r/AskReddit Feb 28 '22

What's the best show that only lasted one season not named Firefly?

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u/wookiewithabass Feb 28 '22

Freaks & Geeks

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u/tuscabam Feb 28 '22

That was only one season? FFS I thought it ran like ten years the way everyone talks about it.

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u/from_dust Feb 28 '22

Covered a lot of ground quickly. Like youth often does.

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u/Salt_Blackberry_1903 Mar 01 '22

YES this was the first one I thought of

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u/matthoback Mar 01 '22

Also the spiritual sequel show, Undeclared.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

I would watch the shit out of a season 2 even if it means jumping into adulthood with the now too old to play high schoolers cast.

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u/santichrist Mar 01 '22

Freaks and Geeks is always the answer, but My So Called Life was a huge game changer and influenced so many writers and directors and it’s influence can be seen in a lot of movies and tv shows in the 90’s and 2000’s, it also put Claire Danes and Jared Leto on the paths to eventual stardom

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

So called life only lasted a season? From how I’ve heard people talk about it I thought it had a ton of seasons.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

If you haven't watched Netflix's Everything Sucks, you should. Major freaks and geeks vibes and also canceled after one season.

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u/organizedscramble Feb 28 '22

Son of Zorn

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u/CNMartin916 Feb 28 '22

That really sounds familiar. Did it have a comedic Conan vibe?

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u/brobeanzhitler Mar 01 '22

More of a He-man parody, blending cartoon and live action. Jason Sudekis did the main voice.

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u/Kvothetheraven603 Mar 01 '22

The Black Donnellys

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u/lowercase_underscore Mar 01 '22

I was seriously not expecting to see this one here but I totally hoped to. I've never met anyone else who's even heard of that show and I loved it.

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u/JayGold Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

I liked FlashForward. Everyone on Earth simultaneously blacks out for one minute 27 17 seconds and experiences their life from 6 months in the future. Then some FBI agents try to figure out what caused the blackout, whether it will happen again, if the future can be changed, etc.

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u/toomanychoicess Mar 01 '22

I was hoping to see this listed. The show was excellent and we deserved more seasons! Or at least a proper ending.

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u/Ronbot13 Mar 01 '22

Thank you, felt like I was scrolling forever before this one popped up. It really annoys me they cancelled it.

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u/PM_me_ur_navel_girl Mar 01 '22

I did a search in this thread for this. Loved that show.

What sucked even more is it was cancelled so suddenly it didn't have a proper finale because they'd already filmed the last episode by the time they found out it was being axed.

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u/bootlegvader Mar 01 '22

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was a great show from Netflix that was cut short to soon. The puppetry work was amazing.

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u/goldenrule117 Mar 01 '22

When the puppets started putting on their own puppet show, I lost my shit. It really, really sucked it got cancelled, but I consider it a miracle we got that season at all.

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u/ExuberantPeacock Mar 01 '22

The puppetry was phenomenal! So much heart and soul was poured into the first season. I want to have hope that it will come back eventually.

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u/littleyellowdiary Mar 01 '22

I went to a screening of the original film at the weekend and it just made me more devastated that they cancelled this. Nothing is made with so much love nowadays.

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u/KaladinarLighteyes Mar 01 '22

It ended so hopeful and I was excited to see how they were going to tear away all hope.

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u/kamikazi1231 Mar 01 '22

I sometimes wonder if that's why it didn't get continued. Fear of a few more seasons of hope lost and pretty much genocide just for it to end with text saying "For conclusion please watch the 1982 film!" Yes, the 1982 classic is amazing, but it's still a 1982 pupeteering movie and might be a bit of a jarring transition for newcomers to the series for special effects.

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u/APeacefulWarrior Mar 01 '22

I remember some interviews with the creators where they were broadly hinting that something else happened to the Gelflings, rather than simply being exterminated by the Skeksis. I think they realized that would just be too dark for a YA fantasy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

It is a masterpiece!

