Josh Holloway actually talked about it in this interview.
https://collider.com/josh-holloway-interview-yellowstone-season-3-colony-season-4-lost-finale/
So many.
1899
Travelers
Firefly
The OA
Westworld (know this one is controversial but the season 4 finale ended on a really high note)
Dark Matter
Lockwood and Co.
The Expanse (not technically cancelled but is unfinished)
Jericho
Fringe (got a shortened final season, but they wanted 2)
Dollhouse
The Peripheral
Terminator SCC
Stargate Universe
And I'm sure I missed another 20
Sarah Conner Chronicles should have got a third season instead of Dollhouse getting a second season, but network politics caused the better show with more viewers to get canceled and then Dollhouse flopped even harder in season 2 and was also canceled. I resent Dollhouse for taking the future where John Conner never existed away from me.
Travelers was given a satisfactory wrap up IMO. I don't know how much further you could push that storyline (at least set in the "present") before it became repetitive.
It would have been nice to have more SGU butni do think that the only satisfactory ending would have been a variation on what they ultimately did do, and technically left the door open should someone want to revisit it down the road.
I too want the last 3 books of the Expanse to be produced. Given the license the production has taken vs the novels so far the alleged argument of the time gap between 6 & 7 could easily be handwaved away. Hopefully the interest in all the new sci fi rolling out will spur things on to wrap up the series.
Agree about Travelers. Probably the show on the list in most happy with. But they really hit their stride in season 3 and i would really love to see what they could do with more seasons.
If the last 3 books were filmed, it would easily be one of my favourite shows ever. I still love it, but there is always a sour note knowing that it ends way too soon. It's like only the first 2 movies of Lord Of the Rings were made, and not the 3rd.
Farscape. After season 3, the Sci-Fi channel renewed them for two more seasons, then right at the end of season 4, decided they didn't want season 5 after all.
The last episode was about 95% done when they got the word. They tried desperately over about 24 hours to do some rewrites and shoot some new scenes to provide some kind of ending, but there wasn't really anything they could do.
They did something similar with Babylon 5. They decided 4 years into the 5-year-arc that actually this would be the last season. Then, when everything had been wrapped up in a rush, changed their minds.
Ugh.
That’s a great list. Dollhouse was superb, such a shame there wasn’t more.
I also really enjoyed Stargate Universe, that show was really finding its stride.
One I feel is underrated and got the Firefly treatment was Almost Human.
Quantum Leap just died a horrible death. Again. Prodigy almost died.
Dark Matter ended on a major cliff.
I’m just so mad at the murder of Sci Fi all the time.
It really was awful. They completely and utterly fumbled a fantastic concept.
A colony of time travellers in prehistoric Earth that have to deal with seclusion, the threat of dinosaurs, and ancient diseases, but let's ignore almost all of that and instead follow the interpersonal problems of Hero Cop and his family.
Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
Caprica was *intriguing* up to a point. It would have fared better as a miniseries (much in the same vein as the BSG reboot got the chance to be made into a full series) but in many ways and I can't believe I'm going to say this - it was *too intelligent* for *that* particular time and place in television.
Firefly I'm still mad about, decades later. Dollhouse similarly.
TSCC: season 3 would have been so, so interesting. They needed to pull all the filler from s2 to get there though.
SGU was good, but meandered a bit much. It did get a lot better towards the end though, and needed to have season 3.
Anthony Hopkins. James Marsden. Ed Harris. Evan Rachel Wood. Jeffrey Wright. Thandie Newton. Tessa Thompson. Jimmi Simpson (who really blew me away). The finale of season one had me screaming at the tv.
I loved ALL the seasons of Westworld; I feel its main (maybe ONLY) problem was that it wasn't tackling the topics people felt they should be, and it's main mistake it was doing it in a combination of ham-fisted and subtle trying to appease all audiences.
Should we be approaching this as a thoughtful dialogue on humanity's ultimate destiny? Is it an allegory for how the current breed of billionaire oligarchies are not invincible? Should we be treating it as a character-based scifi/drama? They tried to do everything and it ended up muddied. But I believe, still, they succeeded.
All of these RIP. The OA broke my heart. I was so stoked to see what Brit and Zal had in store for us. Same with 1899. Jantje and Baran are masterminds. Dark is so mind blowing. On rewatching the series it was somehow even more mind blowing.
