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If you like firefly there's another show similar that was also cancelled too soon. Darkmatter. I actually prefer it over firefly tbh.
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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...".
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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.
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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.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Star Trek: Enterprise
Freaks & Geeks
Sense8
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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.
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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!!! :((
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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.
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Number one show I wish wasn't cancelled was Firefly, definitely. And more recently, 1899.
Carnivale
Farscape (imagine if that mini series had been a full season!)
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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.
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Firefly
Legends of tomorrow
The Finder
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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
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
Fringe. It was cancelled by being given one last short season. It deserved far more seasons.
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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
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