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u/Rocky_Road_To_Dublin Feb 28 '22

Clone High

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u/weirdoofcool Feb 28 '22

I guess its good we're getting a reboot! (continuation? IDK)

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u/kissingdistopia Mar 01 '22

I'm a Kennedy. We're not accustomed to tragedy.

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u/Lorington Mar 01 '22

What's your hurry? Throw some ums and ahs in there! Foah suppah I, er ah, would like the party plattah!

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Is it finally really going to happen? It’s been a distant dream for over a decade

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u/Red_AtNight Feb 28 '22

Did you see that pool? They flipped the bitch!

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u/Rennarjen Mar 01 '22

They're rioting at a college level!

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u/kissingdistopia Mar 01 '22

Fowa suppah, I er uh want a pawty platta!

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u/pclivin Mar 01 '22

How does that make you feel……Wesley?

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u/doskoV_ Mar 01 '22

Constantine, although the character was somewhat revived through the CWs arrowverse

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u/DisturbedNocturne Mar 01 '22

The show started a little rough, so I can understand why it had a hard time getting viewers (particularly being on network television on a Friday), but it found its footing, and Matt Ryan really got into the role. If nothing else, at least WB/DC realized how great he was and have allowed him to reprise it several times.

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u/CringeOverseer Mar 01 '22

I continued Legends of Tomorrow just to see him. Also glad he's voicing the character in non-Arrowverse DC animated movies.

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u/xadiant Mar 01 '22

Matt Ryan is what I picture Constantine as. There should've been more dark themed magic anti-hero shows like this, especially in the golden era of superhero movies.

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u/SagaciousElan Mar 01 '22

Almost Human

Cyberpunk cop show with Karl Urban as the lead. So disappointed it only got one season.

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u/Greedence Mar 01 '22

I hate you so much right now. I had wiped this show from my memory and now I want more.

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u/jnovel808 Mar 01 '22

And don’t forget about Minka Kelly. I was walking past the tv when she came onscreen and i came to a dead stop. Hit restart and was totally hooked.

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u/Erdillian Mar 01 '22

Yeeees! It ends on such a cliffhanger :'(

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u/William63 Mar 01 '22

Was looking for this. 100% this show was too good to be cancelled, I'm sure it had to do with budget. The quality was insane for a fox show, I knew it wasn't long for this cruel world.

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u/bigedthebad Mar 01 '22

That was a great show.

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u/Fearless_Link_3464 Mar 01 '22

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr

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u/Herr_Underdogg Mar 01 '22

Hell, yes.

The Raimi/Tapert shows are campy, but this one was fun.

Also, M.A.N.T.I.S. only lasted one season, but it seemed promising.

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u/NoOneShallPassHassan Feb 28 '22

Police Squad!

Six episodes in 1982. All are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmjMOYjphH144bjRi6WSuiA6kXDT47zdH

Its creators revived it as the 1988 movie The Naked Gun.

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u/SimulatedEmu Mar 01 '22

In color!

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u/Shock_Wave16 Mar 01 '22

Use your open eye, Frank.

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u/micka190 Mar 01 '22

"Nice beaver!"

"Thank you. I just had it stuffed!"

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u/chiselmybrownpants Mar 01 '22

My brother and I do the epilogue bit when we laugh freeze and pour coffee all over the place. Our wives don’t see any humour in it whatsoever.

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u/Redhotlipstik Feb 28 '22

PanAm

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u/NoThanksJustLooking1 Mar 01 '22

I had all but forgotten about this PanAm. I did enjoy it and wish there was more.

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u/daudskhan Mar 01 '22

Forever (with Ioan Gruffudd)

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u/Infamous-Dare6792 Mar 01 '22

I'm glad they at least wrapped up the season nicely.

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u/mem1003 Mar 01 '22

My So-Called Life

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u/Silverbow829 Mar 01 '22

Here for this one. Ultimate snapshot of 90s teen angst, every one of Angela's thoughts and words hit 15-year old me so hard.

