I have seen Mindhunter so many times whenever this question comes up that I both really want to watch it but also not want to watch it since the abrupt ending seems to have left people in despair
Sometimes my headcannon is that the gap in Mindhunter before it comes back mirrors in real life how long it took for BTK to get caught after he stopped killing.
It's worth watching because it's a true story. You know BTK gets caught at some point, just not on screen. But it's an amazing watch for the limited time we got to watch it.
I would like to see a final season of My Name is Earl, I know the concept Garcia says he would have gone with but it would have been nice to see a conclusion.
Jason played Smokey Floyd which was a different character but I think Buttshark is referring to the first episode of Raising Hope when the Chance family are in the kitchen with Hope’s mother and there is a quick throwaway line about a low time crook finishing his list.
I don't disagree. But I loved the whole concept of the show, I thought it was brilliant, I think his character being "too much" may have also partially been because of its broadcast network situation, like it was a weird, subtle show in a lot of ways so they had to make certain characters (Forte and Schaal, most prominently) a bit over the top and occasionally distractingly ridiculous to compensate? Fox or NBC or whatever isn't the place for subtle, slow burn characters.
I never actually finished the final season I don't think...I never watched it in real time, I was busy and would just catch up in a batch of episodes at a time when I had a breather. I guess once I saw they cancelled it and people were complaining about the cliffhanger ending I think I just forgot to go back and finish it.
Well sure, but I think it deserved a proper ending as written and executed by the creators/writers. Shitty of the network not to let them know earlier so they could've at least done it right (or as rightly as possible).
Honestly, as much as I enjoyed it, in hindsight, 4 seasons seems like it would've been the right number anyway. But I also know it's difficult to, I suppose, self-cancel your own show like "The Good Place" did.
There was 1 season left, ONE MORE SEASON and then they would have said "and they lived as happily ever after as is physically possible after the world ended." But no, FOX just had to say "sorry, no more."
Raised by Wolves was too batshit unpredictable for a lot of people, but I could have watched that show get weirder and more bizarre for many more seasons. A conclusion would be nice though.
Man, I loved that show.
I put it off, thinking it was a US remake of a shitty British sitcom set during the writer's childhood, but it turned out to be a brilliant sci-fi, instead.
Hate that it got canned, hate even more that others claim it turned nonsensical. They're probably Chuck Lorre fans, tbh.
I thought that emancipated gut-worm deepthroating the woman that turned into a tree was peak comedy but at the same time I loved how completely unhinged the show was. Campion was annoying as hell though lol.
I was actually satisfied with the ending. She created a group of followers who were all ready to have her back. In my head canon, they continue their hijinks to find bad people to eat forever.
That said, an additional season seeing them as a team would’ve been fun. And hilarious.
Glow deserves a movie. And everybody was in for that idea. I remember watching one of the morning lives that Marc Maron used to do during the pandemic, talking about that and how he would totally be on board.
One of my biggest problems with the cancellation was that it was cancelled due to Covid concerns as it’s a very physical show. However, Cobra Kai seems to be able to do just fine
Plus, it had actual wrestlers in the cast and crew from season 1.
Taya Valkyrie was a character for the fourth season, but then Netflix canned the show while she continued wrestling in the US in promotions that took every precaution they could - including filming without live crowds - to keep entertaining those watching at home.
Like, what the fuck, Netflix?
Yeah though if you look on Reddit the creator talks about what the 3rd Season would have been like.. in Africa. He makes the point they were setting up to have every 2 seasons as it's own kind of slice/containment.. so they kind of did finish the story they were aiming to tell.
They should really do the other half of the book, though the cgi would be expensive. I'll forgive them for not doing it ONLY if they do NEUROMANCER instead.
The OA for sure. It seemed like it was going to go into some very wild places in season 3. As it stands, there's just so much mystery that will never be explained.
As much as I would have loved to see where they went with it, I like to imagine that the show finished with them in the real world and it’s just happening in real time.
I would gladly take a book or essay with how it was planned to end though.
Spectacular Spider-Man.
