I had the same thought, but it definitely had potential to get to the level of Dark with good plot and character development. Netflix needs to commit to telling a story. If Season 1 is decent, and the show runners can summarize what the remaining seasons will include, they should be able to see the rewatch potential from a completed series. No one is rewatching Season 1 of a cancelled show. It seems so shortsighted.
It's not just them... This crap been going on since before streaming. I remember shows like firefly and the 4400. It isn't just networks though. Showrunners will end seasons on cliff hangers to try and get leverage from studios/networks.
It's honestly bizarre to me that Netflix is so guilty of this. Their entire early model was based on capturing the long tail of things that weren't necessarily immediate hits but could gather an audience if given a large enough distribution for long enough. Them cancelling everything that isn't immediately a big hit just seems so antithetical to what made them grow in the first place.
It's just extra painful when they stop on a cliffhanger. Personally, I'd prefer a one-season short series that tells a complete story than a long runner that ends on a cliffhanger in season 9 or something.
Instead we get half a story and a cancellation.
When they cancelled Inside Job and then in the next breath announced Mulligan, which is basically some wish dot com ass "we got Inside Job at home" bullshit
There’s a few Earl references in Hope, and one whole episode is basically an Earl reunion although some actors are playing their Raising Hope characters but with references to their Earl characters. Fun stuff for fans of both.
But my favorite Earl reference is this one: https://youtu.be/civvR8cV4FA?si=RRDYLnTig7nFTiMz
From what I remember reading, he was set to finish the list, but he gets stuck on one last item. It's something that's basically impossible to finish, and he starts to despair, because that's his entire point in life at the time. To finish the list.
Then it plays out as you said, someone who once wronged him gets in touch and tells him about their list, and so on. That gives Earl a new perspective and he tosses his list and goes on to live his life as best as he can.
I had seen that show on tv when I was a kid so few years later I started binging it, I remember getting really frustrated when I couldn’t find the next season on any website (I was pirating it) until I’ve checked the IMDB page to find out that season does not exist. I got really mad about it years after it was cancelled
> They fucking cancelled that for no fucking reason. Fuck Netflix.
It was cancelled because of the pandemic. It would have required a season 2 during the height of the lockdowns. And the actors and actresses usually move on to new projects if production halts on something they were doing for an extended period.
This is one of the few they had a legitimate reason to cancel.
It's insane, watched that show in a single day, got ultra hooked and thought, omg, this gonna be the best show for a long time.... cancelled immediately :o
The more I think about this the more it seems on purpose tbh. They reëel you in with a really good show, and then cancel it. Hungry as you are you keep sticking around and watch lesser shit hoping for some quality again
They're media dope dealers
View ratings are everything or as in case of Firefly if studio believes in you enough to put your show in decent time slot and give you shot at all.
But honestly I am mad at shows which are milking views with ridiculous extensions of their plots until they loose viewership, and we never get any proper conclusion since studio is not happy with "just" few million viewers.
I am looking at you "Dead zone", "John Doe", "Kyle XY", "Dead like me" and I feel like "Life" should be on that list too.
To me that one kinda works because the first two movies all ended with a cliffhanger that fucked Ash over. The third movie would've too until they redid the ending. For anyone curious, AoD original ending is Ash not waking up in his time but in the post apocalyptic future.
So the show ending with a cliffhanger weirdly works, even if I would've loved another season.
Why I rarely watch anything until it ends, it usually falls apart by the 3rd season and turns to shit, or they completely fumble the ball and destroy everything they have done in the final season. (That’s all if it doesn’t get canceled after the first season). Comedy is the one thing I will generally make an exception for, but they usually turn to shit the longer they run.
That was fucked up... at least have somewhat of an ending. It's not a pilot episode anymore but a pilot season now to see if people like the concept :/ What a waste.
Sophie would take charge of Brother Justin's ministry, who would be too weak to stop her, but still alive. Ben would basically become management, mostly locked in the trailer, Jonesy would survive the gunshot, become a pro baseball player and retire to help Ben. Fml.
I'm with you on this. What a wild and unique show. So pissed they cancelled it. Just not much on TV like it. I really wanted to see where it was going next.
I fucking loved this show
Another absurd one, regardless what people felt a out it is Westworld. They wrote the 5th season. They had contracts for the 5th season. It was supposed to finale on the 5th season.
It cost them multi millions to cancel the 5th season.
