10 Killed Shows That’ll Leave Us With Terrible Cliffhangers

Netflix is ​​now notorious for its series cancellations, shocking fans and sometimes even the creators. But the worst thing is when the streaming service kills a series whose last season ends on a huge cliffhanger. Then not only a series hull without conclusion remains, but an audience with umpteen question marks in the head. First and foremost: how the hell is this twist resolved? That’s why we have the worst layoffs now 10 Netflix shows that got canceled after bad cliffhangers.

Warning, this article contains spoilers for all the series mentioned.

1. terrible Netflix cliffhanger: First Kill

First Kill gained a lot of fans in no time, in part because of an LGBTQ+ romance at its heart that remains a rarity in fantasy series. The disappointment about the cancellation was all the greater because the first season was at the end numerous surprising twists placed. Above all: Theo is a vampire??? Whether the unlikely couple of vampire hunter and vampire will get back together remains unclear, as does the question of whether the evil Elinor will escape from prison. (YY)

2. Awful Netflix cliffhanger: I Am Not Okay With This

The shock of the end of I Am Not Okay With This is still deep after 2 years and that means both the last episode of season 1 and the cancellation message. The series about teenage girl Sydney (Sophia Lillis) and her superpowers culminates in a high school escalation, which would make Carrie – Satan’s youngest daughter proud, and recognizing that Sydney is not the only supernatural person. Netflix will never see who secretly followed her through the season and how things will continue after the bloody events.

Worse, the ending could have been toned down, as showrunner Jonathan Entwistle explained. Accordingly, Netflix has forbidden him to adapt the season 1 finale and make it look less cliffhanger-like (via Insider). (YY)

3. terrible Netflix cliffhanger: Daybreak

A year before I Am Not Okay With This was the post-apocalyptic teen series Daybreak, in which 17-year-old Josh (Colin Ford) must survive in a world whose adults have either died or roamed as zombie-like ghoulies. In the last of 10 episodes Season 2 is being prepared with lots of open questions.

A surprising twist even turns the ending into a cliffhanger. Throughout the season, Josh was looking for his girlfriend Sam (Sophie Simnett). But when they meet again, he has to learn one thing: Sam is anything but a needy damsel in distress. However, what is behind Sam’s surprising proclamation as ruler of Glendale remains open thanks to the Netflix cancellation. (YY)

4. Awful Netflix Cliffhanger: Hit & Run

Lior Raz delivered a worldwide hit series with Fauda, ​​but his Netflix thriller Hit & Run didn’t last more than one season. The agent’s adventures around Segev (Raz) ended with terrible news: his ex-wife was murdered and his daughter, whom he had placed with her, was kidnapped. Whether he can save his daughter, what secrets lie dormant in Segev’s past and how his story continues – these are all exciting questions that Netflix will never provide the answers to. (YY)

5. Awful Netflix cliffhanger: The Society

In the young-adult mystery series The Society, a group of youngsters return to their hometown after a school trip gone awry and find that all of New Ham’s residents have disappeared. Now it’s up to the teenagers to build a functioning society – and find out what the hell happened to the rest of humanity. Netflix pulled the plug after just one season, which is all the more frustrating given the show’s final scene made for quite a “What the fuck?!” moment.

We see the mother of one of the main characters reading the story of Peter Pan to children in West Ham. Behind her a plaque with the names of the teenagers. The series thus seems to confirm one of the most plausible theories: The youth are in another dimension or landed on another earth. However, we will never know how that happened and whether there is a way back for those who have disappeared. (LL)

6. Awful Netflix cliffhanger: The OA

If you liked the science fiction series The OA, you had to wait a full three years between seasons 1 and 2. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Netflix ended the series as well. The one-of-a-kind show wasn’t perfect, but it did show some ambition story-wise and visually — something that can’t be said of many Netflix series.

At least we’re left with one of the more creative twist endings that shows the series at its best: A Portal to some kind of meta-dimension opens, in which lead actress Brit Marling plays herself, who is starring in a series suspiciously similar to Season 2. The cliffhanger at the end of the Marling and Zal Batmanglij series is probably the only viable one on this list. Because The OA without twists is not The OA. (YY)

7. Terrible Netflix cliffhanger: Santa Clarita Diet

This ending hurts. Santa Clarita Diet, starring Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore, grew from season to season. What started out as an over-the-top zombie comedy developed heart in later episodes. A question emerged: doesn’t Joel (Olyphant) want to become immortal like his wife Sheila (Barrymore)? Otherwise she would eventually survive him.

In the final, Joel decides to do so after a long struggle. Just then, Mr. Ball Legs crawls through Joel’s ear into his head, Joel collapses, is bitten by Sheila, opens his eyes and smiles. What the heck just happened here, has been left to fan speculation for three years. (YY)

8. terrible Netflix cliffhanger: The Order

The fantasy series The Order about Werewolves and dark magic made it to Season 2 before the streaming service dropped her. In the last minutes of the last episode, however, the events overturn, as if a sequel were certain. Alyssa (Sarah Grey) is attacked and severely injured. Death seems certain. But what Jack (Jake Manley) wants to do with her body in the forest and whether he can save her is left to our imagination. As with some final twists in the series. (YY)

9. terrible Netflix cliffhanger: Archive 81

Archive 81 was different than the typical Netflix mishmash – maybe too different. Produced by James Wan, the found footage horror series unfolds a grim mystery involving videotapes, occult conspiracies and dangers from other dimensions.

Anyone who invested their precious time in this chilling puzzle fun was snubbed by the surprising cancellation and feels the same way after all the open questions confused and helpless like Dan Turner, who in the end was suddenly transported from the present to 1994. The nasty cliffhanger and all the shocking revelations about witches, cults and demons set the stage for an exciting second season that will never come. (MW)

10. Awful Netflix cliffhanger: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Impressive puppet technology, exciting mythology, a well-known cast and an epic fantasy story: The Dark Crystal: Era of Resistance inspired as a visual rush of images with a lot of heart. The Netflix prequel to Jim Henson’s cult film The Dark Crystal was merciless discontinued before the bridge to the original could be built. Whether the revelation of the nasty Garthim at the end threatens to undo the victory of the Gelflings over the Skekse, whether the destruction of the Gelflings is really inevitable and what fate awaits the characters: Netflix will not provide us with the answers. (MW)