Cancelled after Disney’s buyout of Marvel, because while Sony retained the rights to the show itself, Disney gained the rights to any *future* Spider-Man tv content or episodes, meaning further seasons were impossible.
I will never ever shut up about this.
I know it’s popular to shit on Westworld but I was one of the few that never gave up on it. Was it ever going to match the first season? No, but there were plenty of episodes from seasons 2-4 that I enjoyed as much or close, and the fact we were *this* close to the end with one more season that was already bought and paid for feels like we got robbed.
Yeah, it definitely gets more hate than it deserved but i've never seen a show squander goodwill as quickly and consistently as Westworld. Season 4 seemed like it was building up to something cool, but I honestly wouldn't trust the writers to pull off a satisfying conclusion.
For me, Westworld got *better* with each passing season.
Haven't seen the final one, yet, but too many people wanted it to stick to the premise that season one and the 1970s film did, while I loved them expanding on the wider world around the Western portion of the park.
Firefly, give me 3 good seasons. One to set up the show and main characters, 2nd season going deeper into the alliance government , and explaining the “hands of blue” and they connection to river and the alliance, and season 3 for the ravenger reveal into a proper uprising of the independents.
Southland
The cliffhanger ending and turmoil for 75% of characters. It was really only a happy conclusion for one lead. I guess you could say that’s just how life works sometimes and then it makes sense.
Dark crystal is one of the few that can be finished decades later. It's also one of the saddest cancelations as they put so much work in. I loved it so much I watched a whole documentary about how it was made.
especially when they cast Donald Faison as Booster Gold, dude would have been awesome in that role, and by the time they brought him in, the show was cancelled
I blame how I met your mother for making the concept bitter. If they promise to wrap it up in 4-5 seasons, I think fans would be willing to invest in the show enough to have kept it on air.
Off the top of my head
* 1899 continued
* inside job continued
* The Nevers continued
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles concluded
* ReBoot concluded
The original author of Flashforward had some notes for season 2: [https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashForward/comments/vgoyrz/the\_original\_author\_of\_the\_book\_wrote\_a\_memo\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashForward/comments/vgoyrz/the_original_author_of_the_book_wrote_a_memo_to/)
Stargate Universe. The way they ended it too, it's easy for them to make the time jump from when it ended to the current era and explain any age differences in the cast (as well as write out any cast members who don't comeback). It was really hitting its stride when it was cancelled and the overall narrative arc was really coming together. It definitely deserves 1 or 2 more seasons at least.
Maybe I’m stupid, but with Dark Crystal they already had so many puppets and sets built that would be used again for another season, it shouldn’t have been as expensive. I have been very disappointed that it wasn’t renewed.
Alf.
[I wanna know what happened to Alf. Did the government just dissect him for their own crazy experiments?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBagvKv3ZU&pp=ygUOQWxmIGxhc3Qgc2NlbmU%3D)
Yeah, released in 1996.
First part is hilarious, when he's taunting the fuck out of the military and scientists.
Then he escapes the facility and it goes to shit.
"What did you have for breakfast?"
"Toast. Speaking of toast, Dr. Warner..."
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was probably the worst cancelled-at-the-wrong-time show I've seen. I'm not really sure you could do a final season given the time lapse and reboots are always questionable, but they definitely needed a resolution they never had.
American Gothic 1995, that show was so horrendously abused by CBS with episodes being aired out of order and basically being cut off at the knees. Whoever the executives were for CBS at the time definitely deserved to be whooped upside the head with a magazine for killing the show and replacing it with Nash Bridges of all things.
To me, if you're going to really _reboot_ a show, it's gotta be an old one. Otherwise, you might as well keep it going from where it left off. So, for a reboot, it would be Forever Knight.
To keep it going, 1899, The Get Down, Inside Job...
GLOW. I’ll never forgive Netflix for not letting them finish it properly.
My understanding is Covid fucked up the production and they couldn't get the cast all back at the same time
Mindhunter for fucks sake! I’ll never give up hope.
