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Can we please FUCKING stop censoring SHIT words like FUCK, or RAPE, or whatever?
Just write what you want to write. If you feel the need to crawl into a fetus position under your bed when you see any of these words then maybe put some space between yourself and the Internet. Go touch grass, live happy! Just stop being so... Childish?
The Dark Crystal series. ;_;
Not sure if it counts as a cliffhanger, but Westworld set itself up for a second season and then just nothing.
Err weren't there 3 seasons of Westworld?
Doesn't look like anything to me
Westworld is my answer to but unironically. Second season wasn't really bad, third season seemed pretty bad but after the fourth season it made much more sense. The fourth season was pretty interesting actually, and seemed like it was setting up a fifth season that tied everything together.
I'm convinced a fifth season would have justified the decisions they made in the middle seasons.
i was told if i enjoyed it, i should stop watching after season one and watch the movie instead.
My Name Is Earl's series finale is now a reddit post
Every cancelled show should be so lucky as to have a writer finish the story, even if it's just the outlines of a script.
Revolution
Technically 2 seasons, and man it had a lot of potential building up before canceled. Shame.
I was pretty upset when Kaos got cancelled. I didn't even think I'd like it, but absolutely loved it. I guess the creator has three seasons in mind, a short series, and they cancelled it after one.
Mad disappointed. It still plays okay as a first season, but my god I want to know what happened next
Half-Life 2: Episode 2. (I know not a TV show, but still)
Stargate Universe.
Limitless.
Any love out there for ReBoot? Absolutely revolutionary show and it ended on a cliffhanger.
I came on here to mention ReBoot, how they gonna save Mainframe from ole Megabutt this time? He's got webby powers and he's fuckin pissed!
Santa Clarita Diet :(
Finding out that Netflix cancelled this was up there with Firefly getting cancelled. This show was so damn good
Raised by wolves had so much potential. So did stargate universe.
Stargate Universe. Still hurts.
It was such a good show, and such a huge cliffhanger, and it hurt so much.... That for awhile it literally stopped me from watching any show that wasn't already concluded with a guaranteed ending.
Heck, my friends tried to get me to watch Firefly for YEARS, and I was like heck no. They killed it before its time.
These days I'm better. Watched Firefly, it was awesome, and worth it, but belongs here too. At least it got a movie to wrap it up.
Funny enough, they just cancelled another show I like, Resident Alien, and the posts are right next to each other:
goddamnit
Finder
TV producers and showrunners are too fucking greedy.
They all act as if it's still the year 1995 and they're dropping cliffhangers like crazy as if they're gonna run for 8, 9, 10 seasons - despite knowing full well that most of the shows out there these days are never making it past season 1 or 2.
Compare this to almost every popular book series. Books works on the basis that although it's a series, each individual book holds up as a satisfying experience with a beginning, middle and end. Every book leaves you wanting more, but yet, still happy with what you're read.
The Jack Reacher TV series works wonderfully in this way because - surprise surprise - it's an adaptation of the books. Every season is its own crime, and every season wraps that case up nicely.
More of that please - I want to watch shows which respect me as a viewer, not shows which mess me around.
So 'The Lost Room' had a lot of unrealized potential. It at least managed to tie up and close the main loop.
Maybe it came too soon vs the concepts of anomolus objects become popular later.
I'm still bitter about Reaper getting cancelled
Incorporated and Alphas. I'm still really annoyed at Netflix for cancelling Altered Carbon and Shadow and Bone as well. They don't deserve my money if all they do is back out of finishing stories.
Man fuck Netflix in general. The big one for me was The Society, which hit especially hard because they renewed it, and then cancelled it just says before they started shooting season 2. Sure "because COVID" or whatever, but heaps of other productions just hit pause, rather than cancelling outright something that had already received the green light. And because it was a show literally founded on its mystery. Its genre is literally "mystery drama", so not being able to reveal the mystery and satisfactorily pay off the clues is so much worse than any story where there isn't a mystery driving the story.
Also First Kill, a sapphic vampire romance drama/coming of age. And Lockwood & Co. which only really grabbed me near the end, but I found out about from others who were way more into and were very disappointed once it was cancelled.
At this point I don't even try starting a Netflix show unless it's already got a few seasons under its belt. And I know I'm not alone. Which undoubtedly just reinforces the problem.
Flashforward and Stargate Universe both ended on cliffhangers after two seasons within a year of each other. Just as I was healing and willing to give TV a chance again, they canceled Helix. Also on a cliffhanger after two seasons.
Terriers.
It's a great crime drama with comedy mixed in. Has nothing to do with dogs and is just one of those unfortunately names shows.
As a mild spoiler the show actually has a great ending. It certainly sets up for future seasons and I really want to watch those seasons, but given that it was cancelled, it's actually a solid ending.
Lol I don't watch new shows these days. Can't get fooled again.
Yeah I just can’t get invested in a plot like that solely depends on some corporate shithead being happy with the profits to get a proper ending.
If you started creating the show you should be obligated to give it some kind of damn ending.
Clone High’s first season did this. Two decades later, the show got revived. Good news too, because IMO the new seasons are even better than the original.
If you started the show ages ago but haven’t checked out the new episodes, I highly recommend it.
Wanna talk about cliffhangers? I got into the dark tower book series in 1995, and devoured the 3 tomes which were published at the time. Without spoiling, let's just say that #3 ends with all of the main characters in immediate mortal danger. Then there was an author's note where King basically wrote "don't hold your breath I have no idea where this story is going and will probably never finish it in my lifetime lmao".
So there's that... Then one fateful morning in 98 I got a call from my best friend whose parents had a book store : "hey zos we've just put on the shelf a new Stephen King book, isn't that from the series you keep yapping about?".
That was probably the peak moment in my bookworm life...
rip Duckman
Not a TV show, but there was a book my 6th grade teacher read (i forgor the name) where some unknown nuclear disaster happened, and a very small village in a valley survived due to the geography. Pretty much everyone dies trying to explore outside the valley to find answers, leaving only the main character left.
At some point a stranger in a radiation suit wanders in, finds the untouched valley, and immediately drinks from a radiation contaminated river and gets sick. Some stuff happens between the two of them, but in the end the main character takes the radiation suit and wanders out into the wasteland. As far as I know, there's no sequel despite heavily emplying the story isn't over