Saw this question over in r/Reddit: “If you could get one more season of a TV show, what show would it be?” | What show(s) would you choose?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/493723
Thought this was an interesting question and I’m sure there’s lots of suggestions out there.
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Firefly
The one true answer.
At least we got serenity to kinda tie up lose ends
I didn't want to see them quickly tied off though, I wanted to see them expand into grand story arcs.
A reboot would be very welcome.
I am mixed. A reboot would be nice but everyone, myself included would compare it to the nostalgia in our head.
Also I have heard that Whedon is somewhat problematic now. If that is true we would probably want someone with less baggage at the helm :(
Found this that I need to read to see whats up https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/complete-timeline-joss-whedon-allegations.html
Hopefully he isn't an ass.
Edit: Welp I read that. It is gross. Whedon hasn't commented on it but a whole host of his cast and crew are accusing him of lots of bad stuff including one part where they said he wasn't allowed to be alone with Michelle Trachtenberg when she was 14.
I obviously have no idea if any or all of the accusations are true.
Thank you for posting that link. I was unaware.
Honestly I didn't do my due diligence before. I had heard rumblings about it for years but didn't look in to it either. It sucks. We have a culture that rewards you for making people money above all else and at all costs.
I'd love to see a whole spinoff just on Book's back story. I'm so curious about who he was and what lead him to become the Shepherd we know and love.
Yeah, this. It was such an interesting premise, an engaging cast, and really seemed to be going someplace interesting. Would've loved to see it get enough time to find its voice. Even their bottle episode was great fun.
Was gonna say, kids these days don't know the pain of 2000's Fox!
Hi Randall Munroe!
Firefly!!!! FFS this should always be the #1 answer
Agreed. This is always my immediate response.
Firefly. Agreed
Looks down at tshirt.... Yup
The question really needs to include "other than Firefly" to get other answers. Although, it's much less common than it used to be... I'm getting old.
Firefly 😭💀
Shiny!
Firefly. There is no other answer for me.
Mindhunter, without a doubt.
I'm still sad when I think of what could've been
For anyone put off by the fact that it only had two seasons, it is still well worth watching. It was excellent. I would gladly watch two more seasons.
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The Expanse
Expanse ended on a good point. We would probably need at least 2 seasons to finish up the final trilogy. If one extra season would be all we got, I'd not want it tbh.
They could finish the series with a final season if you cut out the politics after the time jump. Really just take the last book and maybe a few parts from 7 and 8 and you could make a complete story.
It could be done some way I'm sure, but I'm not sure if it would be as good as it could. We saw what a rushed final season can do to a show with GoT (extreme example, I know).
I'm still comfused why they included the Weird Dogs story though, it left the show more open ended for apparently no good reason.
Yeah, including the dogs was unfortunate if they knew they were going to cancel the series. At least we didn't get a Proto-Amos in the TV show. That would have been real hard to walk away from.
Correct. Such an amazing show!
Me too! So much. At least we have the comics!
Pushing Daisies
It’s been 5,124 days 16 hours, 22 minutes and 54 seconds since viewers were last delighted by the whimsy and brilliance that was embodied by this one little show.
Yes! I started rewatching it recently and although it's not great for bingeing (just imo, there's a lot of repetition when you're watching three episodes in a row), nothing has ever come close to it in style and laughs. And I would never have heard of Kristin Chenoweth without it!
Yeeeeesss, I would love to see more of it!
I wish the answer here was "Westworld".
That first season was perfect television. And that season finale? My god. I was so excited to watch season 2 and it... just fell short on all fronts. It has its moments, but ultimately failed to measure up to that first season.
Which would have been okay, but then season 3 and 4 happened, and diluted the overall quality of the show to a point where I stopped recommending the show to anyone and just tell them to stick to S1.
I want to live in a timeline where we left off on that S1 ending wondering what could have been.
Firefly
I almost said none of them, until this comment and remembered how that shows ends. Man what a weird episode to cut it on
It was a crime! Good effort with the movie though even if it felt like a bit of a forced wrap up
yea there was a lot to try and tie together. Decent job all considered
I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.
One true answer.
The firefly book series is worth checking out
I will have to check it out! Any follow up story with Shepherd Book? I was always interested in that character
I'm happy to forget the end of we can just move along.
The Orville. The only show I watched on basic cable at a particular time in ages. Glad they made the jump to hulu, but the 3rd session made me feel like they dumped a couple of seasons worth of plot into it, since they knew they weren't getting another season.
