For me it would have to be The Owl House

  • AThing4String@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    10 months ago

    Niche show, but Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Holy shit that was a great show and SO well written, but I can see why it wasn’t well received on a traditional TV format - if you didn’t watch from the beginning and keep watching to the end it wouldn’t make a lick of sense. Definitely meant to be enjoyed with a serious watch of an entire series and not episodically.

    I would give my left foot for a Season 3.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      I just wanted to post this! It felt like they were setting up a really interesting overarching plot with the “backstage of reality”, I wish they told us what their plans for that were.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      So many good characters, so many potential plot lines. Allan Tudyk is good in everything he does

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        I think it’s would have depended if it were made as a planned story, or open-ended one that ends when it gets canceled. And after Buffy, my guess is it would have been more focused. On the other hand, it was on a more major network, obviously with way less freedom.

  • jimmy_spider@lemmy.world
    161·
    10 months ago

    Mindhunter, excellent production quality, unfortunately too high production quality for it’s own good 😢

    • pbjelly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Yesssss. This! It was only one season from the ending!

      The show felt like it was going off the rails for a while but I really wanted to know where it was going and it’s a shame we’ll never know.

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      The good thing about The Expanse is that all of the characters are old in the last trilogy, so we could very well see it down the road with most of the original cast.

  • Lemming421@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Firefly

    Stargate Atlantis

    Stargate Universe (yes, almost all the characters was unlikeable, but I’d still have liked a resolution)

    Star Trek Prodigy

    Star Trek Lower Decks

    The Lazarus Project

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    10 months ago

    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

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I always talk about this and also have the feeling no one knows about it. In any case I think I read somewhere that the idea was going to be along the lines of “right before you die you have a moment of clarity where you know everything, John had had a boating accident that led to that moment and he came back from the death”. Honestly knowing what the future looked like sometimes I’m almost glad it got cancelled, because I think that would have been a bit of a boring explanation.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      I think about that last shot, looking up at the bartender all the time. Weirdly the only other thing I can think about the main character being in is blade 3.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Mini rant: I went to an anime convention (ConnectiCon) and was wicked excited to see that Pirates of Dark Water had a time slot. I’d finally get to see the full run!

      Then someone had the bright idea to play it in a different time slot to cover something that fell through and so it wasn’t played in the schedule time slot (due to rights issues or something?). I’m still annoyed.

      I should probably just find an alternate way to watch it, it’s been over a decade since that convention.

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Yep. Very good show that absolutely needs to be picked up by another studio. Too bad by the time they do, the kid actor will be like fucking 27. Rip.