The 32 greatest TV shows that were canceled too soon

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Paper Girls

Television is a tough business. Getting any show to the airwaves is one thing - it’s staying on that is a different battle entirely. In an industry predicated on shows getting cut to make way for more, there are inevitablymanygems of TV that get axed just a little too soon. But which TV shows actually deserve mention?

From acclaimed gems too quirky to attract a wide enough audience, to expensive productions whose exorbitant price tags couldn’t justify continued costs, TV is a proverbial wasteland of unfulfilled potential. Unresolved storylines, cliffhanger endings, and obvious promise to improve with more time all characterize some of the greatest shows that audiences routinely consider gone “too soon.” While some shows can garner a big enough fanbase to enjoy some kind of revival, most times, these cult shows suffer an unceremonious end.

These are just 32 TV shows that are often considered “canceled too soon.”

32. Terriers

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Terriers

Terriers, a short-lived FX procedural, is about a former cop (Donal Logue) and a reformed criminal (Michael Raymond-James) who start an unlicensed P.I. business in seedy, sunny Ocean Beach, California. The show enjoyed a short but celebrated run in the fall 2010 season on FX, where it racked up acclaim from critics on the strength of its actors, sharp writing, and biting sense of humor. In a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, producer Shawn Ryan said the show’s mishandled marketing and placeholder title all failed to give the show any identity.

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Raised By Wolves

30. Paper Girls

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Paper Girls

Based on Brian K. Vaughn’s acclaimed young adult comic book series, Paper Girls follows four girls from the year 1988 who become involved in a warring conflict between factions of time travelers. Their adventures to save the world brings them face to face with future versions of themselves, forcing them to choose if they accept their fate. Despite the high profile of Vaughn’s comic, the success of similarly minded shows like Euphoria, and the strong audience and critical acclaim that greeted the series in its summer 2022 premiere, Amazon mysteriously canceled the show after only eight episodes.

29. Swamp Thing

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Swamp Thing

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28. Girl Meets World

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Girl Meets World

27. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

26. Fastlane

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Fastlane

25. Reboot

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Reboot

In a time when Hollywood can’t get enough of recycling old ideas, the Hulu comedy Reboot grilled the industry to a crisp. In Reboot, the cast of a 2000s sitcom happily reunite for a streaming revival. But behind the scenes, the cast and crew still have unresolved personal problems, not to mention finding themselves in a wildly different Hollywood environment than what they knew. With a cast that included Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Rachel Bloom, Calum Worthy, Judy Greer, and even Paul Reiser, Reboot was a mirror to Hollywood and its bad habits of redoing everything. Ironically, Reboot’s originality may have been its death sentence, with only eight episodes made before it was canceled.

24. Constantine

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Constantine

While everyone loves Keanu Reeve in the 2005 movie, a more faithful version to theDC Comicsseries Hellblazer heated up NBC in 2014. In Constantine, British actor Matt Ryan dons the trenchcoat of occult detective John Constantine, a private investigator who takes on cases that are demonic in nature. Although Constantine summoned a loyal audience, it failed to draw high enough ratings to save it from eternal damnation. Impossibly, Matt Ryan’s version of Constantine found second life in the Arrowverse franchise, DC’s shared universe of TV shows. After Constnatine was canceled, Ryan returned to the role and made multiple appearances in the shows Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow, the latter of which saw him in a recurring role.

23. Quantum Leap

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Quantum Leap

The 2022 reboot of the beloved 1980s classic TV hit Quantum Leap had a lot going for it at the jump. Korean-American actor Raymond Lee was positioned in the lead role - a monumental moment, being the first American science fiction television series starring an Asian American actor. Billed as a continuation of the original, Quantum Leap ‘22 followed Dr. Ben Song (Lee), a physicist who gains the power to travel back in time and inhabit the lives of different people. Despite strong ratings, the series’ high production costs ran into complications with the 2023 labor strikes that disrupted all of Hollywood. In the end, Quantum Leap’s writers ended its second and last season on a final note, being fully aware that an end was in store for them. The show was officially canceled in April 2024.

22. Rome

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Rome

21. Birds of Prey

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Birds of Prey

20. Made for Love

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Made for Love

19. Wayward Pines

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Wayward Pines

18. The OA

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The OA

17. Kevin Can F**k Himself

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Kevin Can F Himself

Marvel’s WandaVision infamously played with the classic sitcom format to explore a woman’s grief, but AMC’s criminally short-lived Kevin Can Fk Himself took that same experimentation one step further. Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy stars as an unhappy woman named Allison who finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage to an immature man (Eric Petersen). The show’s narrative thrust is when Allison comes to the realization that she wants to kill her husband. Flip-flopping between the husband’s point of view on their marriage, shown in a multi-cam sitcom format (including a studio audience laugh track) versus Allison’s darker, more sinister perspective - a dimly-lit single-camera format evocative of the modern prestige drama - Kevin Can Fk Himself cleverly weaponized our familiarity of television to satirize the misogyny of television and the man-child endemic plaguing modern American marriages. While the show wasn’t classically “canceled,” its second season renewal in 2021 was simply made as its last.

