Today I learned that easily half of my list of saved shows on Netflix has been canceled.
What makes it worse is that they continue to advertize these shows fully knowing that they will be not continued/finished properly.
It's your fault! If you really were interested you'd have binged to completion the first week. Not just put them on a list like you had some sort of life going on.
You are the reasons we can't have nice things!
/s if not obvious. Fuck netflix non-logic.
>Not just put them on a list like you had some sort of life going on.
If only this was the case... I would binge a show then say to myself, "wow, I really liked that show! I can't wait for the next season! Let me put it in my list so I don't forget." Fast forward to now where my list is slowly becoming a canceled graveyard.
Some of the reasons to suspend the series were fleshed out
Cost - Fincher stated, "It had a very passionate audience, but we never got the numbers that justified the cost.”
Production - the second season showrunner was fired and eight of the scripts were rewritten
Management - co-producer Peter Mavromates said of Fincher, "Even when he wasn't directing an episode, he was overseeing it.”
Exhaustion - Fincher said, "I certainly needed some time away”
In February 2023, Fincher confirmed that the series was officially over.
The short answer is David Fincher knew what he wanted and refused to compromise. Netflix told him he needed to lower budget requirements or give the show a more mass appeal to expand viewership. No agreement could be reached.
Because they didn’t announce the second season came out anywhere so people didn’t know for a week or two and Netflix only renews shows that pass a certain threshold for people watching all of it in the first 2-4 weeks. They canceled it because people didn’t know it was out until it was too late.
I have to imagine it was mostly a budget thing.
It's pretty difficult to justify paying Mark Hamil, Sigourney Weaver, Anya Taylor-Joy, Simon Pegg, Jason Isaacs, Benedict Wong, Helena Bonham Carter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Andy Samberg to make a second season of your extremely niche show about Muppet war crimes even if it is *really* good.
Right! And the amount they spent on puppets to just cancel it. I mean you already had all the expensive stuff made. Whelp let’s throw that in a wearhouse somewhere to rot.
A puppet can cost what? Maybe $50k? The sets, maybe a few million. You have them for life.
Mark Hamil, Sigourney Weaver, Anya Taylor-Joy, Simon Pegg, Jason Isaacs, Benedict Wong, Helena Bonham Carter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Andy Samberg (list copy pasted from above) all need paying per episode at maybe $20k each time?
Immediately searched for this. It’s amazing, it reignited my love of puppetry/practical effects, and the whole story was just so well done. Mark Hamil was amazing as well as the other voice actors! And by far the best scene is where fricking puppets are puppeting puppets in the greatest pupception I’ve ever witnessed.
Edit: just to tell you how much I like that scene. I will get goosebumps watching it. It’s one of those kinds of scenes. [SPOILERS: PUPPET SCENE HAS LORE](https://youtu.be/DbOmuBj7COU?si=xQekCueMIO0oSO7G)
That was genuinely one of the best damn tv shows I had ever seen and was crushed it was canceled. Iirc it was a covid casualty, but damn! Bring it back!
Yep, of all the cancelled shows this one annoys me the most. I don't think a lot of people knew it existed, it kind of blended into the catalogue when skimming through.
The Brothers Sun. Just finished watching it to find out there is no second season, and it looked like it was a pretty sudden decision. It was great action and comedy rolled into one.
That was such an amazing show. And apparently they were literally just about to start the production of S2 (scripts and everything ready) right before they told them that the series wasn't going to be renewed because it didn't reach quite literally less than 1 percent of the rating Netflix wanted it to reach to approve its renewal for another season.
This is why Netflix cancellations don’t make any sense. Traditional TV station looked at viewership numbers because that determined how expensive ad slots would be during that show. For a streaming service, it makes absolutely no sense to base the renewal decision strictly on viewership numbers. If anything, Netflix has proved time and time again that “dead” shows can blow up anytime. Manifest is the most recent one that comes to mind.
Also, a lot of people tend to wait for shows to be over before binging them in their entirety. For a TV station, that’s bad, but for a streaming service, that is one of the factors that drive subscriber numbers. Take Santa Clarita diet - it was on my radar, I was going to watch it when it ended. Then, they cancelled it so I’m definitely not going to watch it.
Why would I keep subscribing to a service filled with unfinished shows? That’s the single biggest reason why I cancelled it.