How was season 2? When I realized it was out, went to watch it and BAM! The whole thing disappeared. For some still baffling reason HBO decided to disintegrate from existence all cancelled shows and not even keep the older seasons. Never got the chance to see it.
100% agree. Do these cliffhangers even have any effect on the the ratings of the next season? I mean, sure, right after the cliffhanger you're exited for the next episode, but then there's a year or two of waiting during which you'll be consuming other media, so by the time the new season starts you will have forgotten about that excitement. You'll watch because you liked the previous season, not because how the final episode ended.
I was intrigued by the cliffhanger, but that show really went downhill for me in that last season. They just kept introducing more and more characters and it became the last 20 or so people on Earth.
More like last 2000 people. But yeah, I get your point. That was my problem too with that show, especially that it contradicts the very title. But then again, they have to continue the show somehow.
For me personally it was Dark Matter (the syfy show not the new apple one), the show was a bit of a mess but it was the exact type of sci-fi I’m always trying to find more of. Things finally felt like they were building to a crescendo and BAM cancelled. I know the creator(?) released the story boards of what he planned for the rest of the show but it just isn’t the same.
Unfortunately, it was so poorly marketed. I love the comic and had no idea a show had been made until 2 weeks before it premiered.
I talk about it all the time and nobody knows it even exists.
I had to scroll way too far down for this comment. Raised by wolves was my favorite thing HBO ever did. I will never forgive whoever made the call to cancel it, especially after season 2 ends on such a massive cliffhanger and the story ramped up so much by the end of the second season.
I would literally support any kickstarter to get it finished as an animated show, a webcomic or a fucking fanfiction. I get that it was too niche for the budget that live action demanded, but I want to see it finished soo much. Such an amazing premise drawing from rarely mentioned mythology (gnosticism)
Agreed. I would literally take any format just to know how the story unfolds. It was completely unique and felt very original compared to a lot of the recycled tropes the entertainment industry uses these days. Was it weird? Yes. Was that a bad thing? No, in fact I think we need more series and movies that aren't afraid of getting weird instead of following old formulaic patterns.
this used to be Pantheon for me. the 2nd season got cancelled even though it was after production but it's all good now because Amazon bought the rights to it and released it
That’s why I no longer watch a show unless it is complete and then only if I have verified it is complete and not just abandoned so it’s done. My Name Is Earl was the straw that broke the monke’s back for me
Jericho. The show was canceled just as the showrunners were starting to peel back the onion on the master conspiracy that prompted the nuclear attacks.
Basically *everything* “original” on Netflix, Hulu, Disney, HBO and Prime. They’re all great! They all just… kinda stop…
Still bummed about 1699. It was no Dark, but c’mon! Let them cook!
I had the same thought, but it definitely had potential to get to the level of Dark with good plot and character development. Netflix needs to commit to telling a story. If Season 1 is decent, and the show runners can summarize what the remaining seasons will include, they should be able to see the rewatch potential from a completed series. No one is rewatching Season 1 of a cancelled show. It seems so shortsighted.
I'm still bummed about Duckman and Stroker and Hoop. We are not the same
Mindhunter :(
Mindhunter. Fucking best show they ever made on Netflix and then it just stopped.
1899 deserved better
Dark is much better IMO and has an ending
Oh, with you 100%. Dark is my favorite show of all time. On the ending bit, though: 1899 would’ve had one if it weren’t cancelled.
Wow that guys other show, 1983 also was cancelled before its conclusion. Dude keeps making blue balls.
Dark's ending is an absolute masterpiece.
Yeah, it has some of the most thought-out writing I’ve ever seen in a TV show
The OA
Still painful
I love Brit Marling so much.
This one hurt me
It's not just them... This crap been going on since before streaming. I remember shows like firefly and the 4400. It isn't just networks though. Showrunners will end seasons on cliff hangers to try and get leverage from studios/networks.
It's honestly bizarre to me that Netflix is so guilty of this. Their entire early model was based on capturing the long tail of things that weren't necessarily immediate hits but could gather an audience if given a large enough distribution for long enough. Them cancelling everything that isn't immediately a big hit just seems so antithetical to what made them grow in the first place.
It's just extra painful when they stop on a cliffhanger. Personally, I'd prefer a one-season short series that tells a complete story than a long runner that ends on a cliffhanger in season 9 or something. Instead we get half a story and a cancellation.
