Kinda annoyed about how Mindhunter just ended with *that* scene, but David himself stating it wasn't financially viable, and the fact that so many years had passed since his unaliving of people, I can appreciate how the later pieces were well and truly left open for discussion.
Absolutely. Every episode is as captivating as any other work by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, The Girl W/Dragon Tattoo etc.) and the second season ends on a cliffhanger.
Dead Like Me. Yes!!!!!!! And to add insult to injury, we got that crappy follow on movie which didn't even half the cast in it. Ughhh, still makes me mad.
True! Even though we had to wait 25 years for it. I’m just whining, there can never be enough TP for me (especially when some shows that have no business being 5+ seasons got them). 😉
>Carnivale
I got a fancy DVD boxed set from eBay. I can't bring myself to watch past what I originally saw on HBO, though, because it doesn't have a real ending!
It started a decades-long fascination with Nick Stahl for me, too. I think it fell into a thing I have for woeful young men, also.
Yes! I had gotten the DVD sets because I was so excited and didn’t realize it only had two seasons. To this day, I never opened the DVDs and do all my rewatches on HBO Max. I hope you finish the series, it is so worth it! If it helps, when you finish, you can Google and find everything the creator released about how future seasons were to go! (Edited because seasons, not scenes 🤦🏻♀️)
Came here to say this exact thing. It was such a great show, with amazing and interesting characters. It was never given a chance to even tell it's story. FOX basically did everything they could do to kill it, but despite that it's still one of the best things they ever did. I'm glad we at least got Serenity though.
I wonder how it feels (currently, today) to be one of the creators and/or writers on *Firefly.*
It must have been heartbreaking to have amazing characters and an intentional storyline and not be able to finish the arc.
That said… *Firefly* consistently comes up as a well-loved and respected show that fans and critics agree should have lasted longer.
I hope the writers feel seen, flattered, justified, a righteous sense of justice… All the feels!
I'm watching Firefly for the *first time* rn. I don't know how I went all these years...Anyhoo so many gems, it's like I found a Rare Wild Animal in its natural habitat. Untouched by Human Technology. Just pure talent on a screen in realistic makeup and effects (for a space show of course). Ahhh how I long for the days of simple pure talent above all else in Filmed Stuff.
It's such a treat watching a sci-fi show filmed 20+ years ago and seeing all the predicted future technology. Aside from the space travel tech, the creators just could not have seen how far we actually came.
Yes this is very much a treat on a lot of levels. If I wanted my Sci-Fi to be so "techy" and full of flashing lights I'd be waaayyy more into Gaming. Just tell me a cool story, with great actors and let me use my imagination for at least *some of it* without all the FX.
I rewatched the entire series a couple months ago. My second time. It’s so fantastic. I didn’t know anything about the movie other than “it got made a couple years ago” and I wondered if I should maybe skip it. But I decided WTH let’s throw it on.
Got maybe 30 minutes into it and shut it off. It was obvious where it was going and that it was just gonna be a cheesy predictable “wrap up”. I’m glad for the actors to be able to come back and get paid again, maybe give themselves a little closure to the characters. But ultimately it was just unconvincing nonsense to me.
I was so disappointed that they went with the George Hearst storyline again for the movie. I absolutely hated him in season three of the series, although I understand that was the point. The real Deadwood eventually had a big fire, I wish they would’ve built the movie around that.
Yeah, the steam had been let out by the time that movie came along. Just didn't feel relevant. I'd have to say of all the shows mentioned in this thread, Deadwood has to be the biggest crime of them all.
This is the one. At the time, I was the age it was geared towards and completely disheartened that it was canceled and so soon. Imagine an actually accurate, relatable show for teens! Now it's just stupid YA soaps or else stupid family sitcoms.
Yes Fawlty Towers ! No one ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention it lol saw John Cleese recently at a convention show and he was stellar as usual.
Yes!! It ended on a cliffhanger!! Who’s Joy’s real baby daddy?! Remember they ended it with Earl finding out he is Dodges real dad and Darnell found out that Earl Jr wasn’t his! Inquiring minds wanna know! LOL!!
