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What is your Favourite show which got cancelled on a Cliffhanger?

posted 5 years ago by MrRipEager (94)
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NO SPOILERS PEOPLE!!! Since some of us may still want to watch the series mentioned.

Mine was the 2002 Dominic Purcell TV series John Doe. Which was (if you haven't seen it) about a guy who appears to know everything about every subject imaginable, whereas the only things he doesn't know is who he really is and how he is able to know everything. The series follows him as he lends his talents to his local police department so he can help them solve murders and mysteries. Although the show was able to answer the questions as to who he was and how he knows everything, they did decide to end it on a cliffhanger which even 18 years later will always make me wonder where this show could have gone if it had continued with the story.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Invasion 2005

[–] 10200 (656) 5 years ago

I really liked that and it just went away.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

just one season. it was not fair.

[–] 10200 (656) 5 years ago

Also another one, from the 60's - the Invaders. I watched that every week and then it was cancelled.

[–] Jamfo (408) 5 years ago

I know it goes way back, but the unresolved cliffhangers in SOAP always bothered me.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I loved Soap! Broke my heart when it was cancelled.

[–] sslssg (35178) 5 years ago

I had forgotten about that. So frustrating!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I remember when I was a kid Mork and Mindy ended on a pretty big cliffhanger and I never fully got over that.

[–] FredBurroughs (22283) 5 years ago

Wow, John Doe, good pull. I followed that show closely, as did a few friends, and we were abuzz with speculation on where the next season would go. So disappointing that it was cancelled.

My pick would have to be Terriers. It was a pretty fresh take on a detective show, and the story seemed to be building up to bigger developments going forward. The final episode ends at a crossroad where the main character has to make a pivotal decision, and the final moments are the epitome of open-ended storytelling.

[–] MrRipEager (94) 5 years ago

Terriers was a good show also, I can't honestly remember the last episode, but am viewing that as a good thing as it will incite me to go back and re-watch the show over again.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Remember that early 2000s series about mutants that are almost X-Men but not exactly X-Men? Looks like a cheap Chinese knockoffs would do. Yeah, Mutant X, I love that show. It ended with an unsatisfying cliffhanger because, obviously, lawsuits.

[–] kuku (3510) 5 years ago

Constantine.
Dead Like Me.

Two shows that I loved and died too early.

[–] TalkinPikchorBox (2250) 5 years ago

My Name is Earl
Heroes
Deadwood
V (1984)
Freaks and Geeks
Quantum Leap

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

The Sopranos. It was never explained what happened to Tony Soprano in the last episode.