10 Cancelled TV Shows That Made Obvious Mistakes

10. Trying To Outsmart The Internet - Westworld

Westworld's first season was a major hit for HBO, building a committed audience of fans who loved to obsess over basically every aspect of the show's lore.

But after the intense fandom managed to basically predict most of the first season's big reveals, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy went on the defensive for season two, even re-writing aspects of the plot after fans figured things out.

Hilariously, Nolan actually asked the vocal fan community to stop guessing the plot.

And for many, Nolan and Joy's attempts to outsmart the Internet signalled the show's creative downfall, resulting in the third and fourth seasons becoming increasingly reliant on convoluted and arguably nonsensical storytelling that fans couldn't predict.

Rather than embrace the ingenuity of the fandom and accept that the Internet will always win this game, they tried to one-up them, resulting in writing that left many fans unsatisfied.

The show's ratings had steadily declined season-upon-season, and the season four finale pulled in an embarrassingly low 391,000 viewers, compared to 2.24 million for the first season's finale.

Given both the show's massive production budget and Warner Bros.' desperate need to shed costs amid executive reshufflings, it was a no-brainer that Westworld would get the chop.

But had Nolan and Joy stuck the storytelling course and ignored the Internet, things could've gone very differently.