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What shows had awkward or otherwise poor returns from cancelations? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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When watching a show a while after it's released you can sometimes tell when a show was canceled because a season will end on a big (occasionally spiteful) event.

The following season after it's picked back up occasionally stumbles a bit but I'm wondering what examples can you think of that were especially bad?

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[–] johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No-one's mentioned Dexter yet, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that. What a shit show. I really don't get why they brought it back from the dead. Sure the original ending was kind of shitty, but it wasn't that bad they had to revive it and kill it for good.

[–] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought up until the last episode it was really solid. That last episode was real bad though.

[–] johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad someone enjoyed it! I don't think I could cringe as much watching a show as when I was watching that. I'd rather watch Dawson's Creek or something. There were a lot of elements that could've made it great, but it just really felt horrible watching it the whole time. In comparison the weird X-Files reboot was at least kind of fun, Dexter was like watching a trainwreck to me.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was so close! All the way through the revival I was like "they're gonna pull it off" and then they biffed it again right at the end lol.

Although the second ending was a bit less shit than the original ending I thought, so... kind of a (very mild) success?