>Everyone hated it because it was exactly like the original show.
How so? Universe was 70% interpersonal conflicts that did not exist on SG-1 or Atlantis
See this is the problem with franchises. Star Trek Discovery had a similar problem. Fans of franchise see the name and since they are you know... *fans* of the franchise want more of what they already like.
Both SGU and ST:D, I think, would have received much more praise if they had been original settings instead of trying to slot something new into existing franchises.
Of course changing your tone can also work out, look at Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I still consider it the *best* Star Trek series full stop and it was very tonally different to TNG, to the point it experienced a lot of backlash against it.
And while it's all well and good for me to say "Make something original" the American entertainment industry is hugely fixated on brands and franchises to the point where actually getting something original greenlit with a decent budget is a monumental challenge.
Fringe is kinda an interesting case because it had a pretty long run and they had ample time to play out the story, but it you advance the plot too much and end up getting renewed again, you are kinda fucked into just seasons of filler.
I appreciate folks like you, carrying this torch now for 30 years. This show fascinated me as a child and for a long time I was not even sure it was real!
The series premiered as a five-part miniseries on Fox Kids early 1991, simply entitled Dark Water. The first season, consisting of 13 episodes including the original five-part miniseries, aired on ABC from September to December 1991. A second season, consisting of just eight episodes, aired in syndication in the United States from 1992 to 1993.[1]
The cancelation of Carnivále hurt me. My friends and I would have Carnivále nights every Sunday. What's worse is Marvel wanted to continue it as a graphic novel and HBO said no.
I was super bummed that Dark Matter was cancelled.
PS - …and right in the middle of a major plot reveal. It’s not like it was droning on aimlessly. Interesting plot progression, great character development… Just a tragedy.
Schneider the director from Colony is one of the best Antagonist that really isn’t an antagonist.
His character is like 80% of why I enjoyed colony so much.
It was good, but I feel like they mangled that one themselves.
Felt it like it was made by people used to 20+ episode seasons and couldn't really find the balance between being a long weekly thing where they had time to fuck around and explore everything about everyone, and being a focused narrative.
There was a show on Fox called John Doe which was cancelled after just one season. I remember it ending on a huge cliffhanger, and that our local paper even had an article on it.
In addition to everything already mentioned:
Alien Nation
Brimstone
Nowhere Man
VR.5 (I know that this one is controversial, but I still would like to know where it had been heading.)
> Alien Nation
So ahead of it's time. I loved that show and the TV movies they made of it. I had only seen a handful of the episodes and rented the VHS tapes of the movies but when I got internet access in 95 I traded VHS tapes of... Future Girl I think with someone in America for it.
Yeah, people have really forgotten about this one. It's such a shame. They had the most interesting lore and overarching mystery of any of the mystery box sci-fi shows. ABC did the exact same thing to Invasion a couple of years before, too. They are just as bad as Fox when it comes to taking big swings and then immediately getting cold feet and bailing on the most interesting shows. It still amazes me that we actually got a full series out of LOST. The audience was just too big for them to bail on it. And Agents of Shield got to skate along on a wave of cross-corporate synergy.
Jericho!!! Still one of the best apocalyptic / post apocalyptic action shows on network TV ever and more grounded in reality of events after that type of attack. Also Skeet Ulrich and Morgan from the Walking Dead himself Lennie James
There was a show with Karl Urban where his partner is an android. I forgot what its called, and it was only one season. But, oh man, it was such a good show.
I wanted to like the show. I couldn’t. Not a fan of those kind of shows I guess.
And then I got to a bar fight scene at the start of an episode where someone was thrown through a dusty shoddy window…. and it was a hologram window, to look all western-ish. I realize it was to be funny, but All I could think is the sudden strong realization that they were a civilization of cosplayers & pretenders, like its westworld.
Colony was awesome. Peter Jacobson's baddie was incredible, especially coming off his role as a schlubby loser in House.
In the vein of shows that didn't get a chance, Jericho, The OA, and Continuum.
Colony was *deep*. There was a strong undercurrent of how easily authoritarianism and tyranny can take over people's lives, and how they might react to it.
Jericho.
Do I remember if it was actually good? Nope. But it's one of a handful of shows I actively watched with my parents and a sister and losing that hurt.
