Random Your Favorite Canceled TV Shows Were Really Supposed To End (13 items)

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  (#6) Pushing Daisies

  • Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Kristin Chenoweth, Field Cate

  How It Ended: Pushing Daisies was never supposed to end with its second season finale, which would explain why so many plot threads were never fully resolved. Instead, the series ended with a major twist, as Ned finally let Charlotte enter back into her Aunts' lives again. 

  How They Wanted It To End: While speaking with SyFy, creator Bryan Fuller revealed what the original plans were for the show's third season:

  "We've arced it out. The dangling threads from the series with Chuck's father and Ned's father and the pocket watches are all dealt with, not secondarily, but there's a whole new story that happens when there is a flash flood in the cemetery and all the bodies wash past Ned, and it's Ned versus a thousand corpses."
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  (#8) The Last Man on Earth

  • Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen, Cleopatra Coleman

  How It Ended: The existential dramedy had a habit of ending episodes on cliffhangers, so when the show was unexpectedly canceled in May 2018 after Season 4, fans were left wondering what happened to Tandy and the gang. The last episode ends with Tandy and his friends surrounded by something they least expected: people in gas masks. 

  How They Wanted It To End: In an interview with Vulture, star and writer Will Forte revealed the new survivors entered the bunker shortly after the virus started. Forte says the group had "some kind of medical or scientist who knew, 'At this certain point, the virus will be dormant. You'll be safe to get back out." This savvy group would then quarantine Tandy and co., terrified the virus is still active in their systems. 

  The new group are right to be afraid: Forte says his group is immune to the virus, but they are carriers. The virus spreads rapidly, and then it is just the six of them again. 
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  (#12) Felicity

  • Keri Russell, Scott Speedman, Scott Foley, Tangi Miller, Amanda Foreman, Greg Grunberg, Ian Gomez

  How It Ended: In one of the weirdest TV twists ever, Felicity's final episodes involved the titular character going back in time one year to try and change the future, to where she had chosen Noel over Ben. But when her actions result in the death of a loved one and irrevocable changes to some of her friends' lives, she decides to go back to her previous, unaltered present timeline.

  How They Wanted It To End: J.J. Abrams' original ending for Felicity was always for her to end up happy with Ben. But when the show was picked up for five additional episodes after that ending was filmed and completed, Abrams and co. concocted that strange time travel plot to try and draw out five episodes' worth of more tension and uncertainty. 
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  (#11) Pitch

  • Kylie Bunbury, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mo McRae, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, Meagan Holder, Tim Jo

  How It Ended: This breakout sports drama ended on a massive cliffhanger, as Ginny (Kylie Bunbury) suffered an arm injury, which resulted in her going to the hospital. Fans never got to learn the extent of her injury, though, or how Ginny's career would be affected by it in the future. 

  How They Wanted It To End: Showrunner Kevin Falls told THR that the show's second season would have revolved around Ginny returning from her injury and starting work during Spring Training the following season:

  "We want to start with Spring Training and that first day you arrive at camp. There are four or five months between the end of the season and Spring Training when a lot of personal things happen to players - injuries, surgeries, marriages, changes in the teams, firing of managers. Who is at Spring Training? Who didn't come back? Who was traded?"
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  (#1) Firefly

  • Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Morena Baccarin

  How It Ended: The show ended just as River became a full-fledged member of the Firefly crew, seemingly hinting at the further continued adventures of Mal and his family in the years to come. The follow-up film, Serenity, attempted to tie up a number of storylines by killing off some key characters and delving further into some of the Alliance's very disastrous mistakes.

  How They Wanted It To End: The show's second season would have included the pay off of several of the first season's subplots. Adam Baldwin's Jayne would finally get to pilot his own ship alongside the Firefly. Wash (RIP) and Zoe would have had a child, as shown in comics created after the show went off air. There would have also been some further development of Inara and Mal's relationship, which would have been interesting to see unfold, as Inara would have confirmed that she is terminally ill in Season 2.
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  (#13) Bored to Death

  • Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis

  How It Ended: This beloved stoner comedy ended its run on HBO in such a zany way that is all-too-fitting for the show: Jason Schwartzman's character, Jonathan, realized he’d been sleeping with his half-sister (Isla Fisher), neither of them knowing they were in any way related. 

  How They Wanted It To End: While fans may never know definitively how the respective stories of Bored to Death's characters were going to end, creator Jonathan Ames did reveal how the series' final revelation would have played into its fourth season:

  "I don't want people to think he wouldn't tell her. He wants to tell her, but he was just weakened in that moment. And the idea that they're siblings is so abstract, because he didn't grow up with her. It's hard for him to conceptualize. So he kisses her in the moment, but I wanted that last shot to mirror his confusion, so it's spinning — almost like the start of the season when he's on the circle with the knives. It's vertigo. But in the next season, I was going to put her in a sanitarium. She was going to have a total breakdown. And in case Isla Fisher wasn't available, I'd just need that one shot of her on a bench or in Switzerland, for her incest cure."

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