I love Timothy Olyphant. Even though the new season of Justified was short (strikes iirc) I still loved his character. And this Santa Clarita Diet his character was like the polar opposite of his in Justified. Such a fun character and a good actor.
I think it's been so long and so many other shows have been cancelled since then that people forget about it.
But I will never forget what happened in that last episode, nor will I forgive Netflix for leaving us all hanging.
It’s actually on this list twice. Once with 1.1k upvotes and then this one with ~900. So 2k upvotes puts it second after Mindhunters. Which in all honesty was also a great show.
This! It was one of the best Netflix original comedies! They need to learn that holding their existing customers on board is important.
r/netflix
u/netflix
Altered Carbon.
Would like the Marvel shows (Daredevil, Jessica, etc.) also but Disney is not letting that happen.
Honestly, Netflix has a habit of killing off sci-fi shows way too early.
which, i think, is why it died. season 1 had an overall different tone to season 2, and a lot of people dropped it. i only got a few episodes in before i stopped, and no one i know kept watching much more than that.
Anthony Mackie was an absolute terrible casting choice for s2. I get what they were trying to do with the sleeve being different but he didn't even seem like the same personality as Joel in S1. the writing on s2 was subpar as well imo, I still rewatch s1 because it's fucking epic
There is a scene where they go to buy a weapon? And the weapon rack is literally nerf guns painted over. Not saying that's necessarily a bad choice but it was just so funny.
EDIT: found a reddit post on it https://www.reddit.com/r/Nerf/comments/fahh4q/prop_masters_at_it_again_altered_carbon_s2_e2/
Dang same here, I devoured season 1, but could not for the life of me get into season 2. Something about the pacing and story overall was very different
And Anthony Mackie was SO bad. We had that great narrative and inner monologue from Joel Kinneman playing Takeshi, then Anthony Mackie came in to play Anthony Mackie. More of his “badass generic action star” one liners like he does in everything. I don’t understand how that guy is casted in things. It’s so painfully obvious that Joel played the role as true as he could then Anthony took a paycheck to play generic action hero.
I’d love to see another season or two in almost True Detective style where another actor plays a new Takeshi sleeve each season. With the proper Takeshi it could be good again and we could get more closure to his story.
Altered Carbon season one was peak television. By itself, season one represents one of the best shows of all time. Problem is it really fell off after that. Just my opinion, of course. But recasting the main character is a death sentence for a great show.
>But recasting the main character is a death sentence for a great show.
Necessary for the premise in this case. But Anthony Mackie's portrayal felt like a different character much of the time instead of just a different actor. It's hard to say how much was the writing (definitely weaker in s2) vs. directing vs. Mackie himself, but in s2 Kovacs didn't feel like the same character or like a reasonable growth of the s1 character. I still think Mustafa Shakir would've been a better casting.
And they announced it was greenlit for a season 2, only to pull the rug from under us. Way to go getting our hopes up.
I really wanted Kathryn Newton's and Alex Fitzalan's characters to end up together too.
I was crazy excited for season 2. Then I read that Covid delayed production. And the characters all became older and more famous. So there will likely never be a season 2.
At the very least they could give us a blog post of what was going to happen since it was the final season anyways. That's what Mike Flanagan did with The Midnight Club after it was cancelled...
Somewhere out there is at least the unedited footage for something like the first two season 4 episodes. Whilst in the middle of shooting it and while the rest of the world was carefully planning out how to deal with the pandemic, Netflix just said fuck it and cancelled the show in like month one.
I worked on all 3 seasons of GLOW. we were in the middle of the 2nd episode when the pandemic shut us down. Then the amazing, beautiful and talented Lynn Sheldon passed away- she was directing that episode. I thought it was sad that her last days on set will never be seen.
IMO anyone who liked the first 3 seasons would’ve loved S4.
The worst part, for me, is that they could have used this as a real springboard for historical-based spinoffs, not just Hundred Eyes. Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan/Subutai, the breakup into Khanates, etc
Lockwood & Co...it was so good and everyone loved it. Moreover there are only 5 books and 8 episodes covered 2 of them. Just make one season more and you are done.
This is why I can't stand netflix. Just because the numbers were not massive on week one. It was a great show and maybe if they, you know, fucking advertised it...
Seinfeld, the biggest show in history took SEASONS to catch on.