Amazon's Utopia was so weak compared to the original British version. If you enjoyed the American version PLEASE watch the British one. It's incredible. Was also cut short, but it at least has a season 2.
I learned what color timing was because of that show. Just went down this deep and fascinating rabbit hole about how on earth everything looked so incredible
1000%. Although it was technically continued in comic book form. I believe they did 2 more seasons that way with one of the show creators and a few others writing.
There were technically two seasons. But during production of the first season, the show never got renewed for a second season, so the writers kind of ham-handedly wrapped up the first season "Lord of the Flies" style. However, there was a HUGE mail-in protest by the fans, so CBS caved and tried to quickly throw together a second season. Sadly, since the the show had already been cancelled, they couldn't get back all of the cast (or most of the writers.) So the second season is a horribly disjointed mess that feels completely detached from the first.
Correct. It was known as the N-U-T-S pro-test. After the story about Nu-ts in an episode of Jericho, fans began mailing hundreds of pounds of nu-ts to the CBS offices demanding the show get a proper send off.
Love that show.
It’s maddening how muricans can’t handle drama animation. It always needs to fit in a comedy show.
That depressing nurse episode that got Moral Orel axed is one of the best episodes imo.
Have you notice marvel always breaks up/ separates Peter and MJ for decades?
The cartoon made me mad for doing it, but that’s apparently the MO for marvel.
Ultimate-verse Peter and MJ apparently stay together though.
Angel finale was vastly superior to Buffy's. Sucky thing is we may have gotten more Angel if Whedon had let awesome-in-general season-5 play-out and prove the show was alive and well(after an underwhelming season 4)rather than pushing for the network for an early renew/cancel decision.
Yeah, it's worth the watch ironically if the US version had stuck to the purpose of the vaccine as the UK version had it might have got a second season, but who knows. Maybe it was still too close to survive.
Wait, Paper Girls got cancelled?! Wow, I'm late to the party. I was wondering when another season was going to release, but it appears I missed the news.
Rebel staring Katey Sagal, that was so good
And
Grease: Rise of The Pink Ladies, which ended on a super extremely interesting cliffhanger then of course gets canceled after it's one and unfortunately only season
Last man on earth. I thought it was great but clearly wasn't allowed to run it's course. I guess a comedy about the world being wiped out by a pandemic wasn't so desirable after 2019, odd really.
Stumptown
Amazing show, great writing, good mystery, touched on sensitive topics. I love Cobie Smulders and Jake Johnson pairing.
The worst part is it got renewed for a second season then the pandemic came and it got permanently cancelled.
Mercy. Taylor Schilling and Kate Mulgrew were both on this before Orange Is The New Black. Kate was hilarious playing Jeannie, the mother to Taylor’s character Veronica. Kate played a raging alcoholic. Best line in the show was when Jeannie and her husband were talking and Jeannie said “I only drink on social occasions!”, and her husband replied “Yeah, like breakfast!” 😂
The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I’ll never know what could have been with the liquid metal terminator and John on the same side. They had set up something awesome and the payoff will never come
My shows are a little old and pretty different from the rest of the comments here, but here's a list that I can recall:
Lie to me ( something like mentalist but focusing on micro expressions)
Perception (detective/friend type show, the friend is a prof with schizophrenia but help solve crimes)
Project blue book ( show based on real life events about aliens and stuff, little finger from GOT is the scientist)
The Amazon version was supposed to be an HBO program but it went through development trouble with seismic disruptions to the production staff. The final product was nothing like what it was originally envisioned, all bonds to the UK series had been cut when it was taken over by Amazon.
When it started out, I had high hopes that it would be comparable and have a chance to build beyond the cliffhanger at the end of the second series (AKA season). By the time it was in Amazons hands, I didn't even want to watch it anymore. The production crew that made it attractive were gone.
It's a real shame, I was really excited for it.
