• adhocfungus@midwest.social
      2·
      29 天前

      I don’t even remember if it had a cliffhanger and I wasn’t really invested in the love triangle. I just wanted more of the show itself. The two frazzled scientists, the critique of office culture and capitalism, the blatant evilness of the company, the snappy dialogue and fast pace. It was so good.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        2·
        29 天前

        “Now we both realize you aren’t ACTUALLY a witch, but it’s talk like that and the cottage in the woods made of candy that keeps that rumor alive.”

  • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
    17·
    29 天前

    Firefly is obvious,l…

    But I wish Stargate Universe had gotten to give the show some kind of conclusion to a great franchise. The other two shows had gone a season longer than they would have, so I get the temptation to not drag it out, but it sucked to leave a great franchise hanging like that.

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      29 天前

      I wish Amazon would bring it back. They own the entire Stargate franchise and have stupidly done nothing with it. David Blue pointed out everyone went into hibernation in the last episode, and there are a number of people on the ship (not just the original featured cast) so it would be easy to pick back up at any time.

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    29 天前

    Santa Clarita Diet.

    I don’t even know if more seasons would be good but I got very interested by the silly knight order and enjoyed all the characters a lot.

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    11·
    29 天前

    The end of Conan O’Brien’s run on The Tonight Show still can get me worked up with how badly that was handled, going all the way back to announcing Conan would get the show. Then you hear the stories about Conan and the then-president of NBC’s run-ins when they were both students at Harvard and it sounds even dumber.

    • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
      2·
      29 天前

      I did love Almost Human. I’d forgotten about that show. Pretty cool concept and the leads had great chemistry

    • Hugin@lemmy.world
      1·
      29 天前

      A coworker recommend Almost Human to me so I watched the first episode that night and thought it was great. It was cancelled the next day.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    29 天前

    One that I’m sure won’t be mentioned by anyone else: Westworld. I stuck with it all the way to season 4, and I can see what they were building to, and it makes the rough seasons make more sense. I sincerely think the 5th season was going to wrap everything up in a nice bow.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      29 天前

      That show was dead man walking by the end of S02E01. Even if they’d turned it into a masterpiece in the end, the damage was done and viewership gone. Not too different than what happened to Game of Thrones just earlier in its run.

    • Ilandar@lemmy.today
      8·
      29 天前

      Imagine renewing a show that could have ended after a single season, only to cancel it three seasons later anyway.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        29 天前

        Right before the final season, too. In a show famous for little details that become important later. When they explicitly said they planned from the beginning how it was going to end.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      29 天前

      I’m in the same camp as you.

      I rewatched the entire series earlier this year and beyond the sophomore slump of season 2, I think the series holds its own in terms of a strong and engaging narrative that is only becoming more and more prescient as time goes on.

      Is anything, the main issue holding it back is the title - as the show moved away from the Wild West setting of S1&2 into a modern/future world.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    5·
    29 天前

    It’s Your Move

    Early Jason Bateman plays a “criminally precocious” teenager, pulls his sister into innumerable stunts under his busy single mother’s nose, but the single guy across the hall always knows what’s going on.

    It was a brilliant show in 1984, only ran one season. But the kicker is that the last episode I saw was part one of a two parter, and part two of that one was not shown at its regular day and time, being interrupted by baseball or some shit. Next week, still didn’t play. I didn’t find out till way later that they did eventually broadcast it, but it was on a completely different day and time, and there wasn’t really any way to find out about that because the printed TV schedules had already gone out and didn’t include it.

    • Davel23@fedia.io
      3·
      29 天前

      It was pre-empted by Reagan making a speech. My best friend at the time and I loved that show. We would imitate Eli operating “The Dregs of Humanity” to crack each other up.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        3·
        29 天前

        I’m watching a VHS rip on youtube right now and omg it is still a great show.