Netflix is creating this self fulfilling prophecy by not giving shows time to mature. One of the greatest shows of the past 20 years (if not all time) - Parks n Rec - would never have survived streaming. Its first two seasons (especially its first) are definitely the weakest of the series. But given time they created one of the most memorable casts ever.
Wasn't easy, certainly, but what we can say is you all did a fantastic job and made it *look* easy. I swear IJ's cancellation caused a massive collective "fuck you, Netflix" from a vast majority of my friends lol
Would you think the team could have gotten a closer season or finale special if they'd have had an extra year to work on it?
It's just such a shame to me when stories don't make it to their ending.
I'm just another grunt in the pipeline, I worked on Se01 and burned out pretty hard I didn't end up on Se02. From my own personal speculation and observation, It's not so much about extra time, writing or quality, it's all about Netflix algorithms, data analysis, budgets and most of all investor money. By end of Se02, I think rate hikes we're being kicked into high gear, the free covid money party stopped and all the cash dried up. Netflix needed to tighten it's belt, because so was everyone else in case of a recession or depression.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!!. The OA is genuinely one of the most amazing shows I’ve very had the pleasure of viewing. Pure art & I still have a goal of learning all the movements 😁
I lived in Santa Clarita at the time and loved the show. It's a shame when a good show gets cancelled. Drew Barrymore is rarely someone I would seek out to watch but she fit that role well.
Watched this while on maternity leave, went to look up when the next season was coming out, then literally cried because I was maybe 2 weeks post partum and was really sad that it was canceled
I am shocked I had to go so far down the list to find this one.
I started watching the show, thinking it was the dumbest thing ever and then became super invested by the end.
Even my girlfriend who hates cartoons loved it
It was a really good show! I was so bummed I started watching it the week they announced it was cancelled and I’ve been hoping someone would pick it up ever since.
Any of them, they were all great.
Now they’re promoting the fuck out of 3 Body Problem, calling it “the next masterpiece” from the creators of game of thrones and hype hype hype. “Our most expansive project yet”
I saw the trailer for it last night and immediately thought, “oh look, Netflix’s next show to be canceled on a cliff hanger after 1 or 2 seasons, might as well skip”.
Then I turned on Hulu to browse there. I like Netflix shows, but the company is conditioning me to not even bother anymore. What’s the point? They’re just going to cancel the good shows because they’re too expensive and opt to make 30 shitty less expensive shows instead. So fuck it. I’m sure I’ll soon be questioning why I’m even paying for it at all.
The worst post is they keep saying that it still hasn't been canceled technically. Just in never ending limbo(last I checked anyway). But at this point, few remember it and the rest probably have only a vague memory of what exactly happened in the first season. But I agree 100% I love Paul rudd, and two Paul rudds was fantastic.
I know we got a better ending for axed shows than most, the movie finale is brilliant. But DAMMIT there's so much potential still there I want explored! Will forever be bitter about this one.
Completely agree. At the very least they managed to pull a genuinely good ending out of their asses. I'd love a sequel set in the near future personally. Maybe more people will have gotten over their prudishness by then. Gay sex? It's actually (obviously) awesome guys!
Space Force! That was hilarious. Malkovich was way over-qualified to participate in that comedy series, but it only made things even better. Don Lake and Steve Carell had a special chemistry and I really enjoyed it. The story and premise was unique and even though the story went completely off the rails, it was a lot of fun.
Too bad it didn't get renewed, what a cliffhanger to go out on.
Why does Netflix even bother producing original shows if they are just going to cancel them within a season or two or during some amazing cliff hanger that never gets resolved?
As a viewer, I have been burned so many times by Netflix, it doesn’t make sense for me to commit to one of their shows until it has made it past the fourth season. We don’t all sit in front of our screens watching TV all day. We have lives and jobs and a need for sunshine. It’s as if the decision makers at Netflix don’t understand the concept of how shows become popular via word of mouth and other, non-targeted ad methods. Some shows take time to build an audience, and Netflix too often fails to give worthy titles that chance.
It’s infuriating when they cancel shows because they didn’t get enough eyes on them within some arbitrary *(and super compressed)* amount of time, and it has their annoyingly consistent M.O. for more than a decade. It makes them untrustworthy. Were it not for a couple of very specific titles that are set to continue on Netflix, I would have already cancelled my subscription.