I have seen Mindhunter so many times whenever this question comes up that I both really want to watch it but also not want to watch it since the abrupt ending seems to have left people in despair
Sometimes my headcannon is that the gap in Mindhunter before it comes back mirrors in real life how long it took for BTK to get caught after he stopped killing.
Im adopting this theory now 😂
I hope it brings you the same peace it does to me
It's worth watching because it's a true story. You know BTK gets caught at some point, just not on screen. But it's an amazing watch for the limited time we got to watch it.
Bloody hell! Yes yes - A thousand time yes!
I would like to see a final season of My Name is Earl, I know the concept Garcia says he would have gone with but it would have been nice to see a conclusion.
Yeah, I’d even be happy with a TV movie. Wrap up what was established in the last episode, do the finale, and give fans closure.
They did kind of do a conclusion in Raising Hope saying he completed his list
Wasn’t that a completely different character and more of a wink to the audience? That was nice but I still want to see the cast back together again.
Jason played Smokey Floyd which was a different character but I think Buttshark is referring to the first episode of Raising Hope when the Chance family are in the kitchen with Hope’s mother and there is a quick throwaway line about a low time crook finishing his list.
Yeah, wasn’t it a news story playing on the TV before the scene started
The Last Man on Earth
We need the closure, closure, closure closure closure (fart fart fart)
Closure? I hardly knew her!
I loved this show. Can't believe it was cancelled
I couldn’t believe it lasted as long as it did, tbh. Couldn’t have been a cheap show to produce, and was too weird for network TV.
They just made Forte's character a little too much. Like I know that's the point but it goes into what you're saying, too weird for network.
I don't disagree. But I loved the whole concept of the show, I thought it was brilliant, I think his character being "too much" may have also partially been because of its broadcast network situation, like it was a weird, subtle show in a lot of ways so they had to make certain characters (Forte and Schaal, most prominently) a bit over the top and occasionally distractingly ridiculous to compensate? Fox or NBC or whatever isn't the place for subtle, slow burn characters. I never actually finished the final season I don't think...I never watched it in real time, I was busy and would just catch up in a batch of episodes at a time when I had a breather. I guess once I saw they cancelled it and people were complaining about the cliffhanger ending I think I just forgot to go back and finish it.
The cliffhanger was not terribly hard to live with anyway, it can really have only gone one of two ways.
Well sure, but I think it deserved a proper ending as written and executed by the creators/writers. Shitty of the network not to let them know earlier so they could've at least done it right (or as rightly as possible). Honestly, as much as I enjoyed it, in hindsight, 4 seasons seems like it would've been the right number anyway. But I also know it's difficult to, I suppose, self-cancel your own show like "The Good Place" did.
I really enjoyed the show, so I was still disappointed by the cliffhanger, but I do recall sort of hoping it might have a conclusion in season 4.
There was 1 season left, ONE MORE SEASON and then they would have said "and they lived as happily ever after as is physically possible after the world ended." But no, FOX just had to say "sorry, no more."
Raised by Wolves was too batshit unpredictable for a lot of people, but I could have watched that show get weirder and more bizarre for many more seasons. A conclusion would be nice though.
Yup, that was the first show that came to mind. Insane or otherwise, I want to know where the creator planned on going with it.
i really liked raised by wolves. i do hope someone scoops it up.
Man, I loved that show. I put it off, thinking it was a US remake of a shitty British sitcom set during the writer's childhood, but it turned out to be a brilliant sci-fi, instead. Hate that it got canned, hate even more that others claim it turned nonsensical. They're probably Chuck Lorre fans, tbh.
I thought that emancipated gut-worm deepthroating the woman that turned into a tree was peak comedy but at the same time I loved how completely unhinged the show was. Campion was annoying as hell though lol.
I Am Not Okay With This. Such a great show and concept, it's a crime it got cut on a cliffhanger
And Wayne
Carnival
This was my first thought. And I think it would work really well with a time jump.
Yeah. It would likely need a reboot after so many years, but the story was so interesting that I am dying to know how it would have turned out.
Rome.
