very clear that the production budget had been drastically slashed with one episode consisting entirely of a a cheap set barely resembling the interior of a ship.
What when
Amazon picked it up again in 2019 and the writers completed the story they planned for (up until the time skip).
Better Off Ted
All that bossy Portia de Rossi 😍
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
Dark Matter (2015).
Also, GLOW.
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.
My name is Earl
Pushing Daisies
Don’t tell me that. I just started watching it!
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.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
It was so good!
Avenue 5 :(
Almost Human
Also, Firefly, duh!
I did love Almost Human. I’d forgotten about that show. Pretty cool concept and the leads had great chemistry
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.
Inside Job deserved better.
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.
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.
I’m watching a VHS rip on youtube right now and omg it is still a great show.
- 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.
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.