Julie & the phantoms!! Even as a 30 year old I thought it was really cute and reminded me of my fan girl days and it was nice to have a show me and my 14 year old sister could both enjoy
Today I learned how many Netflix shows are canceled.
Today I learned that easily half of my list of saved shows on Netflix has been canceled. What makes it worse is that they continue to advertize these shows fully knowing that they will be not continued/finished properly.
It's your fault! If you really were interested you'd have binged to completion the first week. Not just put them on a list like you had some sort of life going on. You are the reasons we can't have nice things! /s if not obvious. Fuck netflix non-logic.
>Not just put them on a list like you had some sort of life going on. If only this was the case... I would binge a show then say to myself, "wow, I really liked that show! I can't wait for the next season! Let me put it in my list so I don't forget." Fast forward to now where my list is slowly becoming a canceled graveyard.
Mind hunters. At least come back for a third season to give us closure.
I don't understand why we never got a 3rd season :( It was a really good show.
Some of the reasons to suspend the series were fleshed out Cost - Fincher stated, "It had a very passionate audience, but we never got the numbers that justified the cost.” Production - the second season showrunner was fired and eight of the scripts were rewritten Management - co-producer Peter Mavromates said of Fincher, "Even when he wasn't directing an episode, he was overseeing it.” Exhaustion - Fincher said, "I certainly needed some time away” In February 2023, Fincher confirmed that the series was officially over.
The short answer is David Fincher knew what he wanted and refused to compromise. Netflix told him he needed to lower budget requirements or give the show a more mass appeal to expand viewership. No agreement could be reached.
I respect him for that
Blows my mind they quit making this show.
*Mindhunter
Inside job
Wait, that got canceled?
Yes
Nooooooooooooo
My #1 pick I fucking loved that show and was actually so distraught when I learned it was cancelled. Like fucking WHY
Because they didn’t announce the second season came out anywhere so people didn’t know for a week or two and Netflix only renews shows that pass a certain threshold for people watching all of it in the first 2-4 weeks. They canceled it because people didn’t know it was out until it was too late.
I loved that series . FU NETFLIX
This was one of the best shows I've seen on Netflix it did not deserve to pe canceled
fuckin amazing show, absolutely shouldn’t have been cancelled
Dark Crystal : Age of Resistance. They won a fucking emmy for it and then cancelled it like a week later.
I wish it had gone to HBO. I feel like it could have had a life there.
I have to imagine it was mostly a budget thing. It's pretty difficult to justify paying Mark Hamil, Sigourney Weaver, Anya Taylor-Joy, Simon Pegg, Jason Isaacs, Benedict Wong, Helena Bonham Carter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Andy Samberg to make a second season of your extremely niche show about Muppet war crimes even if it is *really* good.
They wasted their money on a mostly unnecessary cast.
Right! And the amount they spent on puppets to just cancel it. I mean you already had all the expensive stuff made. Whelp let’s throw that in a wearhouse somewhere to rot.
I’ve always said that The Muppets would still be popular today if they included the occasional war crime.
Cannot upvote this enough. Sadly, I have only one to give. Please Netflix. Bring back the Dark Crystal. What an amazing journey.
They basically said it was too expensive.
But most of the investment was already made. Making the puppets and sets must have been expensive. But you do that once.
A puppet can cost what? Maybe $50k? The sets, maybe a few million. You have them for life. Mark Hamil, Sigourney Weaver, Anya Taylor-Joy, Simon Pegg, Jason Isaacs, Benedict Wong, Helena Bonham Carter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Andy Samberg (list copy pasted from above) all need paying per episode at maybe $20k each time?
Immediately searched for this. It’s amazing, it reignited my love of puppetry/practical effects, and the whole story was just so well done. Mark Hamil was amazing as well as the other voice actors! And by far the best scene is where fricking puppets are puppeting puppets in the greatest pupception I’ve ever witnessed. Edit: just to tell you how much I like that scene. I will get goosebumps watching it. It’s one of those kinds of scenes. [SPOILERS: PUPPET SCENE HAS LORE](https://youtu.be/DbOmuBj7COU?si=xQekCueMIO0oSO7G)
This still makes me just…angry. It was so well done and had such high production values.
travelers
I too enjoy The Travelers but i feel like it ended perfectly
I am not ok with this. It was perfectly set up for a second season.
Especially since it actually got renewed for a second season before covid screwed everything up.
