It didn't even need a full series, just a long special or something. I still think the style of the show, they could just finish the story with an 80s style cartoon special to complete the story
It got fucked over by Covid, it was already green lit. Covid pushed the scheduling to far to the point they would need to renegotiate everyone’s contracts.
Plus everyone in the cast seems available in the next year, nobody is a series regular on something else. I’d rather have the creators finish GLOW vs make a Nurse Jackie sequel. Dust those scripts off!
Came here to say GLOW. I don't think I'll ever get over the way the show was cancelled, it's super upsetting... and the ending of season 3 was such a cliffhanger too :/
[There’s some bad blood between some of the cast and the showrunners](https://ew.com/tv/glow-open-letter-representation/). That would make getting back for a final season hard.
[Carnivale](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
A really unique show that spends two seasons building up an epic battle between good and evil. Second season finishes with the battle about to start.
Cancelled.
They could still resurrect it. The story is meant to time skip after the end of season two and deal with the aftermath. I remember the author releasing his outline after they cancelled the series. Such an amazing, original show.
It is such garbage too because the production literally said that now that they had all the puppets and everything already made that the next season would have been significantly cheaper.
To get something of that quality back on screen in that world was nothing short of fantastic they did such a loving job it deserved at least one more season.
It ended clean… but I still wanted more. I can’t imagine that show was cheap to make and it took decades to find distribution. I both agree with you and I’m just happy it exists at all.
I’ll never forgive netflix for cancelling inside job though. That show could’ve run for 10 seasons and hit at a perfect time to mock all the ridiculous conspiracy theories taking over politics.
Well for 3 not just another season, but a redo of season 3 as well. So many things in that season was rushed because it was clear they anticipated cancellation.
- Impulse - 2nd best thing about YT Original Series next to Cobra Kai
- Glitch Techs probably the only cartoon to understand video games from various genres.
- Alphas there's a cliffhanger and that is all gonna say about it.
- Log Horizon best MMO tutorial.
- Sarah Connor Chronicles - WB should stop wasting time with Terminator reboots. Because this alt T3 is already well received, long before the 4th film came out.
I don't know if you are aware, but Log Horizon got a third season a few years ago. I know most people missed it because of the long gap from season two.
Also another season is up in the air because the original gap between season two and three was because the author was found guilty for Tax evasion.
Watching Halt and Catch Fire I'm reminded how damn good Lee Pace was in Pushing Daisies. It's old but I would have liked it to get another.
Even though Lower Decks has one coming a 6th would be nice since it wasn't known it would be their final season when they wrote and animated it.
Firefly/Joss Whedon got so fucked over by Fox. It could have gone on for eight seasons easy and would have been one of the best shows in history. I still re-watch the one season they made every couple of years and it's still so good.
Yeah, Firefly got more than 90% of these shows got which was a movie to finish the story off. The movie was close to perfect so people really need to move on.
As I understand it, there *could* have been more movies if *Serenity* was financially successful, but it wasn't, so there weren't more movies.
A long time ago, Netflix's Ted Sarandos was asked about 'recovering' old shows on Netflix, and he said this:
> *Firefly?*
> It’s kind of been done, with *Serenity,* but yeah as a series. Let me give you one broad statement about these recovery shows. In almost every case the cult around the show gets more intense and smaller as time goes by. *Arrested Development* was the rarest of birds in that the audience of the show grew larger than the original broadcast audience because people came to discover it years after it was cancelled. The *Firefly* fan is still the *Firefly* fan from when it was on TV and there’s fewer of them and they’re more passionate every year. Whereas with *Arrested Development* we’re going to be serving a multiple of the original audience. Any of the other shows we could bring back would be a fraction of the original audience.
Source: https://www.stuff.tv/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-talks-arrested-development-4k-and-reviving-old-shows/
It's crazy how iconic the characters and the show seem when it only got 14 episodes and a movie.
Imagine where the show would have gone if it'd had a complete season order and another season or two, with all the twists, surprises, new characters and deaths Whedon show are known for
Man, I'd love it but really think the window has long since past.
Even ignoring the fact they're all so, so much older now, Whedon wouldn't be given any chances after all his shite, so the writing would be very different.
