# Great TV shows canceled after one season

Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life and other gems that never got a second season, from The Hollywood Reporter's list.

- 132 votes · 14 items
- Dec 30, 2025 · Mitchell Lewis
- https://even.best/en/l/4581/great-tv-shows-canceled-after-one-season

## Top 14

1. **Firefly (2002)** (15 · ▲17 ▼2) — Joss Whedon's space western; Fox cancelled it after 14 episodes and it got a film, Serenity.
2. **Freaks and Geeks (1999)** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Paul Feig and Judd Apatow's high school outsiders, with Seth Rogen, James Franco and Linda Cardellini.
3. **My So-Called Life (1994)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Claire Danes as teenager Angela Chase.
4. **Enlisted (2014)** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Three brothers in a rear detachment unit of the US Army.
5. **Terriers (2010)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — An ex-cop and his best friend run an unlicensed detective business in San Diego.
6. **Bunheads (2012)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Amy Sherman-Palladino's dance school dramedy with Sutton Foster.
7. **High Fidelity (2020)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Zoë Kravitz as a record shop owner, from Nick Hornby's novel.
8. **Undeclared (2001)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Judd Apatow's college freshman comedy.
9. **The Society (2019)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Teenagers left alone in a town where all the adults have vanished.
10. **Wonderfalls (2004)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Bryan Fuller: a souvenir-shop clerk hears animal figurines talking to her.
11. **Rubicon (2010)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — An intelligence analyst uncovers a conspiracy, on AMC.
12. **Archive 81 (2022)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — An archivist restoring videotapes is drawn into a sinister mystery.
13. **On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Kirsten Dunst takes on a pyramid scheme.
14. **Lovecraft Country (2020)** (0 · ▲4 ▼4) — HBO horror in the Jim Crow-era United States, cancelled after one acclaimed season.

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