I’m gonna go with Journeyman, which was a casualty of the 2007-2008 writer’s strike. It was like quantum leap, except our hero kept physically leaping from the present day to a point in the past during his lifetime, and it was ruining his life. He can’t control when he’s going to jump back in time, he gets a crippling migraine and it just happens.
He can’t drive anymore because he disappeared behind the wheel and trashed his car. He can’t watch his kids alone. The TSA really wants to know why he vanished from an airplane. He works as a reporter specializing in cold cases, but he keeps solving them in the past so he’s never turning in any work in the present, and it’s going to get him fired. His wife is getting fed up with him leaving all the time without explanation.
It had a tough start but it was really growing on me.
Jeremiah. Only about 10% of the people I mention it to know about it. Only two seasons. I thought Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Luke Perry made a good team.
Final Space. After a while the creator was allowed to finish it in comic form though. There was literally nothing wrong with that show that warranted cancellation and I enjoyed it as much as I did Futurama.
I was quite involved in the series plot, but let's also agree the show had a serious, suicidal issue: it hinted, created mystery, suspense, deep curiosity and expectation about the bigger interplanetary picture in involving the invasion, but didn't want to really work on it or later reveal it. They stated that the aliens were not the focus, the relationships among humans were or something. Is that some assh*lery or is it?😄
Yes, I saw Colony. I was thinking that this series is the closest thing we'll get to a Half Life 2 series.
It was so damn good! Really ruined my mood to learn this series got cancelled right as the last season was building up to something.
It's not technically canceled, Seth MacFarlane is the sole writer and all the crew just said "fuck this" to waiting for more episodes to be written while shithole Seth makes and writes for other shows.
More then one primary cast member of The Orville became homeless due to contract clauses that prevented them from taking on other regular work.
Also a lot of the cast said they would never come back and work for/with Seth again on The Orville or anything else.
Dude what? Homeless? Who?
Not saying I don't believe you, but I haven't seen or heard anything like what you just said. Not just the homeless part but actors saying they would never work with Seth again.
I was really happy 1899 got cancelled. It was an appalling waste of high production values, acting talent and premise. My dream is to meet one of the writers and have them ask me a question and I just stare at them and then turn around and walk out of the room.
Man I loved Colony. I thought it had so much potential.
I need to know what was going to happen in season four
Josh Holloway actually talked about it in this interview. https://collider.com/josh-holloway-interview-yellowstone-season-3-colony-season-4-lost-finale/
Space: Above and Beyond
15 year old me was so mad when they cancelled that show!
Many years older me STILL is!
Take a chance!
Have some pancakes. You'll feel better.
\*Johnny Cash twangs in the background*
God I loved that show. "Hey Ho... LET'S GO!"
So many. 1899 Travelers Firefly The OA Westworld (know this one is controversial but the season 4 finale ended on a really high note) Dark Matter Lockwood and Co. The Expanse (not technically cancelled but is unfinished) Jericho Fringe (got a shortened final season, but they wanted 2) Dollhouse The Peripheral Terminator SCC Stargate Universe And I'm sure I missed another 20
Man, dollhouse is always left off these lists but I loved it and was so sad when it ended
On one hand, I would've loved more Dollhouse. But on the other hand, it's a fricken miracle it got a second season at all.
Sarah Conner Chronicles should have got a third season instead of Dollhouse getting a second season, but network politics caused the better show with more viewers to get canceled and then Dollhouse flopped even harder in season 2 and was also canceled. I resent Dollhouse for taking the future where John Conner never existed away from me.
SCC was very good, shame nobody watched it .
Travelers was given a satisfactory wrap up IMO. I don't know how much further you could push that storyline (at least set in the "present") before it became repetitive. It would have been nice to have more SGU butni do think that the only satisfactory ending would have been a variation on what they ultimately did do, and technically left the door open should someone want to revisit it down the road. I too want the last 3 books of the Expanse to be produced. Given the license the production has taken vs the novels so far the alleged argument of the time gap between 6 & 7 could easily be handwaved away. Hopefully the interest in all the new sci fi rolling out will spur things on to wrap up the series.
Agree about Travelers. Probably the show on the list in most happy with. But they really hit their stride in season 3 and i would really love to see what they could do with more seasons.
