Thank you all for the show recommendations
Firefly
Still hurts
The correct answer.
This right here showy how Lemmy is superiour to reddit. Back there I always opened the comments whenever this topic was posted (so, once a week) and usually had to scroll waaaaaay down to see the correct answer.
Here it’s #1. And 2#.
Firefly
Edit: oh ya, and Farscape!
Damn. Right in the feels.
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FIREFLY
The Walking Dead.
Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.
Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. “I think we’ve found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem…”.
Yeah but for the first few seasons the problems were new and interesting at least.
First season was directed by Frank Darabont who is awesome at making great movies from written works of art. Then AMCunts saw this and fired him after awesome season one and replaced him with Glen Mazzara who never made anything worthy of note. They also doubled the number of episodes for same content and requested that more episodes are shot indoors to make everything earn more money. And it fucking worked.
On the other hand, I would have been happy if Z-Nation had gone on as long as The Walking Dead.
I stopped watching when they introduced horrible CGI and fake gun effects (no knock back, no shell ejection, no slide movement).
I’d argue the first few seasons - apart from the horrible acting from time to time, and prolonged passages just to stretch time, and filler episodes, and dumb people, and…
Yeah, it was shitty from the beginning.
I was with them up to the end of the second season with the farm.
After that they fell into the cycle of characters having to be excessively stupid to inject drama.
I stopped watching at the point where they pretended Glenn was dead, but he was actually hiding under the bin. Not because it was a cheap trick, but mostly because that was the point where I realised I no longer cared who was alive and dead.
I stopped watching when Glenn finally died. Mainly due to the fact that I found out through social media because I missed the first episode of that season when they revealed who got beat with Negan’s bat, and everyone on social media ruined the reveal.
He was my favorite character, and I know in the comics he dies much earlier than in the show, but I lost interest after that.
I was thinking the same for X-Files lol
Sarah Connor Chronicals. Was pretty good throughout but then ramped up to off the walls amazing, just in time to be cancelled on a cliffhanger
This and Firefly - what the fuck, Fox…
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. I was in awe with this show. Had waited years for it and was not disappointed! I loved the story and the set pieces were absolutely gorgeous. You could tell a lot of love and care was put into it. I was hoping they’d go all the way with this show and that it would end naturally as a full prequel story to The Dark Crystal.
But no. Netflix pulled the plug on Age of Resistance after the first season because it was too expensive. It still stings to this day.
Netflix pulls the plug on so much shit that I refuse to get invested in their shows until I know they’ve got a satisfying conclusion. If they could commit to not having perpetual cliffhangers until unceremoniously cancelling stories I might take the plunge but they won’t so I won’t.
Final Space deserves to be mentioned here. I know there’s a wrap up graphic novel slated and I’m super excited to see where Olan goes with Godspeed. But having the whole ip basically wiped off the face of the earth as a tax write off has to be one of the most messed up ways to cancel a show…
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What. It’s canceled? Damn had about 2-3 episodes left to watch
Game of Thrones. Sad we never got to see past season 6…
Serious answer: I just heard The Peripheral got cancelled after Westworld also got cancelled :l
Re Peripheral …. Seems to be a victim of the strike, according to Wikipedia. Last I heard it was renewed for a season 2. But they canceled it anyway.
Shit I liked that show and the story. I guess at this point don’t watch any streaming shows. They are getting to have the google effect it’s all getting cancled before the story finishes so why start.
This appeals to Hongkongers only, but I miss 頭條新聞 (News Headlines) (I made up this translation)
Despite its name, this was a sarcastic show aired on RTHK, an official government channel. It talks about a lot of events, poor decisions and wrong-doings of the government in a funny way. Unfortunately it was shut down in 2020, by the government.
Our democracy and freedom have been declining since then.
Number one show I wish wasn’t cancelled was Firefly, definitely. And more recently, 1899.
Dirk Gently’s :( fuck you Netflix.
Seriously, cancelling the show WHEN THEY FUCKING OPEN THE HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY?? My boy Elijah Wood was soo good on this!!! :((
You think Netflix fucked over that Dirk Gently?
ITV made a Dirk Gently show that was FOUR EPISODES LONG and it was better than the other show.
Gotta admit I didn’t watch that… I found out about it after I finished the Netflix show, and that it was cancelled. So I felt salty. Maybe I should watch it…
It’s much closer to the books. It deserved at least a British season of six episodes.
I also like Stephen Mangan’s Dirk more than Samuel Barnett’s Dirk, but then I’d watch Stephen Mangan read a newspaper.
I don’t understand why Netflix doesn’t just make movies instead of TV shows.
Or make short series instead of multi-season.
They are good at making great first season TV but then if it doesn’t get their magic number they cancel it and leave their customers hanging.
Just make the one season as an open and closed thing and call it that so no one gets their expectations up.
If it becomes some awesome hit thing, make an actual series as an offshoot / spinoff type thing.
Netflix only cares about new subs. New IPs drive new subs. New seasons of old IPs are money spent on people who are already customers. They make one season of a show you’ve been waiting for, you sign up, you watch that season, they cancel the show, statistically speaking you probably don’t cancel your subscription and then they redirect that money to running the same game on someone else.
So… Fuck capitalism?
This is peak capitalism. Taking your money, not caring about providing you with the service you paid for, and expecting you to bend over and take it.
AKA enshittification
Exactly.
I really don’t understand their business model tbh.
It seems like it’s just “burn as much money as fast as possible”.
had this one in mind reading the question, made me sad !
fuck’em!
Literally one of favourite TV shows ever, and just two seasons*. So many good feelings and great characters. Awesome actors and some of Douglas Adams’s best books ever?
Netflix fucking sucks man.
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The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.
Wonderfalls
Freaks and Geeks
Odyssey 5
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I’ve watched it two or three times. I really like William Sadler, so I was drawn to it when I first heard about it. Plus, pretty much every Bryan Fuller show is terrific.
Deadwood
Twin Peaks
Venture Bros
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Still got cancelled.
Invader Zim
Mindhunter
Mindhunter, yes.
Yeah :(
American Gods literally waited until right before the last episode to cancel it
It wasn’t as good as the book but man the setting and atmosphere were so good. And shadow moon is such a cool protagonist.
I’ve got two:
Stargate: Universe. I never got into Stargate before, and I really liked what was going on with Universe. Longtime fans didn’t. Though, after going back and getting into SG-1 and Atlantis, I very much understand why they hated Universe. The original shit is so much more fun, where Universe was overly serious. I still like the concept, but I think it would have been way better with the campyness of the original shows.
The second is Limitless. It was really fucking good. It was constantly pulling me in. And they cancelled it because too many people found it to be “unrealistic.” I’m sorry the show about a neutropic drug that makes you into a super genius isn’t real enough for you.
I dropped off of Limitless HARD after the “smell o vision” episode. I understand it’s just entertainment and none of it is real…
But that was too much of a leap to make in terms of suspension of disbelief. I watched Stargate Atlantis, really liked a lot of the show.