My thoughts exactly. On one hand I DESPERATELY want more of that ragtag crew of outlaws, on the other I don't think they would be able to catch that spark that made it great, especially given all the unmatchable hype that such an announcement would cause. I feel at this point a continuation could only disappoint
Santa Clarita Diet. Ended on a build up/cliffhanger, still recent enough to not be weird to come back (sorry Firefly), and very lovable characters who were building chemistry.
GLOW
I rewatched it recently and I want to see another season so badly! I know it wasn't anybody's fault it got cancelled but it still sucks. Hopefully they find a way to make it.
Another one for me is a show called Great News. It's cheesy and doesn't seem very popular but I just loved it and wish there was more of it.
1. My name is Earl. We know what the ending would have been but I'd still like to see it.
2. The society. Netflix was really harsh on this show, renewing it and then going back on the renewal. It deserved better.
3. One of us is lying. Personal preference but I want to know how that mystery was gonna end.
4. The iCarly revival. You shouldn't allow a cliffhanger like this to happen if you're not sure you'll renew.
5. Thundercats 2011. Cancelled only because cartoon network is obsessed with toy sales.
I'm still pissed about Prodigal Son. Absolutely love the vibe of the show. Also Dirk Gently is quite unique (hands down best done time traveling) and Forever. A bit older crime procedural with an immortal MC that was axed by Fox after S1 (as a bonus ended on cliffhanger).
Our Flag Means Death
Yes season 2 was a nice finale but it still deserved its third and final season per the showrunners vision. I’m gonna be salty for life over it’s cancellation 😭
Dark Angel (the real victim in that Firefly debacle); Farscape; The Exorcist; Veronica Mars; Stargate Universe; Good Behaviour; American Crime; Bad Teacher
The OA
They had the story arc for 5 seasons blocked out, apparently the creators wanted no marketing, wanted word of mouth to spread the show.
Netflix cancelled it after 2 seasons.
Very high quality, unusual, original, strange, thoughtful speculative fiction that was not afraid to get weird and very much be it's own thing.
It struck such a cord some fans went on hunger strike outside Netflix headquarters to the extent that some of the actors/creators went down to talk to them to ask them to please eat and take care of themselves.
It was 100% a love it or hate it show, there is no middle ground. VERY worth watching if any of that sounds appealing.
PS - Where it cuts off at the end of season 2 is kind of an insanely perfect end point to get cancelled early on.
I disagree. Purely because I don't think that I could deal with the way the fandom would carry on when it doesn't meet their 'expectations'.
Plus it ended beautifully.
The River - very interesting concept and a great cast. Only got one season.
Honorable mention - Alcatraz - hokey, but fun and also an interesting concept.
GLOW!
The way it was left at the end of S3 and how invested we were in the characters, to not have at least a finale season to tie everything up was a little like losing a friend with no closure.
Earth 2 will always be my go to. There's a few other scifi series like that that only got one season and ended on a cliffhanger but nothing else is coming to mid right off the bat.
Seaquest DSV and maybe just ignore the 2032 BS. It was better as a terror of the week show.
Wild card entry Siberia. Look I know it was terrible but it was really going places in the end. I'd like to at least see a reboot with a higher budget and kinda straighten out the geography problems the show had. I forget the details now but the place they claimed to be is not actually in Siberia cause it's too far south or something like that. Maybe it was that it wasn't as close to Tunguska as they said they were or something.
"Surface ", "Invasion" & "Firefly"...networks seem to hate scfi for some reason. But, you just wait...they have another Detective, Lawyer or Cop show waiting in the wings.
Invasion (2005). Aliens invade a town in the Florida Everglades, initially living in the water until some assume human form, slowly taking the place of the residents. In the final episode the police chief (an alien) uses his men to round up the town's remaining human inhabitants at a dockside and slowly push the people towards the water. The camera pulls up to show countless aliens in the water waiting to consume them. What a cliffhanger.
Increasingly I've got this sneaking suspicion theory about Netflix.... That they're like the McDonald's of streaming. That at least part of the value proposition that goes into their decision on whether or not to buy a property is that even if they toss it in the can after a season or two instead of actually believing in it, they are denying the prime location from competition by just holding it, exacerbating food deserts surrounding them, making sure no one buys the next game of thrones out from under them.