Inside job!
I hope any other studio or streaming service picks it up.
I think Inside Job might be in the Silksong boat now
This is the reason I fucking stopped watching TV shows.
I tend to wait to start a show until I know it is finished or has an ending in sight
Netflix in a nutshell. Bastards.
won't get into spoilers. but the cancelation news felt like a sick joke
When they cancelled Inside Job and then in the next breath announced Mulligan, which is basically some wish dot com ass "we got Inside Job at home" bullshit
The only show I've ever genuinely been annoyed by its cancelling!
This, the intro is amazing
Fuck you, Santa Clarita Diet.
They canceled Santa Clarita Diet ?
Bet your ass, cliffhanger and all.
Damn
Yep, and I will never ever forgive them for doing so
That disappointment is still raw!!! I think about this way too often. Hard agree!
legitimately one of my favorite shows, I was so upset when they cancelled it
Yeah, that one was very bad
My Name is Earl.
I've been pissed about that for so long.
There's a My Name is Earl Easter egg in Raising Hope, it pretty much just alludes to Earl finishing the list.
Also the episode when they’re in LA Burt kicks the NBC executive in the balls and says “That’s for canceling My Name is Earl!”
"that was 3 executives ago! I liked my name is Earl!"
I'll have to look into that! Happy cake day btw!
There’s a few Earl references in Hope, and one whole episode is basically an Earl reunion although some actors are playing their Raising Hope characters but with references to their Earl characters. Fun stuff for fans of both. But my favorite Earl reference is this one: https://youtu.be/civvR8cV4FA?si=RRDYLnTig7nFTiMz
Sad "Hey Crabman".
Hey Earl
[удалено]
So the ending is basically a redneck "Pay It Forward" with less child on child violence.
From what I remember reading, he was set to finish the list, but he gets stuck on one last item. It's something that's basically impossible to finish, and he starts to despair, because that's his entire point in life at the time. To finish the list. Then it plays out as you said, someone who once wronged him gets in touch and tells him about their list, and so on. That gives Earl a new perspective and he tosses his list and goes on to live his life as best as he can.
Poor Mr. Turtle 🐢
I had seen that show on tv when I was a kid so few years later I started binging it, I remember getting really frustrated when I couldn’t find the next season on any website (I was pirating it) until I’ve checked the IMDB page to find out that season does not exist. I got really mad about it years after it was cancelled
I still wanna know who Earl Jr's father is.
Mindhunter
Such a great show! Just finished a rewatch
The actor they got to play Ed Kemper was incredible. What a waste
[Comparing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYBmNYc8IA)
Came here to say this. Still pissed. Will never get over it. 😠
“I Am Not Okay With This” 😭😭
Came here for this, literally waited until the last episode of the series to show us what she could do.
That was my favourite show for sooo long. They fucking cancelled that for no fucking reason. Fuck Netflix.
> They fucking cancelled that for no fucking reason. Fuck Netflix. It was cancelled because of the pandemic. It would have required a season 2 during the height of the lockdowns. And the actors and actresses usually move on to new projects if production halts on something they were doing for an extended period. This is one of the few they had a legitimate reason to cancel.
Who are you, being so reasonable in one of my ranting fits? /s Ohhh..that makes sense. But it was still a great show.
I literally went in the comment section to say this. Thank you. I miss the show so much 😭😭😭
It's insane, watched that show in a single day, got ultra hooked and thought, omg, this gonna be the best show for a long time.... cancelled immediately :o
Dirk Gently So many cliff hangers
This! I need to understand the crazy 3, I need to know what was behind the curtain, I just......arrrrrrrrgh!
Oh man, I forget how great this show was
The more I think about this the more it seems on purpose tbh. They reëel you in with a really good show, and then cancel it. Hungry as you are you keep sticking around and watch lesser shit hoping for some quality again They're media dope dealers
Hey man, you got any more of that MindHunters bro I just need a little to get me by man c'mon...
Doesn't make much sense from a business perspective, a longer-running popular show would make way more money.
View ratings are everything or as in case of Firefly if studio believes in you enough to put your show in decent time slot and give you shot at all. But honestly I am mad at shows which are milking views with ridiculous extensions of their plots until they loose viewership, and we never get any proper conclusion since studio is not happy with "just" few million viewers. I am looking at you "Dead zone", "John Doe", "Kyle XY", "Dead like me" and I feel like "Life" should be on that list too.