I thought it was still open to a fourth potential season?
Damn... Seth really pulled off something special by focusing on the void left by modern Trek. Interpersonal relationships and philosophy taking the primary conflict focus while the backdrop of the conflicts is "pew pew space battles" really showed how you can still get everyone's rocks off to the pretty lights and colors while giving them something to actually chew on mentally.
Either way, loved the show.
Deadwood. The movie was too little way too late.
As a HUGE deadwood fan, i agree. Its probably my overall #1 favorite show of all time. I felt like the movie was Milch calling in before his disease took him completely.
The Expanse. The show had a satisfying ending but the books went a bit further into the future and I'd like to see more in the shows.
i don't remember the details but The Expanse isn't outright cancelled. they need to wait for some license or something to expire
My understanding is it’s pretty much canceled. I think it was left a little open, but after the whole Cas Anvar thing it’s pretty much dead. To be fair, the last 3 books would be hard (and expensive) to do right.
We just need to wait a few decades.
[Smiles enigmatically in Twin Peaks]
Showrunner Naren Shankar, Dec 2021 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdiyzK6w1UM&t=845s
Chuck because I want to see that happy ending and Eureka because I miss the weird combo of sci-fi, comedy and drama
Two great choices
People have already beaten me to Firefly over and over again so I'll add one likely to have been forgotten:
Carnivale.
Ended on an unbelievable cliffhanger, left SO MUCH unanswered, could've run for another decade. I'm re-mad that this show got canceled now.
Hell, you could throw a dart at a board populated by Netflix series too.
Stargate Universe. First season was garbage, but from like half of season 2 forward it was really good, and it ended on a huge cliff hanger
Agreed, but I’d rather have Stargate Atlantis have a few more seasons if I had a choice.
this
Better Off Ted
If you've only watched it on Netflix, there is an episode they trimmed because it was viewed as racist (which is stupid because it was Veridian Dynamics being racist and the show was calling it out). Episode is called Racial Sensitivity and the only way I know of to watch it is to fly the black flag.
It's such a great episode, and it actually happens too
I'm pretty sure I watched it on a streaming service, and I've seen that episode. The company buys smart lighting that can't see black people, so they hire white people to follow their black employees around.
Have an upvote. Loved this show and still tell people to watch it. So many brilliant moments from the series and I bring them up to people at work. Sadly missed.
Yes, this show was amazing.
Came here for this
Expanse, of course
I thought I wanted that, but then I read the rest of the books. I think they stopped at the right place in some ways, because the time jump would be hard to pull off.
I'm reading Persepolis Rising now. The time jump seems like the perfect place to crossover to movies. Fingers crossed!
Showrunner Naren Shankar, Dec 2021 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdiyzK6w1UM&t=845s
Thanks! That's great that he's enthusiastic about it and probably has some plan for how it could be done! The Duerte stuff is really epic, he's right.
Travelers
That was a hard one to lose. They left it on a bloody cliffhanger too after all revealing themselves. Such a great show and interesting concept. There's not enough sci fi shows like that anymore.
I think it was made by the same guy who did Stargate.
Wait, did you not see season 3? Netflix picked it up after Showcase pulled out, so it was exclusively on their service, but it gave the show more or less an ending.
Yeah, I've been secretly hoping someone will pick it up again. They left in such a way that it shouldn't be hard to pick it and continue, even with a different cast if they need to.
The OA. Fuck Netflix for canceling it.
Also 1899.
I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I can't freaking believe that someone has the same two answers as me. We'll get through this, friend.
i can think at least three reasons:
Game of thrones, but it’s the new series 7 and it rewrites original 7 and 8 and they don’t exist anymore.
Yes please!
The season begins with Jon Snow waking up to realize the final season was just a horrible nightmare.
The Tick. Any iteration really, but cartoon or Amazon version over the Fox live action.
My Name is Earl
This is a great answer, but honestly, it deserves much more than one additional season!
It did but at lease we could have gotten a conclusion for the cliffhanger.
That's the one I chose. What really sucks is they asked if they would be picked up for another season and chose to do the cliffhanger because the producers thought they were coming back for a fifth and final season then were dropped during the summer.
Reboot, a Canadian CGI kids show about happenings inside a computer, the guardians, the viruses, the web, I used to love that show.
