"... And a movie."
Explanation
When someone in the show "Community" asks what the perfect length for a TV show is, Ahbed runs across the background and shouts "six seasons and a movie!".
Community ran for six seasons
....so far.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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The Owl House.
The Expanse. I'm happy it was completed and not cancelled but it felt rushed. Currently reading the books, on book 3/9, really good.
Enjoy the read one of my favorite book series ever.
I don't think we've seen the last of the expanse yet. I think we might see a bit more at some point.
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Yeah I really hope we get to see Laconia at its prime, some day.
I know it isn't the same thing but there is an Expanse game coming out called The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. So at the very least we may get a big action rpg out of it.
That said, I would love to see the show taken through all of the main series books instead of where they ended it in the show.
That could scratch that itch.
The Practice should have been longer. While Boston Legal was a fun spinoff, the hard hitting legal drama should have kept going as well.
The Wire
Captain Star
Someone who watched Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad told me that they thought Breaking Bad would've been better if it started with Gretchen, Eliot, and Walt starting Gray Matter together — followed them through the relationship breakdown due to Walt's insecurity and then Walt meeting Skyler before a Time Skip taking us to where season 1 picked up.
Watchmen is the first that comes to mind.
Also Peacemaker supposedly isn't going to get anymore seasons.
Oh yeah didn't see it that way, I totally believe you.
I’m afraid I’ve got to go old school. If you’re looking for something that was completed but could have gone longer I say Quantum Leap. Don’t get me wrong the finale was great and I loved that Sam decided to keep leaping to help those in need, but man I could use more.
Shhh... Don't say it too loudly or someone will go and try to reboot it and completely ruin it.
I love the new version. It wasn’t really a reboot but a continuation.
Arcane. But I'm pretty sure Arcane will be the best visual media I will ever see in my lifetime that nothing will ever really compare to, so it's probably a good thing it concluded while at its peak.
Fringe was at it's best during their earlier monster-of-the-week seasons but quickly strayed away from that to progress the overarching story, would've been nicer to have more seasons with a slower burning story development while still focusing on what made the show special.
Legion (FX Series) while excellent on it's own, you could tell the productions creativity was far from exhausted and could've easily filled another wacky season.
I was going to say Fringe but because of the way it became I'm glad it ended when it did. But you make a good point, if they had slowed the story down and gave us more monster of the week they actually could have been the new x-files. I would have like more seasons of that show.
Legion is some of the best television ever made in my opinion and I think it could have had at least one more season.
There's a sort of pattern that all x-of-the-week series fall into, and it's "Why do our characters have these wacky adventures so often?" and the answer to that is often "Because there's a grand scheme to it all and they're the chosen ones". Same thing happened to Supernatural, or Primeval, I think even the Power Rangers.
I miss the x-of-the-week format, personally. We get 8 episode long miniseries every couple of years now and while they can be great I miss getting 24 episodes a year watching your favorite familiar characters working through entire story arcs in 48 minutes. Not every episode was great, and you got your Christmas episode and the flashback episode in there. But on balance I think it was great and miss it.
There's also this new trend of making a series which becomes very popular and then waiting 4 years to make the second season. By that time it not only lost it's relevance, but also the actors have very visibly aged.
Andor could have probably done with one more season to really flesh out Cassian accepting his rebel place. (Probably did not need the intended 5 seasons)
Although I feel season 5 (the last season) of Babylon 5 was a trainwreck, I would have liked to have seen something that was fully funded and supported by the network. Instead we got Crusade and The Legend of the Rangers, and then the TV movies.
Weep for Warners, Na'toth. Weep for us all.
Over the Garden Wall
Ooh yeah, but on the other hand, it's now the perfect length to binge on a dreary Sunday afternoon in October. So I think instead of a second season of Wirt and Greg, I'd like a new series of similar length, maybe a little darker and chillier, for a blisteringly cold November night.
I do wish McHale got to put more things out. I'm excited to hear he's working on something coming out next year called the Elephant.
The O.A.
I really feel like they could have ran with the ending (even though I didn't like it) and went even crazier with the story.
Supernatural. (^jk^)
The magicians could've used more seasons if they had more ideas
So much. I usually skip musical episodes, 90% of the time, but theirs were so damn good. Some serious vocal talent (4 octave range, bitch).
Season 3+ was some of the best television I've seen. Once they abandoned the books and understood that they were doing their own thing that only really related in setting and themes they were really able to do justice to traumatized millennial grad students do magic that requires one to be a genius sans marbles.
What they did with Margo and Eliot was moving without ever stopping being incredibly camp but also dark. The show perfectly hit the tone of laughing your ass off because your life went off the rails and now you're canceling an emergency therapy session to deal with stress because you absolutely cannot fit it into your schedule.
Also by far the best deaf representation I've seen on TV, which was nice as someone hard of hearing
The bottle episode where Elliot and Quentin have to solve the mosaic to get the key is one of the most touching episodes of TV I have seen.
It broke me especially because the writers didn't pretend it didn't happen, only the characters did. Having Quentin's bisexuality go from one scene that could be interpreted as a joke or a one off to an actual conflict the character experienced of knowing he could have a loving relationship with Eliot, but that he didn't have the courage to seize outside of Filory was oof.