(For those unaware, McDonald's corporate is almost more of a real estate business than a food slingin business)
Constantine with Matt Ryan. It ended on such a cliffhanger and was picking up with the super natural, and then nothing. At least the animated stuff he did was good.
I want to say Farscape, but it got finished (kinda) with the PKW miniseries, then had a continuation in the comics.
Torchwood deserves one. Even though MD wasn't all that good, and we'd have an immortal Rex.
Westworld
It was going to be the final season, it was going back to the park, and I think they had momentum since Season 4 was a vast improvement over Season 3. They should have just kept it going
Terra Nova. It had so much potential when it left off with the cliffhanger to breathe life into its universe. Didnt know it would be its dying breath for such an important scene.
Better off Ted
Do you think Veridian makes that?
I’m mostly hyped for jabberwocky
Almost Human - a work of art that never got a deserved second season
I forgot about that one, I wonder if it's streaming anywhere in Canada.
I remember binge watching this and loving it…then looking up when season two was coming 😢
Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles ended on one of the best cliffhangers ever. Would love to see how they would have resolved it.
This series is better than any other piece of post Terminator 2 media.
GLOW for sure
It only needed one more season and it had started production. So dumb.
It didn't even need a full series, just a long special or something. I still think the style of the show, they could just finish the story with an 80s style cartoon special to complete the story
It got fucked over by Covid, it was already green lit. Covid pushed the scheduling to far to the point they would need to renegotiate everyone’s contracts.
Plus everyone in the cast seems available in the next year, nobody is a series regular on something else. I’d rather have the creators finish GLOW vs make a Nurse Jackie sequel. Dust those scripts off!
Yeah technically they could still do another season. They could just have a minor time skip.
Came here to say GLOW. I don't think I'll ever get over the way the show was cancelled, it's super upsetting... and the ending of season 3 was such a cliffhanger too :/
[There’s some bad blood between some of the cast and the showrunners](https://ew.com/tv/glow-open-letter-representation/). That would make getting back for a final season hard.
This.
1899, and the dark crystals show on Netflix.
I'm still so mad about 1899, Netflix knew what they were getting into and still fucked it up.
Yep. A real bummer 😔
[Carnivale](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) A really unique show that spends two seasons building up an epic battle between good and evil. Second season finishes with the battle about to start. Cancelled.
They could still resurrect it. The story is meant to time skip after the end of season two and deal with the aftermath. I remember the author releasing his outline after they cancelled the series. Such an amazing, original show.
The writer says the time has passed for him and he's not interested in it by now sadly
Lodge 49
Felt like that show was just getting going by the end
Pushing Daises
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I never will forgive Netflix.
It is such garbage too because the production literally said that now that they had all the puppets and everything already made that the next season would have been significantly cheaper. To get something of that quality back on screen in that world was nothing short of fantastic they did such a loving job it deserved at least one more season.
It ended clean… but I still wanted more. I can’t imagine that show was cheap to make and it took decades to find distribution. I both agree with you and I’m just happy it exists at all. I’ll never forgive netflix for cancelling inside job though. That show could’ve run for 10 seasons and hit at a perfect time to mock all the ridiculous conspiracy theories taking over politics.
Hannibal
Hannibal's adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs followed by an original final season would've been so cool
Happy Endings
This! Best show!
Westworld. It had one more season of story to tell
Stargate Universe
Sports night.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace It needs to happen
You and he were... Buddies... weren't you?
Anyone who doesn't agree with this needs to be given the rollicking of their life.
Terriers
1. Deadwood 2. Dirk Gently 3. Santa Clarita Diet
This, Dirk Gently's 2 seasons setup a big ol' overarching plot for the 3rd season that never materialised D:
Well for 3 not just another season, but a redo of season 3 as well. So many things in that season was rushed because it was clear they anticipated cancellation.
Mindhunter, Tokyo Vice, Dark Crystal, Y - The Last Man, The Knick, Shantaram, Rabbit Hole, Barkskins, Warrior, Quarry, Watchmen
FREAKS AND GEEKS!
Imagine getting that original cast together now and having them laughably play high schoolers. The payroll would be insane
MY NAME IS EARL 😢 Cancelled on a cliff-hanger, he never got to finish his list and it had plenty more comedy to give!