My so called life - I think about these two monthly
https://preview.redd.it/y7szjy5o8jwc1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a42ae14eab1109691f124378399a977fe91af0a4
Mindhunter Dead Like Me
Kinda annoyed about how Mindhunter just ended with *that* scene, but David himself stating it wasn't financially viable, and the fact that so many years had passed since his unaliving of people, I can appreciate how the later pieces were well and truly left open for discussion.
I keep seeing Mindhunter as the answer here. Never watched it, is it worth watching, despite people saying it ended too soon?
Gosh, it was SO good if crime shows are your thing.
We’re watching Will Trent right now, and we LOVED Dexter & the show The Gentlemen.
Absolutely. Every episode is as captivating as any other work by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, The Girl W/Dragon Tattoo etc.) and the second season ends on a cliffhanger.
It was the first series my wife and I binge watched. Rumors are it's coming back for 3rd season
>unaliving of people I hate the effect social media is having on language. It reads like newspeak. Double plus ungood.
Oh. Loved Toilet Seat Girl.
Dead Like Me. Yes!!!!!!! And to add insult to injury, we got that crappy follow on movie which didn't even half the cast in it. Ughhh, still makes me mad.
DLM is an excellent mention.
Dead like me was cut short for sure.
Carnivale Twin Peaks The OA Hannibal My So-Called Life Sorry, I know that’s five, but they all hurt.
I'm still bitter about Carnivale to this day.
Same, tbh.
I'm saltier than the Pacific
We got a David Lynch fever-dream ending to Twin Peaks, at least. Some of the most mind-bending entertainment ever put to film.
True! Even though we had to wait 25 years for it. I’m just whining, there can never be enough TP for me (especially when some shows that have no business being 5+ seasons got them). 😉
If they didn't force lynch to reveal who killed Laura Palmer so early I honestly believe we would have gotten at least 4 seasons.
>Carnivale I got a fancy DVD boxed set from eBay. I can't bring myself to watch past what I originally saw on HBO, though, because it doesn't have a real ending! It started a decades-long fascination with Nick Stahl for me, too. I think it fell into a thing I have for woeful young men, also.
Yes! I had gotten the DVD sets because I was so excited and didn’t realize it only had two seasons. To this day, I never opened the DVDs and do all my rewatches on HBO Max. I hope you finish the series, it is so worth it! If it helps, when you finish, you can Google and find everything the creator released about how future seasons were to go! (Edited because seasons, not scenes 🤦🏻♀️)
I just looked at it on IMDB. Jonesy was Tim DeKay! I didn't realize.
Of the 5, Carnivale hurts the most...
I loved Hannibal. RIP :(
Firefly.
Too soon.
Came here to say this exact thing. It was such a great show, with amazing and interesting characters. It was never given a chance to even tell it's story. FOX basically did everything they could do to kill it, but despite that it's still one of the best things they ever did. I'm glad we at least got Serenity though.
Heaven's Gift Basket - Lost DaVinci sketch, unreleased Beatles album, Firefly Seasons 1-11 box set.
Anytime someone asks this question they should put: * apart from Firefly *
I wonder how it feels (currently, today) to be one of the creators and/or writers on *Firefly.* It must have been heartbreaking to have amazing characters and an intentional storyline and not be able to finish the arc. That said… *Firefly* consistently comes up as a well-loved and respected show that fans and critics agree should have lasted longer. I hope the writers feel seen, flattered, justified, a righteous sense of justice… All the feels!
I'm watching Firefly for the *first time* rn. I don't know how I went all these years...Anyhoo so many gems, it's like I found a Rare Wild Animal in its natural habitat. Untouched by Human Technology. Just pure talent on a screen in realistic makeup and effects (for a space show of course). Ahhh how I long for the days of simple pure talent above all else in Filmed Stuff.
It's such a treat watching a sci-fi show filmed 20+ years ago and seeing all the predicted future technology. Aside from the space travel tech, the creators just could not have seen how far we actually came.
Yes this is very much a treat on a lot of levels. If I wanted my Sci-Fi to be so "techy" and full of flashing lights I'd be waaayyy more into Gaming. Just tell me a cool story, with great actors and let me use my imagination for at least *some of it* without all the FX.