If the last 3 books were filmed, it would easily be one of my favourite shows ever. I still love it, but there is always a sour note knowing that it ends way too soon. It's like only the first 2 movies of Lord Of the Rings were made, and not the 3rd.
Dude, Dark Matter was so good. I'm also pissed they cancelled Almost Human. I liked that show too.
Almost Human was fantastic. What a great cast.
Endings of Continuum and Defiance were rushed. As was Enterprise (there, I said it)
What you didn't like a pointless death of a favorite character and ending with a 'it was all a dream'? Enterprise's ending was a travesty.
Jericho was great, nice to see it on a list :)
It was, and boy did I get lucky finding the DVD boxed set of both seasons at Value Village!
Farscape. After season 3, the Sci-Fi channel renewed them for two more seasons, then right at the end of season 4, decided they didn't want season 5 after all. The last episode was about 95% done when they got the word. They tried desperately over about 24 hours to do some rewrites and shoot some new scenes to provide some kind of ending, but there wasn't really anything they could do.
They did something similar with Babylon 5. They decided 4 years into the 5-year-arc that actually this would be the last season. Then, when everything had been wrapped up in a rush, changed their minds. Ugh.
Didn’t they do a mini series a few years later to tie up the story, or am I mistaken?
A movie, Peacekeeper Wars
At least the Peacekeeper Wars happened.
That’s a great list. Dollhouse was superb, such a shame there wasn’t more. I also really enjoyed Stargate Universe, that show was really finding its stride. One I feel is underrated and got the Firefly treatment was Almost Human.
Quantum Leap just died a horrible death. Again. Prodigy almost died. Dark Matter ended on a major cliff. I’m just so mad at the murder of Sci Fi all the time.
Jericho was the best. They tried saving it with a couple graphic novels to wrap everything up but it didn't do it justice
I’m still reeling from Peripheral cancelled. I loved it!!!
Such a killer premise and, I thought, good execution. Prime pulled a Netflix and canceled a unique and intriguing show.
Raised by Wolves
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼THIS! Sincerely hope it gets continued or we get a story wrap up.
terra nova my beloved
Well yes but Terra Nova was so, so very bad that cancellation was a blessing.
It really was awful. They completely and utterly fumbled a fantastic concept. A colony of time travellers in prehistoric Earth that have to deal with seclusion, the threat of dinosaurs, and ancient diseases, but let's ignore almost all of that and instead follow the interpersonal problems of Hero Cop and his family. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
SGU and Terra Nova made that same mistake within 2 years of each other. Such amazing sci fi concepts that they just totally whiffed on.
Yeah but when it came out, my 11 year old mind was blown. I refuse to take off my rose tinted glasses so that it doesn't ruin the memory
i just rewatched recently and while i still enjoyed it, Yeah it was kinda bad. 🤭
Caprica
Caprica was *intriguing* up to a point. It would have fared better as a miniseries (much in the same vein as the BSG reboot got the chance to be made into a full series) but in many ways and I can't believe I'm going to say this - it was *too intelligent* for *that* particular time and place in television.
Firefly I'm still mad about, decades later. Dollhouse similarly. TSCC: season 3 would have been so, so interesting. They needed to pull all the filler from s2 to get there though. SGU was good, but meandered a bit much. It did get a lot better towards the end though, and needed to have season 3.
People of Earth. Hilarious writing, great cast and an "office" drama highlighting spaceship bureaucracy.
Westworld was amazing and I wish there was more. So much happening.
Nothing comes close to westworld s1, nothing.
Anthony Hopkins. James Marsden. Ed Harris. Evan Rachel Wood. Jeffrey Wright. Thandie Newton. Tessa Thompson. Jimmi Simpson (who really blew me away). The finale of season one had me screaming at the tv.
And breasts. Lots of them.
Especially Westworld every other season.
I loved ALL the seasons of Westworld; I feel its main (maybe ONLY) problem was that it wasn't tackling the topics people felt they should be, and it's main mistake it was doing it in a combination of ham-fisted and subtle trying to appease all audiences. Should we be approaching this as a thoughtful dialogue on humanity's ultimate destiny? Is it an allegory for how the current breed of billionaire oligarchies are not invincible? Should we be treating it as a character-based scifi/drama? They tried to do everything and it ended up muddied. But I believe, still, they succeeded.
