What film, show or game that is not necessarily 'underated' didn't have the level of social impact it deserved.
What's the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have 'found their audience' but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.
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There was a string of time between 2006 and 2009 where there were AMAZING new long format TV shows coming on... and promptly dying on the vine after a year due to bad advertising or ratings chasing.
Kings was a great TV show that deserved 4 more seasons.
Jericho Was an amazing show, that got dumped by Network after the first season.. and the fans were so infuriated that they crowdsourced funding to send over twenty tons of nuts to CBS in protest, Which forced them to greenlight a second season for like..5 or 6 episodes (first season was 22 episodes, as comparison) and left it hanging on a painfully huge cliffhanger. before cancelling it again.. Netflix even came forward and offered to buy the series and continue it on Netflix (Which all the actors were 100% on board with), and as a final FUCK YOU to the fans, CBS refused. They hated the show, tried to fuck over its second season hard, and hated the fans... and still refused to sell the rights to someone who would let it flourish.
God, typing this out has made me realize how irrationally angry I still am at CBS over the absolute fuckery they pulled with that show that I cant even think of the other shows at the moment.
Go watch Jericho. Its still a fucking awesome show, despite how much the c-suite hated it.
Any insight into why in the world they'd greenlight Jericho to begin with if they seemed so uninterested in supporting it? It's certainly not the first show to run into a situation like that, but it's always kind of interesting to see how the reasoning may vary across businesses with each show.
Probably a The Producers scenario where they expected to make money off its failure, and then it was successful and cost them more than they wanted since they betted against it.
Only reason I can think of. Only reason that makes any logical sense.