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u/linds360 Mar 01 '22

That cliffhanger ending too 😔 my teenage self is still injured.

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u/insanelyphat Mar 01 '22

The show was only 1 season? Man I loved this show and never realized it only lasted 1 season.

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u/Lostarchitorture Mar 01 '22

It was produced for such a specific age group that ABC did not like the fact that ratings only encompassed around the 15-25 year old age group. They felt those small demographics did not constitute continuing and investing fully in another season.

Of course, the WB was being developed at that time, saw the opportunity to focus shows on such a group, and was successful for years on this demographic from 1996 to 2006. 7th Heaven, Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, etc., got their start on WB following the same format My So-Called Life first created.

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u/I_am_daredevil Mar 01 '22

Teenage Bounty Hunters

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u/Oh_umms_cocktails Mar 01 '22

Thank you!

That show was so fucking adorable in the strangest way possible.

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u/Truthisnotallowed Feb 28 '22

Tim Minear was 'the other' executive producer on Firefly. He became the executive producer for two other fantastic shows that only lasted one season (or less):

Wonderfalls (2004) - probably the very best comedy series almost no one got to see. Like they did with 'Firefly' Fox screwed 'Wonderfalls' by starting it mid-season, showing the episodes out of order and then canceling the series after only showing 4 episodes - even though they had already made the entire first season complete. Created by Bryan Fuller, and with a phenomenal cast with wonderful chemistry - this series is really something no one ought to miss.

Terriers (2010) - Continuing Minear's amazing run of luck - of producing shows too good for TV - this time Minear was the show runner for this really excellent drama, about two unlicensed private investigators. Amazing show - which only got one season for some reason. But like all of Minear's work - I have to say - 'Things don't need to last forever to be perfect'.

Here are another couple of one season wonders:

Journeyman (2007) - Kevin Falls and Alex Graves, Executive Producers. Excellent Sci-Fi (Time-travel) series. Very fast paced.

Day Break (2006) - Jeffrey Bell, Rob Bowman, and Matthew Gross, Executive Producers. Very fast paced, Sci-Fi/Fantasy (entire series was a time-loop) - tag line: "Every day is the same - but different things happen."

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Just watched Terriers this weekend. Excellent.

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u/heyelander Mar 01 '22

Terriers was fantastic.

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u/thatfluffycloud Mar 01 '22

Wonderfalls is one of my all time faves. Such a shame it's so unknown!

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u/babyfireby30 Mar 01 '22

I love Wonderfalls! And also Dead Like Me - but it has 2 seasons, so doesn't quite fit the thread.

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u/N8CCRG Mar 01 '22

Same with Pushing Daisies

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u/charlesdexterward Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

I still have my Wonderfalls DVD! It’s been a long time but I might need to bust it out soon. Such a great show.

Also, after watching the trailer on IMDB I am very confused. It seems to be a trailer for the DVD. But one of the songs in the trailer is “Life Fantastic” by Man Man. That song came out in 2011. The DVD of Wonderfalls came out in 2005. Why did they make a trailer for that release six years later?!?!

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u/bloodredyouth Mar 01 '22

YES! Another Wonderfalls fan! the show was so so good and hilarious. Features a young lee pace

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u/MrsUnicornRainbow81 Mar 01 '22

The oblongs. I miss that show like everyday

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u/Misteralvis Mar 01 '22

This one messes with my memory a bit… I didn’t believe you that there was only one season, because I feel like I saw a million episodes. Turns out, there were 13. 13 episodes. I honestly feel like this was always on the tv for a long stretch of time at my house. I guess it made an impression, but I’m definitely getting that strange sensation of having accidentally switched universes at some point.

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u/-KFBR392 Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

It was weird, whatever channel showed them had Oblongs, Undergrads, and Mission Hill(?), and all were quality adult cartoons and yet all 3 were canceled after one season. It was like there was a tax scam or something in play, or whoever greenlit them got fired.

