Canceled...
With television on dvd being a main course of my viewing diet I have found a rather annoying side effect. Canceled shows. Sometimes I start getting through a season without knowing that the fate of the show is already written.
Usually there is the tale tell sign on the cover. Right on the box they declare that the packaging holds the complete series. That means that it's a dead show and buying and watching it is at your own risk. After all, you may end up really getting into the show and then it ends with a cliffhanger due to the makers not knowing that they wouldn't be coming back to finish the story.
Sometimes they try and trick you though. Instead of putting THE COMPLETE SERIES on the packaging they put SEASON ONE even though the show is canceled. So you think to yourself... I'll get it and catch up and when the new season starts I'll watch week by week. And then you find out that there will be no more show and it ended on that stupid cliffhanger and now you are a bitter tv watcher.
A lot of the shows that met their ends prematurely can be found on HULU which is good. You can watch the shows without having to worry about putting forth the cash on a show that will leave you wanting. This is a plus as I am poor.
This whole thing has happened to me many a time. So I leave you with this... a small list of shows that ended badly or wrapped up pretty good.
Dead Like Me - Lasted two seasons but the end isn't too bad. It works well as the last episode of the series. There are a few questions left up in the air but that's how it goes sometimes.
Journeyman - Not on DVD at this time but the last episode works well to wrap up the first season and the show. I really wanted more and to really get into the mythology they were beginning to set up but the writers strike killed this one.
Firefly - This one speaks for itself. An excellent series wrapped up well with a big budget movie.
Dark Angel - Killed too early. The series ends with the beginning of a massive change to the story and never comes back. Enter at your own risk.
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Four seasons but ends on a massive cliffhanger. Be prepared.
The Flash - Only played out for a season but is cliffhanger free and a good time.
Usually there is the tale tell sign on the cover. Right on the box they declare that the packaging holds the complete series. That means that it's a dead show and buying and watching it is at your own risk. After all, you may end up really getting into the show and then it ends with a cliffhanger due to the makers not knowing that they wouldn't be coming back to finish the story.
Sometimes they try and trick you though. Instead of putting THE COMPLETE SERIES on the packaging they put SEASON ONE even though the show is canceled. So you think to yourself... I'll get it and catch up and when the new season starts I'll watch week by week. And then you find out that there will be no more show and it ended on that stupid cliffhanger and now you are a bitter tv watcher.
A lot of the shows that met their ends prematurely can be found on HULU which is good. You can watch the shows without having to worry about putting forth the cash on a show that will leave you wanting. This is a plus as I am poor.
This whole thing has happened to me many a time. So I leave you with this... a small list of shows that ended badly or wrapped up pretty good.
Dead Like Me - Lasted two seasons but the end isn't too bad. It works well as the last episode of the series. There are a few questions left up in the air but that's how it goes sometimes.
Journeyman - Not on DVD at this time but the last episode works well to wrap up the first season and the show. I really wanted more and to really get into the mythology they were beginning to set up but the writers strike killed this one.
Firefly - This one speaks for itself. An excellent series wrapped up well with a big budget movie.
Dark Angel - Killed too early. The series ends with the beginning of a massive change to the story and never comes back. Enter at your own risk.
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Four seasons but ends on a massive cliffhanger. Be prepared.
The Flash - Only played out for a season but is cliffhanger free and a good time.
posted by Jason at
12:23 PM
2 Comments:
i agree with you, i rent shows saying season whatever then when i try to find next season, it finished because of network.
I liked Journeyman too. Daybreak on ABC got cut and they ran the episodes out on-line only. Taye Diggs was good in that. That one is on DVD. It ended ok. Not a cliff hanger anyways.
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