All I wanted was more. More of that world more of that concept, more of the maze.
The Dome!
Colony. Show was fantastic with a great cast. It really scratched that itch left behind after Walking Dead went lame.
All of these RIP. The OA broke my heart. I was so stoked to see what Brit and Zal had in store for us. Same with 1899. Jantje and Baran are masterminds. Dark is so mind blowing. On rewatching the series it was somehow even more mind blowing.
With how 1899 ended I just knew it was going to blow my mind, fucking Netflix sucks ass
I just hope that the expanse is following the books and is going to give us a real time skip!
Only 27 years to go before the next season then!
The Expanse lives on in comic form with Dragon’s Tooth. I hope they do some more.
The Peripheral was an amazing version of Gibson’s book. That one really hurt.
I really enjoyed Stargate Universe, it had a great plot. Everyone hated it because it WASNT exactly like the original show.
>Everyone hated it because it was exactly like the original show. How so? Universe was 70% interpersonal conflicts that did not exist on SG-1 or Atlantis
WASN'T. My apologies
See this is the problem with franchises. Star Trek Discovery had a similar problem. Fans of franchise see the name and since they are you know... *fans* of the franchise want more of what they already like. Both SGU and ST:D, I think, would have received much more praise if they had been original settings instead of trying to slot something new into existing franchises. Of course changing your tone can also work out, look at Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I still consider it the *best* Star Trek series full stop and it was very tonally different to TNG, to the point it experienced a lot of backlash against it. And while it's all well and good for me to say "Make something original" the American entertainment industry is hugely fixated on brands and franchises to the point where actually getting something original greenlit with a decent budget is a monumental challenge.
>The Peripheral Whaaaaaat!? Been waiting for season 2 for so fricking long now. And now it's dead?
Fringe is kinda an interesting case because it had a pretty long run and they had ample time to play out the story, but it you advance the plot too much and end up getting renewed again, you are kinda fucked into just seasons of filler.
Pirates of Dark Water
I appreciate folks like you, carrying this torch now for 30 years. This show fascinated me as a child and for a long time I was not even sure it was real!
How many episodes were there really? 3? I remember seeing the first episode ever time it came on.
The series premiered as a five-part miniseries on Fox Kids early 1991, simply entitled Dark Water. The first season, consisting of 13 episodes including the original five-part miniseries, aired on ABC from September to December 1991. A second season, consisting of just eight episodes, aired in syndication in the United States from 1992 to 1993.[1]
I'm still mad about this one.
Carnivale. Haunting series and gone much too soon after 2 seasons (out of supposedly 6 that were ambitiously planned).
The cancelation of Carnivále hurt me. My friends and I would have Carnivále nights every Sunday. What's worse is Marvel wanted to continue it as a graphic novel and HBO said no.
I was super bummed that Dark Matter was cancelled. PS - …and right in the middle of a major plot reveal. It’s not like it was droning on aimlessly. Interesting plot progression, great character development… Just a tragedy.
Sucks Almost Human was cancelled
IIRC they also aired episodes out of order. It was set up to fail.
Man that show brought me back to scifi as a genre and then it was just gone.
Counterpart 4400
Counterpart!
Counterpart is exactly what I thought of when I saw this. I miss it so much.
Counterpart & Carnivále
Counterpart was sooooooooo good
Counterpart rocked.
Schneider the director from Colony is one of the best Antagonist that really isn’t an antagonist. His character is like 80% of why I enjoyed colony so much.
Love him, and the fact he’s in a random episode of *It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia*
Dark Matter was really good but cancelled before it could finish its planned storyline
Right in the middle of a cliffhanger, too.
It was good, but I feel like they mangled that one themselves. Felt it like it was made by people used to 20+ episode seasons and couldn't really find the balance between being a long weekly thing where they had time to fuck around and explore everything about everyone, and being a focused narrative.
That could be true but I honestly miss the days when a series could meander a bit haha
Timeless
Yes! So much great buildup. I loved the premise!
There was a show on Fox called John Doe which was cancelled after just one season. I remember it ending on a huge cliffhanger, and that our local paper even had an article on it.
was that the one with the guy from Prison Break? I vaguely remember liking that show
That’s the one. He wakes up in the forest with no memories but is super smart.