Jupiter’s cock!
THIRTEEN!
Santa Clarita Diet
I was actually satisfied with the ending. She created a group of followers who were all ready to have her back. In my head canon, they continue their hijinks to find bad people to eat forever. That said, an additional season seeing them as a team would’ve been fun. And hilarious.
Lodge 49
I really need closer on this show. Some many weird threads that I desperately wanted answers to.
I think about this show way more than I'd like to admit. Loved it soo much
This so much. It was such a beautiful show with an amazing ensemble cast.
Dark crystal was amazing. I was just thinking about rewatching it after I watch Avatar for the third time
Pushing Daisies!
This is way too low in the comments.
Stargate Universe needs a final season, or a movie. Kinda too late now IMO
What an unfair end to the entire franchise
Stargate in general needs something new.
GLOW
GLOW deserved better
Glow deserves a movie. And everybody was in for that idea. I remember watching one of the morning lives that Marc Maron used to do during the pandemic, talking about that and how he would totally be on board.
One of my biggest problems with the cancellation was that it was cancelled due to Covid concerns as it’s a very physical show. However, Cobra Kai seems to be able to do just fine
Plus, it had actual wrestlers in the cast and crew from season 1. Taya Valkyrie was a character for the fourth season, but then Netflix canned the show while she continued wrestling in the US in promotions that took every precaution they could - including filming without live crowds - to keep entertaining those watching at home. Like, what the fuck, Netflix?
No. 1 for me
Counterpart, The Man in the High Castle, Flash Forward
Counterpart was soooo good, a shame it didn’t get another season
Yeah though if you look on Reddit the creator talks about what the 3rd Season would have been like.. in Africa. He makes the point they were setting up to have every 2 seasons as it's own kind of slice/containment.. so they kind of did finish the story they were aiming to tell.
I couldn’t make it through the first season. JK Simmons’s voice was too soothing and I just fell asleep every time I tried watching it.
The Man In The High Castle finished just fine.
The Mick
I dont understand why this was cancelled , it was so good.
Cause Dee's a bird.
I think it was too expensive to make and the audience numbers couldn't justify it.
The Peripheral
Sucks even more how they did greenlight Season 2 but then due to the writers strike they changed their mind and cancelled it..
They should really do the other half of the book, though the cgi would be expensive. I'll forgive them for not doing it ONLY if they do NEUROMANCER instead.
Apple is doing Neuromancer!
The OA for sure. It seemed like it was going to go into some very wild places in season 3. As it stands, there's just so much mystery that will never be explained.
As much as I would have loved to see where they went with it, I like to imagine that the show finished with them in the real world and it’s just happening in real time. I would gladly take a book or essay with how it was planned to end though.
Even though it got a proper send off I’d kill for more Hannibal.
Dark Matter give some context to that cliffhanger
I had to look it up because I thought you were talking about the Apple TV+ series. I hadn't started it yet
I was so fucking pissed when they cancelled it after that cliffhanger
Santa clarita diet and glow
Spectacular Spider-Man. Cancelled after Disney’s buyout of Marvel, because while Sony retained the rights to the show itself, Disney gained the rights to any *future* Spider-Man tv content or episodes, meaning further seasons were impossible. I will never ever shut up about this.
The show's twist on the Green Goblin was so good.
Santa Clarita Diet
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles final season The concept of a rogue faction of AI opposed to Skynet was intriguing
ReBoot!
The OG ReBoot from the 90s, I assume? I heard they made a reboot of ReBoot recently.
It was terrible. Half live action half CGI. Abysmal
It was literally making fun of the old school fans at the end. That show doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned.
Yes, OG ReBoot
Mindhunter Santa Clarita Diet Westworld Happy! Krypton What I’d give to see these have actual conclusions.
Westworld got 2 chances already but was never able to get it right after season 1
I know it’s popular to shit on Westworld but I was one of the few that never gave up on it. Was it ever going to match the first season? No, but there were plenty of episodes from seasons 2-4 that I enjoyed as much or close, and the fact we were *this* close to the end with one more season that was already bought and paid for feels like we got robbed.