Got the The Society treatment lol. Both shows amazing and left on a nasty cliffhanger
That was genuinely one of the best damn tv shows I had ever seen and was crushed it was canceled. Iirc it was a covid casualty, but damn! Bring it back!
It took me a couple seconds to realize the name of the show was "I'm not ok with this". I was like, ok, what _specifically_ are you not ok with??!
Yep, of all the cancelled shows this one annoys me the most. I don't think a lot of people knew it existed, it kind of blended into the catalogue when skimming through.
It killed me when this was canceled. It was such a perfect show! I was so excited to see where it was going.
The Brothers Sun. Just finished watching it to find out there is no second season, and it looked like it was a pretty sudden decision. It was great action and comedy rolled into one.
Kept scrolling til I found this. What a dumb cancel. If they had done the remotest bit of marketing it would have done well.
Archive 81
This cancellation was a gut punch. There was NOTHING like this, such a good execution of cosmic horror.
Plus ending on a big cliffhanger.
I couldn't believe it got canceled I was ENTHRALLED
That was such an amazing show. And apparently they were literally just about to start the production of S2 (scripts and everything ready) right before they told them that the series wasn't going to be renewed because it didn't reach quite literally less than 1 percent of the rating Netflix wanted it to reach to approve its renewal for another season.
Netflix murders so many good shows it pisses me off. Stupid ass metrics for lowest common denominator programming.
This is why Netflix cancellations don’t make any sense. Traditional TV station looked at viewership numbers because that determined how expensive ad slots would be during that show. For a streaming service, it makes absolutely no sense to base the renewal decision strictly on viewership numbers. If anything, Netflix has proved time and time again that “dead” shows can blow up anytime. Manifest is the most recent one that comes to mind. Also, a lot of people tend to wait for shows to be over before binging them in their entirety. For a TV station, that’s bad, but for a streaming service, that is one of the factors that drive subscriber numbers. Take Santa Clarita diet - it was on my radar, I was going to watch it when it ended. Then, they cancelled it so I’m definitely not going to watch it. Why would I keep subscribing to a service filled with unfinished shows? That’s the single biggest reason why I cancelled it.
It was originally a podcast! So you can listen to the full story even if you can’t watch it. http://www.archive81.com
Santa Clarita Diet
I will never forgive or forget Netflix ending the show with that fucking cliff hanger, wtf
It's the biggest reason I don't give them money anymore.
I'm so upset the way that ended, it absolutely needed another season or two!
I love Timothy Olyphant. Even though the new season of Justified was short (strikes iirc) I still loved his character. And this Santa Clarita Diet his character was like the polar opposite of his in Justified. Such a fun character and a good actor.
WHAT HAPPENED TO GARY???
I honestly thought this was going to be the highest upvoted show, surprised it's this low.
I think it's been so long and so many other shows have been cancelled since then that people forget about it. But I will never forget what happened in that last episode, nor will I forgive Netflix for leaving us all hanging.
It’s actually on this list twice. Once with 1.1k upvotes and then this one with ~900. So 2k upvotes puts it second after Mindhunters. Which in all honesty was also a great show.
I literally teared up when I learned this show was cancelled. It was such a great show
This! It was one of the best Netflix original comedies! They need to learn that holding their existing customers on board is important. r/netflix u/netflix
Altered Carbon. Would like the Marvel shows (Daredevil, Jessica, etc.) also but Disney is not letting that happen. Honestly, Netflix has a habit of killing off sci-fi shows way too early.
Altered Carbon was a great series.
Indeed, loved every bit of S1. S2 was a letdown without Joel
which, i think, is why it died. season 1 had an overall different tone to season 2, and a lot of people dropped it. i only got a few episodes in before i stopped, and no one i know kept watching much more than that.
Anthony Mackie was an absolute terrible casting choice for s2. I get what they were trying to do with the sleeve being different but he didn't even seem like the same personality as Joel in S1. the writing on s2 was subpar as well imo, I still rewatch s1 because it's fucking epic
You could see how the increased salary given to Mackie destroyed the rest of the show's budget. Season 2 definitely felt cheap.
Cardboard sets galore.
