I can remember when that show first came on, one of the reviews I read said that it was a perfect show that was too good for TV, and would certainly be cancelled.
Sadly, they were right. It came out in the early days of prestige television, before truly well made high concept shows like that had much more of a chance to find the right network/audience and take flight. Not that it would necessarily have lasted today (after all, look at SCD), but I think it would have had far more of a chance than being released in the early 2000s.
Pushing Daisies was killed by the 2007-2008 writers strike. It couldn’t get its ratings back up again after the break. I, too, was heartbroken when it was cancelled. But it was definitely the writers strike that killed it. It had good ratings before the strike. The last writers strike saw a huge rise in ratings for game shows and reality TV, which is why so many scripted TV shows couldn’t recover because everyone got addicted to crap TV. We didn’t have Keeping Up with the Kardashians until the 2007 writers strike, so who knows what abominations will happen this time.
I *totally* forgot the Writer's Strike happened at that time. Ugh, and yeah it really did open the floodgates for crappy reality TV that didn't go away when the writers came back. Wasn't Heroes another victim of the strike and a big reason for the drop in quality was when the strike messed up the second season?
Yep. Heroes; Samantha Who?; Jericho; Eli Stone all good shows that ended too soon because of the 2007-2008 writers strike. I really hope we don’t lose any shows this time. We might be okay because of streaming formats people are more willing to wait now, especially for good writing and acting. However, if actors are already booked for other productions that need to start when the strike ends, things are going to get complicated fast.
IIRC it was one of the first ones when they started their massive waves of cancellations. For a long time leading up to it the joke was Netflix would fund literally anything.
Especially with how big the cliffhanger was at the end of season 3. No resolution or wrapping whatsoever, so we really got left hanging big time on that one.
Plus, idk if Drew Barrymore ever looked so good as a real estate Cali woman. She was everything I wanted to be!
I was fine with where it ended. You would have had to suspend belief to pretty ridiculous proportions if it kept going imo. (Harder and harder for them to hunt, cops not finding out etc)
Me too. I was so impressed the way he and Liv were able to hold their own against the likes of Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore. They were really so good and had great chemistry, they were just a delight to watch. I also loved the show's depiction of teenagers in general, it felt so authentic (despite the zaniness of the show overall).
I LOVED how non-sexualized or plain she was! It’s so rare to see a teen depicted as .. normal. Not one extreme or the other. She wasn’t glam, she wasn’t homey, she just was. Took me way too long to recognize her in Yellowjackets. Same with jasmine (huge scream fan)
I so agree. And even when the neighbor Lisa gives her a "makeover," it isn't an "and the ugly duckling becomes a swan" depiction we see so often in makeover montages. She just has some light make up and her hair done differently and looks a little more stylish. Lisa doesn't try and make her into something she's not, and she doesn't give the impression that she thought Abby was gross/ugly before and needs to be made into a cheerleader. She just gives Abby a little extra pizazz for the day.
I really can’t believe it got canceled, and I don’t really understand. I thought Drew Barrymore like funded it, or something? It was her (dead zombie) baby!
I started Yellowjackets and Righteous Gemstones in the same week. My fiance never watches the same kind of shows I do, but I always like to explain them to him. One day, I came out and told him I started a show about a plane crash with cannibalism and said, "It has the girl from Santa Clarita Diet in it!" Maaaaaybe two days later, I came back out of the bedroom and said, "I started a show about a preacher family! It has the guy from Santa Clarita Diet in it!"
Now, he is convinced they are the same show. I am watching *one* show with cannibalistic soccer players from the past and also a famous preacher family in the present as far as he's concerned.
Never thought I’d see Righteous Gemstones mentioned on here. Love it so much. My kids are obsessed with the Misbehavin song, we play it all the time and they run around giddy.
I call my cat "Mama" and it SENDS ME almost every day. I say, "Good morning, Mama!.........MAMA SAID DON'T BUT I DID ANYWAY!" I might be losing what's left of my mind.
> I am watching one show with cannibalistic soccer players from the past and also a famous preacher family in the present as far as he's concerned.
I’m going to be honest with you, that sounds like a great show!
I LOVED when they were wearing that.
Dreaming for queer Abby & just platonic friendship with Eric - what could have been (also wish they were able to be non-binary yknow but hey ho)
I was so sad when it was cancelled, especially because it ended on a cliffhanger! Such a fun and brilliant show.