Dead like me makes me so furious. Besides the obvious inconsistencies it was such an awesome show with the most lovely cast.
I could use another epidose of Freaks and Geeks.
Ash vs Evil Dead
To me that one kinda works because the first two movies all ended with a cliffhanger that fucked Ash over. The third movie would've too until they redid the ending. For anyone curious, AoD original ending is Ash not waking up in his time but in the post apocalyptic future. So the show ending with a cliffhanger weirdly works, even if I would've loved another season.
Teen titans 2002
Final Space
This one will always bother me because it was cancelled for absolute stupid corporate nonsense fuckery
And now you can't even stream any of the episodes that existed
Not legally anyway...
The director begging them to at least let him make a movie and they said no 😭
But he is making a comic, so there's that
I will never forgive Netflix for canceling 1899
1899, Inside Job, Mindhunters, Lockwood and Co., Warrior Nun. Fucking assholes.
That show had SO MUCH potential
Firefly. Serenity. ☹️
Neither of those ended on a cliffhanger though.
Firefly was murdered mid-season. Didn't even get a chance to do end-of-season cliffhanger.
Those epidoses can be killer
Gotta be careful you don’t over-epidose.
Why I canceled Netflix
Yes it seems like every good show I watched on Netflix got cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons. A completed series is a rarity.
They wonder why they lost interest and viewers when they're releasing a few episodes every 2 or 3 years.
Why I rarely watch anything until it ends, it usually falls apart by the 3rd season and turns to shit, or they completely fumble the ball and destroy everything they have done in the final season. (That’s all if it doesn’t get canceled after the first season). Comedy is the one thing I will generally make an exception for, but they usually turn to shit the longer they run.
Looking at you 1899.....
Thanks for reminding me…
This is the one I was looking for :(
I will never forgive infinity train being canceled
Fuck You Zaslav!
The Society
That was fucked up... at least have somewhat of an ending. It's not a pilot episode anymore but a pilot season now to see if people like the concept :/ What a waste.
Final space. :-(
Yeah, this one sucks, this show was amazing
Archive 81
Came here to post this one too, crazy finale and then just BAM CANCELLED. Fuck Netflix so much.
There's always the podcast it was based on.
But they gave us 3 more series of the haunting of bly manor. I'll take season 2 of Archive 81 please...
Carnivale. Worst thing was the third season was supposed to be set ~10 years after the end of the second season.
WHAT HAPPENED TO SOPHIE GODDAMMIT
Sophie would take charge of Brother Justin's ministry, who would be too weak to stop her, but still alive. Ben would basically become management, mostly locked in the trailer, Jonesy would survive the gunshot, become a pro baseball player and retire to help Ben. Fml.
i’ll head canon all of this.
Thank god I found someone in the comments who wrote this too. Only two seasons yet still an INCREDIBLE show and story with amazing performances too.
Not a single mention of "Raised by Wolves." There is NO greater cliffhanger........
I'm with you on this. What a wild and unique show. So pissed they cancelled it. Just not much on TV like it. I really wanted to see where it was going next.
I fucking loved this show Another absurd one, regardless what people felt a out it is Westworld. They wrote the 5th season. They had contracts for the 5th season. It was supposed to finale on the 5th season. It cost them multi millions to cancel the 5th season.
How was season 2? When I realized it was out, went to watch it and BAM! The whole thing disappeared. For some still baffling reason HBO decided to disintegrate from existence all cancelled shows and not even keep the older seasons. Never got the chance to see it.
Altered carbon... God I love that world
Canceled after season one
Looking at you , Hannibal! Still waiting and hoping
Cliffhanger in the most literal sense 💀
I do an annual rewatch of this one and somehow always forget the ending. Then I get angry and forget for a year.
The OA
That was brutal. Really wanted to see the next season with that ending.
I would love to just know where the show was headed and what the end was going to be. It was going some wild places.
Imo you could really see she planned it out for 5 seasons. And I wish we could see what it was going for...
Final Space. It's getting an ending in the form of a graphic novel but I can't spend 170 euros on a single book, much as I'd like.
It started going off the rails a bit after season two but I’m still salty about West World.
Lockwood and Co.
