What TV show canceled before its time would you most recommend to others?
Dave Gross
Author and recovering editor
What TV show canceled before its time would you most recommend to others?
Middleman!
This answer is probably long past becoming a cliché, but: FIREFLY.
Although, at this point, I’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who hasn’t already had it recommended, and watched it.
Beyond that? I”d second your BRISCO recommendation.
Gonna go with the obvious (to me) answer here: Firefly!
So many! The ones that spring immediately to mind are: Dead Like Me, Prime Suspect (American version), Sports Night, Twin Peaks, The Wizard, and Copper (which was just cancelled this year).
And Freaks & Geeks and My So-Called Life. Can’t leave them off the list.
Freaks & Geeks was brilliant.
I enjoyed the first season of Copper, but the second season lost me. I wasn’t too surprised to hear of its cancellation, but I wish that season season had been sharper than the first.
Rubicon…I really wanted to see where it would go. Almighty Johnsons was cancelled this year, too soon I think. At least they managed to wrap it up without many loose ends dangling.
“Almighty Johnsons” and “dangling” have left me with an unwanted but unshakeable image.
Dammit. “Unshakeable” was the wrong word to use.
I really enjoyed Reaper and Wonderland.
Leverage
I’m going back a far way, but since Firefly has already been mentioned, I’m going to say Vengeance Unlimited.
Carnivale was cut short, and it saddens me that it will never return to us.
I enjoyed. Tales of the Golden Monkey. I thought it has potential. (firefly, of course, too)
I love that no comments are addressing the horrifying choice of Brisco County Jr.
So I’m just going to one up it.
Jack of All Trades needs more episodes.
Journeyman, Firefly, Terra Nova, Dresden Files.
briscoe definetly. loved reaper as well. but copper had me this season as well and must return somewhere.
The Unusuals and Happy Endings.
Firefly’s the obvious one. The Pretender and Sarah Connor Chronicles are a couple more. The Pretender was possibly the worst “cancelled at a cliffhanger” moment ever.
Pushing Daisies!
1 – Firefly, 2 – Studio 60, 3 – Sports Night, 4- The Pretender
Dont Trust the B…. In Apartment 23. I found it hilarious and I watch TV to laugh.
Legend. You know, the steampunk western with Richard Dean Anderson as a penny-dreadful writer and John DeLancie as his associate, Nikola Tesla.
The Finder. It’s available on Hulu, and it was *brilliant*.
Carnivale and Homefront.
Going back a few years… Space: Above and Beyond — the characters were just starting to really develop. Ah well.
Glad someone else remembered The Middleman! Anything that protected Earth from all threats inter, extra, and juxtra-terrestrial should have lasted much longer.