10 Canceled TV Shows That Left Us With Burning Questions And No Answers In Sight

This fantasy series starred Katherine Langford as Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, in a reimagining of the Legend of King Arthur. The show ended on an absolutely heartbreaking cliffhanger featuring the death of a major character who literally dies by falling off a cliff (well, a cliff bridge over a waterfall), followed by the shocking reveal of one the more ominous characters turning out to be Lancelot of all people. All of which had us yelling "No way!" at the screen over and over for the final 10 minutes of the series.

Executive Producers Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller thankfully released their version of Nimue's story in an illustrated novel that was released in 2019 before the show aired. However, the novel does not provide that much relief for the show's upsetting cliffhanger because it does not go that much further past where the TV series left off. A second novel has been promised, but no release date has been announced, and it has been long enough since the first book that the odds of ever finding out what freaking happened don't look great.

Romeo and Juliet, but make it aliens in small-town Louisiana. Aimee Teegarden and Matt Lanter star as the doomed lovers trying to be together despite reservations from their two species. It literally ends with everyone seemingly dead??? Star-Crossed walked so CW’s Roswell reboot could run.

This sci-fi series centered around people who find out they've been unknowingly genetically modified and now have to deal with some "monstrous" side effects. I cannot discuss the ending without spoiling absolutely everything, but I’ll leave you with an EVIL CLONE REVEAL and one character seeming to metamorphose into a goo cocoon they're trapped in?? If that leaves you going, "WTF??" well, SAME.

Kaya Scodelario, forever iconic as Effy in Skins, plays Kat Baker, a figure skater grappling with bipolar disorder and her fears of getting back in the rink after cracking her head open during her last competition. In order to qualify for competitions, she reluctantly has to take on pair skating with rich, entitled bad boy Justin (played by Evan Roderick), who is secretly in love with her. 

The series was canceled after just one season in 2020 and had a small but passionate fanbase, but it still is regularly featured in Netflix's recommendations for binge-worthy shows.

The series ends just as Kat and Justin begin their skating routine for sectionals so we will never have the satisfaction of seeing them win, let alone knowing if they actually even make it through the routine since they spent the season trying to overcome Kat's PTSD from her fall while managing the roller coaster that was their families and personal lives.

This hit series was a casualty of COVID-19. It follows a group of high schoolers who leave on a school field trip to mysteriously end up back in their hometown — only all the adults are missing, and there’s no internet. Oh, and they can’t leave.

Was it all just a mass hallucination? Parallel dimension? Where are they actually if their real town sees them as missing?? Why was it even happening in the first place? And most importantly, why was there a magic dog that could go back and forth?? THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW.

Before she was "Señorita Awesome" in Fox's Scream Queens, Skyler Samuels was a teenager who discovers she's descended from an ancient race of cat people and is trying to make sense of her new powers in between high school classes. It ends with a major character’s possible death, and WE WILL NEVER KNOW IF THEY LIVE. 

This show was inspired by a book series of the same name by Liz Braswell, however, fans of the story pretty unanimously feel that the show's character development not only made everyone more likable but was so different from the books that the characters didn't even have the same feel to them, leaving anyone wanting more of the story SOL.

The beloved children’s series was aged up to a trio of teenagers (giving the cozy golden trio vibes of Harry, Ron, and Hermione) who risk their lives hunting ghosts in alternate-world London because adults are too corrupt and useless to do it themselves.

This one does have books you can turn to if you’re dying to know just what was behind Lockwood’s off-limits door in the show's final scene. BUT the cute AF romance between Anthony Lockwood and Lucy Carlyle that was building all season is not in the books, so we’ll never get to see them get together. Ever. 😭

The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself does actually have a book series you can turn to if you want to know more about the story's world. The show is based on the young adult series Half Bad by Sally Green. However, the Netflix show does diverge pretty heavily from a lot of the plot points of the books. Most devastatingly, the books do not have the throuple storyline between Nathan, Gabriel, and Annalise, so we'll never know what happened to them. This is especially hard to swallow given what Annalise went through in the show's heartbreaking final scene, which is a huge departure from the plot of the book series.

This Fox show starred Kylie Bunbury as Ginny Baker, the first female player in Major League Baseball. Mark-Paul Gosselaar (that's right, Zack from Saved By the Bell) plays the San Diego Padres team captain and Bunbury's conflicted love interest. The whole season centers on Ginny trying to prove her worth to a team of men who are, shall we say, less than thrilled to have a woman in their ranks.

The series was canceled too soon and left off with Ginny dealing with a possibly career-ending injury after a nail-biting game where she hits the ball out of the park, so to speak, throwing over 100 pitches to maintain a no-hitter through seven innings, and therefore proving her worth to her team. But since the series was not based on anything, we'll never know whether — after everything Ginny went through — she ever gets to pitch again.

To know The OA is to love The OA. This is such a WTF rollercoaster and really has to be seen because no explanation will quite encapsulate this story of parallel dimensions and reincarnation. It is a story with so much depth that it will leave you thinking deeply about life and its meaning. But nothing, nothing in the history of wild cliffhangers compares to the final scene of season 2. And since this show is the unconventional, wholly original brainchild of the series' star Brit Marling and her co-creator Zal Batmanglij, there is no source material to answer the dire question that the final scene leaves you with: What the hell? We will never know what any of it meant, and when I tell you that this show is my Roman Empire, I mean that it was canceled back in 2019, and I STILL lie awake some nights wondering about it all these years later.