They Left Us Hanging!
Sometimes the cancellation of a TV show is only announced after the final episodes of the last season have been filmed. Which often means the writers, directors, actors, etc. haven't been able to tie up all the threads they had been working. Or, even worse, the season ended with a cliffhanger, usually something catastrophic like an unsolved murder or the start of a robbery or attack. When the show is cancelled the viewers don't get any sort of closure.
Of these TV shows that left cliffhangers, which would you most want to see the result of?
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* minimum two seasons on the air
Of these TV shows that left cliffhangers, which would you most want to see the result of?
Discuss the list here
* minimum two seasons on the air
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- CreatorChristopher MarkusStephen McFeelyStarsHayley AtwellJames D'ArcyEnver GjokajIn 1946, Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis.At the end of season 2, Jack was left bleeding to death after being shot by a stranger who also stole Carter's personnel file.
- CreatorTom PatchettPaul FuscoStarsMihaly 'Michu' MeszarosPaul FuscoMax WrightWhen an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.At the end of season 4, ALF is surrounded by an Alien Task Force.
- CreatorMichael KarnowZak PennStarsDavid StrathairnRyan CartwrightWarren ChristieAlphas is a science fiction drama focusing on a team that investigates people with supernatural abilities.At the end of season 2, the team unsuccessfully tried to find and disable Parish's photostimulator bombs.
- CreatorDavid GreenwaltJoss WhedonStarsDavid BoreanazCharisma CarpenterAlexis DenisofThe vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption.At the end of season 5, after nearly everyone was killed and Angel, Illyria, Gunn and Spike are surrounded by demons and dragons, Angel swings his sword and the screen fades to black.
- CreatorJonathan AmesStarsJason SchwartzmanZach GalifianakisTed DansonA well-meaning but struggling writer decides to lead a sort of double life by pretending to be a private detective using the methods he read about in old detective novels.At the end of season 3, Jonathan finds out he had been having sex with his half-sister, Rose.
- CreatorDaniel KnaufStarsMichael J. AndersonAdrienne BarbeauClancy BrownDuring the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.At the end of season 2, Sophie finds out she is the biological daughter of Brother Justin, which turns her evil.
- CreatorSusanna FogelMarco LagardeJoni LefkowitzStarsItalia RicciMary Page KellerRichard BrancatisanoApril Carver, whose world has just started to look up, is diagnosed with leukemia. With the support of her family and best friend, she might just be able to fight it.At the end of season 2, April leaves for Rome to come to terms with her immortality.
- CreatorJames CameronCharles H. EgleeStarsJessica AlbaMichael WeatherlyRichard GunnA group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.At the end of season 2, Max and the other transgenics prepare to defend Terminal City from the military.
- CreatorDavid MilchStarsTimothy OlyphantIan McShaneMolly ParkerA show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.At the end of season 3, Hearst wants revenge on Trixie after she shoots him and Al, Bullock and Star kill a random woman to use as a stand in for Trixie to convince Hearst she is dead.
- CreatorMichael PillerShawn PillerStarsAnthony Michael HallNicole de BoerChris BrunoJohnny had the perfect life until he was in coma for six years. When he awoke, he found his fiancee married to another man. His son doesn't know him. Everything's changed, including Johnny. With one touch, he can see things.At the end of season 6, John found out his father was still alive and he thought perhaps this would have something to do with his visions of Armageddon and that John's son may have inherited his father's ability.
- CreatorTerri MinskyEmily SilverStarsKathryn PrescottCynthia WatrosAnna Jacoby-HeronA teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.At the end of season 2, Max turns himself in for killing Jared and Ben is left bleeding in the road after being beaten by a drug dealer.
- CreatorBarney CohenJames D. ParriottStarsGeraint Wyn DaviesCatherine DisherNigel Bennett800-year-old vampire Nick Knight quests for redemption as a cop in Toronto, trying to hide his vampiric nature from the rest of the world.At the end of season 3, a ritual is performed which may let Nick become human again, but if it doesn't work, he may turn Natalie into a vampire, let her die or die himself.
- CreatorRené EchevarriaScott PetersStarsJacqueline McKenzieJoel GretschPatrick John FluegerAs the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed.At the end of season 4, the government drug Promicin gets loose and infects Seattle and a new world order threatens to take over.
- CreatorClifton CampbellStarsMatt PassmoreKiele SanchezCarlos GómezA former Chicago cop moves to a small Florida town and joins the state police.At the end of season 4, the wedding attendees were waiting for Jim to show up, not knowing his had been shot in the chest.
- CreatorBryan FullerStarsHugh DancyMads MikkelsenCaroline DhavernasExplores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.At the end of season 3, Will and Hannibal, covered in each other's blood, go over the edge of a cliff.
- CreatorBarbara HallStarsAmber TamblynJoe MantegnaMary SteenburgenA teenage girl is visited by God, disguised as everyday people, and is given assignments and tasks that eventually have a positive outcome on people's lives.At the end of season 2, God tells Joan there is a new evil waiting in the wings.