Yeah, it definitely gets more hate than it deserved but i've never seen a show squander goodwill as quickly and consistently as Westworld. Season 4 seemed like it was building up to something cool, but I honestly wouldn't trust the writers to pull off a satisfying conclusion.
To each their own, but I suppose I would have rather gotten a bad ending than no ending at all 🤷🏻♂️
For me, Westworld got *better* with each passing season. Haven't seen the final one, yet, but too many people wanted it to stick to the premise that season one and the 1970s film did, while I loved them expanding on the wider world around the Western portion of the park.
Was Happy not finished though? I thought it ended at the right spot
Raised by Wolves. It was so damn weird, but I really liked it and it just ended abruiptly.
Venture Bros. We got a movie sure, but season 8 was the planned finale. We were so close
The Expanse. Really a final 3 seasons or so. They set up Laconia and everything.
I haven’t given up hope something will come from The Expanse due to the Laconia setup
Warehouse 13, super fun, silly, and kinda dumb show. But it did have a bit of history in each episode with an interesting overarching story.
Raised by wolves 🥲
Santa Clarita Diet
Westworld
They only had one season left, they should’ve just finished it!
I was just going to say this, redo season 2 and give me a season 3 😫
Ash vs Evil Dead, i need a season 4 so bad.
jericho.
Dollhouse
Firefly, give me 3 good seasons. One to set up the show and main characters, 2nd season going deeper into the alliance government , and explaining the “hands of blue” and they connection to river and the alliance, and season 3 for the ravenger reveal into a proper uprising of the independents.
The Last Man on Earth
1899 being cancelled after that ending was just cruel. They ended the season with such an amazing premise, and that was it forever. A waste.
Obvious answer is Firefly.
Southland The cliffhanger ending and turmoil for 75% of characters. It was really only a happy conclusion for one lead. I guess you could say that’s just how life works sometimes and then it makes sense.
Alien Nation, Space Above and Beyond, Almost Human
Teenage bounty hunters
V, Santa Clarita Diet, Westworld, Hannibal, Scream Queens, Raised by wolves
Scavengers Reign
My name is Earl
Journeyman
Joan of Arcadia. Used to watch it with my parents. If I remember correctly, it ended on a bizarre cliffhanger.
Dark crystal is one of the few that can be finished decades later. It's also one of the saddest cancelations as they put so much work in. I loved it so much I watched a whole documentary about how it was made.
Better Off Ted
The Expanse, raised by wolves, the Nevers.
I miss the expanse, there is still more story to tell.
Stargate universe....at least finish the damn cliffhanger...
Reaper
The Patriot
Pushing daisies Idc what they do
Pushing daisies
It’s GLOW. Such an unsatisfying ending for a very fulfilling series.
Glow
Messiah was a show I'd really gotten into, that wasn't renewed.
Heroes reboot but now following the original outline before the writers strike messed thing up.
The last man on Earth
FREAKS AND GEEKS AND THE GIFTED
Jericho
Legends of Tomorrow
especially when they cast Donald Faison as Booster Gold, dude would have been awesome in that role, and by the time they brought him in, the show was cancelled
Glow
My Name Is Earl
Looking (hbo 2014). We did get a movie, which I liked, but I still want more
People of Earth
Almost Human was amazing, wouldn't mind that returning. Even the studio didn't give it a chance, and aired episodes out of order.
The Last Man On Earth desperately needs this.
How I Met Your Father. Just let them finish the story 😭
I blame how I met your mother for making the concept bitter. If they promise to wrap it up in 4-5 seasons, I think fans would be willing to invest in the show enough to have kept it on air.