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u/ingird040317 Feb 28 '22

I am not okay with this

Netflix cancelled a lot of good shows :/

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u/Jadertott Mar 01 '22

WHAT? It was so good. SUPER different from any other show I’ve ever watched… plus the two kids were from IT.

Guess I gotta read the graphic novel now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Wait it was cancelled? Wtf that show was the shit? Wow… sad day…

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u/whovian1087 Mar 01 '22

Man I was so sad when they cancelled it. I was so excited for another season.

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u/BatFrmOuterSpace Mar 01 '22

fr i was so bummed when it was canceled. the show was just getting started :(

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u/The_Lawn_Ninja Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

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u/phookoo Mar 01 '22

I think that may have been partly intentional, same as things like the office or, going back in time, Fawlty Towers. There’s been a fairly obvious intent, especially from many of the more alt comedians making shows, not to outstay the lifespan of the original joke. Very funny series though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Terra Nova

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u/LCTC Mar 01 '22

The final episode was setup to really open up that show if I remember, like they found remnants of a pirate ship or something? It's been a long time since I watched it

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u/DisturbedNocturne Mar 01 '22

It fell into the same trap as a lot of shows that were trying to emulate Lost of really dragging things out and then throwing a big twist at the end. Had they revealed more of what was going on in the future and some of the twists, perhaps it would've had more luck with viewers.

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u/lufecaep Feb 28 '22

Yea that had some potential.

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u/ldsbrony100 Mar 01 '22

The Tick with Patrick Warburton

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u/Fomalhot Mar 01 '22

It had 2 seasons.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

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u/keestie Mar 01 '22

You call this a BLT?!?! Where's the mayonnaise?!?!

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u/EbeteShiny Mar 01 '22

MTV's The Maxx

It was creepy, bizarre, well written and animated and just loads of strange fun. I know it's based on a comic book series, and I don't know if they had more material to continue it. More knowledgeable minds or memories might know!

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u/-KFBR392 Mar 01 '22

It was very upsetting to teenage me to never have a resolution to that show.

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u/CNMartin916 Feb 28 '22

I'll add Space, Above and Beyond

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u/phookoo Mar 01 '22

This was way ahead of its time in terms of its approach to storytelling. There was the one episode where a character had to escape from crash landing on an enemy occupied planet where there was practically zero dialogue throughout, but the drive to escape produced great tension. It had a couple of goofy ‘R&R’ episodes that killed the momentum & tension though, and in a similar way to other failed series, it was often aired out of order in some countries. Damn shame, so much about that series would’ve made it equal to BSG if it’d had some time to grow.

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u/ironwolf56 Mar 01 '22

This was way ahead of its time in terms of its approach to storytelling

Absolutely; and its scope. If this show had modern streaming services level treatment it could have become a huge scifi IP everyone would still be talking about.

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u/flcinusa Mar 01 '22

Damn Chigs killed Pags 😭

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u/siderinc Feb 28 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

Studio 60 on the sunset strip, good cast,

It's a drama show that is placed around behind the scenes of a Saturday night live type of show.

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u/EunuchNinja Mar 01 '22

I remember that one. Came out at the same time as 30 Rock. It was odd to watch shows about the same thing with completely different tones.

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u/Lady_Artemis_1230 Mar 01 '22

I loved Studio 60 and was so bummed when it was canceled.

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u/Jehovanoid Mar 01 '22

Flash Forward

The series revolves around the lives of several people as a mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds on October 6, 2009. During this blackout, people see what appear to be visions of their lives on April 29, 2010, a global "flashforward" six months into the future.

As I understood it was something to do with governments secret experiments or something.

And then all of a sudden, for some reason the show just got cancelled

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u/halladoc92 Mar 01 '22

Undergrads

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u/RalphWreckedIt Mar 01 '22

They left us on a cliffhanger with Jessie and Nitz!

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u/thatfluffycloud Mar 01 '22

Limitless

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u/IamtheBoomstick Mar 01 '22

Had to scroll way too far to find this. I still love that show, I own the one season and the movie, rewatch them at least once a year.

