The Venture Bros. Adult Swim cancels their best show for what? More Rick and Morty. That's just sad.

Carnivàle had so much potential :-(

The Expanse. The last books are my favorite in the series. Still hoping they finish…

Limitless.

It really pisses me off because one of the cited reasons was the fan response, and the fan response was that "it's too unrealistic."

Oh you think?! The show about a magic pill that makes you super smart isn't realistic? Fuck off! Let us have some fantasy, FFS.

Pushing Daisies... but it might be coming back? 16 years after being cancelled?

King of the Hill was cancelled to make room for The Cleveland Show. That should pretty much say everything.

Mythbusters. I know it had been on for a long time, but it was my go to the entire time. I was ready for it to go, and I haven't found a show that I liked as much as it.

Metalocalypse is up there too!

Altered Carbon. Season one was top-notch, season two brought all the nails to shut that coffin.

In recent memory, I’d say Raised By Wolves. It was flawed but interesting. It also had an interesting companion comic book. Would love to see some streamer pick the series back up, or maybe some nice graphic novels based on the story.

Similarly, Lodge 42 and Moonhaven.

The Peripheral. Cancelled due to the writer strikes. Excellent sci-fi show. Would have loved an extra season.

Has to be Mind Hunter.

Terra Nova... Would have loved to have more dinosaurs

Raised by wolves

After a recent rewatch, I would have to put forward Better Off Ted as top of my list of worst cancellations. Truly underrated when it ran, the writing was witty and sharp, aligning with the humour of Scrubs and Community.

Speaking of, re-watching Community slowly peter-out over the seasons (despite my excitement for the movie!), does preclude me from putting it at the top of the list.

Lastly, for my wasted potential award, I would say Westworld was cancelled just as it sat on the edge of redemption. Season one was a masterpiece, while season two felt like a big retread. Seasons 3&4 were controversial due to the drastic shift in setting to the real (future) world, however the ending of S4 leading back into the Wild West setting was so promising!

Plenty in reality, but for this thread I will say "Into the Badlands". It was a fun and gorgeous show with good action scenes.

freaks and geeks. never got a chance and had an all star cast

Reaper, absolutely loved that show and they had the audacity to end on a cliffhanger. Same for My Name is Earl

Carnivale.

It was one of the best shows ever made, and they cancelled it on one of the biggest cliffhangers in television history.

Welcome To Flatch. The show was uniquely weird in a way I enjoyed.

I know I am probably in a small majority, but Hailey's On It!

I watched it every day with my daughter. I genuinely believe/d that it had scooby-doo level cult following potential. Cancelled AND deleted from disney.

Only one I can think of right now was Constantine. I actually loved that show.

they cancelled castle like a month after i started watching it

I really liked Whiakey Cavalier. Also Next was pretty sad, got cancelled because covid

Gravity.

It was a single season about a suicide survivors support group, it ended on a cliffhanger in an ongoing story and was unceremoniously canceled by iirc Netflix.

I was quite into it.

American vandal. Both seasons were excellent and very different. I enjoyed the next thing the creators made (players), but I really wish it was high school true crime.