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Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.

Niche show, but Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Holy shit that was a great show and SO well written, but I can see why it wasn't well received on a traditional TV format - if you didn't watch from the beginning and keep watching to the end it wouldn't make a lick of sense. Definitely meant to be enjoyed with a serious watch of an entire series and not episodically.

I would give my left foot for a Season 3.

I haven't seen this one mentioned yet, Daybreak.

Teen drama series about teens trying to survive in a zomble apocaylse, it was well written but what really makes me want a season 2 is the cliffhanger that shifts the entire show on it's head.

Throughout the series, Josh (the main character) is trying to get a girl called Sam, in the finale Sam rejects her because she notices he wasn't really in love with her. Josh was just trying to play a hero getting a damsel in distress, it was a amazing breakdown of toxic masculinity that makes so much sense if you rewatch the series with the twist in mind. Sam then becomes the leader, the position that Josh has been working for the whole series and that's the cliffhanger. I remeber people getting mad because those were the exact types of people Josh was. A season 2 could have gone even deeper into the toxic masculinity angle and that would have been awesome.

Stargate Universe.

They killed it when the show just had caught steam.

Mindhunter, excellent production quality, unfortunately too high production quality for it's own good 😢

Firefly

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Universe (yes, almost all the characters was unlikeable, but I’d still have liked a resolution)

Star Trek Prodigy

Star Trek Lower Decks

The Lazarus Project

Stargate universe.

Firefly

Firefly

Raised by Wolves

Game of Thrones, but written by the author

Wheel of Time (in case you missed it, it's canceled)

Years and Years

Utopia (UK, 2013)

I would probably go for Westworld despite it admittedly getting a little out there. If not that, then V.

Babylon 5.

Limitless.

Stargate Universe.

The Last Man on Earth.

A series that basically nobody knows: John Doe

A guy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who he is. But knows literally everything else. Basically walking Wikipedia

First season ended on massive cliffhanger and was cancelled

Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet but

Firefly

Had such a cool universe and cast of characters and was getting super interesting right when it was cancelled

1899

Raised by wolves. Like, more than anything. I want to know what happens so badly.

It was such a unique, utterly batshit crazy show that just really started going off the rails in the best possible way at the end of season 2. There was something so hauntingly bleak about it all that I fell head over heels in love with and its cancellation hurts to this day.

The OA

Game of thrones

I'm surprised no one mentioned My name is Earl, it's a tv show about a guy who wins the lottery and is immediately hit by a car, he then hears about Karma so he decides to turn his life around by making amends for all of the wrong things he did. It's a very fun comedy, and it was cancelled on a cliffhanger because the producers specifically asked if they were getting a next season and were told yes.

This one is the one that hurts me the most, because they knew how the ending was going to be, but didn't got thr chance to film it, and it would have been perfect. Essentially he would have gotten to an item on the list that he just couldn't do, whenever he tried something would prevent him from doing it, and it would seem that karma was against him. But then someone would come to him wanting to make amends for something they've done to him, and he would ask where the person got the idea, and it would be because someone made amends to him, and he would keep pulling at that thread until he found out that he inspired people around him to make their own lists, and those people inspired others, and so on and so forth so he would feel that he finally did more good than bad and would tear up the list and continue with his life. Oh, and the cliffhanger? It wouldn't matter, it was just going to be an excuse to bring some celebrity, they didn't even knew who the father was going to be.

PS: if you liked My name is Earl, and you weren't aware there's another TV show by the same people called Raising Hope which is the same style of comedy, with a bunch of the same actors, and they make constant references to MNiE.

Firefly

The 4400

Top Gear (the UK version)

Edit: As a side note, I would love to see a Eureka reboot

Red Dwarf, but with both Naylor and Grant continuing on from before the split. It felt to me that the quality dropped once they fell out and Grant left.

GoT, shame it got cancelled after GRR ran out of material, what would a sixth and seventh series looked like? Not some badly written, overly nasty, fan fiction, but actual quality as we had in the earlier seasons and books?

True Detective season one, by that I mean actually carrying on that plot line with the abuse cult rather than the "reboots" with new casts and settings in the future seasons. Those are great, I still want those, but I also want more of what we had in season one.

Hannibal, its time to revisit this overly stylized wardrobe of a cooking show

I don't know if you guys have heard but there was this one sci-fi show on Fox that was aired out of order then canceled after only one season. It got a movie for some closure, but would have been nice to continue.

I forget the name... Burnybug or something like that... It's not very well known on the internet, so I'd be surprised if anyone else were to bring it up in a thread like this.

Mythbusters, junkyard wars.

Really like earth 2. This point it would have to be a reboot. I swear there was a British version that was somewhat decent that was also cancelled but I cant remember its name.

Space: Above And Beyond

Babylon 5: Crusade

Loudermilk.

I'll mention one nobody has said yet: Kaos.

The last episode was definitely setting up a second reason that looked interesting, but then it never happened.

Wonderfalls

Scavengers Reign 100%

other notable mentions are Pantheon and Sense8

Ash vs Evil Dead

GLOW!
Covid really put the smackdown on that one

I’ll go with some not mentioned.

1899 - Same creators of Dark, so I feel like it would have been worth it.

Lie to Me- it was one of the “of the week” type shows that kept my interest back then

Freak and Geeks - Crazy it got one season. Almost every single cast member went on to be super famous.

Green Lantern The Animated Series. Would have been great to have a fully finished story for this.