It ended in an intense cliffhanger 😔
So, um, kind of a monkey paw situation here...It did get an, ahem, "reboot"...Which was a hybrid live action/CGI show. It's not another season, and that's honestly probably the most disheartening part of it. Like you pulled enough together to do something more Reboot-related and that's where you went with it?
It's just...There. It's not very good, and it's not even so bad it's good either. It's more like a live action Code Lyoko than Reboot tbh, and it can't even get that right.
You’re right!, I did watched like 1 episode, I guess it just felt like it wasn’t the old reboot I loved so my mind erased it from my head, also Tony Jay as megabyte left some huge shoes to fill
That used to be one of my favourite shows! That and Beasties. I completely forget how Reboot ended the series though.
And Electrovagrant is right, there was a second show that got made but it wasn't watchable. It didn't seem at all related really, just shared the same name.
Omg yes! I genuinely forgot reboot: guardian code exists, I watched 1 episode and I didn’t liked it at all
Are you sure you saw all of it? Not all the seasons aired in the US. What was the cliffhanger you remember seeing?
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It's been a long time since I've seen it. What was going on in the episode? You saw the ones with Enzo as an adult, right?
Seven seasons and a movie!
Eh...the last season was really weak IMO. The wheels fell off once Troy left and I think the meme of "six seasons and a movie" willed that final season into existence.
Stargate!
SGA - there was a planned season 6 where Atlantis ended up going through time, then to the triangulum galaxy and more time hijinks. Atlantis Vs Atlantis and peace in the Pegasus galaxy. You can find it on the josephmallozi blog as Stargate Atlantis virtual season 6
SGU - had so much potential and season 2 was good. It ended with the crew going into stasis to travel the gap between galaxies...
SGU would definitely be my answer. You couldn't ask for a better show to do it with either, because of the way it ended it would be easy to have had problems with stasis to explain why some of the actors didn't come back or even the aging of all the ones who do come back. So easy to write around the long time it was off air and still pick up and run with it.
Stargate's one of those fun series where even the original series is less like it needed another season, and more like they needed more of some of their existing seasons to let the stories really go where they had (mostly) wanted without the kinda rushed spots here & there.
I will never forgive Netflix for this one. A true wtf. So much money and talent put into it and then canceled because it didn't earn a crapload of money in the first month. Idiots. I'm glad Dark wasn't made now or it would also be canceled after one season.
Totally different kind of show, but I’m really pissed they didn’t renew Tribes of Europa.
Dark was amazing. I didn't bother with 1899 after I heard that it was cancelled.
I think I'm developing a fear of commitment with shows these days, with so many cancelations
Utopia
The UK one right? If so then hell yes.
Why is this so low?
I think they're confusing my reply with the universally panned American version, lol.
Never even heard of that, though there's no doubt in my mind that it's a dumpster fire. But come on, Utopia is one of the best series to ever get canceled, who cares about yet another US cash grab?
I really hope you dont mean that amazon remake travesty.
Farscape. It literally ended on the most intense cliffhanger.
There's a 2-part miniseries released after that called Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars you should really watch.
Damn I'm watching it on YouTube for the first time right now and just started season four. I've heard things about how it ended without a lot of closure but didn't know it was that bad.
Isn't there a movie or something that kind of helps with how it ended? I seem to recall that being brought up.
I don't know to be honest. I don't remember, but I do remember being devastated by the season ender. Still worth a watch though.
Better off Ted
Pushing Daisies
ETA: I should've finished reading this thread. Of course these two would be mentioned!
Gravity falls
Dirk Gently, the BBC America/Netflix one.
First season, phenomenal! Second season was pretty good, not as good as the first but still good. It set up a lot of things that were then not continued and I just want to know what they had planned.
Also Snowpiercer: You've filmed it, you've edited it, just let us see it!
(Edit: posted this as a reply to someone else. My bad!)
Raised by wolves
I'm hoping to see a continuation of the story somewhere. It was so good!
Could we get that "extra" season to be a complete re-do of the final one, instead? 🤢🤦🏼♂️
I liked the second season, but i felt like there were probably two or three episodes more for the season, that got cut because hbo probably didnt like the show. I think missing content would have made it progress much more smoothly.
I was gonna say Raised by wolves and Adventure Time, but I see those have gotten the deserved attention so I'm gonna add Kidding. Not because it was left in a bad way, but it was just an amazing show.
...but I mean Raised by wolves just hurts, it was just peaking goddamnit!