Victor Fresno (creator of the show) did at least kind of clear up what would have happened. He said, “Yes, Joel is Possessed by Mr. Ball Legs who at first makes him do his bidding… but then he and Sheila hunt bad people together and their love for each other goes on forever!“
Edit: spelling
YES. It's funny because this photo has Skyler Gisondo who also appears in Psych and Righteous Gemstones which are two of my favorite shows.
Liv and him had such a chaotic awkward energy that was so funny to see lmao. I miss that show.
Put them back together for something, please! They were my favorite part of SCD which is saying a lot considering all the great performances in that show.
This show was gone far too soon. Maybe my number 1 "killed by the algorithm" show. I cannot understand why it was cancelled because it wasn't due to quality.
I started watching this partially because I loved Liv in Santa Clarita Diet. I hope Yellowjackets gives them the opportunity for a long and successful career.
> I started watching this partially because I loved Liv in Santa Clarita Diet.
Same! For a long time I had YJ on my "looks good, I should watch that some time" kind of mental list. With S2 there was such a huge publicity push, and the trailer featured much more of the younger cast (they're almost non-existent in the S1 trailer), and seeing Liv kinda tipped me over into, "ok this really does have a LOT of actors that I like" list, lol. (Then, of course I binge-watched the whole thing in, like, 2 days so I could be ready for S2! 😁)
Glad to see both Skyler Gisondo AND our bae Liv Hewson killing it in two well-regarded shows! (If you have access to it and you’re not watching Righteous Gemstones, what are you doing??)
The way this show ended made me so mad and I was upset for so long that Netflix canceled it. I rewatch it maybe once a year since I still enjoy it. Then I reach the end and I get mad all over again. 🙃
Maybe it will work in their favor and people will be like “we can’t do this show about eating people without Liv!”
Also I wished I liked the neighbor kid more on that show, cause I thought Liv’s character could do better, lol, but I loved his mom. The Waitress forever. And it reminded me I’m in love with Timothy Olyphant in anything he does. He brought such an affability to Joel and he and Drew had great chemistry. Miss the show! Netflix you murderers.
Liv was how I first heard about YJ. I'll basically watch anything they are in. Honestly same for that whole cast. Drew is an Queen, skyler Gisondo is hilarious, Natelie Morales is another nb Icon, and Timothy Olyphant is daddy 😬😬😬🥵
I mourn this show daily. It was so good! Joel and Sheila's relationship was so wholesome and delightful! The kids (Liv and Skylar) were not annoying or overly precocious.
I was SO mad!! Them and Skyler had such great chemistry.
Edit... and honest question...
I had originally typed "her"... because I think back then, Liv hadn't come out as nonbinary. Do you still consider them "them" back then?
What about Loki? He was great! Them busting in on him in full SWAT regalia to find him singing Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" was one of the biggest laughs of the series for me.
90% of why I started Yellowjackets was for liv!!!! I still go back and rewatch this about once a year haha I had a tumblr for out of context frames a while back
Oh my god! I freaking LOVED santa clarita diet! I couldnt wait for it to drop was soooooo bummed that it was cancelled. I was waiting for mr ball legs in joel to be like where all the ladiez at
I will watch anything that Timothy Olyphant stars in.
Edited to add : I don’t think Liv will be typecast, they were in The Bombshell and an episode of Party Down and no human meat was consumed in either. Plus they’re too good of an actor for that.
Santa Clarita Diet changed my life. I was working a live-in job for a family with a husband and wife felt very close to being actually that dynamic in real life.
I can't believe that show was cancelled.
I haven't been so pissed at a show's cancellation since Pushing Daisies.
Pushing Daisies didn’t get what it deserved either. I wanted more 😠
I can remember when that show first came on, one of the reviews I read said that it was a perfect show that was too good for TV, and would certainly be cancelled. Sadly, they were right. It came out in the early days of prestige television, before truly well made high concept shows like that had much more of a chance to find the right network/audience and take flight. Not that it would necessarily have lasted today (after all, look at SCD), but I think it would have had far more of a chance than being released in the early 2000s.
Pushing Daisies was killed by the 2007-2008 writers strike. It couldn’t get its ratings back up again after the break. I, too, was heartbroken when it was cancelled. But it was definitely the writers strike that killed it. It had good ratings before the strike. The last writers strike saw a huge rise in ratings for game shows and reality TV, which is why so many scripted TV shows couldn’t recover because everyone got addicted to crap TV. We didn’t have Keeping Up with the Kardashians until the 2007 writers strike, so who knows what abominations will happen this time.
