Thanks especially to streaming, there are so many options on the TV schedule when it comes to what to watch, so when audiences tune into a series, they often are fully committed. That makes it all the harder when those shows inevitably come to an end. We’ve seen some pretty brutal TV cancellations in 2024 — including Station 19 ending after seven seasons and Our Flag Means Death getting the ax after two — but it’s the absolute worst when a series ends unexpectedly.
Some fans opened up about their biggest TV cancellation heartbreaks, and man, these are rough. One Redditor posed the question to TV fans: What series broke your heart because you didn’t get a proper ending? I expected to see many of the responses. My Name Is Earl , for instance, famously ended on an unresolved cliffhanger , and Freaks and Geeks ’ cancellation after one season seems to be one of the most baffling decisions in TV history.
But commenters hit the nail on the head with some of these choices. Pushing Daisies A prime example of a series that didn’t last long enough to finish its story is Pushing Daisies , which aired for two seasons on ABC. Redditors seemed to agree that a decade and a half after its cancellation, the pain of not knowing what came of Lee Pace’s Ned and his incredible power to bring people back to life has not faded.
Said AshBliss: It really made me sad because I never got to see its whimsical story reach a proper end. Its characters felt like friends. Though it ended too .