10 canceled TV shows that deserve one more season
‘Daredevil’
All the Marvel Netflix cancellations hurt, but none more than the one for Daredevil. As the undisputed best Marvel Netflix show, Daredevil rebounded from a less-than-stellar back half of its second season to a fantastic third season filled with gritty fight scenes, a Daredevil which flirted with darkness and two of the best performances from a Marvel supervillain ever — Vincent D’Onofrio as the cold-blooded Kingpin and Wilson Bethel as Daredevil’s arch-nemesis Bullseye.
That we’ll never get to see Bethel play a fully-realized Bullseye is especially grating, given that we never really got to see him inhabit the role. While season 3 included Wilson Bethel as F.B.I. Agent, Benjamin Poindexter, it was D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk who was the big bad of season 3. However, the season effectively functioned as the origin story for the character who would eventually become the deathly accurate Bullseye — a villain we now, sadly, will never get to see really go up against Daredevil at full power (and in full costume).
Getting a Daredevil season 4 would allow for Daredevil to square off against his powerful nemesis and allow audiences to see a storyline that was already in the process of being written and plotted out when word of the cancellation dropped. Charlie Cox, who played Daredevil, said in an interview that the writers and showrunner had already “had a preliminary conversation with me about what might happen and who might be involved or what the story might be” and that he was looking forward to “to having a season where [Wilson Bethel] really embodies the Bullseye persona and what that dynamic would be between Bullseye and Daredevil.”
So while Daredevil went out on an incredibly high note for what would be its third and final season, we know that a fourth season would’ve taken it to new heights. We deserve to see more than just the prelude to Bullseye! Instead, we should get to see Wilson Bethel face off against Charlie Cox in full Bullseye and Daredevil gear in what would absolutely be a hallway fight for the ages!
‘Charmed’
Okay, there might be a reboot of Charmed at CBS right now, but it’s really bad and they need to take another stab at it!
A few requests: First and foremost, we need to make sure the original four sisters are kept out of it. Don’t bring back Prue, Piper, Phoebe or Paige because we love them the way they are and don’t want to ruin the already amazing story they told. Instead we need to see new witches taking the reins of the Charmed ones. These can be the Halliwell children, but ultimately we’re thinking we keep this reboot as far away from the original Halliwell family as possible.
What we loved about Charmed was the Halliwell family, but we also loved the world in general. We loved whitelighters and darklighters and demons and ghosts, so it’ll be easy to bring all of those elements back without ruining the history that is the Halliwell family.
One more request: Improve those dang CGI edits! One of the worst things about re-watching Charmed is seeing how cheesy the demon vanquishes were or how weird it looked when people orbed. Modern CGI should offer the new Charmed some amazing special effects.
Jennifer Lamoureux, Selina Wilken, Kyle Herzallah, Brittany Lovely, Marama Whyte, Mitchel Clow, Nasim Mansuri, Danielle Zimmerman and Lelanie Seyffer contributed to this feature.