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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Half-Life 2: Episode 2. (I know not a TV show, but still)

Stargate Universe.

Limitless.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Revolution

Technically 2 seasons, and man it had a lot of potential building up before canceled. Shame.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

The Dark Crystal series. ;_;

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Stargate Universe. Still hurts.

It was such a good show, and such a huge cliffhanger, and it hurt so much.... That for awhile it literally stopped me from watching any show that wasn't already concluded with a guaranteed ending.

Heck, my friends tried to get me to watch Firefly for YEARS, and I was like heck no. They killed it before its time.

These days I'm better. Watched Firefly, it was awesome, and worth it, but belongs here too. At least it got a movie to wrap it up.

Funny enough, they just cancelled another show I like, Resident Alien, and the posts are right next to each other:

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I was pretty upset when Kaos got cancelled. I didn't even think I'd like it, but absolutely loved it. I guess the creator has three seasons in mind, a short series, and they cancelled it after one.

Mad disappointed. It still plays okay as a first season, but my god I want to know what happened next

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ash vs Evil Dead AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

In a similar vein "Stan Against Evil".

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... did you censor the word fuck here?

Fuck no it was like this when I got it

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Can we please FUCKING stop censoring SHIT words like FUCK, or RAPE, or whatever?

Just write what you want to write. If you feel the need to crawl into a fetus position under your bed when you see any of these words then maybe put some space between yourself and the Internet. Go touch grass, live happy! Just stop being so... Childish?

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Any love out there for ReBoot? Absolutely revolutionary show and it ended on a cliffhanger.

I came on here to mention ReBoot, how they gonna save Mainframe from ole Megabutt this time? He's got webby powers and he's fuckin pissed!

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My Name Is Earl's series finale is now a reddit post

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Every cancelled show should be so lucky as to have a writer finish the story, even if it's just the outlines of a script.

[–] SatyrSack 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not sure if it counts as a cliffhanger, but Westworld set itself up for a second season and then just nothing.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

damn was it ever a good season though

Westworld is my answer to but unironically. Second season wasn't really bad, third season seemed pretty bad but after the fourth season it made much more sense. The fourth season was pretty interesting actually, and seemed like it was setting up a fifth season that tied everything together.

I'm convinced a fifth season would have justified the decisions they made in the middle seasons.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Err weren't there 3 seasons of Westworld?

[–] Ediacarium@feddit.org 38 points 2 days ago

Doesn't look like anything to me

[–] yuri@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago

i was told if i enjoyed it, i should stop watching after season one and watch the movie instead.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't consider that a cliffhanger though. It kinda works as a "and they lived happily ever after". It's just that everybody wanted to see what the ever after was like.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe we are remembering it differently, but i remember it was a huge cliffhanger, she was falling apart and not healing properly, and there was the stuff about the knights of serbia, none of it was resolved.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And i believe the thing in the jar came alive as well?

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[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Two by two, hands of blue."

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago

I'm a leaf on the wind.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm still not over the Dark Angel cancellation 🙁

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

TV producers and showrunners are too fucking greedy.

They all act as if it's still the year 1995 and they're dropping cliffhangers like crazy as if they're gonna run for 8, 9, 10 seasons - despite knowing full well that most of the shows out there these days are never making it past season 1 or 2.

Compare this to almost every popular book series. Books works on the basis that although it's a series, each individual book holds up as a satisfying experience with a beginning, middle and end. Every book leaves you wanting more, but yet, still happy with what you're read.

The Jack Reacher TV series works wonderfully in this way because - surprise surprise - it's an adaptation of the books. Every season is its own crime, and every season wraps that case up nicely.

More of that please - I want to watch shows which respect me as a viewer, not shows which mess me around.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

I'm still bitter about Reaper getting cancelled

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

Raised by wolves had so much potential. So did stargate universe.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

The moment a show ends in a cliffhanger, it gets removed from the fave show list.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not a TV show, but there was a book my 6th grade teacher read (i forgor the name) where some unknown nuclear disaster happened, and a very small village in a valley survived due to the geography. Pretty much everyone dies trying to explore outside the valley to find answers, leaving only the main character left.

At some point a stranger in a radiation suit wanders in, finds the untouched valley, and immediately drinks from a radiation contaminated river and gets sick. Some stuff happens between the two of them, but in the end the main character takes the radiation suit and wanders out into the wasteland. As far as I know, there's no sequel despite heavily emplying the story isn't over

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