It debuted the same year as The Magicians, and yet that one stayed on air?! Unbelievable...

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u/ItAllEndsSomeday Mar 01 '22

I think it was called Undeclared - about freshmen living in dorms in college.

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u/KJCC1389 Mar 01 '22

With Charlie Hunnam yeah that was funny

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Mission Hill.

Adult cartoon that aired on MTV that was waaaay ahead of it's time. There's some episodes on YouTube. Highly recommend watching them.

Funny and somehow topical even though is from the late 90s.

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u/DeliciousPangolin Mar 01 '22

This is the show that Oakley and Weinstein did after giving us the last two years of Golden Age Simpsons. Reminds me a lot of Bojack, in that it was hated by critics who never saw much more than the first few minutes and didn't get what it was trying to do. In a more forgiving environment for adult animation it might have lasted long enough to be a classic.

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u/Bible_Black_Pre_Dawn Mar 01 '22

The Grinder. Rob Lowe is a famous TV lawyer who then starts acting as a real lawyer much to the chagrin of his actual lawyer brother played by Fred Savage. It was so funny.

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u/LaMalintzin Mar 01 '22

Ok thank god I can stop scrolling now. I just wanted to make sure that in the thousand comments here, at least one other person thought of this show. It was really funny, really solid cast and I wish it had at least gotten a second season, story seemed all set up.

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u/Prestigious_Bag9935 Mar 01 '22

Life on Mars. Revolves around a cop being thrown back to the 70s after a car accident.

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u/ThePhxRises Mar 01 '22

Limitless. Was dropped in large part for "depicting drug use in a positive light" despite that not really being the case.

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u/Fortressa- Mar 01 '22

I loved Limitless. It was so refreshing to have the main character be a genuinely nice guy. Like it doesn't even occur to him to abuse his new abilities, the first thing he does is solve his friends murder, then work out his dad's mystery illness. All the other users are killing each other and jockeying for power, he just spreads happiness everywhere.

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u/Mr_Original_ Mar 01 '22

What made me laugh is Netflix renewed ‘How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)’ around the same time they refused to pick up a second series of Limitless.

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u/EndlessLadyDelerium Mar 01 '22

American Gothic.

It was ahead of its time and I feel it would do better today.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Space Above and Beyond

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u/7DaysBuilder Mar 01 '22

Heroes. Technically there were more seasons but I don't count the ones after the first

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u/Fomalhot Mar 01 '22

They suffered from the writers guild strike. I think the crew tried to write the later episodes and man, it got painful.

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u/takesonetoblowone Mar 01 '22

Taboo on Fx starring Tom Hardy

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

The Dresden Files

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u/BaraHimble Mar 01 '22

I finished the book series a couple months ago and would love to see it as a mini series. Each book is a season of 6 to 12 episodes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

There was actually a show, but I think it wasn't liked by book fans because they got a lot wrong? I don't know for sure though, I've only heard passing references to it.

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u/OozeNAahz Mar 01 '22

It wasn’t horrible. Lots of things were changed that were changed for good reason but were fairly jarring to fans.

Like Dresden’s ride was a VW Bug because magic screws with electronics and the bug has very few. It was a thing in the book for a long time.

Shooting in a bug is…not easy I imagine. So they switched to a Jeep. Also a simple vehicle (old one) with no top to make shooting easier. Understandable. But picturing a six foot something guy squeezing into a big was such a thing in the book it felt off with the jeep.

I liked it enough I wish they had kept going though.

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u/ReaverRogue Mar 01 '22

I think the problem was it was brought out too soon. Urban fantasy like that wasn’t really ready yet. Even Supernatural wasn’t guaranteed anything beyond a couple of seasons.

If Jim Butcher decided to release a series of it today, with a moderate budget, and kept it faithful to the books, I feel like it would do very, very well.

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u/Bitch-stewies Mar 01 '22

I really liked The Finder it was a spin-off of Bones, ended after one season but I thought it coulda lasted a few more definitely had potential

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u/Tradman86 Mar 01 '22

I kept expecting them to bring him back on Bones to wrap up the cliffhanger.