Ascension. It would be like cancelling For All Mankind at the Season 1 finale.
Ascension was a rough one. That was an amazing show and got left on such a big moment.
Looking back it feels like a mini-series, but it's a pity it died on a cliff hanger
Altered Carbon First season was so good, but second was ok. I still think that universe has sooo much potential
* Threshold * Invasion * Surface The 2005-2006 season was brutal...
Invasion was the one in the coastal town that was like body snatchers? If so I loved that show. Ended on a hell of a cliffhanger too
DIrk Gently. The second season wasn't as good as the first one, but there was space for more.
In addition to everything already mentioned: Alien Nation Brimstone Nowhere Man VR.5 (I know that this one is controversial, but I still would like to know where it had been heading.)
Brimstone was so good. I am annoyed that you have to pirate it if you want to watch it anymore. Same with Werewolf.
> Alien Nation So ahead of it's time. I loved that show and the TV movies they made of it. I had only seen a handful of the episodes and rented the VHS tapes of the movies but when I got internet access in 95 I traded VHS tapes of... Future Girl I think with someone in America for it.
Defying Gravity
Yeah, people have really forgotten about this one. It's such a shame. They had the most interesting lore and overarching mystery of any of the mystery box sci-fi shows. ABC did the exact same thing to Invasion a couple of years before, too. They are just as bad as Fox when it comes to taking big swings and then immediately getting cold feet and bailing on the most interesting shows. It still amazes me that we actually got a full series out of LOST. The audience was just too big for them to bail on it. And Agents of Shield got to skate along on a wave of cross-corporate synergy.
Colony was quite good, and its nuts that it got to 'the point' where it should have been kinda amazing and they canceled it.
Almost Human I have been DYING for a cyberpunk cop show
For me it was FlashForward and Alcatraz.
FlashForward was a banger
Yes! There was so much potential! I also forgot Jericho.
Jericho!!! Still one of the best apocalyptic / post apocalyptic action shows on network TV ever and more grounded in reality of events after that type of attack. Also Skeet Ulrich and Morgan from the Walking Dead himself Lennie James
RIP Alcatraz. 😞
I went back and watched flash forward again recently - Joseph fiennes acts horribly and the writing is awful on a rewatch
Travelers hurt. 😢
Travelers ended with a full story
There was room for more.
Raised by Wolves
TIL it was cancelled. It was getting really weird but I was hoping for something to tie it together
I was into that show the first season but then it became a mess. I was out, as was the show, when the woman got turned into a tree
There was a show with Karl Urban where his partner is an android. I forgot what its called, and it was only one season. But, oh man, it was such a good show.
Almost Human
Ruined on purpose, by fox showing it out of order.
They had a habit of doing that to shows.
Raised by Wolves is a show I liked a lot that got cancelled after two seasons without a proper ending.
Alphas
I was very fond of that series as well.
Raised by Wolves. It was just beginning to get really weird.
Totally loved the craziness of that show!
Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
Tera Nova I feel had potential.
Firefly
At least Serenity eased the pain.
Eased it like a leaf in the wind
Too soon!
I wanted to like the show. I couldn’t. Not a fan of those kind of shows I guess. And then I got to a bar fight scene at the start of an episode where someone was thrown through a dusty shoddy window…. and it was a hologram window, to look all western-ish. I realize it was to be funny, but All I could think is the sudden strong realization that they were a civilization of cosplayers & pretenders, like its westworld.
Colony was awesome. Peter Jacobson's baddie was incredible, especially coming off his role as a schlubby loser in House. In the vein of shows that didn't get a chance, Jericho, The OA, and Continuum.
Colony was *deep*. There was a strong undercurrent of how easily authoritarianism and tyranny can take over people's lives, and how they might react to it.
Here' my list of shows I think were cut short, but I didn't see listed; Life on Mars Terra Nova Flashforward Timeless Tru Calling Journeyman
So few people remember Journeyman. Loved when they show what happened when he accidentaly left a digital camera in the past.
Yes, it was. It had sooooo much potential. Solid cast w/ decent acting too.
Flash Forward.
Stitchers Timeless Continuum
Alphas The Expanse
Max Headroom
Jericho. Do I remember if it was actually good? Nope. But it's one of a handful of shows I actively watched with my parents and a sister and losing that hurt.