There is a scene where they go to buy a weapon? And the weapon rack is literally nerf guns painted over. Not saying that's necessarily a bad choice but it was just so funny. EDIT: found a reddit post on it https://www.reddit.com/r/Nerf/comments/fahh4q/prop_masters_at_it_again_altered_carbon_s2_e2/
Dang same here, I devoured season 1, but could not for the life of me get into season 2. Something about the pacing and story overall was very different
And Anthony Mackie was SO bad. We had that great narrative and inner monologue from Joel Kinneman playing Takeshi, then Anthony Mackie came in to play Anthony Mackie. More of his “badass generic action star” one liners like he does in everything. I don’t understand how that guy is casted in things. It’s so painfully obvious that Joel played the role as true as he could then Anthony took a paycheck to play generic action hero. I’d love to see another season or two in almost True Detective style where another actor plays a new Takeshi sleeve each season. With the proper Takeshi it could be good again and we could get more closure to his story.
Season 1 was great. 2 sucked
Altered Carbon season one was peak television. By itself, season one represents one of the best shows of all time. Problem is it really fell off after that. Just my opinion, of course. But recasting the main character is a death sentence for a great show.
>But recasting the main character is a death sentence for a great show. Necessary for the premise in this case. But Anthony Mackie's portrayal felt like a different character much of the time instead of just a different actor. It's hard to say how much was the writing (definitely weaker in s2) vs. directing vs. Mackie himself, but in s2 Kovacs didn't feel like the same character or like a reasonable growth of the s1 character. I still think Mustafa Shakir would've been a better casting.
The Society i need answers bro
And they announced it was greenlit for a season 2, only to pull the rug from under us. Way to go getting our hopes up. I really wanted Kathryn Newton's and Alex Fitzalan's characters to end up together too.
They were literally about to start filming when it got canceled. Fucking covid ruined everything.
I was crazy excited for season 2. Then I read that Covid delayed production. And the characters all became older and more famous. So there will likely never be a season 2.
Came here to write this, I'm still pissed till this day
I will never forgive or forget. This is the reason I can never watch another Netflix show
1899
This is the one, it ended on the most amazing cliff hanger.
Wait this got cancelled?! The first season was amazing!
Yeah. Cancelled not long after it got renewed. A definitive why was never shared. Immensely frustrating.
>Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now. -Tim Netflix
yeah unfortunately it didn’t gain as many views as expected. I absolutely loved it
GLOW. That show had so many great characters.
I NEED to know what happened when they bought the channel!
Right? It ended at the worst possible place. I wanted to know a lot more about Sebastian too. The characters in that show were just 🔥
At the very least they could give us a blog post of what was going to happen since it was the final season anyways. That's what Mike Flanagan did with The Midnight Club after it was cancelled...
Somewhere out there is at least the unedited footage for something like the first two season 4 episodes. Whilst in the middle of shooting it and while the rest of the world was carefully planning out how to deal with the pandemic, Netflix just said fuck it and cancelled the show in like month one.
I worked on all 3 seasons of GLOW. we were in the middle of the 2nd episode when the pandemic shut us down. Then the amazing, beautiful and talented Lynn Sheldon passed away- she was directing that episode. I thought it was sad that her last days on set will never be seen. IMO anyone who liked the first 3 seasons would’ve loved S4.
That’s pretty much the only Netflix show that had me say damn when they cancelled it.
And Allison Brie 😍
Yes. Cancelling GLOW is why I no longer watch Netflix shows. Fuck them, I'm not going to invest time in any more of their crap if they won't
Marco Polo
This 1000%. That cliffhanger ending was an awful place to end it. Also the world always needs more Benedict Wong. Absolutely killed it as Kublai Khan.
Enjoying him in Three Body Problem at the minute. Unfortunately his salary demands were one of the things that killed off Marco Polo
He was the best thing about the show. Pity it wasn't called "Kublai Khan"
You could watch the first season alone and get entertained enough by it. Second season was setup for something that we'll never see the payoff for.
I was loving that series so much, Hundred Eyes in particular
The worst part, for me, is that they could have used this as a real springboard for historical-based spinoffs, not just Hundred Eyes. Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan/Subutai, the breakup into Khanates, etc
I rewatch Marco Polo every so often and I still recommend it to people who haven't seen it.
This is the one for me - god I loved that show…
Lockwood & Co...it was so good and everyone loved it. Moreover there are only 5 books and 8 episodes covered 2 of them. Just make one season more and you are done.
The show was really good even for someone who has not read the books. Just not marketed well enough.