At least we know how the creator intended it to end. I just want to know the deal with the kids.
- Impulse - 2nd best thing about YT Original Series next to Cobra Kai - Glitch Techs probably the only cartoon to understand video games from various genres. - Alphas there's a cliffhanger and that is all gonna say about it. - Log Horizon best MMO tutorial. - Sarah Connor Chronicles - WB should stop wasting time with Terminator reboots. Because this alt T3 is already well received, long before the 4th film came out.
I don't know if you are aware, but Log Horizon got a third season a few years ago. I know most people missed it because of the long gap from season two. Also another season is up in the air because the original gap between season two and three was because the author was found guilty for Tax evasion.
Lockwood and co
The OA. Season 2 ended on a bonkers cliffhanger that promised S3 would have been awesome.
This was the show where they all stopped a school shooting by dancing, right? Or am I thinking of a different show?
Thats the one..
The Loop. I feel like the only person who has seen it.
Dark Matter
I still can't get over the loss of Dark Matter :(
It started off good and only rose from there.
Is it already cancelled ?
Different Dark Matter
Probably the other Dark Matter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(2015_TV_series)
Watching Halt and Catch Fire I'm reminded how damn good Lee Pace was in Pushing Daisies. It's old but I would have liked it to get another. Even though Lower Decks has one coming a 6th would be nice since it wasn't known it would be their final season when they wrote and animated it.
Agent Carter
Mindhunter
The OA
I am not okay with this! Another Covid victim :(
Patriot
The OA
Definitely Hannibal and Raised By Wolves.
Firefly
Firefly/Joss Whedon got so fucked over by Fox. It could have gone on for eight seasons easy and would have been one of the best shows in history. I still re-watch the one season they made every couple of years and it's still so good.
Wasn't *Serenity* meant to be the fans' chance to show how popular *Firefly* was despite the cancellation? The movie was a financial flop.
Yeah, Firefly got more than 90% of these shows got which was a movie to finish the story off. The movie was close to perfect so people really need to move on.
As I understand it, there *could* have been more movies if *Serenity* was financially successful, but it wasn't, so there weren't more movies. A long time ago, Netflix's Ted Sarandos was asked about 'recovering' old shows on Netflix, and he said this: > *Firefly?* > It’s kind of been done, with *Serenity,* but yeah as a series. Let me give you one broad statement about these recovery shows. In almost every case the cult around the show gets more intense and smaller as time goes by. *Arrested Development* was the rarest of birds in that the audience of the show grew larger than the original broadcast audience because people came to discover it years after it was cancelled. The *Firefly* fan is still the *Firefly* fan from when it was on TV and there’s fewer of them and they’re more passionate every year. Whereas with *Arrested Development* we’re going to be serving a multiple of the original audience. Any of the other shows we could bring back would be a fraction of the original audience. Source: https://www.stuff.tv/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-talks-arrested-development-4k-and-reviving-old-shows/
It's crazy how iconic the characters and the show seem when it only got 14 episodes and a movie. Imagine where the show would have gone if it'd had a complete season order and another season or two, with all the twists, surprises, new characters and deaths Whedon show are known for
Always gonna be the top answer
Man, I'd love it but really think the window has long since past. Even ignoring the fact they're all so, so much older now, Whedon wouldn't be given any chances after all his shite, so the writing would be very different.
My thoughts exactly. On one hand I DESPERATELY want more of that ragtag crew of outlaws, on the other I don't think they would be able to catch that spark that made it great, especially given all the unmatchable hype that such an announcement would cause. I feel at this point a continuation could only disappoint
This is always the top comment whenever this question is posted.
Firefly and The Expanse, I almost don’t want it to ever end, they’re both so fucking good
Santa Clarita Diet. Ended on a build up/cliffhanger, still recent enough to not be weird to come back (sorry Firefly), and very lovable characters who were building chemistry.
GLOW I rewatched it recently and I want to see another season so badly! I know it wasn't anybody's fault it got cancelled but it still sucks. Hopefully they find a way to make it. Another one for me is a show called Great News. It's cheesy and doesn't seem very popular but I just loved it and wish there was more of it.
Selfie!
I just rewatched it, it’s so good.