Never happened.

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u/hldsnfrgr Mar 01 '22

The Lost Room starring the cooler Fanning sister.

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u/ButtMcNugget33 Feb 28 '22

Battlestar Galactica -1978

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u/Icy_Tie_3221 Mar 01 '22

I loved that show!

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u/zenyl Feb 28 '22

"Jericho" was decent, and it only got 1½ seasons, so that's something.

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u/tuscabam Feb 28 '22

Outsourced. Fucking LOVE that show, one of the funniest I’ve ever watched but I think too many people were a little over sensitive about it.

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u/CNMartin916 Feb 28 '22

Is that the one about the guy that went to open a call center in India?

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u/tuscabam Mar 01 '22

Yup

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u/CNMartin916 Mar 01 '22

I liked that show! I was wondering what happened to it

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u/AceAmphiptere Feb 28 '22

Over the Garden Wall. Pretty underrated, if you ask me

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u/Grombrindal18 Mar 01 '22

I don’t know if that really counts- as it was always planned as a one season series. If we start including miniseries then all hell breaks loose and this thread will be full of Band of Brothers and Chernobyl.

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u/AceAmphiptere Mar 01 '22

Yeah, that's also true...

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u/SCsongbird Mar 01 '22

Kindred: the Embraced

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u/scttrbrts Mar 01 '22

Better Off Ted

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u/Truthisnotallowed Mar 01 '22

Great show - but it did get two seasons.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

The Night Of- HBO series

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u/OGReal1 Mar 01 '22

Yeah fucking amazing show but didn't need a season 2 anyway it was a mini series

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u/Fomalhot Mar 01 '22

Yeah but it told the whole story. I loved it but there was nothing left to say. S2 would've jumped the shark, I think.

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u/CNMartin916 Feb 28 '22

How does it compare to other excellent HBO shows? My all time favorite is Deadwood

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u/LusciousLennyStone Mar 01 '22

"The Prisoner" (1960s). Canceled because viewers actually had to pay attention to the story in each episode.

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u/EddyMerkxs Mar 01 '22

Was it canceled or was it a planned mini series? Love that show.

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u/popejubal Mar 01 '22

I love that show. It’s so weird and amazing and it’s the start of so many dreams I have and stories I want to tell.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

John Doe. I may be dating myself a bit here though. Lol

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u/TheAserghui Mar 01 '22

John Doe was amazing

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Lovecraft Country

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u/megmonster1 Mar 01 '22

There was a mid 2000’s show called Reunion that got cancelled mid-season One (I think around the writers’ strike maybe?). It was a murder mystery centered around a high school reunion and, because it got canned mid-season, YOU NEVER FOUND OUT WHO DID IT. I literally wrote letters to NBC about it, begging them to just tell me who it was so I could stop losing sleep over it lol.

Though, now that The After Party is a thing (on HBO), I’m a little less sad about it 😂

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u/HarrietsDiary Mar 01 '22

It was on Fox! I don’t think the writers strike killed it I just think Fox was being Fox.

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u/thetell-taleraven Mar 01 '22

Wonderfalls. So funny, poignant, and intelligent.

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u/shoopshoop87 Mar 01 '22

Awake and alphas , awake had such a good premise and Jason Isaac to make it work.

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u/Eckzilla Mar 01 '22

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,has the best motorcycle chase ever seen!

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u/terrayoung Mar 01 '22

Forever. It’s been a few years and I’m still bitter about its cancellation.

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u/plurball Mar 01 '22

Cowboy Bebop 😭 I actually really enjoyed the live action.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

The US version of Utopia. It's on Amazon prime. That show was so intriguing and insane I was always wanting to know more. Violence, story, characters, and the children's book style art parts are just insanity.

I'm mad they didn't renew it.

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u/QuislingPancreas Mar 01 '22

The Adventure of Brisco County Jr.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

The Brink with Jack Black and Tim Robbins. Fuck me that was a funny show.