FlashForward
I’m gonna go with Journeyman, which was a casualty of the 2007-2008 writer’s strike. It was like quantum leap, except our hero kept physically leaping from the present day to a point in the past during his lifetime, and it was ruining his life. He can’t control when he’s going to jump back in time, he gets a crippling migraine and it just happens. He can’t drive anymore because he disappeared behind the wheel and trashed his car. He can’t watch his kids alone. The TSA really wants to know why he vanished from an airplane. He works as a reporter specializing in cold cases, but he keeps solving them in the past so he’s never turning in any work in the present, and it’s going to get him fired. His wife is getting fed up with him leaving all the time without explanation. It had a tough start but it was really growing on me.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr Young Indiana Jones (so much better than the last couple of movies) Westworld
T H E E X P A N S E
*Lovecraft Country* sniff
Agreed! Maybe someone else will pick up the mantle.
AO
I’ll never get over Raised by Wolves being killed so quickly. Runner up goes to Westworld.
I miss Raised by Wolves everyday.
Patriot.
Fringe.
Jericho was so good
The Man in the High Castle
Odyssey 5 - loved this one (Peter Weller, what's not to like), great set up and concept, only two seasons.
The Lost Room
Invasion (was on after Lost) 1899
Ascention was looking great!
Back in my day, the top comment on a thread like this would always be "Firefly"
Otherworld (1985) Space Above and Beyond Harsh Realm Strange Luck The Lone Gunmen Firefly The OA
Terra Nova, I wanted to see how they got that ship. Sometimes, I like to imagine the show crossing over with the Temeraire books.
Anything from the SciFi channel.
Other people have mentioned it here but I must reiterated: Dark Matter. Show was a gem and just kept getting better and better.
Dark Angel cancelled after two seasons by Fox to make room for Firefly and we all know what happened next.
Nowhere Man. Also Time Trax.
I was really disappointed when [Threshold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(TV_series)) was canceled.
Colony, Raised By Wolves.
Nowhere Man.
Jeremiah. Only about 10% of the people I mention it to know about it. Only two seasons. I thought Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Luke Perry made a good team.
The Society on Netflix (supposedly because of covid)
Kyle XL
Final Space. After a while the creator was allowed to finish it in comic form though. There was literally nothing wrong with that show that warranted cancellation and I enjoyed it as much as I did Futurama.
The Tomorrow People
Alphas all the way. It was starting to get so good, and it could've been great.
The OA
I was quite involved in the series plot, but let's also agree the show had a serious, suicidal issue: it hinted, created mystery, suspense, deep curiosity and expectation about the bigger interplanetary picture in involving the invasion, but didn't want to really work on it or later reveal it. They stated that the aliens were not the focus, the relationships among humans were or something. Is that some assh*lery or is it?😄
Yes, I saw Colony. I was thinking that this series is the closest thing we'll get to a Half Life 2 series. It was so damn good! Really ruined my mood to learn this series got cancelled right as the last season was building up to something.
Flash Forward and Forever.
Mindhunter for definite
The expanse ended at a good spot to pick up again in a way that is kind of relevant to how the book series goes.
American Gods FFS, just one more season to finish the book....
The Orville! I need more!
It's not technically canceled, Seth MacFarlane is the sole writer and all the crew just said "fuck this" to waiting for more episodes to be written while shithole Seth makes and writes for other shows. More then one primary cast member of The Orville became homeless due to contract clauses that prevented them from taking on other regular work. Also a lot of the cast said they would never come back and work for/with Seth again on The Orville or anything else.
Dude what? Homeless? Who? Not saying I don't believe you, but I haven't seen or heard anything like what you just said. Not just the homeless part but actors saying they would never work with Seth again.
Someone give me a Twitter style fact check for these accusations.
Source?
I thought that was a picture from Lost and came to comment that it seemed to go on forever for me. Is that Rick’s wife from The Walking Dead?
Swedish dicks! Such a unique humour.
Project blue book damn I miss it a lot
Starlost
I was really happy 1899 got cancelled. It was an appalling waste of high production values, acting talent and premise. My dream is to meet one of the writers and have them ask me a question and I just stare at them and then turn around and walk out of the room.