- CreatorEric BressJ. Mackye GruberStarsMatt DallasMarguerite MacIntyreBruce ThomasA family takes in a formerly institutionalized teen savant who is missing standard human behaviors such as anger, joy, and love.At the end of season 3, it is revealed that Adam was Kyle's genetic father.
- CreatorGary Scott ThompsonStarsJosh DuhamelJames CaanJames LesureWelcome to the Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, where you can do anything you want, but Ed Deline and his crack surveillance team will be watching. Just remember: what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.At the end of season 5, Delinda, pregnant with Danny's baby, starts to bleed and Cooper casually walks into his own funeral.
- CreatorDeborah Joy LeVineJoe ShusterJerry SiegelStarsDean CainTeri HatcherLane SmithIn addition to fighting evil, Superman has a burning romance with Lois Lane in both of his identities.At the end of season 4, Lois and Clark, now married, find a Kryptonian baby who was mysteriously left for them.
- CreatorSara Finney-JohnsonVida SpearsStarsBrandy NorwoodWilliam Allen YoungMarcus T. PaulkA teenager struggles to come to terms with everything life throws at her.At the end of season 6, Miles is being held for ransom and someone finds a positive pregnancy test in Moesha's dorm room.
- CreatorJoe GlaubergGarry MarshallDale McRavenStarsRobin WilliamsPam DawberRalph JamesA wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.At the end of season 4, Mork and Mindy are married and their home is destroyed. The entire world finds out that Mork was an alien and the couple get lost in a time vortex.
- CreatorGregory Thomas GarciaStarsJason LeeEthan SupleeJaime PresslyA ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization!At the end of season 4, Earl has still not finished his list and the true parentage of Earl Jr. is about to be revealed. The last shot of the show was a "To Be Continued" graphic.
- CreatorPaul SimmsStarsDavid FoleyStephen RootAndy DickThe workplace sitcom "NewsRadio" explores the office politics and interpersonal relationships among the staff of WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 news radio station.At the end of season 5, Jimmy buys a new radio station in a small New Hampshire town and plans moving there to start all over.
- CreatorGina MatthewsRyan MurphyStarsLeslie BibbCarly PopeTamara MelloTwo girls who despise each other because they're on opposite sides of the "popularity fence" are forced together when the father of one of them marries the other's mother.At the end of season 2, the show is over without revealing who Harrison took to the prom, whether or not Josh and Lily consummated their marriage and what happened when Nicole ran over Brooke with her car.
- CreatorBryan FullerStarsLee PaceAnna FrielChi McBrideA pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.At the end of season 2, Ned and Chuck are on the Charles' front steps, waiting to show them that Chuck is actually alive and tell them everything.
- CreatorTara ButtersMichele FazekasStarsBret HarrisonTyler LabineRick GonzalezOn his 21st birthday, Sam discovers his parents sold his soul to the devil before birth and he must now be a bounty hunter for the devil until he dies.At the end of season 2, Sam played a game with the Devil to regain his soul and instead ended up losing Andi's to him.
- CreatorEric KripkeStarsBilly BurkeTracy SpiridakosGiancarlo EspositoFifteen years after a permanent global blackout, a group of revolutionaries seek to drive out a tyrannical militia that's taken over the former United States of America.At the end of season 2, the nanobots cause people to have visions which send them to a town in Idaho that seemed to have regained power.
- CreatorJ. Michael StraczynskiLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsBae DoonaJamie ClaytonTina DesaiA group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.At the end of season 2, all of the characters got together for the first time to try to save Wolfgang, who was taken hostage by Whispers
- CreatorTracy TorméRobert K. WeissStarsJerry O'ConnellSabrina LloydJohn Rhys-DaviesA boy genius and his comrades travel to different parallel universes, trying to find their way back home.At the end of season 5, Rembrandt injects himself with a virus that kills Kromaggs and slides to Earth Prime to regain control.
- CreatorSusan HarrisStarsKatherine HelmondRod RoddyRichard MulliganThe soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.At the end of season 4, Burt is ambushed by thugs, Jessica is about to be executed by a Communist firing squad and Chester is threatening to kill Annie and Danny, and then himself.
- CreatorAnn BidermanStarsMichael CudlitzShawn HatosyRegina KingThe lives of Police Officers working for the Los Angeles Police Department.At the end of season 5, Cooper is left lying on the pavement after having been shot by cops when he went to confront his neighbors.
- CreatorAdrian HodgesStarsJulie GrahamMax BeesleyPaterson JosephAn unknown virus pandemic kills more than 90% of the world's population. Those immune must strive to survive and overcome the difficulties of this new world order, hoping that the virus will not mutate.At the end of season 2, Tom, a former convict who had worked for redemption, stows away on the corporation's plane as they escape - still thirsty for revenge.
- CreatorJosh FriedmanStarsLena HeadeyThomas DekkerSummer GlauSet after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.At the end of season 2, John jumped into a future where no one knew who he was.