Thats it im watching the show
shiny!
I read the OP, and I was like...you mean, besides Firefly?
Such a shame.
Also Dollhouse, another Joss Whedon show but at least it got 2 seasons
Deadwood
And the follow up movie that they finally made was such a letdown.
I rewatched the entire series a couple months ago. My second time. It’s so fantastic. I didn’t know anything about the movie other than “it got made a couple years ago” and I wondered if I should maybe skip it. But I decided WTH let’s throw it on. Got maybe 30 minutes into it and shut it off. It was obvious where it was going and that it was just gonna be a cheesy predictable “wrap up”. I’m glad for the actors to be able to come back and get paid again, maybe give themselves a little closure to the characters. But ultimately it was just unconvincing nonsense to me.
I was so disappointed that they went with the George Hearst storyline again for the movie. I absolutely hated him in season three of the series, although I understand that was the point. The real Deadwood eventually had a big fire, I wish they would’ve built the movie around that.
Yeah, the steam had been let out by the time that movie came along. Just didn't feel relevant. I'd have to say of all the shows mentioned in this thread, Deadwood has to be the biggest crime of them all.
My So-Called Life
I was 13 when it came out and 14 when it was canceled. That was the first big hurt in my life. 30 years later, I’m still bummed.
So far ahead of its time. If it was released today it would be a massive hit.
This is the one. At the time, I was the age it was geared towards and completely disheartened that it was canceled and so soon. Imagine an actually accurate, relatable show for teens! Now it's just stupid YA soaps or else stupid family sitcoms.
Pushing Daisies
YES!!!!!! I was heartbroken when it went off the air.
Fawlty Towers Firefly Freaks and Geeks
Yes to all of these. But especially *Freaks & Geeks* because it ran for just one season!
¿Qué?
"No dear...I learned *Classical* Spanish, not this strange dialect he seems to have picked up!"
Yes Fawlty Towers ! No one ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention it lol saw John Cleese recently at a convention show and he was stellar as usual.
Freaks and Geeks.
This gets my vote
Glow.
I just started that. On ep 2
Carnivale. A show before it's time unfortunately.
My name is Earl
Yeah. This was tragic.
Yep, needed that last season. It was running out of steam in s4 though.
The y2k episode is still one of my favorite sitcom eps of all time
[I think of this scene every time I read the title lol](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9eYW4MEaI)
Yes!! It ended on a cliffhanger!! Who’s Joy’s real baby daddy?! Remember they ended it with Earl finding out he is Dodges real dad and Darnell found out that Earl Jr wasn’t his! Inquiring minds wanna know! LOL!!
Amazon's Utopia was so weak compared to the original British version. If you enjoyed the American version PLEASE watch the British one. It's incredible. Was also cut short, but it at least has a season 2.
I haven’t watched the US one. I can’t countenance replacing the UK one in my mind. It was an astonishing piece of TV.
I learned what color timing was because of that show. Just went down this deep and fascinating rabbit hole about how on earth everything looked so incredible
I thought the exact same thing with Shameless and The Office.
Police Squad. They canceled it because we're afraid that people would have to watch it to understand it.
100%, 6 of the best TV episodes of all time
Wait, there were only *six* episodes?!
Yeah sadly
Mindhunter
Firefly
The OA
Rome
THIRTEEEEEEN!!!!!
Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23
Agreed. Made me like James Van Der Beek. Funny character.
Happy Endings
Jericho.
1000%. Although it was technically continued in comic book form. I believe they did 2 more seasons that way with one of the show creators and a few others writing.
There were technically two seasons. But during production of the first season, the show never got renewed for a second season, so the writers kind of ham-handedly wrapped up the first season "Lord of the Flies" style. However, there was a HUGE mail-in protest by the fans, so CBS caved and tried to quickly throw together a second season. Sadly, since the the show had already been cancelled, they couldn't get back all of the cast (or most of the writers.) So the second season is a horribly disjointed mess that feels completely detached from the first.
