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Firefly

FIREFLY

Game of Thrones. Sad we never got to see past season 6...

Serious answer: I just heard The Peripheral got cancelled after Westworld also got cancelled :l

The expanse.

The Walking Dead.

Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.

I've got two:

Stargate: Universe. I never got into Stargate before, and I really liked what was going on with Universe. Longtime fans didn't. Though, after going back and getting into SG-1 and Atlantis, I very much understand why they hated Universe. The original shit is so much more fun, where Universe was overly serious. I still like the concept, but I think it would have been way better with the campyness of the original shows.

The second is Limitless. It was really fucking good. It was constantly pulling me in. And they cancelled it because too many people found it to be "unrealistic." I'm sorry the show about a neutropic drug that makes you into a super genius isn't real enough for you.

Better Off Ted

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Star Trek: Enterprise

Freaks & Geeks

Sense8

Firefly. Sons of Tucson.

I'm sure there are others.

I don't think The Orville was officially cancelled but there doesn't seem to be any plans for more as far as I know. The last season was great and set up more potential storylines.

Dirk Gently’s :( fuck you Netflix.

Seriously, cancelling the show WHEN THEY FUCKING OPEN THE HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY?? My boy Elijah Wood was soo good on this!!! :((

My Name is Earl. One of my all time favorites and it was surprise cancelled on a cliffhanger.

Rome on HBO was a solid show covering an exciting time in Roman history. Sucks that they only had 2 seasons.

Freaks and Geeks.

Firefly, and Clone High.

Santa Clarita Diet

Mindhunter and Lockwood and Co

Number one show I wish wasn't cancelled was Firefly, definitely. And more recently, 1899.

Carnivale

Farscape (imagine if that mini series had been a full season!)

Stargate universe ended on a cliffhanger, stargate atlantis ended without dealing with the wraith threat or the evil asgard etc. Star trek enterprise's cancellation resulted in one of the worst most hated last episodes in scifi. Quantum leap ended without ever resolving the main plot. Inside job like most of netflix's decent shows, got killed off for stupid reasons.

Firefly

Legends of tomorrow

The Finder

Raised by Wolves

This is an older one, but The Critic. It was on two different networks and lasted only one season on each network. It was a funny show, but the inconsistent schedule killed it way too early.

Limitless.

The movie was pretty superfluously a power fantasy, but the show had actual likeable characters, and long-term intrigue. As far as cop procedurals go, it was way up there.

Last man on earth && raised by wolves && the expanse

Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies really deserved another few seasons, but the (previous) writer's strike left it with a really abrupt and unsatisfying end. There wasn't any other show quite like it.

And of course, the perennial winner of such threads, Firefly. At least that got a movie though.

Star Trek: enterprise. Probably not the best Trek show but it got dropped right when it had found its stride. Also I enjoyed the temporal war arc, which most trek fans seemed to hate. Would have loved to see the stuff they later revealed in interviews that was planned, like archer himself becoming the suliban leader from the future.

Farscape

“Happy”, I think a lot of people overlooked it because Christopher Meloni having a cartoon unicorn as a companion seemed cheesy, but the show wasn’t afraid to dive into truly horrific plot lines.

The less-grounded corner of my brain thinks the show was cancelled because it was openly talking about skeletons in the closets of network executives.

1899

It's a mystery show made by the same people that made Dark and I was so down for it. Then Netflix cancelled it after season 1

Music videos on MTV Science shows on discovery channel History shows on the history channel Well-produced soft porn on Cinemax Comedy shows with actual writers and actors News shows with actual journalism

Rocko's Modern Life =(

Firefly Rome (the last season got cut, and 3&4 got smashed into one season) Sense8 (though the wrap up movie was great) Gargoyles

Fringe. It was cancelled by being given one last short season. It deserved far more seasons.

Dark Matter 😢

Friends. It should have been cancelled right after the pilot.

"The Peripheral" on amazon.
They should have canceled the pathetic Wheel of Time instead.

Not exactly a cancelation, but Star Trek TNG. All of the characters were far more developed than TOS's, which is why they didn't work as well in movies. Better for them to have their own episodes than to unsuccessfully have them share a movie. Any of them could have been just as good, if not better, as multi-part episodes.