Thank you all for the show recommendations

    • Phoenixbouncing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      Honestly? With the benefit of hindsight, I’m actually pleased it wasn’t given the chance to become a Dollhouse.

      The movie gave closure, and we left the characters in a good place.

      Dollhouse gave us 5 seasons of content in one, and ruined itself in season 2, and many other shows have just run until everyone was sick of them, before getting an anticlimactic ending anyway.

  • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
    531·
    10 months ago

    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

    • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    39·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Came here specifically to mention Stargate: Universe. It was so good until it got cancelled.

      “That is one sweet potato” is still an inside joke I share with a couple of folks.

    • reddig33@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Yep. Was gonna post SGU if it wasn’t already here! It was an interesting show with a good cast.

      It could still be rebooted since there were a ton of people on the ship and all of them were in stasis when the show ended.

      Another property Amazon is sitting on.

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
      41·
      10 months ago

      SGU was a soap opera in space. So much drama between the characters instead of an outside force much of the time. SG1 was mostly focused on the SG team working together against something external like the goa’uld. Very rarely was there anything other than comradary or in jack and sam’s case, romantic feelings and/or sexual tension. The chemistry between the main cast was great. SGA had some degree of intracast member tension but by and large they still worked together well. SGU had a lot of mistrust between Rush and everyone else and for good reason. He was an arrogant dick that put his own interests above others a lot of the time. Keeping secrets from them and generally being unlikable. Eli’s arc was just sad. He was away from his mother who later became ill, watched the woman he had a crush on choose someone else and had to personally sever the connection between him and his new romantic interest to save Rush then if that wasnt bad enough, we dont know what happens to him after the finale. SGU might have been ok and I stress ok but not on par with SG1 or SGA if it was a completely separate franchise but alas, it was part of the same franchise and there was no justifying that it held its own against the others.

    • LilDestructiveSheep@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      There it is. Didn’t think I would find it.

      It was amazing. Something completely different and much darker. Still sad it got cancelled :/

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    392·
    10 months ago

    The Walking Dead.

    Should have been cancelled like 9 seasons earlier.

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      11·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • derpgon@programming.dev
          3·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, that was almost the breaking point for me aswell. And IIRC it was a last episode of a season aswell. Fuck that cliffhanger.

        • Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          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.

    • HairyOldCoot@lemmy.ca
      9·
      10 months ago

      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…”.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee
    342·
    10 months ago

    Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Star Trek: Enterprise

    Freaks & Geeks

    Sense8

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It was cancelled right as it found it’s footing. It’s like the studio forgot that every Trek show takes about 2 seasons to really find itself and that it then takes a few seasons for the people that wrote it off to give it another chance.

    • lorez@lemm.ee
      3·
      10 months ago

      Oh, Terminator was so good. Lena Headey was great as Sarah Connor.

  • mennorobert@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    Rome on HBO was a solid show covering an exciting time in Roman history. Sucks that they only had 2 seasons.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      It was too expensive to rebuild the set after the fire. I loved that show.

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 months ago

    I don’t think The Orville was officially cancelled but there doesn’t seem to be any plans for more as far as I know. The last season was great and set up more potential storylines.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    241·
    10 months ago

    My Name is Earl. One of my all time favorites and it was surprise cancelled on a cliffhanger.

  • xkforce@lemmy.world
    22·
    10 months ago

    Stargate universe ended on a cliffhanger, stargate atlantis ended without dealing with the wraith threat or the evil asgard etc. Star trek enterprise’s cancellation resulted in one of the worst most hated last episodes in scifi. Quantum leap ended without ever resolving the main plot. Inside job like most of netflix’s decent shows, got killed off for stupid reasons.