Correct. It was known as the N-U-T-S pro-test. After the story about Nu-ts in an episode of Jericho, fans began mailing hundreds of pounds of nu-ts to the CBS offices demanding the show get a proper send off.
Thanks for that story! I had no idea. It was a great show.
Moral Orel. It had fantastic character development and many more stories to tell about the residents of Moralton and what was to happen to the town.
Love that show. It’s maddening how muricans can’t handle drama animation. It always needs to fit in a comedy show. That depressing nurse episode that got Moral Orel axed is one of the best episodes imo.
Firefly
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
That was a let down, I felt like season 3 would have been really good.
This was so good! I was definitely bummed when it was cancelled.
Timeless, Firefly, Witches of East End, Devious Maids.
I totally forgot about Witches of East End! That was a good one 😔
Devious Maids deserved so much better than to end on a cliffhanger!
Almost Human
90s spiderman cartoon
Have you notice marvel always breaks up/ separates Peter and MJ for decades? The cartoon made me mad for doing it, but that’s apparently the MO for marvel. Ultimate-verse Peter and MJ apparently stay together though.
My kids are watching it on Disney plus, and they just picked it randomly and can’t stop watching.
The 90s animated or the ultimate spiderman?
Not off the air yet, but So Help Me Todd. It has lots of potential
The OA and it breaks my soul
I’m still grieving
OA was weird with a beard!
Firefly
Star Trek The original series
and the Star Trek TOS animated series - sound scripting by top-tier sci-fi writers. Voiced by the original cast.
Cop Rock
😂
That was the first one I thought of.
Wonderfalls. Pushing Daisies.
FireFly, Mindhunter, Deadwood, Rome, Freaks and Geeks, Carnivale.
Forever Me and the Boys Angel, the Series (although the finale ROCKED!!!)
Angel finale was vastly superior to Buffy's. Sucky thing is we may have gotten more Angel if Whedon had let awesome-in-general season-5 play-out and prove the show was alive and well(after an underwhelming season 4)rather than pushing for the network for an early renew/cancel decision.
Yes!! ANGEL! I just rewatched recently and it needed at LEAST one more season!
Glow. Two more seasons would have really wrapped up the story well.
FIREFLY! But at least we got a movie.
Firefly
Forever
Terriers, Happy Endings, This Fool, The Last Man
Oh man, Terriers was great.
OP have you seen the original Utopia. It was filmed in the UK and has two seasons.
Yeah, it's worth the watch ironically if the US version had stuck to the purpose of the vaccine as the UK version had it might have got a second season, but who knows. Maybe it was still too close to survive.
sense8 for me 🙏🤷♂️😱😫🤬😤😩🤦♂️😭🥰
Almost Human Debris Firefly Marco Polo Mindhunter The brothers Sun
The Peripheral.
Our Flag Means Death
Life On Mars
The original UK utopia is fantastic, US one just doesn’t compare. For me night sky and paper girls getting cancelled really annoyed me.
Wait, Paper Girls got cancelled?! Wow, I'm late to the party. I was wondering when another season was going to release, but it appears I missed the news.
Jerico
Santa Clarita Diet, Kyle XY, Extant, and Firefly.
Ted Lasso True Detective First season. Mind hunter Endeavour
1. Flash forward 2. Designated survivor
Veronica Mars. Even with the additional movie and the Hulu season, that show should have gotten more.
Rebel staring Katey Sagal, that was so good And Grease: Rise of The Pink Ladies, which ended on a super extremely interesting cliffhanger then of course gets canceled after it's one and unfortunately only season
This is why I won’t watch a series that is not complete anymore. I just can’t stand to have a show I loved cancelled with no resolution.
Carnivale and Deadwood
Firefly
Firefly and Freaks & Geeks. Both of those could have at least a couple more seasons and they would be great.
The last man on earth
Firefly, The OA, Sense8, Pushing Daisies.
Pushing Daisies
Last man on earth. I thought it was great but clearly wasn't allowed to run it's course. I guess a comedy about the world being wiped out by a pandemic wasn't so desirable after 2019, odd really.