16. GLOW

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GLOW

15. Hannibal

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Hannibal

14. Santa Clarita Diet

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Santa Clarita Diet

13. Deadwood

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Deadwood

The Western genre found glorious new life on HBO in 2004, when David Milch’s acclaimed epic Deadwood hit the airwaves. For three impeccable seasons, Deadwood explored the beginnings of America in its setting of late 1800s South Dakota, when the frontier was still expanding and the promise of instant riches wrote the first draft of the American dream. The show’s magnificent writing and direction gave the show acclaim, which only befuddled legions of viewers when HBO canceled the show after its third season. It took years for a proper finale to wrap up the story - in 2019’s Deadwood: The Movie - but that doesn’t give back all that lost time.

12. Powerless

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Powerless

11. Galavant

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Galavant

10. Jericho

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Jericho

9. Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23

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Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23

Before Krysten Ritter was Marvel’s Jessica Jones, she was a total “B” in one of the most beloved oddball television comedies of the 2010s. Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 follows June (Dreama Walker), a young woman who moves to New York City and finds herself living with an unpredictable firecracker named Chloe (Ritter), a bon vivant whose M.O. is to extort new roommates until they leave. However, June and Chloe end up forming an unlikely friendship. The series was lauded for its breakout star in Ritter, whose performance as an acerbic she-devil gave fans reasons to tune in. Despite acclaim and a cult following, ABC aired episodes out of order, confusing most TV viewers which contributed to low ratings. The show was officially canceled in January 2013, leaving the ongoing misadventures of June and Chloe unresolved.

8. Selfie

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Selfie

7. Party Down

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Party Down

6. Mindhunter

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Mindhunter

5. Happy Endings

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Happy Endings

Every generation needs a comedy where friends get together with friends and just… hang out. In the spirit of Friends, there was Happy Endings, an acclaimed TV comedy about six adults in their twenties and early thirties in Chicago who together navigate the ups and downs of modern love. With a cast that included Damon Wayans Jr., Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Casey Wilson, Zachary Knighton, and Adam Pally, Happy Endings breathed new life in a stale TV genre. While the show saw stiff competition in otherverysimilar shows, including Perfect Couples, Mad Love, and Friends with Benefits (the latter also set in Chicago), Happy Endings eventually won acclaim from critics; Rolling Stone deemed it “the most underrated, under-watched series on TV.” While three seasons made of 57 episodes is an impressive run for any TV show, those who’ve experienced Happy Endings still yearn for more.

4. Pushing Daisies

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Pushing Daisies

3. My So-Called Life

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My So-Called Life

An authentic portrayal of young adulthood in the ’90s, My So-Called Life stood out from so many other plastic portrayals of teenage lives with fully-realized characters who felt like real, living people. Claire Danes starred in the show as Angela, a 15-year-old girl in suburban Pittsburgh who navigates the highs and lows of high school. In contrast to so many other YA shows of its era, My So-Called Life felt authentic, and smart enough to not talk down to its audience - especially over serious topics, like abuse, homophobia, school violence, drug use, and censorship. Despite critical acclaim, the series ended after only 19 episodes; rumors state that Danes' parents protested the show’s hectic shooting schedule, while Danes herself told Entertainment Weekly in 2004 that her show was canceled because of low ratings. Whatever killed it, My So-Called Life is still loved today, its existence as fleeting as all our teenage years.

2. Freaks and Geeks

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Freaks and Geeks

1. Firefly

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Firefly

From Buffy creator and The Avengers director Joss Whedon comes the ultimate “canceled too soon” classic: Firefly, a sci-fi Western remembered for its speculative future, inventive sense of genre, and lovely ensemble of characters. In its 14 episodes, the scrappy crew of the ship Serenity navigate the dangers of space - from big, powerful empires to cannibalistic raiders - all while trying to get paid and keep flying. After the show came to an unceremonious end in 2002 on the Fox network, it enjoyed a big screen victory lap in the 2005 film Serenity, a movie that has also become a classic in its own right. Even if the chances for a second Firefly revival are long gone, its enduring magic proves you can’t stop the signal.

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

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3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

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4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

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5Marvel Rivals review: “So preoccupied with trying to be like Overwatch that it forgets to play to its own strengths”

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Shadow brandishes a gun in Sonic The Hedgehog 3

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3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

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4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

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