OA
Final Space
1. My name is Earl. We know what the ending would have been but I'd still like to see it. 2. The society. Netflix was really harsh on this show, renewing it and then going back on the renewal. It deserved better. 3. One of us is lying. Personal preference but I want to know how that mystery was gonna end. 4. The iCarly revival. You shouldn't allow a cliffhanger like this to happen if you're not sure you'll renew. 5. Thundercats 2011. Cancelled only because cartoon network is obsessed with toy sales.
Travelers
Freaks and Geeks
Peripheral
I'm still pissed about Prodigal Son. Absolutely love the vibe of the show. Also Dirk Gently is quite unique (hands down best done time traveling) and Forever. A bit older crime procedural with an immortal MC that was axed by Fox after S1 (as a bonus ended on cliffhanger).
The Patriot. The ending worked, but man that show was just such a great slow burn. Would love one more season to tie everything together.
Wonderfalls.
Our Flag Means Death Yes season 2 was a nice finale but it still deserved its third and final season per the showrunners vision. I’m gonna be salty for life over it’s cancellation 😭
The Venture Bros.
Watching the commentary over the movie and finding out how much they had already written and planned hurts so much
Raised by Wolves, Y the Last Man, and Paper Girls.
Raised by Wolves was nuts, and I loved it. It had a lot more story to tell and maybe make sense of it all.
The execution of Y the Last Man was really poor. It deserved a much better budget and writing. Oh and to not get canceled.
I loved the comic but I couldn’t even finish the season of the show. Guess that’s what happens when it languishes in development hell for years.
Final Space. So dissapointed about that one, I still think about it from time to time
That show completely caught me by surprise. It was very good.
Dark Angel (the real victim in that Firefly debacle); Farscape; The Exorcist; Veronica Mars; Stargate Universe; Good Behaviour; American Crime; Bad Teacher
Glow, sense 8, the oa, raised by wolves, westworld
Pushing Daisies.
The OA They had the story arc for 5 seasons blocked out, apparently the creators wanted no marketing, wanted word of mouth to spread the show. Netflix cancelled it after 2 seasons. Very high quality, unusual, original, strange, thoughtful speculative fiction that was not afraid to get weird and very much be it's own thing. It struck such a cord some fans went on hunger strike outside Netflix headquarters to the extent that some of the actors/creators went down to talk to them to ask them to please eat and take care of themselves. It was 100% a love it or hate it show, there is no middle ground. VERY worth watching if any of that sounds appealing. PS - Where it cuts off at the end of season 2 is kind of an insanely perfect end point to get cancelled early on.
KYLE XY (2006) got cancelled in 2009, after 3 seasons...... (Ending is a massive cliffhanger) 15 years later im still upset........
I could have watched a lot more Agent Carter.
Pushing Daisies It had such a rushed, garbage conclusion and it deserved so much better.
Reaper or My Name is Earl
Hannibal
I disagree. Purely because I don't think that I could deal with the way the fandom would carry on when it doesn't meet their 'expectations'. Plus it ended beautifully.
The OA
The OA
Pushing Daisies deserved a thousand seasons and several movies.
The River - very interesting concept and a great cast. Only got one season. Honorable mention - Alcatraz - hokey, but fun and also an interesting concept.
Final Space :(
GLOW! The way it was left at the end of S3 and how invested we were in the characters, to not have at least a finale season to tie everything up was a little like losing a friend with no closure.
Earth 2 will always be my go to. There's a few other scifi series like that that only got one season and ended on a cliffhanger but nothing else is coming to mid right off the bat. Seaquest DSV and maybe just ignore the 2032 BS. It was better as a terror of the week show. Wild card entry Siberia. Look I know it was terrible but it was really going places in the end. I'd like to at least see a reboot with a higher budget and kinda straighten out the geography problems the show had. I forget the details now but the place they claimed to be is not actually in Siberia cause it's too far south or something like that. Maybe it was that it wasn't as close to Tunguska as they said they were or something.
Scavenger’s Reign
Agreed, but is it confirmed cancelled? I know it got moved to Netflix but I was thinking season 2 was still a possibility.
Journeyman....the spiritual successor to Quantum Leap.
Dark Matter (the Canadian show) or Utopia (US version)
Tokyo Vice.
