These queer shows ended on huge cliffhangers!
15 LGBTQ+ shows that ended on cliffhangersNetflix; Prime VideoWe all know the story by now. An exciting new queer show starts up, builds a decent audience, gets really good, and then is suddenly canceled.
A premature cancellation always hurts, but it's especially egregious when the show was building up to something big! TV loves its cliffhangers, and these shows used cliffhangers to tease that something even bigger and better was coming.
Unfortunately, all of them got canceled before we got to see the payoff...
Here are 15 queer shows we loved that, unfortunately, ended on cliffhangers.
Kaos
Kaos is a modern-set Greek mythology comedy that Netflix released this year before canceling it just a couple months later. This epic show ended with the whole world of the Greek Gods being upended. In the final episode, there's a new prophet, Prometheus, who is freed from his eternal prison and sits in Zeus' throne, the water that gives the gods their power and immortality has stopped flowing, and Hera is gathering her troops ready for a war. Now, we'll never know what that was leading to.
How I Met Your Father
Much like its predecessor, How I Met Your Father is based on the premise that the central character is slowly revealing who her partner is as the series progresses. However, after it was canceled after just two seasons, it seems like we will never know for sure who Sophie's (Hilary Duff) future husband is.
Dollface
One of our favorite parts of this two-season Hulu comedy was the romance between Stella (Shay Mitchell) and Liv (Lily Singh). In the finale, they've opened a gay bar together, but when Stella says she's ready to fully commit, Liv says she wants to remain professional for the sake of her son. We were fully invested in this romance and never got to see it through!
High Fidelity
This show was a gender-swapped version of the classic John Cusack movie about a record store owner detailing their various romantic misfortunes while trying to find love. For most of the show's only season, we assumed that Rob (Zoe Kravitz) was going to end up with Mac, but in the finale, it's revealed that she is going after Clyde instead. Clyde tells her that he's tired of her toxicity and that there's only a 9 percent chance they'll ever get back together. Unfortunately, we never got to see if he was right.
I Am Not Okay With This
This Netflix show about an angsty teenage girl named Sydney who develops psychokinetic powers and a crush on her female best friend had a lot of potential, but ended after just one season. In the finale, Sydney goes to the school dance with her best friend Dina and the two start to talk about their feelings for each other before they're interrupted by a boy reading Sydney's diary from the stage. Sydney uses her powers to blow up his head, runs away, and is greeted by a mysterious man in the woods. We'll never know what any of it meant.
Teenage Bounty Hunters
This show, another one Netflix canceled after one season, followed two twin sisters who became bounty hunters while also being star students at a Christian high school. One of the sisters, Sterling, had a love/hate relationship with her former bestie and current high school rival, a girl named April. When it was canceled after one season, we never got to find out if Sterling was going to choose her boyfriend Luke, or April.
Stumptown
This ABC series based on a comic book followed a former Marine named Dex (Cobie Smulders) working as a private investigator in Portland, Oregon. In the season finale, Dex's mom shows up, but we don't get to see her, only the reaction on Dex's face. The series was canceled before we could ever meet her mother.
A League of Their Own
One of the best TV shows of the decade only got one season before being canceled. This historical show followed a group of women playing professional baseball while men were away fighting World War II. It had one of the best, and queerest, casts on TV, and we couldn't wait for more. In the season finale, Max, a pitcher, is trying to make it with a traveling team she joins, while Carson's husband comes home from the war only to see her kiss Greta. We never got to find out what happened next.
Glamorous
This Netflix show starred Miss Benny as a young fashion-obsessed beauty vlogger who gets a job working for a retired supermodel and makeup maven played by Kim Cattrall. The show ended by teasing that Miss Benny's character, Marco, was beginning to transition, and also left us hanging with a couple very sweet love stories that we wish we could have seen more of!
Warrior Nun
This Netflix show nearly caused a riot when it was canceled. Sapphic fans everywhere had fallen in love with warrior nun Ava and her lover Beatrice, but in the final episode, fans were left wondering if Ava was dead or alive, if Beatrice was leaving the church forever, and why the Order of the Cruciform Sword was glowing.
1899
Netflix also canceled this German period mystery-science fiction show after just one season. The premise of the show was that it followed a group of European emigrants traveling to America on a steamship in the year 1899, but in the finale, the main character Maura wakes up from a simulation to find that she and the other characters are on a starship in the year 2099. After that, we don't know what happens.
Mindhunter
This crime series from David Fincher starred Jonathan Groff as a young FBI agent who worked with his partner, as well as a lesbian psychologist, to start the FBI's behavioral science program to understand serial killers. Throughout the first two seasons, the show slowly starts to introduce the BTK Killer, hinting that his will be a case our heroes will have to solve. Unfortunately, the show ended, and we'll never get to see that storyline explored.
First Kill
Yet another queer show canceled quickly by Netflix was this one about a teen vampire and a teen vampire slayer who fall in love. In the finale, Calliope found out that it was her girlfriend who turned her brother into a vampire and broke up with her, declaring that she'd kill her and all other vampires. We never got to find out if they got back together.
Hannibal
In this adaptation of the Hannibal stories, Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter have a relationship that swerves between obsessive, romantic, sexual, and violent. In the final episode, Will and Hannibal finally embraced, but then immediately plunged off a cliff together. The episode leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not they died, or they will get to have a life together.
Legends of Tomorrow
In the finale for this superhero show, Sara Lance was revealed to be pregnant with Ava's baby, and fan-favorite superhero Booster Gold was introduced as a new character. Not only that, but Booster Gold arrested the Legends, leaving their fate even more mysterious.