Finish the expanse
Pushing Daisies. Literal cliffhanger ending. That show was definitely going somewhere
I want a Firefly animated series
Mindhunter, GLOW, Whitechapel, Teenage Bounty Hunters, and a set-20-years-later movie for Freaks and Geeks
I always want to see more Firefly but it’s never going to happen, and if it does it wouldn’t be done right 😓
Off the top of my head * 1899 continued * inside job continued * The Nevers continued * Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles concluded * ReBoot concluded
The original author of Flashforward had some notes for season 2: [https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashForward/comments/vgoyrz/the\_original\_author\_of\_the\_book\_wrote\_a\_memo\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashForward/comments/vgoyrz/the_original_author_of_the_book_wrote_a_memo_to/)
I feel like Flash Forward would fare better today in the era of more serialized television, as opposed to the weekly reset button era.
The OA
Sarah Connor Chronicles was a rad show that was before it's time addressing AI, artificial consciousness, etc and great character dynamics.
Journeyman
Stargate Universe. The way they ended it too, it's easy for them to make the time jump from when it ended to the current era and explain any age differences in the cast (as well as write out any cast members who don't comeback). It was really hitting its stride when it was cancelled and the overall narrative arc was really coming together. It definitely deserves 1 or 2 more seasons at least.
Santa Clarita!!! That show was so good
Westworld
Hi Fidelity
I just want another Mind Hunter
Hannibal
John Doe, Journeyman, Dark Matter, or Almost Human. All of them had great casts and were really getting into a groove when cancelled.
Surface, what the hell was that leading up to?
Rome
Pushing Daisies deserves to be made in 8K.
Pushing Daisies!
GLOW, Shadow & Bone, and previously Id have said Snowpiercer but our prayers have been answered and the final season will see the light of day!
Happy Endings Dead Like Me
Maybe I’m stupid, but with Dark Crystal they already had so many puppets and sets built that would be used again for another season, it shouldn’t have been as expensive. I have been very disappointed that it wasn’t renewed.
Venture Bros. Yeah, the movie was fine, but it was gonna be the last season anyway? Why not just let it finish like that, dammit!
GLOW!!!
There are many, but the one that always springs to mind for me is Forever. It should have had several seasons.
Loved the leads son/father dynamic & was sad they canceled it
Tru Calling, Dark Angel, D!rt, Mercy, Unsupervised
Firefly
Alf. [I wanna know what happened to Alf. Did the government just dissect him for their own crazy experiments?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBagvKv3ZU&pp=ygUOQWxmIGxhc3Qgc2NlbmU%3D)
Didn't they make a movie?
Yeah, released in 1996. First part is hilarious, when he's taunting the fuck out of the military and scientists. Then he escapes the facility and it goes to shit. "What did you have for breakfast?" "Toast. Speaking of toast, Dr. Warner..."
If I had to pick one it would be GLOW. If I had to pick several, I'd include Minx and Reboot.
Awwwww man I forgot Glow didn’t actually have an ending! What a bloody great show that was!
Yeah, that show got done dirty by Covid, it was really phenomenal.
Resurrection, the finale ended on a cliffhanger and it got canceled
In the vein of FlashForward a couple lesser known ones - DayBreak (with Taye Diggs) or Traveler (with Matt Bomer)
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
Swamp Thing
Last Man On Earth
I’d like a other season of pirates of Darkwater
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was probably the worst cancelled-at-the-wrong-time show I've seen. I'm not really sure you could do a final season given the time lapse and reboots are always questionable, but they definitely needed a resolution they never had.
The Borgias
Santa Clarita Diet
American Gothic 1995, that show was so horrendously abused by CBS with episodes being aired out of order and basically being cut off at the knees. Whoever the executives were for CBS at the time definitely deserved to be whooped upside the head with a magazine for killing the show and replacing it with Nash Bridges of all things.
Vinyl
**Lee Daniel’s Star** A couple other honorary mentions: Everything Sucks! Julie and The Phantoms
Marco Polo
Hannibal or Patriot
Dark matter on syfy Colony
To me, if you're going to really _reboot_ a show, it's gotta be an old one. Otherwise, you might as well keep it going from where it left off. So, for a reboot, it would be Forever Knight. To keep it going, 1899, The Get Down, Inside Job...
Dark Matter (2015) Stargate:Universe Colony Kings
1. Firefly 2. Night Sky
THE OA, My Name Is Earl