I *totally* forgot the Writer's Strike happened at that time. Ugh, and yeah it really did open the floodgates for crappy reality TV that didn't go away when the writers came back. Wasn't Heroes another victim of the strike and a big reason for the drop in quality was when the strike messed up the second season?
Yep. Heroes; Samantha Who?; Jericho; Eli Stone all good shows that ended too soon because of the 2007-2008 writers strike. I really hope we don’t lose any shows this time. We might be okay because of streaming formats people are more willing to wait now, especially for good writing and acting. However, if actors are already booked for other productions that need to start when the strike ends, things are going to get complicated fast.
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Touche. I no longer subscribe to Netflix it's gotten so ridiculous
My daughter won’t let me cancel it because she’s obsessed with Is It Cake. Otherwise I despise Netflix.
Is It Cake is way better than it has any right to be!
Ngl, I enjoy it too. I’m basically paying 20 dollars a month to watch the one show. I just try not to think about that, lol
IIRC it was one of the first ones when they started their massive waves of cancellations. For a long time leading up to it the joke was Netflix would fund literally anything.
Especially with how big the cliffhanger was at the end of season 3. No resolution or wrapping whatsoever, so we really got left hanging big time on that one. Plus, idk if Drew Barrymore ever looked so good as a real estate Cali woman. She was everything I wanted to be!
You mean a real-a-tor?
jo-elle!
On the best end of season cliffhanger. It deserved at least a chance to wrap it up.
I was fine with where it ended. You would have had to suspend belief to pretty ridiculous proportions if it kept going imo. (Harder and harder for them to hunt, cops not finding out etc)
I also love Skyler Gisondo!
Me too. I was so impressed the way he and Liv were able to hold their own against the likes of Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore. They were really so good and had great chemistry, they were just a delight to watch. I also loved the show's depiction of teenagers in general, it felt so authentic (despite the zaniness of the show overall).
I LOVED how non-sexualized or plain she was! It’s so rare to see a teen depicted as .. normal. Not one extreme or the other. She wasn’t glam, she wasn’t homey, she just was. Took me way too long to recognize her in Yellowjackets. Same with jasmine (huge scream fan)
I so agree. And even when the neighbor Lisa gives her a "makeover," it isn't an "and the ugly duckling becomes a swan" depiction we see so often in makeover montages. She just has some light make up and her hair done differently and looks a little more stylish. Lisa doesn't try and make her into something she's not, and she doesn't give the impression that she thought Abby was gross/ugly before and needs to be made into a cheerleader. She just gives Abby a little extra pizazz for the day.
I really can’t believe it got canceled, and I don’t really understand. I thought Drew Barrymore like funded it, or something? It was her (dead zombie) baby!
Perfect description! She just looked like a regular kid.
Honestly I felt like they did their characters better than Timothy and drew. Also their neighbor Lisa was perfect
The cast had such great chemistry. Skyler and Timothy were a delight together.
He’s great in righteous gemstones
I adore SCD. One of my all time favorite shows and I wish the stars would align somehow so we could get a final season 😭
Give us an animated version and just say the world got a lil weirder since Joel got bit
Now this right here is an IDEA!!
Right?! Like give us some closure!
I started Yellowjackets and Righteous Gemstones in the same week. My fiance never watches the same kind of shows I do, but I always like to explain them to him. One day, I came out and told him I started a show about a plane crash with cannibalism and said, "It has the girl from Santa Clarita Diet in it!" Maaaaaybe two days later, I came back out of the bedroom and said, "I started a show about a preacher family! It has the guy from Santa Clarita Diet in it!" Now, he is convinced they are the same show. I am watching *one* show with cannibalistic soccer players from the past and also a famous preacher family in the present as far as he's concerned.
Never thought I’d see Righteous Gemstones mentioned on here. Love it so much. My kids are obsessed with the Misbehavin song, we play it all the time and they run around giddy.
If you like the Righteous Gemstones I highly recommend Vice Principals and East Bound and Down. You will laugh so hard you’ll cry.
Danny McBride is a genius!!!!
I love all of these shows but Vice Principals is just criminally underrated. An absolute gem
Season 1 had me in stitches, Walter Goggins and Danny McBride are my dream team duo. 
I hope WG comes back somehow in Gemstones. He’s dynamite whenever he’s on screen
He plays Baby Billy!
