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Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.

I haven't seen this one mentioned yet, Daybreak.

Teen drama series about teens trying to survive in a zomble apocaylse, it was well written but what really makes me want a season 2 is the cliffhanger that shifts the entire show on it's head.

Throughout the series, Josh (the main character) is trying to get a girl called Sam, in the finale Sam rejects her because she notices he wasn't really in love with her. Josh was just trying to play a hero getting a damsel in distress, it was a amazing breakdown of toxic masculinity that makes so much sense if you rewatch the series with the twist in mind. Sam then becomes the leader, the position that Josh has been working for the whole series and that's the cliffhanger. I remeber people getting mad because those were the exact types of people Josh was. A season 2 could have gone even deeper into the toxic masculinity angle and that would have been awesome.

Firefly

Firefly

Raised by Wolves

Game of Thrones, but written by the author

Wheel of Time (in case you missed it, it's canceled)

Years and Years

Utopia (UK, 2013)

A series that basically nobody knows: John Doe

A guy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who he is. But knows literally everything else. Basically walking Wikipedia

First season ended on massive cliffhanger and was cancelled

The Last Man on Earth.

Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet but

Firefly

Had such a cool universe and cast of characters and was getting super interesting right when it was cancelled

The OA

Game of thrones

Raised by wolves. Like, more than anything. I want to know what happens so badly.

It was such a unique, utterly batshit crazy show that just really started going off the rails in the best possible way at the end of season 2. There was something so hauntingly bleak about it all that I fell head over heels in love with and its cancellation hurts to this day.

Firefly

The 4400

Top Gear (the UK version)

Edit: As a side note, I would love to see a Eureka reboot

I'm surprised no one mentioned My name is Earl, it's a tv show about a guy who wins the lottery and is immediately hit by a car, he then hears about Karma so he decides to turn his life around by making amends for all of the wrong things he did. It's a very fun comedy, and it was cancelled on a cliffhanger because the producers specifically asked if they were getting a next season and were told yes.

This one is the one that hurts me the most, because they knew how the ending was going to be, but didn't got thr chance to film it, and it would have been perfect. Essentially he would have gotten to an item on the list that he just couldn't do, whenever he tried something would prevent him from doing it, and it would seem that karma was against him. But then someone would come to him wanting to make amends for something they've done to him, and he would ask where the person got the idea, and it would be because someone made amends to him, and he would keep pulling at that thread until he found out that he inspired people around him to make their own lists, and those people inspired others, and so on and so forth so he would feel that he finally did more good than bad and would tear up the list and continue with his life. Oh, and the cliffhanger? It wouldn't matter, it was just going to be an excuse to bring some celebrity, they didn't even knew who the father was going to be.

PS: if you liked My name is Earl, and you weren't aware there's another TV show by the same people called Raising Hope which is the same style of comedy, with a bunch of the same actors, and they make constant references to MNiE.

Red Dwarf, but with both Naylor and Grant continuing on from before the split. It felt to me that the quality dropped once they fell out and Grant left.

GoT, shame it got cancelled after GRR ran out of material, what would a sixth and seventh series looked like? Not some badly written, overly nasty, fan fiction, but actual quality as we had in the earlier seasons and books?

True Detective season one, by that I mean actually carrying on that plot line with the abuse cult rather than the "reboots" with new casts and settings in the future seasons. Those are great, I still want those, but I also want more of what we had in season one.

Hannibal, its time to revisit this overly stylized wardrobe of a cooking show

Really like earth 2. This point it would have to be a reboot. I swear there was a British version that was somewhat decent that was also cancelled but I cant remember its name.

Space: Above And Beyond

Babylon 5: Crusade

Loudermilk.

Scavengers Reign 100%

other notable mentions are Pantheon and Sense8

GLOW!
Covid really put the smackdown on that one

Dark Matter (the 2015 one, not the new one which is totally different but also sci fi and has the same name for some reason)

HarmonQuest

Wheel of Time

Constantine series. Damn is it good

In recent memory:

• Swamp Thing (cancelled after one season on a cliffhanger iirc)
• Y: The Last Man (cancelled after one season but at least all of the season 1 sub plots ended nicely)
• Stargirl (like The Owl House, which I agree with, had a good and pretty satisfying ending but still ended prematurely)
• Sandman & Dead Boy Detectives (not going to watch Sandman season 2, Dead Boy Detectives ended on a pretty major cliffhanger and I was enjoying it)