10 Great Horror TV Shows Cancelled Too Soon

Sci-fi, gothic, supernatural, psychological horror series 1899 may be difficult to classify, but that is only because the show has so many sharp twists and turns throughout its first season, spanning several centuries in its runtime and crossing innumerable metaphysical boundaries on its way there.

It begins as classic gothic horror, where the mystery of the abandoned ship Prometheus and its missing passengers dogs the occupants of the Kerberos, a passenger ship that itself becomes rapidly lost at sea. However, by the conclusion, 1899 is a psychological metafiction in which layers of unreality continuously peel back to reveal even deeper layers underneath, delving into the large lives and backstories of the passengers and crew as their realities come unstuck.

And, just as it is mounting the next stage of its narrative and beginning to shine a light on just why the Kerberos seems to be made of pixels, it ends.

Despite strong viewing numbers and ranking high in Netflix’s most watched list, it was cancelled within just a month and a half of its release. After turbulent recent years both pre- and post-pandemic, Netflix has remodelled its business approach, and has been cutting shows with ruthless abandon, implementing an insanely high standard for viewing numbers that is likely soon to leave it with only self-contained miniseries and gauche reality programs like Indian Matchmaking and Cheat: Unfinished Business.