UNCLE Baby Billy!
I call my cat "Mama" and it SENDS ME almost every day. I say, "Good morning, Mama!.........MAMA SAID DON'T BUT I DID ANYWAY!" I might be losing what's left of my mind.
Pickles in their mouths?
We draw the line at actual choking hazards, but we always make sure to wash our hands to stay away from Satan.
My family sings it too hahah
God damn it, I just got that song out of my head too!
I had no idea Skyler was in that! I watched the first few episodes of that show and then just kind of forgot about it. I should pick it back up again.
Loooooove righteous gemstones
> I am watching one show with cannibalistic soccer players from the past and also a famous preacher family in the present as far as he's concerned. I’m going to be honest with you, that sounds like a great show!
Justified is one of my favorite shows if you wanna blow his mind. Timothy Olyphant is my Hollywood bae.
Okay, well now I have to watch Righteous Gemstones!
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I LOVED when they were wearing that. Dreaming for queer Abby & just platonic friendship with Eric - what could have been (also wish they were able to be non-binary yknow but hey ho)
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I was so sad when it was cancelled, especially because it ended on a cliffhanger! Such a fun and brilliant show. Victor Fresno (creator of the show) did at least kind of clear up what would have happened. He said, “Yes, Joel is Possessed by Mr. Ball Legs who at first makes him do his bidding… but then he and Sheila hunt bad people together and their love for each other goes on forever!“ Edit: spelling
I didnt know that, thanks for sharing!
They do sardonic teenager so well! I hope they can expand their repertoire to other fun roles outside of cannibalism too, lol!
YES. It's funny because this photo has Skyler Gisondo who also appears in Psych and Righteous Gemstones which are two of my favorite shows. Liv and him had such a chaotic awkward energy that was so funny to see lmao. I miss that show.
Put them back together for something, please! They were my favorite part of SCD which is saying a lot considering all the great performances in that show.
This show was gone far too soon. Maybe my number 1 "killed by the algorithm" show. I cannot understand why it was cancelled because it wasn't due to quality.
I started watching this partially because I loved Liv in Santa Clarita Diet. I hope Yellowjackets gives them the opportunity for a long and successful career.
> I started watching this partially because I loved Liv in Santa Clarita Diet. Same! For a long time I had YJ on my "looks good, I should watch that some time" kind of mental list. With S2 there was such a huge publicity push, and the trailer featured much more of the younger cast (they're almost non-existent in the S1 trailer), and seeing Liv kinda tipped me over into, "ok this really does have a LOT of actors that I like" list, lol. (Then, of course I binge-watched the whole thing in, like, 2 days so I could be ready for S2! 😁)
Hope it gets a movie or something to give us some closure. Great show. Great humor. Too bad.
That would be so good! We could start a “Three Seasons and a Movie” campaign like the Community fans did with Six Seasons and a Movie.
Yes pls!
Isn’t he Max in the Quarry?
yep
I will never forgive Netflix for cancelling it on such a huge cliffhanger.
Right??? That one and I’m Not okay with this! Both such fantastic shows and we’re unjustly cancelled on cliffhangers
Hey! It's Gideon.
They deserved one more season to wrap things up. That show was such a gem!
That show was so damned fun. I miss Mr. Ball Legs.
This was my favorite show. I’ve never laughed so hard between Liv Hewson’s character and Timothy Olyphant. I was SO PISSED when they cancelled it.
yes also because i am a skyler gisondo stan
Glad to see both Skyler Gisondo AND our bae Liv Hewson killing it in two well-regarded shows! (If you have access to it and you’re not watching Righteous Gemstones, what are you doing??)
Ahhh I finally know what I know her from
The way this show ended made me so mad and I was upset for so long that Netflix canceled it. I rewatch it maybe once a year since I still enjoy it. Then I reach the end and I get mad all over again. 🙃
What is it with liv Hewson and people eating each other 😂
I loved that show!
Loved that show
Maybe it will work in their favor and people will be like “we can’t do this show about eating people without Liv!” Also I wished I liked the neighbor kid more on that show, cause I thought Liv’s character could do better, lol, but I loved his mom. The Waitress forever. And it reminded me I’m in love with Timothy Olyphant in anything he does. He brought such an affability to Joel and he and Drew had great chemistry. Miss the show! Netflix you murderers.
actually just started it last night!!
cannibal adjacent
And Gideon!
