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Expanse
It was picked up and finished, though.
Not.. quite.
They could come back to it though.
Yes, but there's like 30+ years between books
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.
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).
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.
My name is Earl
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.
The end of Conan OβBrienβs 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 NBCβs run-ins when they were both students at Harvard and it sounds even dumber.
One that I'm sure won't be mentioned by anyone else: Westworld. I stuck with it all the way to season 4, and I can see what they were building to, and it makes the rough seasons make more sense. I sincerely think the 5th season was going to wrap everything up in a nice bow.
That show was dead man walking by the end of S02E01. Even if they'd turned it into a masterpiece in the end, the damage was done and viewership gone. Not too different than what happened to Game of Thrones just earlier in its run.
Imagine renewing a show that could have ended after a single season, only to cancel it three seasons later anyway.
Right before the final season, too. In a show famous for little details that become important later. When they explicitly said they planned from the beginning how it was going to end.
Iβm in the same camp as you.
I rewatched the entire series earlier this year and beyond the sophomore slump of season 2, I think the series holds its own in terms of a strong and engaging narrative that is only becoming more and more prescient as time goes on.
Is anything, the main issue holding it back is the title - as the show moved away from the Wild West setting of S1&2 into a modern/future world.
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
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Avenue 5 :(
Raised by Wolves and 1899.
Raised by Wolves was a mixed bag for me, would've liked to see more though. Great intro.
Conversely, 1899 was a mess though.
1899 is a textbook example of why I try to stay away from mystery box TV series until they're completed.
Raised by wolves season one - great. Season 2 though - wtf was up with the flying snake?!
S02 was a fever dream.
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. Itβs like current network execs have never heard the term βloss leaderβ.
Iβll add Andor to this list even though it wasnβt βcanceledβ. 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.
Rubicon
The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I never even started watching the second Season because I knew there was no point.
The Finder but I understand why a season 2 could never happen. RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.
Last Man on Earth
I agree. Talk about leaving us on a cliffhanger.
First Kill.
It was corny as hell, and the digital blood was laughably bad. But it was unabashedly sapphic and I loved that.
Goddamn Netflix.
Raised by Wolves and Alien Nation
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