I'm still mourning the loss of the excellent TV show: Instinct

[Coventina]

I suppose it never had a chance, being a summer filler and all, but I was so hopeful after it was renewed for a second season.

The cancellation left so many unanswered questions, it's really frustrating.

If a network wants to cancel a show, can't they at least let the show wrap up its story lines?

This is why people are abandoning network TV. All of my most beloved shows have been axed in recent years:

Person of Interest
Lucifer
Gotham
Elementary
Instinct

I have trust issues about adopting any new shows.

I've recently started watching "Evil" but I doubt that one will last. It's far too edgy.

I've also started watching Batwoman, but that one is being review bombed by incels, so that one may not last either.
Unless the CW can see through their bogus campaign to malign the show.

*sigh*

[liberalla]

1. I liked Instinct too... and I hadn't heard it was cancelled...

Now I'm bummed!

[Coventina]

3. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

[liberalla]

5. well I'll survive somehow...

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I liked Elementary and Person of Interest, too. (never saw the other 2 )

[hlthe2b]

2. I am reluctant to start new shows as well. I'm not a Nielsen ratings household so I suppose that

I don't matter anyway, but better for me to binge-watch later on if the show "catches hold." And yes, the trend of canceling without allowing for a "wrap-up" of storylines REALLY irks me. Once in a blue moon they rectify the offense as they did years later with Deadwood (HBO released a full-length movie last year) and I can think of Longmire that was picked up by Netflix following cancellation by its original network. There may be a few more examples, but now they seem to be content to just drop the shows and audience be damned.

[Hoyt]

4. Instinct was quite good. Sorry it's canceled.

[hunter]

6. I don't like shows that end without closure, but I'm okay with ambiguous endings.

I only watch Netflix and DVDs so I usually know what I'm getting into. (I respect Netflix for allowing Sense8 to end gracefully after it was canceled.)

One interesting thing about shows that are canceled without resolution is the fan fiction they generate.

Look what happened with Star Trek.

The Enterprise did not complete its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!

Without this post-cancellation interest, wonderful movies like Star Trek IV or Galaxy Quest would never exist. The Star Trek universe would not exist. (I have my own personal Star Trek canon that does not reflect that of it's current owners...)

On the other hand, don't watch Serenity if you loved Firefly. The only way to fix that is to make it a hallucination experienced by Mal as he is being tortured by the men who wear blue gloves. He escapes, of course, and the crew of the Firefly have further adventures in the universe of the original series, not the stupid universe of Mal's hallucination.

But maybe we should simply accept shows that end without closure and enjoy the ride. In real life nobody lives happily ever after. Humans are not immortal and most of us leave a lot of messy loose ends and mysteries when we die, and even as we live.

[Coventina]

9. I can't agree with you more about "Serenity." I pretend like the movie never happened.

I don't know what drugs the writers were on when they wrote that script.

I felt like it was a betrayal of the whole show.



You make a lot of excellent points, thanks.

[Sophia_Of_PlanetX]

7. Alan Cumming was great!

The plots were always generic and uninteresting, but Alan Cumming made the show really interesting and worth watching. It would have been better if the show wasn’t a generic procedural, imo.

[Aristus]

8. Alan Cumming is incredibly charming.

And his outfits were clothing porn to a clothes-horse like me.

You're right about the plots. The writing was also mediocre. But the leads were appealing. It was enjoyable to watch. I'll miss it.