Dead Like Me
Jericho, I know we got the final season comic but it isn't the same. One more season to finish it off would've been perfect.
Final season comic was like one episode's worth of plot, maybe a two parter if we are stretching it.
That's on the back of the incredibly diluted and "quick tie up loose ends" "season" 2. Most of which absolutely tanked in quality of writing, cinematography, and plot pacing. I can understand the plot issues since they were essentially trying to cram multiple planned seasons worth of espionage and subterfuge into 8 episodes, but it just didn't hit the same.
They also kind of wrote themselves into a corner, since the show shifted from the "apocalypse and survival" aspects of post nuclear war into the "government spook and his mission to prove the new government as illegitimate" plot that the second season mostly focused on.
All of the characters that used to be significant to the main issues like Dale and Stanley suddenly became "B" plotters as the "A" plot is exclusively in the purview of Jake and Hawkins. This could be argued was also just a side effect of the second season immediately solving the conflict that was set up during the last half dozen episodes of season 1, but who knows.
Better off Ted
Veronica Mars or Gravity Falls
I second gravity falls. It’s a great show if you haven’t watched it
The VM of the original series or the VM of the movies and reboot? I think her character changes so much and I'm not sure i would want to follow her down her new, dark path.
OK, who am I kidding, I would totally watch another season.
I like both versions of Veronica. The high school version has the nerdy teenage charm, but the older Veronica is more gritty and flawed. I'd like to see where they could take a new darker season. I do wish that the series hadn't been axed after season 3 though. I've recently been watching The Good Place and Bell is excellent in that.
Fringe
Dexter. I can't believe it ended after 4 seasons. At least it left on a high note.
My Name is Earl. I want to know who is Earl Jr's father.
Sense8. There's nothing else quite like it. I really wanted to see more of that story, I'll never forgive Netflix for cancelling it.
Firefly Battlstar galactia (v2)
No Caprica?
Final Space.
Olan had one season left before the company buried the show as a tax write off
Reading this made me look it up. Final Space was more than a one season show?? Guess I have some catching up to do.
If you missed it, Olan got a deal to put out a hardback graphic novel tying up the show, called Final Space Ends. Upside: a real ending. Downside: not a show, not available digitally(one of Warner's conditions), and it's $125. Tentatively scheduled to ship late next year.
So realistically it doesn't have an ending, because there is a zero percent chance I will ever pay $125 for it...
Star Trek Enterprise season 5. That show was just starting to get really good.
Would love to have seen the Romulan wars.
Yes, could have another season of ENT
Altered Carbon! season 2 was left open ended because it was supposed to get a 3rd season.
I adored season 1, couldn't get into season 2, no matter how hard I tried.
More of the cyberpunk cities would have been right up my alley.
The quality drop was significant between season 1 and 2.
Firefly 2 as sequel of the movie👌
Limitless was such a good TV show - funny with great character dynamic. I watched it on Netflix and thought it was a glitch when I got through the last episode of the first season and nothing else came up. It was another victim of CBS chopping decent shows to keep on dreck.
Hannibal and Dead Like Me get mentioned every time this thread is made, but for good reason.
I still can't believe they cancelled Arrested Development after 3 seasons and never made any more.
Pushing Daisies never got the ending it deserved. Everything had to be hastily wrapped up in one entire episode, third season setups were just left as loose ends, and it really didn't do such a great show justice
This is my answer as well, I loved the show so much and want it to get a proper ending.
Yup. Great show, left hanging. Dang you ABC.
Wow came here to say this, wouldn't even expect many on Reddit to remember with it 800m users let alone in this brave new world
Haven't seen anyone mention The OA yet.
That series needs to be finished!
Adventure Time. It really needed one more season to fully flesh out the storylines they set up. Cartoon Network really screwed them (and other shows like SU) over
santa clarita diet
Would you say it should have remained...An X-File?
Raised by wolves: season 2 cliffhanger is not funny at all
This is very difficult... and we must be very careful indeed...
You shouldn't ask for MORE simply because you enjoyed it.
Friends already seemed to go on endlessly - but most shows are rightly put to bed and overshadowed by newer and better ideas.
Now I'm watching
Blue Lightand don't miss NYPD blue.... I still watch Kojak occasionally, but I sure wouldn't want any MORE.Gentleman Jack
Awesome stuff
HBO sucks and I hate them (but Band of Brothers was almost perfect, except that it was a little bit too restricted/condensed/reduced).
