13 Shows That Ended on a Sour Note

Umm...Will Graham and Hannibal ACTUALLY WENT OVER A CLIFF! How's that for a cliffhanger ending? Talk about unfair. There was definitely more to tell there, but low ratings just didn't allow for their story to continue.

Carnivale didn't get word of their cancellation until the show had finished production. That's the worst case scenario. Ben was left wounded and unconscious in Management's trailer. Um. Whoops? Angry fans will never get the ending to story of the carnival and the preacher.

Pushing Daisies was canceled on a massive cliffhanger. Ned and Chuck are on her aunt's doorstep, having just revealed that she's still alive to her mother and her aunt. How did they react? What's next? Well, write your own ending for that. Poor Bryan Fuller.

After five brilliant seasons, it all comes down to Ben possibly being a dirty cop and Cooper getting shot in his own ally by fellow cops who don't know who he is. He's left to bleed as the camera pans out and we never know his fate. Although we can guess. Just like Southland, he was at the end of his run.

Much like Southland, this one ended on a cliffhanger. Jim shot in the kitchen on his wedding day to Callie. We'll never know how distraught she was or whether he survived. Well, he didn't. The network killed him and Callie both!

Ending on a time jump, in which John Connor went forward in time and discovered nobody knew who he was (so much for everything his mother foretold), but his father and uncle were still alive. Who wouldn't want to watch what happened next?! Would have been better than the last Terminator movie!

It was probably as good a place as any for this terrific show to end, but that doesn't make us feel any better. Literally at a crossroads, in a car, deciding whether they should get the heck out of dodge and hightail it to Mexico or if one of them should bite the bullet and go to jail for a while. You just knew they'd do it together, whatever it was.

Oh! This one still cuts to the bone. Invasion was so good, and it ended on a hell of a cliffhanger. After one of the main characters gets shot and is dying, she's given to the aliens who are taking women into the water. After all, another character has already gone into the water and come back out, relatively "normal." But, we never see what happens next.

In the very last minute of the series, we learn the identity of Kyle's real father, which would dramatically change his relationship with Jessi, too. But...that's all she wrote, folks!

It's kind of amazing to look back at the sheer star power on Freaks and Geeks to discover it wasn't a winner right off the bat, but it never made it to a second season. The final episode featured Lindsay skipping her big academic opportunity to ride around for the summer with the Grateful Dead. Ahhh. Life without cell phones. Unfortunately, a lot of the secondary characters were left out, and they were just as beloved (if not more so) than Lindsay, so their stories were left hanging.

Fans brought Jericho back for a truncated second season with a wacked out scheme of sending nuts to the network that resulted in a whacked out Revolution style story, but that still didn't allow for an actual ending. Instead an all out Civil War was ready to be waged before they cut to black. No, we're not counting comic books as continuations.

Annie and Auggie, right? Um. No. As a matter of fact, after five seasons, Auggie decided he was leaving the CIA and Annie? Well, she had just received a proposal from new beau, Ryan McQuaid. What did they decide to do? Who knows?! The show was canceled. The life of an agent. Always on the run.

Angela Chase had a decision to make. Jordan Catalano or Brian Krakow. One composed the letter and the other wrote it. Angela chose the one who wrote it, angry at he who composed it. Being 15 is her excuse. Many of us would make the same decision today. Maybe it's not the best excuse, after all.