The Practice should have been longer. While Boston Legal was a fun spinoff, the hard hitting legal drama should have kept going as well.
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"... And a movie."
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When someone in the show "Community" asks what the perfect length for a TV show is, Ahbed runs across the background and shouts "six seasons and a movie!".
Community ran for six seasons
....so far.
The Wire
Captain Star
The Owl House.
Oh yeah didn't see it that way, I totally believe you.
The Expanse. I'm happy it was completed and not cancelled but it felt rushed. Currently reading the books, on book 3/9, really good.
Enjoy the read one of my favorite book series ever.
I don't think we've seen the last of the expanse yet. I think we might see a bit more at some point.
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Yeah I really hope we get to see Laconia at its prime, some day.
I know it isn't the same thing but there is an Expanse game coming out called The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. So at the very least we may get a big action rpg out of it.
That said, I would love to see the show taken through all of the main series books instead of where they ended it in the show.
That could scratch that itch.
Infinity Train.
Yes!
Someone who watched Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad told me that they thought Breaking Bad would've been better if it started with Gretchen, Eliot, and Walt starting Gray Matter together — followed them through the relationship breakdown due to Walt's insecurity and then Walt meeting Skyler before a Time Skip taking us to where season 1 picked up.
Not sure if it counts, but I am pretty disapointed that Hannibal was just put on the shelf.
I casually knew Hetienne Park. I still haven't recovered from her death on that show. It was really messed up seeing slices of her.
Yes that was the death that pissed me off the most I think.
It unnerved me because even though we aren't close at all it's weird seeing someone you kinda know in vertical preserved slices.
Watchmen is the first that comes to mind.
Also Peacemaker supposedly isn't going to get anymore seasons.
I'm actually watching Peacemaker right now but I'm not sure it's the kind of show that can really keep going. It's not going to go past season 2 then?
Andor could have probably done with one more season to really flesh out Cassian accepting his rebel place. (Probably did not need the intended 5 seasons)
I’m afraid I’ve got to go old school. If you’re looking for something that was completed but could have gone longer I say Quantum Leap. Don’t get me wrong the finale was great and I loved that Sam decided to keep leaping to help those in need, but man I could use more.
Shhh... Don't say it too loudly or someone will go and try to reboot it and completely ruin it.
I love the new version. It wasn’t really a reboot but a continuation.
Arcane. But I'm pretty sure Arcane will be the best visual media I will ever see in my lifetime that nothing will ever really compare to, so it's probably a good thing it concluded while at its peak.
Fringe was at it's best during their earlier monster-of-the-week seasons but quickly strayed away from that to progress the overarching story, would've been nicer to have more seasons with a slower burning story development while still focusing on what made the show special.
Legion (FX Series) while excellent on it's own, you could tell the productions creativity was far from exhausted and could've easily filled another wacky season.
I was going to say Fringe but because of the way it became I'm glad it ended when it did. But you make a good point, if they had slowed the story down and gave us more monster of the week they actually could have been the new x-files. I would have like more seasons of that show.
Legion is some of the best television ever made in my opinion and I think it could have had at least one more season.
There's a sort of pattern that all x-of-the-week series fall into, and it's "Why do our characters have these wacky adventures so often?" and the answer to that is often "Because there's a grand scheme to it all and they're the chosen ones". Same thing happened to Supernatural, or Primeval, I think even the Power Rangers.
I miss the x-of-the-week format, personally. We get 8 episode long miniseries every couple of years now and while they can be great I miss getting 24 episodes a year watching your favorite familiar characters working through entire story arcs in 48 minutes. Not every episode was great, and you got your Christmas episode and the flashback episode in there. But on balance I think it was great and miss it.
There's also this new trend of making a series which becomes very popular and then waiting 4 years to make the second season. By that time it not only lost it's relevance, but also the actors have very visibly aged.
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Bromwell High. Okay it was animated, but was worthy of many more episodes in more seasons IMO.
Plus I got introduced to Stephen Merchant, who is awesome!
Yo that show was wicked, thanks for reminding me the name
Black books. I miss the mysantropic book seller.
Firefly!
I don't think I'll ever be able to shift the feeling that we were robbed of more.
Edit - Realised I misread the title, was indeed cancelled not completed.
Wasn't Firefly famously cancelled?
Although I feel season 5 (the last season) of Babylon 5 was a trainwreck, I would have liked to have seen something that was fully funded and supported by the network. Instead we got Crusade and The Legend of the Rangers, and then the TV movies.
Weep for Warners, Na'toth. Weep for us all.
The O.A.
I really feel like they could have ran with the ending (even though I didn't like it) and went even crazier with the story.
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