Black Mirror
'Nuff said.
Harrison Bergeron- the second story in "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" written by Kurt Vonnegut. These stories are brilliant ideas put into short form - perfect.Quantum Leap
Talking about Black Mirror...
The OA
Firefly
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Scarborough (2019)
Victoria (2016-19)
Tom and Jerry (original style, painted on glass, with no fear of being politically correct or educational).
Pink Panther
I know, they DID do more, a lot more Tom and Jerry - but most of that just sucks and I don't know why people even liked the continuation once the original atmosphere was lost. HD brought nothing to Tom n Jerry for sure.
Pink Panther owes 90% of it's success to bad drawing, amazing music, and sheer atmosphere surrounding mostly not amazing stories if the truth be told... but it worked so well. Hours of endless fun with just one bucket of blue, and another of pink paint... yes, you know what I'm talking about.
I still have a 'random cartoon' habit with Pink Panther/Tom n Jerry
There isn't much room for anything else in there.
I just wish there had been MORE of them.
I really liked the OA. Nobody I know who watched it did. Shame.
With regards to Charlie Brooker productions I'd also love the annual Wipe Series back
Live action Cowboy Bebop. Loved that show, idc what people said.
I think a lot of people were turned off by comparing it to the anime. I never saw the anime so it was all just fun to me.
Stargate Universe! The way it ended was so unfair and yet the perfect setup for something new. There’s been rumors brewing for years and years at this point but nothing concrete has happened yet.
I started SG1 again a few weeks back and stumbled on the information that they're working on a stargate reboot. It's probably paused atm because of the strike. But I have hope.
Stargate Universe or Dark Matter.
I'd love another season of Stargate Universe. Even just to finish the story.
I'm thinking one way or another we will get to see that.
It might be an animated show versus live, but I think Amazon will tie off that loose end somehow.
Prodigy (Star Trek) just got canceled, that's on my mind right now. They had a lot of story left to tell.
Agreed. Prodigy is among my top 3 favorite for newer (contemporary) Star Trek TV shows.
Bojack Horseman. They managed to wrap it up in a neat-ish way, but I do believe that the show would have benefited from having one more season to delve into Bojack's issues with his father (they've covered his mother).
Teen Titans. I really want to see what happens after Beast Boy sees Terra
Unironically Mindhunter. I'm so mad it's been canceled. Such a great show.
Metalocalypse.
Adult swim deserves to burn in a fiery hell for cancelling that show, really wtf
Warehouse 13
For me, that's one of those shows that went on a bit too long.
Hannibal!
Santa Clarita Diet
Raised By Wolves
The original Star Trek series.
Farther Ted
Seven seasons and a movie
Gravity Falls
I don't know, while I agree with wanting more of it, Gravity Falls feels like a show that perfectly managed to wrap up. I'd be wary if I heard another season was in the works, fearing a fanbait nostalgia cash-in.
Gravity Falls.
There are not many shows that I enjoy and my kids enjoy as well. It was such a cute heartful show. One more season would have been nice.
Final Space
Godamnit this one hurts so fucking hard
Coming back as a graphic novel!
Oh shit. That’s some nice closure I guess.. at $125 it must be pretty thick
1899
Better Off Ted
Yeah that show was awesome.
Samurai Jack
I feel like a one season revival wasn’t enough for the story that Genndy wanted to tell. It was a beautiful season but it felt so rushed, two seasons would’ve been perfection.
Another Dexter season. I want to see if they can make a worse finale than the two they already did.
I would love another season of scrubs!
I know the last season (med school) was wildly unpopular, but i actually started warming up to it near the end. I feel like another season would have actually been pretty good
I have never seen all of scrubs, my wife loves it though so we are watching through it now
Sense8 for sure, that show was awesome but Netflix pulled the plug because apparently it was way too expensive to film.
Gravity falls!!
I love TNG but that is a bold statement. Of all shows you'd add one seasom to a show that already has 8. I'm impressed and bow to your superior Fandom.
Hannibal.
Raised by wolves
I Am Not Okay With This
Had a great first season on Netflix, then got cancelled. I think it had to do with COVID, but still, that was a horrible cliffhanger ending. Any kind of continuation would be amazing.
Ash vs the evil dead I really liked this show but it got cut off at the end sadly, it was cheesy but fun to watch
Almost Human
I'm not going to pretend it was breaking any new ground or even that it was an amazing show in any particular way, but I was enjoying it and wanted to see where it was going.