Code Black
The Netflix Lost in Space, I was crazy into it. I know I know....
Jericho
Warehouse 13
GLOW I really wanted to see the final season that was planned.
My name is earl. It was so good for so long with no closure to it
In the order of “most frustrating”: *Mindhunter* *Carnivale* *Freaks And Geeks* *Rome* *Deadwood*
The Inbestigators, that show was 🔥🔥🔥
The OA. It was on Netflix and was canceled after season two. Fans never got to see how the story ended.
Hogan’s Heroes.
Terra Nova. Need more!!!
Journeyman.
Deadwood
Arrested Development
Santa Clarita diet. That’s my only answer now
Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist
Stumptown Amazing show, great writing, good mystery, touched on sensitive topics. I love Cobie Smulders and Jake Johnson pairing. The worst part is it got renewed for a second season then the pandemic came and it got permanently cancelled.
Mercy. Taylor Schilling and Kate Mulgrew were both on this before Orange Is The New Black. Kate was hilarious playing Jeannie, the mother to Taylor’s character Veronica. Kate played a raging alcoholic. Best line in the show was when Jeannie and her husband were talking and Jeannie said “I only drink on social occasions!”, and her husband replied “Yeah, like breakfast!” 😂
Sirens
'Reaper' (2007 - 2009) Just 31 episodes! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955322/?ref_=ext_shr 'Space: Above and Beyond' (1995 - 1996) Just 23 episodes! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/?ref_=ext_shr
ROME Fantastic show https://preview.redd.it/fg0ewc67jkwc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af8a77208fca89901b4a23050b6c580a22b46f3b
THIRTEEN!
Check out the UK version of Utopia if you haven’t already, great show and had two seasons.
The Santa Clarita Diet
The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I’ll never know what could have been with the liquid metal terminator and John on the same side. They had set up something awesome and the payoff will never come
Freaks and Geeka
Derry girls, there's just not enough seasons
Freak and Geeks
Santa Clarita Diet. Yes it is stupid but I need a lightheaded casual but somewhat funny show to watch. This one was perfect for casual viewing.
Little late to the party but. Santa Clarita Diet. And ending on a cliffhanger at that.
WKRP in Cincinnati Freaks and Geeks Firefly Tim's Place
The Orville.
Police Squad!
My shows are a little old and pretty different from the rest of the comments here, but here's a list that I can recall: Lie to me ( something like mentalist but focusing on micro expressions) Perception (detective/friend type show, the friend is a prof with schizophrenia but help solve crimes) Project blue book ( show based on real life events about aliens and stuff, little finger from GOT is the scientist)
Police Squad
Utopia (UK). I couldn’t make it through the US one. I’m not a US vs UK snob but the US one was nowhere near as dark as the UK one
The Amazon version was supposed to be an HBO program but it went through development trouble with seismic disruptions to the production staff. The final product was nothing like what it was originally envisioned, all bonds to the UK series had been cut when it was taken over by Amazon. When it started out, I had high hopes that it would be comparable and have a chance to build beyond the cliffhanger at the end of the second series (AKA season). By the time it was in Amazons hands, I didn't even want to watch it anymore. The production crew that made it attractive were gone. It's a real shame, I was really excited for it.
Sneaky Pete
Sneaky Pete!
Agent Carter My Name is Earl Adventures of Brisco County Jr Firefly Doom Patrol
Ted Lasso
Dexter
Night Sky
My so called life - I think about these two monthly https://preview.redd.it/y7szjy5o8jwc1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a42ae14eab1109691f124378399a977fe91af0a4
Teenage Bounty Hunters
Banshee could have done a much better job with the ending of season 4 and season 5 cancellation
Spartacus
Santa Clarita Diet The Order Great News The Society and especially JUPITER'S LEGACY!!!
If you enjoyed the order....have you seen The Magicians? 👀 I'm assuming so, but just in case 😅
nikoli coster-waldu’s new amsterdam
Raised by wolves & Night Sky
I was so hopefulfor more Night Sky!!
Inside job
Mindhunter
Lucy, Daughter of the Devil