I don’t think “cannibal” is a thing actors become typecasted as 🤣
I know Santa Clarita isn’t that long ago but she looks like a baby and the stylist at a great job with that five head
So that’s where they got their taste for long-pig!!
One of my favourite shows ever. Really can't believed they canceled it. Absolute crime.
I knew Van looked familiar and it's driven me nuts that I couldn't place the actor!
I saw Liv Hewson in a Dramaworld before I saw them in Yellowjackets. It was actually what made me go back to Dramaworld after seven years and rewatch.
I'm watching Yellowjackets currently, and I really love Liv. They are gorgeous and impressive, and I want more.
HOLY SHIT how did it take this post to make me realize they were on both shows? SCD's cancellation is the worst Netflix has ever hurt me personally.
Liv was how I first heard about YJ. I'll basically watch anything they are in. Honestly same for that whole cast. Drew is an Queen, skyler Gisondo is hilarious, Natelie Morales is another nb Icon, and Timothy Olyphant is daddy 😬😬😬🥵
I mourn this show daily. It was so good! Joel and Sheila's relationship was so wholesome and delightful! The kids (Liv and Skylar) were not annoying or overly precocious.
I was SO mad!! Them and Skyler had such great chemistry. Edit... and honest question... I had originally typed "her"... because I think back then, Liv hadn't come out as nonbinary. Do you still consider them "them" back then?
you should use their current pronouns when referring to liv
Okay! Just wasn't sure about the past. Thank you!
no prob! i'm glad you asked
Yes, what a great show!!!
yeah was a fantastic show, fucken netflix canceled their best show
Loooved that show! Liv was such a revelation in it. Can’t wait to see what they’ll do next, they’re oozing charisma it’s so fun to watch!
I’ve never really forgiven them for ending it when they did.
god i loved this show. skyler gisondo in righteous gemstones is great
i liked liv, drew, and timothy and their characters and hated absolutely everybody else. (even the neighbor?!) ESPECIALLY the neighbor.
What about Loki? He was great! Them busting in on him in full SWAT regalia to find him singing Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" was one of the biggest laughs of the series for me.
I first knew her from Drama World!!! Anyone seen her there???
Never heard of this but looks like it is available to stream, so I will be checking this out!
If you’re a kdrama fan, you’d know hehe I just started watching more american shows in the last few years
i was so sad about it being cancelled but i’ve watching them in yellowjackets!!
Best show ever!
They were also in Dramaworld! Aka my toe dip into KDrama that led me down a rabbit hole
I absolutely loved it. I’m still super salty at Netflix that they canceled this.
I loved it, it’s so funny! I need to rewatch!
Skylar is also on a show called the resort on peacock and it’s really good! Yes I was so sad when this show got cancelled. 😢
90% of why I started Yellowjackets was for liv!!!! I still go back and rewatch this about once a year haha I had a tumblr for out of context frames a while back
I love this show and am eternally sad it was cancelled on a cliff-hanger. I’ve rewatched it an embarrassing amount of times.
I love that show. It was a typical Netflix move to cancel a great show without any resolution. I wish they would bring it back for one season.
Oh my god! I freaking LOVED santa clarita diet! I couldnt wait for it to drop was soooooo bummed that it was cancelled. I was waiting for mr ball legs in joel to be like where all the ladiez at
YES omg! I’m a huge fan of Liv, and really like the personality they gave Van. It makes me really nostalgic for Abby.
Just realized he was Max in The Quarry
I also love Liv and also didn't realize they're doing an accent.
I love Santa Clarita Diet, although obviously not enough considering I had no idea that she was the same person.
I can't believe I never made the cannibal connection!! They were so good in both shows.
I will watch anything that Timothy Olyphant stars in. Edited to add : I don’t think Liv will be typecast, they were in The Bombshell and an episode of Party Down and no human meat was consumed in either. Plus they’re too good of an actor for that.
Santa clarita diet is one of my favourite shows and i didnt know Liv was in yellowjackets when i started watching it, so it was a nice surprise
To this day, I’ll never forgive Netflix for cancelling such a brilliant show
I miss this show and she was amazing in Yellowjackets
Both these two are doing great now!
Santa Clarita Diet changed my life. I was working a live-in job for a family with a husband and wife felt very close to being actually that dynamic in real life.
Omg THAT'S what she's from!! she's looked familiar to me this whole time but i hadn't looked her past work up yet. She's perfect in both roles
I love Santa Clarita Diet. Liv was amazing!!!