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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Ended way too soon:

  • Invader Zim (there were plans for 7 seasons, but Nick said it was "too expensive")

  • Jimmy Neutron (again, f*ck you Nickelodeon)

  • Inside Job

  • The Misadventures of Flapjack (i mean, it's length was ok, but i'm salty about it's rushed ending).

Went on for too long:

  • Stranger Things (looking back, only S1 was good)

  • Rick & Morty (it was pure filler from S3 onwards)

  • The Simpsons (should have ended with the movie)

  • Spongebob Squarepants (also should have ended with it's 1st movie)

  • The Fairly Oddparents (i share the common thought that the show ended in "Channel Surfers", but there were a few good episodes afterwards).

  • Regular Show (mainly about Mordo's disasterous love life, everything else was fine, and the ending brought me manly tears :')

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stranger Things should have been an anthology series with Matthew Modine’s character and his experiments as the common thread linking each season.

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 7 points 1 year ago

*Netflix wants to know your location

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds perfect.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ended too soon, I would also add Rome and Deadwood

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

Deadwood was pretty disappointing, especially with the movie. I was expecting the movie to wrap stuff up nicely, but it basically leaves stuff exactly where it was except (SPOILER) is dead. It's not even a horrible ending, it just doesn't feel like an ending at all and it makes me sad that there's not more

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They had to cram the ending into a movie, where it should have been stretched to multiple seasons. It's like what happened in Rome season 2, they had to cram 20 years of Roman history into one season.

[–] Tehgingey@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inside Job is so good, I was crushed when I heard they canceled it. Such a fun concept for a show, and I thought it was really well written. Was really funny, but also had it's sad moments. I'm bummed about that one for sure.

[–] tetris11@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It was good, but as soon as they made a love interest for Reagan who was your typical Fox Muldur.... I mentally checked out

[–] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm glad Paramount is at least still hosting Zim. It was definitely a big part of my early teenhood.

[–] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I loved invader Zim!!!! Did you see the movie they released in 2020 that tied up the series? It was honestly really well done.. I didn't hate it

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

Awesome point on Flapjack, hadn't even thought of that. I'd love to see a reboot, the world in that show was so interesting. Not nearly enough Steampunk cartoons out there