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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/493723

Thought this was an interesting question and I’m sure there’s lots of suggestions out there.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The one true answer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this. It was such an interesting premise, an engaging cast, and really seemed to be going someplace interesting. Would've loved to see it get enough time to find its voice. Even their bottle episode was great fun.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Firefly!!!! FFS this should always be the #1 answer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. This is always my immediate response.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Firefly. There is no other answer for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this. The movie helped but not as much as another season.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost said none of them, until this comment and remembered how that shows ends. Man what a weird episode to cut it on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was a crime! Good effort with the movie though even if it felt like a bit of a forced wrap up

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Expanse. The show had a satisfying ending but the books went a bit further into the future and I'd like to see more in the shows.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Veronica Mars or Gravity Falls

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mindhunter, without a doubt.

I'm still sad when I think of what could've been

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Game of thrones, but it’s the new series 7 and it rewrites original 7 and 8 and they don’t exist anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Expanse ended on a good point. We would probably need at least 2 seasons to finish up the final trilogy. If one extra season would be all we got, I'd not want it tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is very difficult... and we must be very careful indeed...

You shouldn't ask for MORE simply because you enjoyed it.

Friends already seemed to go on endlessly - but most shows are rightly put to bed and overshadowed by newer and better ideas.

Now I'm watching Blue Light and don't miss NYPD blue.... I still watch Kojak occasionally, but I sure wouldn't want any MORE.

Gentleman Jack

  • Awesome stuff

  • HBO sucks and I hate them (but Band of Brothers was almost perfect, except that it was a little bit too restricted/condensed/reduced).

Black Mirror

'Nuff said.

  • Given that this is a collection of stories, and that I started READING stories a lot more recently (currently just finished Harrison Bergeron - the second story in "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" written by Kurt Vonnegut. These stories are brilliant ideas put into short form - perfect.
Quantum Leap
  • was almost as good, but a little more formulaic - so I'd vote for Black Mirror to take the flag forward for interesting short stories.

Talking about Black Mirror...

The OA

  • Going back in history...

Firefly

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

  • Anything of that time with Summer Glau looking incredibly gorgeous. Sure, you know I'm right - even when it's bad, it's just really good.

Scarborough (2019)

  • lovely, and took me back to some childhood holidays.

Victoria (2016-19)

  • certainly died too early (I love Jenna Coleman).

Tom and Jerry (original style, painted on glass, with no fear of being politically correct or educational).

Pink Panther
  • I know, they DID do more, a lot more Tom and Jerry - but most of that just sucks and I don't know why people even liked the continuation once the original atmosphere was lost. HD brought nothing to Tom n Jerry for sure.

  • Pink Panther owes 90% of it's success to bad drawing, amazing music, and sheer atmosphere surrounding mostly not amazing stories if the truth be told... but it worked so well. Hours of endless fun with just one bucket of blue, and another of pink paint... yes, you know what I'm talking about.

I still have a 'random cartoon' habit with Pink Panther/Tom n Jerry

There isn't much room for anything else in there.

I just wish there had been MORE of them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wish the answer here was "Westworld".

That first season was perfect television. And that season finale? My god. I was so excited to watch season 2 and it... just fell short on all fronts. It has its moments, but ultimately failed to measure up to that first season.

Which would have been okay, but then season 3 and 4 happened, and diluted the overall quality of the show to a point where I stopped recommending the show to anyone and just tell them to stick to S1.

I want to live in a timeline where we left off on that S1 ending wondering what could have been.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reboot, a Canadian CGI kids show about happenings inside a computer, the guardians, the viruses, the web, I used to love that show.

It ended in an intense cliffhanger πŸ˜”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, um, kind of a monkey paw situation here...It did get an, ahem, "reboot"...Which was a hybrid live action/CGI show. It's not another season, and that's honestly probably the most disheartening part of it. Like you pulled enough together to do something more Reboot-related and that's where you went with it?

It's just...There. It's not very good, and it's not even so bad it's good either. It's more like a live action Code Lyoko than Reboot tbh, and it can't even get that right.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Orville. The only show I watched on basic cable at a particular time in ages. Glad they made the jump to hulu, but the 3rd session made me feel like they dumped a couple of seasons worth of plot into it, since they knew they weren't getting another season.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seven seasons and a movie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The OA. Fuck Netflix for canceling it.

Also 1899.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seven seasons and a movie!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Another Dexter season. I want to see if they can make a worse finale than the two they already did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adventure Time. It really needed one more season to fully flesh out the storylines they set up. Cartoon Network really screwed them (and other shows like SU) over

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would have said Party Down but they went ahead and did it. I haven't seen the new episodes yet though...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deadwood. The movie was too little way too late.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stargate!

SGA - there was a planned season 6 where Atlantis ended up going through time, then to the triangulum galaxy and more time hijinks. Atlantis Vs Atlantis and peace in the Pegasus galaxy. You can find it on the josephmallozi blog as Stargate Atlantis virtual season 6

SGU - had so much potential and season 2 was good. It ended with the crew going into stasis to travel the gap between galaxies...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

SGU would definitely be my answer. You couldn't ask for a better show to do it with either, because of the way it ended it would be easy to have had problems with stasis to explain why some of the actors didn't come back or even the aging of all the ones who do come back. So easy to write around the long time it was off air and still pick up and run with it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Prodigy (Star Trek) just got canceled, that's on my mind right now. They had a lot of story left to tell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bojack Horseman. They managed to wrap it up in a neat-ish way, but I do believe that the show would have benefited from having one more season to delve into Bojack's issues with his father (they've covered his mother).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unironically Mindhunter. I'm so mad it's been canceled. Such a great show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

1899 has already been mentioned, so I'll say that Westworld deserved a final season.

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