1899 has already been mentioned, so I'll say that Westworld deserved a final season.
Wait 1899 is canceled? Why the fuck would... fuck that sucks.
Yep. Sorry this is how you found out :(
After the success of Dark it just seems like an insane decision though. Fuck the Netflix-age. It's like a constant tease "oh hey we have all these great people doing amazing shows, but we're only gonna do a season or two and leave you hanging, just to fuck you... and oh hey we're reserving any eights so they can't finish it without us either :) that'll be 10€$£/month"
Deep space nine
still pretty butthurt about Stargate Universe being cancelled
The way they ended it was ridiculous. I was loving it until then.
Taboo. Tom Hardy is too busy with other things though. The Nevers. Black Summer.
@SocialSpirit Avatar: the Last Airbender
Did you like the new show from the creator: The Dragon Prince?
It took a season to get good but it got really good when it did. Season 5 coming out 6 months after season 4 is pretty sweet.
Infinity train
Black books for sure
Tron: Uprising
"My name is Earl" ended on a massive cliffhanger.
Not seen anyone else mention it so I'll give a nod to Tron: Uprising. Great voice cast and it had a great ending to lead into season two. Thanks Disney.
So much this!
You know I watched Tron uprising recently and it was pretty solid, I didn't care for the art direction of the character models too much but I really enjoyed how they connected the timelines and made sense of the way the board was set in Legacy.
Good character progression all around. I also really enjoyed how they accurately depicted the stakes of revolution against an authoritarian regime, and demonstrated the sacrifices and people you lose when committing to such action. The only other show I've seen actually engage with the idea that revolution incurs incredible personal cost is "Arcane."
Chappelle Show or everybody hates Chris
quantum leap
Watch the remake/retooling. They admit the old show existed and try to build on it. It's not bad, though Sam should have eventually come home.
Caprica.
They never really gave it a chance. It was slow at first but then started building suspense and drama and I was hooked and then devastated when they cancelled it.
Stargate origins. Axed before it's prime.
Universe definitely didn't get enough love, it was such a neat show.
I adored Universe. It was such a disappointment to not be able to watch the story play out.
I know! I was gutted! The story was incredible and they just left us hanging.
Amazon has started production on a Stargate series as of now though! There's literally no other information that I can find... for all I know they may continue Universe.
Oops! That's the one I meant, actually. The cliffhanger will haunt me for the rest of my life lol.
Also, on a more positive note, there's more Stargate in production via Amazon. Hopefully they knock it out of the park!
Happy Endings
The Wire. It would probably ruin things but it was too damn good. Some of the best characters' actors have died since unfortunately.
Honestly, should have ended season 4. Season 5 had its moments, but ending it at 4 would have been going out on top.
Ah really? I actually find it difficult to say which season I liked the most, but 5 would have been up there. Or whichever season had the longest "Sheeeiiit.", lol
Its not that season 5 was bad, its just that I feel like its the weakest of the 5. Compared to most TV, its still very good, but when compared to every other season, its just overall weaker, to me at least.
That being said, very big fan of thw Bubbles redemption arc. Left me feeling good inside seeing him get better (even if its just a fictional character).
Ascension
The 4400.
The first few that come to mind is
There's probably more but I haven't watched TV in so long it's gonna take me some time to think back. I'll update if any more come to me.
No way. These stories are complete.
I think Breaking Bad left off at a perfect point. El Camino succeeded at something that most sequels don't - adding meaningful closure for something that was left open-ended on the original show, while remaining faithful. Most sequels come off as a desperate money grab, and will invent nonsensical problems while failing to maintain original characterization, dialogue, and overall quality. Enough people wanted a real ending for Jesse, and it was only natural to write a conclusion for him (which imo still maintained Breaking Bad quality.)
My So Called Life
The order. I loved that show but netflix cancelled it.
Rise of the Pink Lady's. J/K, probably Babylon 5?
The Owl House. Though, given that it was cancelled and season 3 compressed to three double length episodes, I'd make the extra season a replacement season 3, and rework those episodes into part of the new season. There were definitely montages in those episodes where you could feel them practically saying "and here's several episodes we could have written, if we had time".
(Not to mention the infamous dialog about "maybe if we had time for 20 more adventures" near the end of season 2...)
