Firefly.

Expanse

Dark Matter (2015).

Also, GLOW.

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.

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.

My name is Earl

Pushing Daisies

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.

Better Off Ted

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Avenue 5 :(

Almost Human

Also, Firefly, duh!

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.

Raised by Wolves and 1899.

Inside Job deserved better.

• Raised By Wolves
• Moonhaven
• The original Battlestar Galactica

Pretty sure all of these were canceled due to budgetary constraints, not ratings. It’s like current network execs have never heard the term “loss leader”.

I’ll add Andor to this list even though it wasn’t “canceled”. It sure felt like it was cut short/rushed for the same reasons. Every couple of episodes of the final season felt like they could have been fleshed out into an entire 8-13 episode arc. It was great television but it still left me feeling like I got cheated.

Rubicon

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.

The Finder but I understand why a season 2 could never happen. RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.

Raised by Wolves and Alien Nation

Last Man on Earth

The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I never even started watching the second Season because I knew there was no point.

King of the Hill. Fox cancelled it 4 episodes early (which they didn't run) for The Cleveland Show of all things.

Thankfully Adult Swim picked it up and ran the missing episodes, but still fuck fox for cancelling it at all, and early no less, for one of the worst shows animation has ever offered.

Question for anyone who says Firefly: Have you seen Cowboy Bebop? The show it's inspired by? I feel like a lot of casual Firefly fans are mad they just got the one season and movie, and they don't know there's a much longer season (still one season but like 24 episodes), a movie, and a more modern Netflix adaptation of what actually inspired Firefly?

The same people behind Cowboy Bebop have another series called Michiko & Hatchin. Same energy but not in space. It's a modern Western, or "neo-Western" more like the stuff Taylor Sheridan is doing (Yellowstone and all its spinoffs, Hell or High Water, Wind River), but it's got that punk vibe to it like Firefly/CB.

Firefly fans got a ton of content, if not with the same name.

Obvious answer is Firefly, so thinking of another show:

Not "officially" cancelled, but it might as well be since there's literally been no news of any follow up: Extracurricular (on netflix).

Oh and Mindhunter.

Odyssey 5 (2002)

... five space travelers ... witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.

Rubicon (2010)

... an innocent character is caught up in, and slowly unravels, a major conspiracy.

First Kill.

It was corny as hell, and the digital blood was laughably bad. But it was unabashedly sapphic and I loved that.

Goddamn Netflix.

V

PBS

The Cape

star-crossed and copper bc i'm still not over the cliffhanger endings