not really an answer but i think dollhouse’s second season hits worse than if it had just been cancelled outright. i’m glad joss got the chance to give it an ending, but CHRIST that timeskip fucking sucks.
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Not sure if it counts as a cliffhanger, but Westworld set itself up for a second season and then just nothing.
damn was it ever a good season though
Err weren't there 3 seasons of Westworld?
Doesn't look like anything to me
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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.
Santa Clarita Diet :(
I don't consider that a cliffhanger though. It kinda works as a "and they lived happily ever after". It's just that everybody wanted to see what the ever after was like.
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Finding out that Netflix cancelled this was up there with Firefly getting cancelled. This show was so damn good
Careful, you'll upset the Firefly fandom.
The worst part for me is they built up 3 seasons worth of story and lore just to forget it completely. Such a waste.
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Raised by wolves had so much potential. So did stargate universe.
Any love out there for ReBoot? Absolutely revolutionary show and it ended on a cliffhanger.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
This is fine, and if you are writing your season finale with no new deal in place for more, this is what you should do. You don’t have to close the door on the characters’ adventures, just leave them in an appropriate place for the previous season’s threads.
You have to “Calvin & Hobbes” the finale.
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.
2005 was a bad year for cancelled sci-fi series that were good, actually. Surface, Threshold and Invasion, all excellent, all cancelled after one season. I'm still upset.
rip Duckman
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.
Didn't it get canceled on another cliff hanger, though?
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.
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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...
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.
The O frickin A.
Outlaw Star deserved more than 1 season
For me it's Big O
Now there's a name I have not heard in a long time.
Fuck.
Colony
The story was going so well too. It should be illegal to cancel shows without at least disclosing how the series was supposed to end.
I have to assume you have never loved a person like I did.
Teenage Bounty Hunters!
"Bookie". Damn dangling ending.
Last Man on Earth
NOOOOOOOOOOO IM WATCHING S3 RIGHT NOOWWWWW
Fuck you for posting censored garbage