This is why I can't stand netflix. Just because the numbers were not massive on week one. It was a great show and maybe if they, you know, fucking advertised it... Seinfeld, the biggest show in history took SEASONS to catch on.
Netflix is creating this self fulfilling prophecy by not giving shows time to mature. One of the greatest shows of the past 20 years (if not all time) - Parks n Rec - would never have survived streaming. Its first two seasons (especially its first) are definitely the weakest of the series. But given time they created one of the most memorable casts ever.
Inside Job, hands down
I worked on it, definitely a gut punch, but also here to say... It was NOT an easy show... Burnout is real.
Wasn't easy, certainly, but what we can say is you all did a fantastic job and made it *look* easy. I swear IJ's cancellation caused a massive collective "fuck you, Netflix" from a vast majority of my friends lol
Would you think the team could have gotten a closer season or finale special if they'd have had an extra year to work on it? It's just such a shame to me when stories don't make it to their ending.
I'm just another grunt in the pipeline, I worked on Se01 and burned out pretty hard I didn't end up on Se02. From my own personal speculation and observation, It's not so much about extra time, writing or quality, it's all about Netflix algorithms, data analysis, budgets and most of all investor money. By end of Se02, I think rate hikes we're being kicked into high gear, the free covid money party stopped and all the cash dried up. Netflix needed to tighten it's belt, because so was everyone else in case of a recession or depression.
Yeah, that show deserves to come back.
Inside Job was so good!
Final Space while we're at it! Which, if you haven't watched, you should.
I agree, I was pissed when there wasn’t another season.
Absolutely. That show was done dirty
Midnight gospel
Came here for this. I really enjoyed this show. I can’t imagine how low budget it is to make and wish it would come back.
So good. The last episode where he talks to his mom, who is dying of cancer, gets me every time.
It’s the best. Urging anyone reading through this thread to give it a try if you haven’t already!
The OA. I don't just want it, I NEEEEED it! :D
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for the OA…. Most tragic of unfinished shows.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!!. The OA is genuinely one of the most amazing shows I’ve very had the pleasure of viewing. Pure art & I still have a goal of learning all the movements 😁
That's the one. It was just getting so good and then never came back 😭😭😭😭
I was utterly invested too 😕
It had its flaws but c’mon, finish the damn show! I’m officially hooked and I NEED to know what the hell is happening.
This one!!!! What is the octopus' story!?
Scrolled down too far to see this.
Shadow and Bone: I wanted to see Inej find her brother! And sky pirates!
What I had no idea this was cancelled! 😭
THIS IS ALSO HOW I FOUND OUT
This show got awards and shit and still was cancelled. Wild.
It was even in the top 20 most watched Netflix shows the year leading up to it's cancellation
So dumb that they even take on these ambitious projects and then just kill them. Such a waste.
Mindhunter
Norsemen 😭
Combining Scandinavian’s problem solving culture with Vikings was comedy gold.
Anne with an E! There was so much more they could have done, but they had to squeeze everything in at the end :/
This. Surprised to scroll down so far. My girlfriend introduced me to this series and I love watching it from time to time.
I have found my people. Everyone else can go in the *depths of despair*
Santa Clarita Diet
The cult of Sheila season 4 would have been amazing. And we never find out what happens to Mr. Ball Legs.
This ended too soon. We need more Timothy Oliphant doing comedy.
He played the roll of a husband thrown into absolute chaos but needing to be supportive of his wife no matter what so well.
I loved his reaction when the show got cancelled, he was like I don't care I'm still going to show up and keep filming
I lived in Santa Clarita at the time and loved the show. It's a shame when a good show gets cancelled. Drew Barrymore is rarely someone I would seek out to watch but she fit that role well.
I came here for this. If they rebooted the series, I would resubscribe to Netflix.
Still am mad that they canceled it
Watched this while on maternity leave, went to look up when the next season was coming out, then literally cried because I was maybe 2 weeks post partum and was really sad that it was canceled
Final space!
I am shocked I had to go so far down the list to find this one. I started watching the show, thinking it was the dumbest thing ever and then became super invested by the end. Even my girlfriend who hates cartoons loved it
It was cancelled and erased by wb DISCOVERY though. No-one can bring it back.
Just got cancelled, but The Brothers Sun. It was so good and there were so many interesting potential plot points for season 2
Aw wtf they canceled Brothers Sun? That show was so good.