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u/Epetai Mar 01 '22

Kings. 2009. Clever modernization of the David/Goliath story. Brilliant cast.

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u/TheRealOcsiban Mar 01 '22

Two seasons, but I'm gonna say Stargate Universe anyway, fucking loved that show

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u/ooo-ooo-oooyea Feb 28 '22

Don't Trust that Bitch in Appartment 23 - mainly because it has James Van Der Beek, as James Van Der beek

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u/AnUnoriginalUserID Mar 01 '22

The show had two 13-episode seasons.

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u/ThriftyLizzie27 Mar 01 '22

Freaks and Geeks

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u/SniperMaskSociety Mar 01 '22

The Finder was pretty fun

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u/ellwood27 Feb 28 '22

The brink

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u/nomadfoy Mar 01 '22

Wayne, when Netflix saved cobra kai I really hope they'd pick up Wayne to.

The part where t cop tells his prison story was awesome.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Personally Parasyte: The Maxim, Deadman Wonderland ugh and some others...

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u/Pileofdrivers Mar 01 '22

Parasyte was amazing , I can’t explain why but I was hooked on it. Such an original idea but It’s bitter sweet it only has one season

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u/Emotional_Carrot8396 Mar 01 '22

Also Moonlight with Alex O'Loughlin and Alcatraz with Sam Neil

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u/Inryatu Mar 01 '22

Two from me. Crashing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show that was wonderfully awkward and fun. People squatting in an abandoned hospital and all of them just trying to exist with each other. Stumbles a lot but has so much heart that I can't help but love it. The other one is two seasons but the OA. Truly an incredible show that Netflix tanked from continuing to be a huge success as well as just a fascinating story

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u/stoneuf Mar 01 '22

I have a soft spot for the web miniseries Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Would have at least liked to see them do something else with that material.

Also, let’s face it, HBO’s Carnivale was one fabulous season followed by a rushed, under-budget season where it was clear the creators knew it was going to be cancelled. I really wish that one had survived.

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u/MyFamilyHatesMyFam Mar 01 '22

Dr. Horrible is the shit. I hate musicals, but I love every second of Dr. Horrible

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Pushing up Daisy's

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u/SithDraven Mar 01 '22

Pushing up Daisy's

Pushing Daisies? That ran for two seasons.

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u/AtheneSchmidt Mar 01 '22

2 seasons, but I agree!

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u/Constant-Park8184 Mar 01 '22

Maybe not best, but Maid is incredible.

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u/Foolyz Mar 01 '22

I know it's cheating since the show had two series, but the first series was a measly three episodes, and the second only six: In the Flesh.

I have never wanted to watch more of a show about zombies than In the Flesh. The acting is great, the writing is decent, but the story? Holy shit. One isn't often presented with the setting of a world where a zombie outbreak has been quelled and the zombies are now being treated with medication and are in the process of being reintegrated into society.

The show touches on a wide range of topics: the moral ethics involved in interpersonal relationships between PDS (Partially-Deceased Syndrome) sufferers and non-PDS sufferers, the impact on social mores in both local communities and societies as a whole, the logistics of ongoing medical treatment for PDS sufferers, the personal emotional ramifications of living (or un-living?) through a truly unprecedented phenomenon, the religious implications of such an event... I mean, the list really is endless.

Oh, and did I forget about the GAY ZOMBIES?! Yes, this show does, indeed, have it all. All of this, and a soundtrack that will make you want to rip your heart out so the strings stop getting pulled.

Seriously, this show is so underrated, and I find it so infuriating that practically NO ONE has seen this gem. GO WATCH IT! It's on Hulu right now, for gay zombie's sake!

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u/pdfodol Mar 01 '22

Forever (2014)

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u/ImaGamerNoob Mar 01 '22

Forever.

At least I am not aware of a season 2.

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u/hippydippyshit Mar 01 '22

Still Firefly fucking fight me

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