It’s been one year since Sweet/Vicious aired its season 1 finale, but despite the cancellation, we need this show now more than ever.

As fans of the show know, Sweet/Vicious was an exciting new series on MTV that didn’t pull any punches. It was colorful, violent, and most importantly, necessary. It followed Jules and Ophelia as they navigated friends and school during the day, and vigilantism and taking down the patriarchy at night. (Here’s all our coverage.)

Despite its rampant fanbase, Sweet/Vicious never quite took hold the way we all wanted it to. Cable networks don’t need the same kind of numbers as ABC, CBS, or NBC in order to keep a show on the air, but MTV was shuffling its programs around (Teen Wolf ended, The Shannara Chronicles was sent to Spike, Scream got a total reboot) and Sweet/Vicious got caught in the crossfire.

January 31, 2017 was the air date of the Sweet/Vicious season 1 finale, which turned out to also be the final episode in the series.

In the last year, we haven’t heard any promises about the show getting picked up by another network. And that’s a damn shame.

If you’ve been paying attention to the news at all in the last year or so, you’ll know that Harvey Weinstein was just the beginning of Hollywood purging sexual predators from its ranks. We’re nowhere near a clean slate, by any means, but A-listers like Kevin Spacey and James Franco are seeing repercussions for their despicable actions.

Jules and Ophelia would be so proud.

Sweet/Vicious was relevant before these kind of headlines, but it’s absolutely necessary now. As women continue to speak out about their experiences, both in and outside Hollywood, a show that tackles rape culture is the perfect piece of media to get the world’s attention.

So why has no one snatched it up?

I can’t answer that question, and that frustrates me to no end. Sweet/Vicious certainly made waves while it was on air. It has an innate ability to make people uncomfortable because it tackles difficult subjects head on. No one wants to believe they might be enablers, that their friends could be rapists. That they’ve laughed off racist actions rather than speaking out against them.

But this is the kind of controversy we need on television. People are clamoring for diversity, and Hollywood is slowly giving it to us. But it’s too little, too late. As much as I love shows that normalize issues of race, sexuality, gender, and the like, I also think we need hard hitting shows like Sweet/Vicious to rip the rug out from underneath us.

After all, that’s what art is for, right? Our favorite stories are allegories for society’s biggest problems, set against a fantastical backdrop to make looking in the mirror more palatable. If you can understand that Voldemort’s hatred of Muggles is wrong, then you can understand racism is wrong.

I love Sweet/Vicious because it was fearless. It wasn’t afraid to put women front in center, to make them kickass and vulnerable in equal strides. It wasn’t afraid to shine a spotlight on issues we all deal with on a day to day basis. It wasn’t afraid to speak out.

That’s the kind of show we need on television right now.

I’m sure this article will be lost amongst the thousands of others published today. Some of them will be trivial, and some of them will tackle issues much bigger than bringing back one of my favorite television shows. But if this makes it to at least one person who has the power to put Sweet/Vicious back on air, I hope you’re paying attention.

The tide is changing in Hollywood, in the world. Sweet/Vicious is a part of that change. Art has always been powerful, and if this show helps one more woman speak out against the horrors she’s faced, then isn’t it worth taking a chance on? Isn’t it worth giving it a second life?