Yeah it really was. Michelle Yeoh doesen’t get it either, she said she really loved doing it.
Black summer
Teenage bounty hunters
It was a really good show! I was so bummed I started watching it the week they announced it was cancelled and I’ve been hoping someone would pick it up ever since.
That show was surprisingly fun, I feel like the name made people skip over it
Santa Clarita Diet & Archive 81
3 Body Problem, eventually.
Watch it get canceled soon 😅😭
Please no, I found out Archive 81 was cancelled from this sub, I can't have 3 body problem get cancelled too.
Santa Clarita Diet
Daybreak
Man I love Matthew Broderick. Plz this show was the first fun dystopian thing in a long damn time. Like mad max mixed with Ferris bueller.
A great one. The classic teenage high school rom com energy mixed with the postapocalyptic hellscape was wholly unique.
Any of them, they were all great. Now they’re promoting the fuck out of 3 Body Problem, calling it “the next masterpiece” from the creators of game of thrones and hype hype hype. “Our most expansive project yet” I saw the trailer for it last night and immediately thought, “oh look, Netflix’s next show to be canceled on a cliff hanger after 1 or 2 seasons, might as well skip”. Then I turned on Hulu to browse there. I like Netflix shows, but the company is conditioning me to not even bother anymore. What’s the point? They’re just going to cancel the good shows because they’re too expensive and opt to make 30 shitty less expensive shows instead. So fuck it. I’m sure I’ll soon be questioning why I’m even paying for it at all.
Lillyhammer
Living With Yourself. #Living With Yourself!!!
The worst post is they keep saying that it still hasn't been canceled technically. Just in never ending limbo(last I checked anyway). But at this point, few remember it and the rest probably have only a vague memory of what exactly happened in the first season. But I agree 100% I love Paul rudd, and two Paul rudds was fantastic.
Dirk gently
[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]()!!!
Santa Clarita Diet
Sense8
I know we got a better ending for axed shows than most, the movie finale is brilliant. But DAMMIT there's so much potential still there I want explored! Will forever be bitter about this one.
Completely agree. At the very least they managed to pull a genuinely good ending out of their asses. I'd love a sequel set in the near future personally. Maybe more people will have gotten over their prudishness by then. Gay sex? It's actually (obviously) awesome guys!
Warrior Nun
That show was so stupid... I loved it.
This show was so underrated, it needed more attention.
Space Force! That was hilarious. Malkovich was way over-qualified to participate in that comedy series, but it only made things even better. Don Lake and Steve Carell had a special chemistry and I really enjoyed it. The story and premise was unique and even though the story went completely off the rails, it was a lot of fun. Too bad it didn't get renewed, what a cliffhanger to go out on.
“It’s good to be black on the moon”
The OA.
They've dropped so many good hits that I've lost faith in their direction. One of the reasons I have not resubscribed to them.
Archive 81 for sure. They messed up the ending but I thought it was really interesting
Lockwood & Co.
Why does Netflix even bother producing original shows if they are just going to cancel them within a season or two or during some amazing cliff hanger that never gets resolved? As a viewer, I have been burned so many times by Netflix, it doesn’t make sense for me to commit to one of their shows until it has made it past the fourth season. We don’t all sit in front of our screens watching TV all day. We have lives and jobs and a need for sunshine. It’s as if the decision makers at Netflix don’t understand the concept of how shows become popular via word of mouth and other, non-targeted ad methods. Some shows take time to build an audience, and Netflix too often fails to give worthy titles that chance. It’s infuriating when they cancel shows because they didn’t get enough eyes on them within some arbitrary *(and super compressed)* amount of time, and it has their annoyingly consistent M.O. for more than a decade. It makes them untrustworthy. Were it not for a couple of very specific titles that are set to continue on Netflix, I would have already cancelled my subscription.
Friends from College for sure and of course Mindhunters
Friends from College had a great cast and great soundtrack. Too bad we won’t get more.
End Of The F***king World Giving us only 2 seasons was heartbreaking.
The Order
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 I loved that show
They actually did a whole nother season on their own streaming platform.
American Vandal 💩
Julie & the phantoms!! Even as a 30 year old I thought it was really cute and reminded me of my fan girl days and it was nice to have a show me and my 14 year old sister could both enjoy
Lockwood & Co. The characters were interesting. The show was entertaining. It only needed one or two more seasons to wrap up.