14 CANCELLED NETFLIX SHOWS THAT EVERYBODY WANTS BACK

Netflix regularly hooks viewers into their new favourite shows and evening binge-watch obsessions… before swiftly taking it all away.

TV fans have been left outraged over the years when a hit series comes to the streaming platform before abruptly being cancelled, sometimes after just one season.

From beloved crime thrillers to superhero epics, fans have been scrambling to social media to beg Netflix for more episodes of their long-lost faves, even going as far as launching petitions for their cause.

Alas, these pleas go unheard leaving us to lament what could have been.

Critically acclaimed shows and hidden gems have all called prey to the Netflix graveyard – and these are 14 series many want to see resurrected for our screens.

Mindhunter

David Fincher’s crime serial, about two FBI agents (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) working in the Behavioural Science Unit in Virginia, offered a tense insight into the psychology of serial killers.

But despite plans for a third series the show abruptly ended after just two seasons, with Fincher hinting that Netflix had pulled the plug rather than the decision to end it being his. ‘I’m very proud of the first two seasons,’ the director told Forbes in 2023.

‘But it’s a very expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn’t attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment’.

Given how many people want another series the audience may be larger than he thinks.

Lockwood & Co

This supernatural thriller, set in an alternate Britain where teenage ghost-hunters are called in to protect adults from deadly spirits, made its debut in January 2023, only to disappear as quickly as it had arrived.

Yep, Netflix cancelled the show after just one series, with declining viewing figures blamed for the decision – and fans left livid.

‘I’m in my rabid fan era and I’m still salty about Netflix’s decision to cancel Lockwood & Co so more shade tweets to come,’ one person said at the time.

Another added: ‘I’m so sick of starting another show, getting attached to it, just for it to be cancelled. I really need someone to #SaveLockwoodandCo.’

The Irregulars

If you’re unfamiliar, Sense8 follows eight people around the globe who are linked telepathically and go searching for answers behind their connection.

It was a hit with viewers when it debuted in 2015 but lasted just two short seasons before vanishing for good – with the ever-present lack of viewing figures blamed.

Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said at the time: ‘The audience was very passionate, but not large enough to support the economics of something that big, even on our platform’.

Given it’s been gone for seven years now, we sense even petitions won’t be bringing this one back.

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