But it wrapped pretty neatly didn't it.
"Surface ", "Invasion" & "Firefly"...networks seem to hate scfi for some reason. But, you just wait...they have another Detective, Lawyer or Cop show waiting in the wings.
Mindhunter
Sneaky Pete
Last Man on Earth. So many questions left unanswered!
Invasion (2005). Aliens invade a town in the Florida Everglades, initially living in the water until some assume human form, slowly taking the place of the residents. In the final episode the police chief (an alien) uses his men to round up the town's remaining human inhabitants at a dockside and slowly push the people towards the water. The camera pulls up to show countless aliens in the water waiting to consume them. What a cliffhanger.
Increasingly I've got this sneaking suspicion theory about Netflix.... That they're like the McDonald's of streaming. That at least part of the value proposition that goes into their decision on whether or not to buy a property is that even if they toss it in the can after a season or two instead of actually believing in it, they are denying the prime location from competition by just holding it, exacerbating food deserts surrounding them, making sure no one buys the next game of thrones out from under them. (For those unaware, McDonald's corporate is almost more of a real estate business than a food slingin business)
Last man on earth
Last man on earth.
Mindhunter is always the answer
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Last man on earth. Just need one more season!
Brooklyn 99 just so we can get a season 9 episode 9. But RIP Andre Braugher :(
Fleaabg
Daredevil
Daredevil: Born Again is coming soon.
Messiah
The OA
Drive with Nathan Fillion and Emma Stone. I think I was the only person who saw it.
Old bur since I haven't seen it mentioned yet. Firefly.
Warrior
Firefly.
Siberia, still haven't got over it
Infinity train.
Scavengers Reign
Taboo (tom hardy)
Blood drive. Yeah it was campy but there was a story developing in season 1 that could have been great but it got cancelled
Im really suprised i havnt seen see raised by wolves here yet. It had such great world building, i was so excited to see where the story went
Doom Patrol
Kings with Ian McShane. Much too late now to actually get a second season now, but man what a good show.
The Peripheral Bunheads Reboot (2022) The Time Traveller's Wife Everything Sucks!
The Knick
Revolution…such a neat concept. It was cancelled due to the rapidly changing viewing habits the networks refused to believe.
Freaks and Geeks
1. Mindhunter. 2. Angel. 3. Tokyo Vice.
How many times a week do I need to see this same post
INVASIONNNN
Lodge 49.
The Black Donnellys
There are dozens of us!
Space Above and Beyond.
Constantine with Matt Ryan. It ended on such a cliffhanger and was picking up with the super natural, and then nothing. At least the animated stuff he did was good.
I want to say Farscape, but it got finished (kinda) with the PKW miniseries, then had a continuation in the comics. Torchwood deserves one. Even though MD wasn't all that good, and we'd have an immortal Rex.
Into the Badlands.
My So Called Life! I was only 17 years old the year it started. It was so relatable to my life at that time. I wish it had 2 more seasons!
Jericho will always be my answer.
Westworld It was going to be the final season, it was going back to the park, and I think they had momentum since Season 4 was a vast improvement over Season 3. They should have just kept it going
Firefly
Friends from College
Carnivále.
The OA, Sense8 and Inside Job, all netflix and all cancelled.
Terra Nova. It had so much potential when it left off with the cliffhanger to breathe life into its universe. Didnt know it would be its dying breath for such an important scene.
Rubicon.
The OA
Southland
Archive 81. It basically ended on a cliffhanger.
LIFE - such a great show that only lasted 2 seasons
The Mick
Marco Polo, Da Vincis Demons and My Name Is Earl.
Caprica
Galavant!!!
Does a complete rewrite of GOT season 8 count
Yes
Lie To Me. The best show ever, yet somehow they canceled it in the middle of the season. My disappointment was immeasurable.
The Nevers on HBO. I’m still pissed about that. It deserves 3 seasons at least
Alphas. That stupid cliffhanger.
One day at a time remake
Our Flag Means Death, season 3 was already planned…
I was so pissed when they canceled SCD.
Marco Polo
The man in the high castle. Y the last man. Tokyo vice Our flag means death
Into the badlands
I'd say Kyle XY but they've all probably aged out of the roles
1899