Honestly I don't think I've seen another show that handled struggles with vulnerability and emotions that well.
I felt sad that for both it was the healthiest loving relationship they would each have.
Bromwell High. Okay it was animated, but was worthy of many more episodes in more seasons IMO.
Plus I got introduced to Stephen Merchant, who is awesome!
Yo that show was wicked, thanks for reminding me the name
Bones.
Firefly!
I don't think I'll ever be able to shift the feeling that we were robbed of more.
Edit - Realised I misread the title, was indeed cancelled not completed.
Wasn't Firefly famously cancelled?
I’m digging into the past on this one… there was a show called Millennium that Chris Carter and Fox really dropped the ball on. It followed the X-Files on Friday nights.
The general premise was good, IMO. It only ran for 3 seasons and was wrapped up quickly. If they didn’t neglect it, could have done a lot more.
My favorite quote comes from that it. Although it makes no sense unless you’ve seen the show 🙂
No one dropped the ball on it. Sci-fi and the like were generally unpopular and anything called "Millennium" in 1999 would be seen as incredibly contrived.
Last I checked the shows wasn’t science fiction. It was a drama series actually. The first season had subtle hints about the millennium.
Season two was messed up by the writers (it wasn’t Carter, two others I can’t remember) and played into the millennium aspect and made the show “campy”.
Season three Carter returned and had to clean up the mess and close the show because the ratings drop… because of season two.
Had they not played into it so much and screwed up season two the show could have survived and been more interesting and entertaining. Even after 2000…
Not sure the reason for your comment, seems pretty hostile for a simple answer to an asklemmy question. You should take your rage out on someone else.
There’s zero hostility in my comment and Im not sure where you would get it from.
You suggested people dropped the ball on it when factually there was never much interest t begin with. If you were an adult at the time, and Im only saying this because I dont know you, you wouldn’t be surprised that people were reticent to watch anything called “Millennium” in 1999.
I watched it when it originally aired. I guess that makes me an adult or old or a fan that saw the potential.
Factually the show was well received. Factually Chris Carter admitted the show could have been better or done more under different circumstances.
I suggested that Chris Carter and Fox dropped the ball, not “people”.
Not a huge fan of ChatGPT but I’m also really lazy… here are my facts.
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Viewership / Nielsen Ratings
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The pilot episode (aired October 25, 1996) had about 17.72 million viewers in the U.S. Wikipedia
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Its pilot also earned a Nielsen rating of 9.0 in the 18‑49 demographic (and a 27 share), with an overall rating across all households of 11.9. Wikipedia
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“Gehenna” (Season 1, second episode) had a Nielsen rating of 8.1 for the original U.S. broadcast. Wikipedia
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“The Thin White Line” (Season 1) got a rating of 6.8, representing about 6.6 million households. Wikipedia
Critical / Audience Ratings
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On IMDb, Millennium has a rating of 7.9/10 based on over 13,000 user votes. IMDb
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has generally favorable scores; the full‐series Tomatometer is listed at 82%, though based on fewer critic reviews. Rotten Tomatoes
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On Metacritic, for Season 1 the show has a Metascore of 71 (generally favorable) metacritic.com
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What Carter Has Said
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Solid ratings and regrets about ending In an interview reflecting on 25 years of Millennium, Carter said: “I think the show could have gone on, and for reasons that I regret, the show did not, but we had very solid ratings that could have carried us on.” eatthecorn.com
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Wishing for better production conditions Carter has said that if he were doing the show today (or if things were different), he'd prefer more time and fewer constraints: “You look at television now and people roll out 10‑episode series, and we did 22 episodes a season roughly. […] I think I would look forward to doing a shorter run of the show and being able to write all the scripts before you ever went into production. […] It would be great to have the luxury of not writing while you’re producing and trying to stay one step ahead of this monster, this all-consuming monster who requires you to do way too many jobs at once. That would be a dream come true, and it would make Millennium a better show.” eatthecorn.com
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“I pulled the plug on Millennium too soon” In a podcast interview, Carter said: “I pulled the plug on Millennium too soon…” Lemonada Media
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On the show’s direction / seasons He’s also said that each season of Millennium felt like a somewhat different show, and that season two was a departure from how he originally envisioned things, which suggests some dissatisfaction with certain narrative or tonal choices. eatthecorn.com
Additionally, as I recall, he made similar comments to the above on the DVD release.
Factually the series high was 17 million people which would be incredible now but was poor for a weekend primetime show not in the premiere episode. The second season premiere is 7-8 million which is not good for the time period in that slot. When I say it wasn't well received Im talking in viewers as that is the only metric that matters to keeping a show on air at that time.
There wasn't much interest considering it was on Fox and it wasn't The Simpsons.
You can twist it anyway you want. At this point I believe you’re just looking to argue with someone and the subject wouldn’t matter.
This has been fun but… it’s getting old and I’m moving on.
If it makes you happy… you win.
Im not arguing? I think you have entirely misread the tone here.