For me it would have to be The Owl House
Terra Nova. Not great but interesting concept.
I’ll go with some not mentioned.
1899 - Same creators of Dark, so I feel like it would have been worth it.
Lie to Me- it was one of the “of the week” type shows that kept my interest back then
Freak and Geeks - Crazy it got one season. Almost every single cast member went on to be super famous.
Green Lantern The Animated Series. Would have been great to have a fully finished story for this.
House of Cards
Lie to me. It was a fun, different crime/drama show. It deserved to at least wrap up a few things.
Marco Polo. Such a shame Netflix chose to drop it.
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.
I love MNIE and Raising Hope! Shame the ,ast season of MNIE wasn’t good.
Mythbusters, junkyard wars.
Junkyard Wars! I would watch 100 seasons of that show!
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.
Stopped at first season after I heard it was cancelled. Really wanted to know what’s the point of this honey pot planet and that wierd snake thing. Really like the concept of the show
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
My one is a show that may or may not have been related to Twin Peaks - after Season 3, Lynch was apparently working on something with a working title of either Wisteria or Undiscovered Night. IIRC it was a tie up with Netflix and was being made by Twin Peaks Productions, which has only ever made TP material, so the chances seemed high.
Unfortunately COVID happened, the project stalled and was eventually dropped, and of course Lynch died not too long ago.
I’d love to know what it was planned to be, TP or not.
RIP David
If you want a trippy show, see if you can find David Lynch’s “On The Air”.
Apparently following the OG Twin Peaks cancellation, there was still a contractual obligation to fill and Lynch pulled together some of the same cast for a wacky 1950s era show about television production.
There are bootlegs floating around from a Japanese laserdisc, but as far as I’m aware, that’s the only home release that was ever made.
7 episodes were produced, only 3 made it to air in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Air_(TV_series)
Streaming for free on the Internet Archive:
https://www.cbr.com/david-lynch-obscure-90s-sitcom-streaming-for-free/
I started watching that once, but found it pretty hard to get into. Should have another go though, thanks for the reminder.
Have you ever seen Hotel Room? 3 unrelated stories, set in the same hotel room in different years. One has Crispin Glover and Alicia Witt and is excellent. The other two are decent enough too. I think they’re all on YouTube.
Not that one, but Four Rooms is a classic. One sequence by Tarantino and another by Robert Rodriguez.
Watching that on shrooms is life changing
Bloodline. It was cut short, I think. They had to rewrite and compress the ending. Damn that shit was good
Loudermilk.
The trifecta of 2005 TV shows:
- Threshold
- Surface
- Invasion
The 2005-2006 season was an absolute disaster for new, promising sci-fi shows.
Alf
That final episode was brutal to young me
Dark Matter
(The space one)
Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross is the best genre
