Firefly
In order that I remember them now
- Drive
- John Doe
- The OA
- Sense8
- Limitless
- Dollhouse
- Tru Calling
- Dark Matter
- My So-Called Life
- Witchblade
- Carnivàle
- Probably more, I'll add them as I think of them
Firefly would make the list, if I watched it while it aired. But I didn't see it till later.
All time? Freaks and geeks. Was becoming the quintessential coming of age show, had hard lessons that were from the point of real kids growing up. Each character was relatable in their own way, and should have gone on for years.
Second to that is Arrested Development. And yeah it was rebooted but the cast had moved on. The show was on a great role and was just ahead of its time. The episodic nature of it just wasn't popular then.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I would have loved to see how they planned to resolve that cliffhanger.
A lot of good answers already. I'll add Santa Clarita Diet. It's a nice little show.
Firefly and Pushing Daisies are staples in these conversations, so I'll throw in a less common one: NCIS LA.
I watched that show for over a decade. It was something predictable and comfortable. The show ending was like losing my favourite hoodie I've had for 14 years. Does it really impact my life? No. Do I miss it nonetheless? Yes.
I'll never forgive Amazon for cancelling The Tick.
Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles
Really, Westworld, but no one had mentioned TSCC yet.
Glow
Firefly
The Glades
Venture Brothers
Better off Ted.
Pushing Daisies.
The OA
Deadwood. It was my favorite show ever. They made a movie a couple years ago to wrap things up but it's not the same
Millennium. X-Files spinoff with the venerable Lance Hendrickson.
2 seasons, although they managed to wrap it up at the end pretty well considering.
One of the most visceral, amazing shows ever made.
The recent ones that come to mind are 1899, Scavenger’s Reign, and Infinity Train. All with good premises and cancelled prematurely.
Better off ted.
Avenue 5.
Alien Nation.
My Name is Earl.Ugly Americans.
Darkwing Duck, it ends with the first episode of a two parter...
Colony .... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256
Rome.
Inside Job
Raised by wolves. I just want to know how it ends.
freaks and geeks. unbelievably stacked cast but the network never gave it a dedicated time so no one knew when they could watch it. then it got cancelled before they aired half the episodes citing poor viewership
Last Man on Earth
So Help Me Todd. It was a really amusing, well written legal mystery show, and I figured it was so good that it had to last for several seasons, but it was cancelled after only two. Too bad, it was a terrific show, and would have been a great lead in for Elsbeth. I like the Kathy Bates show that replaced it, but its not nearly as good as So Help Me Todd.
Grimgar
The character art, design, and development still phenomenal compared to most even 10yr later.
Hannibal
Imperfects was fun. I would have liked a second season.
I am not ok with this. That had some potential.
Recently I was bummed they canceled Shantaram
Revolution.
Cool ideas/setting, and Giancarlo Esposito was involved. Low-key haven't moved on yet. I get it, maybe the writing could have been better, good ideas, but not so good execution.
Rubicon and Freaks and Geeks
Stargate Atlantis and universe, Star Trek enterprise, Les moonves destroyed the last good series. , nutrek just suck balls. The animated series attempts to cure that though, the live actions are so bad, STD, Picard and snw is not as good as it looks.
Atlantis and universe was under MGM so they had significant financial problems , been plaguing them for years, also the low viewership retired the whole franchise. The show runners allegedly said it's not possible for another series, due to "societal climate". There was going to be some serious reveals in season 3 for sgu.
2 shows Disney forced cancellation, gifted and AOS
MANTIS
If streaming shows are fair game, Final Space. So much passion poured into such an excellent production and Netflix axed it after 3 seasons.
Captain Star
Arliss
Lazor Wulf. Two seasons, with a forced change in animation studios between seasons, didn't give the show enough opportunity to grow.
Tuca & Bertie and Firefly as well. Maybe Lower Decks too
Otherworld
Johnathan Banks would have had a billion Emmys by now if they had just followed the 45 season and 6 movie plan.
Without a doubt, Netflix's The Society. Made all the worse for the fact that it was renewed for a second season, and was less than a week away from starting shooting that season when COVID lockdowns began. Rather than postpone like so many other movies and shows did, Netflix decided to cancel it entirely.
The Society had so much potential as a really engaging mystery as well as some serious sociological storytelling. It's so disappointing.
Outer Range
The Pretender. Mostly because they had just had a huge cliff hanger. And the made for TV movies never got aired in my country.
My name is Earl, super disrespectful to end on a cliffhanger after 4 seasons
Threshold really should have gotten more than one season. Unfortunately, I don't think anybody's ever heard of it.
4400 both version, pretender, x-files, clarice,