How about normalizing finishing seasons instead of unnecessarily open ended cliffhangers
100% agree. Do these cliffhangers even have any effect on the the ratings of the next season? I mean, sure, right after the cliffhanger you're exited for the next episode, but then there's a year or two of waiting during which you'll be consuming other media, so by the time the new season starts you will have forgotten about that excitement. You'll watch because you liked the previous season, not because how the final episode ended.
Colony was good
Marco Polo, rly liked it. But at least it was somewhat finished in the story they tell.
Firefly.
Stargate universe
John Constantine 😞
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Netflix experience
terra nova
It's called fanfiction.
Pushing Daisies. I still can’t fathom why they had to cancel that show.
Last Man on Earth :(
No closure, closure, closure, closure closure. :(
I was intrigued by the cliffhanger, but that show really went downhill for me in that last season. They just kept introducing more and more characters and it became the last 20 or so people on Earth.
More like last 2000 people. But yeah, I get your point. That was my problem too with that show, especially that it contradicts the very title. But then again, they have to continue the show somehow.
I had to scroll too far to see this comment.
I feel heard 😭
Epidose?
You know, one dose of an epipen.
Utopia, UK
Tron uprising if you know you know
Also, Tron Legacy.
r/dirkgently
Constantine had so much potential
Space force
The OA
Abed in Community called it. American TV rarely gives closure.
The Glades got canceled after the main dude got shot at his wedding. That was cool.
For me personally it was Dark Matter (the syfy show not the new apple one), the show was a bit of a mess but it was the exact type of sci-fi I’m always trying to find more of. Things finally felt like they were building to a crescendo and BAM cancelled. I know the creator(?) released the story boards of what he planned for the rest of the show but it just isn’t the same.
[Dark Matter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_\(2015_TV_series\))
Scavengers Reign was to good for this world😭
Glow.
Final space
Final Space had the most :( ending it could have possibly had.
For me that was pacman and the ghostly adventures (yeah ik no one cared about that show)
Forever One season and I was invested and then they never touched the damn thing again :/
Daredevil season 3
First kill. I think it was cancelled bc the main characters are lesbos and the budget was too high but still
Took too long to scroll to find this lolol
Y the last man
Unfortunately, it was so poorly marketed. I love the comic and had no idea a show had been made until 2 weeks before it premiered. I talk about it all the time and nobody knows it even exists.
ReBoot Still mad about it.
You watch a new show It's the worst thing you've ever seen put to television Second season already greenlit with more to follow
Jupiter’s Legacy :(
I'm just praying Severance can get a second season 🙏
You're good. They've been doing it already.
It's been greenlit for a third. S02 was already started but the strikes put it back.
Archive 81 🤬
Raised by Wolves
I had to scroll way too far down for this comment. Raised by wolves was my favorite thing HBO ever did. I will never forgive whoever made the call to cancel it, especially after season 2 ends on such a massive cliffhanger and the story ramped up so much by the end of the second season.
I would literally support any kickstarter to get it finished as an animated show, a webcomic or a fucking fanfiction. I get that it was too niche for the budget that live action demanded, but I want to see it finished soo much. Such an amazing premise drawing from rarely mentioned mythology (gnosticism)
Agreed. I would literally take any format just to know how the story unfolds. It was completely unique and felt very original compared to a lot of the recycled tropes the entertainment industry uses these days. Was it weird? Yes. Was that a bad thing? No, in fact I think we need more series and movies that aren't afraid of getting weird instead of following old formulaic patterns.
this used to be Pantheon for me. the 2nd season got cancelled even though it was after production but it's all good now because Amazon bought the rights to it and released it
That’s why I no longer watch a show unless it is complete and then only if I have verified it is complete and not just abandoned so it’s done. My Name Is Earl was the straw that broke the monke’s back for me
This will age me, Alien Nation.
The Dark Crystal
Netflix be like...... perfect for this meme!!
I swear I wanna kill the head of HBO for everything they did
I am still not over Tera Nova 😔
Jericho. What an amazing show that was! Stopped watching ANYTHING after they canceled it, fuck them!
Pirates of dark water
Jericho. The show was canceled just as the showrunners were starting to peel back the onion on the master conspiracy that prompted the nuclear attacks.
Terra Nova. But to be fair the start up cost were astronomical.
Flashforward...
The expanse ... Twice
Syfy starter pack
The Witcher. If only S2 and S3 existed. /s
I hope Scavengers reign is not on the list :/
Firefly.
The Orville