Lilyhammer. Or maybe The Last Kingdom.
Has to be Freaks and Geeks!
Jericho
The Brink.
How the fuck did a hilarious show with Jack Black as one of the showrunners not get a second season. It's probably one of the better things HBO has pumped out.
Wonderfalls. That is all.
Would have been great to see some more Chappelle Show back in the day. Nearly every episode is quality, quotable material. Shame it abruptly ended after the whole contract void thing.
Flash forward.
Got cancelled after one season. Obviously it ended without any real answer as to what/why the event in the show occurred.
This has haunted me for so many years...
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LOST. Except they actually -were- dead the whole time. That would really fuck with the fanbase so hard.
My name is earl
The ending sounded so cool. Someone was supposed to walk up to Earl and right a wrong they did to him. It's then Earl finds out he sparked a movement of people going through their lists and making things right for the people in their lists
That was going to be my second answer. I LOVED that show and that really was bullshit. I'm gonna be thinking about that last episode til I die
The Sarah Connor's Chronicles
The black Donnellys
NBC's Revolution. I mean we got a comic adaption to wrap up the series, but a third season would be interesting.
The Last Man on Earth
Limitless was sweet spot and had great potential, I liked Chuck and White Collar and Limitless was great series to watch after work and have just fun.
Of course, there are the classics: Firefly, Better Off Ted, Hannibal, Carnivale (::shakes fist at the air::).
But I'd love to see the rest of The Nevers. They unveiled the big twist and there are 6 more episodes floating in the ether yet to be aired.
Lockwood & Co. was so perfectly cast. It broke my heart not to get a season 2!
I'd love to see more of "Don't Trust the B... in Apt. 23." Kristen Ritter was so great in that!
And I'd like to see how the relationship in "Selfie" played out, it ended on such a hopeful note. Karen Gillan and John Cho had a weird, quirky chemistry.
Star Trek: TOS
Nirvanna the band the show
Privileged
Probably not the best show, but I feel it had enough intrigue to warrant another season
Night Sky. Finally, something new and amazingly produced. Wtf, Prime?
Sorry is cliché but warrior nun was good and still had story to tell. One.of the reason I cancelled.netflix. I enjoyed Lockwood and co, but knew it would get canned so treated it as limited story and didn't get invested in the cliffhanger or charecters
Braindead.
Was a look into the future and got canceled even though it had a great story and wonderful cast. I wonder why?
edit: markdown
The Watchmen
Salvation (2017-2018)
It wasn't a great series or anything but (spoilers) - ::: spoiler spoiler the asteroid threat turned out to be an alien spaceship :::
and HOW COULD YOU JUST LEAVE THAT CLIFFHANGER UNRESOLVED
Quite possibly the dumbest ending to an already pretty dumb series.
Forever
No Offense for sure. Last episode left plenty of room for another season and I'd love to see just that. Fantastic British crime/police procedural show.
Iyashikei Anime (Healing/Feels Good Anime)-
Yuru Camp△/Laid-Back Camp△.
For non-Anime, Amphibia, but like the first season, full of Slice-of-Life, without a lot of plot.
Flashforward could have done with a second season. I felt like it was just getting going when it was cancelled.
Defying Gravity
Pantheon
and worst part is the second season is literally done, but they won't release it for tax write off reasons...
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr and the Pirates of Dark Water.
At the beginning of El Camino I'm pretty sure they say he died
Like they say, he goes into witness protection, turns out Breaking Bad is a prequel to Malcolm In The Middle.
Rubicon on AMC.
Heavens Lost Property, by AIC who animated the first two seasons.
The "Eternal My Master" movie didn't follow source material and had a totally different art style. Was not well regarded.
House
Teenage Bounty Hunters or Everything Sucks (both queer main character shows Netflix cancelled)
Raised by Wolves, and Colony.
Wait... is Raised by Wolves cancelled? That sucks.
Yep! https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23157925/raised-by-wolves-canceled-hbo-max-warner-bros-discovery
Thanks. Aaargh!
That's cold to cancel on an ending like that. I guess the implication is Grandmother got her own way and just devolved the hell out of everyone.
We can only speculate. I wish they at least release a graphic novel or something to end the story.
Maybe someone else will pick it up.
The chances for that looks bleak as it never had much viewership despite being a great series
Really? That's a shame. One of the things I really liked about it was I couldn't predict where they were going with the story. So the flipside is I can't complete it in my mind.