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Canceled Too Soon #71 - Justice League of America (1997) Nov 02, 2017

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Welcome... to the JUSTICE MONTH OF JUSTICE! All this month on CANCELED TOO SOON we're reviewing failed DC superhero tv shows, and we're starting off with one of the most notorious pilots in tv history, the live-action JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA from 1997, about a gang of jokester superheroes with cheap costumes and cheaper visual effects.

But could the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA tv pilot actually be better than the JUSTICE LEAGUE live-action movie? Probably not, but let's at least see if it was CANCELED TOO SOON! Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they break down the whole episode, moment by moment, and reveal why it failed, and why - maybe - it's not as bad as you've heard.

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Canceled Too Soon #70 - Kindred: The Embraced (1996) Oct 27, 2017

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The year was 1996, and MELROSE PLACE and BEVERLY HILLS 90210 ruled the world. But for some reason the world wasn't interested in vampires yet. So it was that KINDRED: THE EMBRACED, Aaron Spelling's ambitious/convoluted adaptation of the supernatural role-playing game VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE, debuted on Fox, lasted one month, and disappeared forever.

Or did it? Fans of KINDRED: THE EMBRACED have kept this soap opera alive for decades, and now the time has come to find out, once and for all, if it was... CANCELED TOO SOON! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to walk you through every good idea, every bad idea, every monstrous cliché and every weird "before they were famous" cameo that KINDRED: THE EMBRACED has to offer, as our Monstober comes to a close!!

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Canceled Too Soon #69 - Drak Pack (1980) Oct 20, 2017

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Monstober continues! Remember when Dracula changed his name to "Big D" and recruited a teenaged vampire, werewolf and Frankenstein monster to become crappy superheroes and fight the villainous Dr. Dred and his dopey henchpersons in O.G.R.E. (The Organization of Generally Rotten Enterprises)? You don't? Well, lucky you.

Throw your nostalgia away, because this week on CANCELED TOO SOON we're going to explain way the 1980s basically sucked, and how much of the blame lands squarely on the shoulders of Hanna-Barbera. William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold walk you through every colossally stupid episode and, finally, ask the only question that matters: Was DRAK PACK canceled too soon?

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Canceled Too Soon #68 - Monster Squad (1976) Oct 12, 2017

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So get this: a college student installs a computer in a wax museum and the electric vibrations bring Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man back to life. Together they fight campy supervillains who would have been rejected from the 1960s BATMAN tv series in MONSTER SQUAD, a live-action Saturday morning superhero series that has nothing whatsoever to do with the cult classic movie THE MONSTER SQUAD, even though it sounds like it probably does.

Was MONSTER SQUAD... canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold put every episode of this bizarre pop culture curio on the slab and dissect it, describing every bizarre (and sometimes offensive) supervillain and having an extended debate on the differences between "monsters" and "ghoulies" as our HALLOWEEN MONSTOBER continues!

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Canceled Too Soon #67 - Bates Motel (1987) Oct 04, 2017

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Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO is one of the most important motion pictures in history, changing the cinematic and horror landscapes and giving birth to sequels, a remake, a hit TV series and - when nobody was looking - the failed 1987 TV pilot BATES MOTEL starring Bud Cord (HAROLD & MAUDE) and Lori Petty (TANK GIRL), in which Norman Bates' best friend inherits the Bates Motel and finds out that it's haunted by kindly ghosts.

Yup, it's a PSYCHO tv series without Norman Bates in it. And with ghosts. BATES MOTEL only lasted one episode, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk you through this bizarre and forgotten piece of TV history, as our Halloween Horror Month begins!

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Canceled Too Soon #66 - Sweet/Vicious (2016-2017) Oct 01, 2017

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One of the most acclaimed new shows of the 2016/2017 season was SWEET/VICIOUS, an MTV series about two college students who become vigilantes to avenge the victims of sex crimes on their campus. SWEET/VICIOUS tackled serious issues with sensitivity, humor and exciting action, and even though it's one of the most topical shows in years, nobody watched it.

Was SWEET/VICIOUS... canceled too soon? Collider staff writer Christina Radish joins hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold to walk you through every episode of the series, highlight what worked, and point out a few missteps the series may have made as early as episode one, and discuss what would have happened on SWEET/VICIOUS if it had lasted as long as the creator intended.

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Canceled Too Soon #65 - Conviction (2016-2017) Sep 21, 2017

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You loved her when she was AGENT CARTER, but Hayley Atwell's got an even tougher job in the crime-solving procedural series CONVICTION. The former superspy now plays the daughter of an ex-president, who gets arrested for cocaine possession, and punished by being put in charge of the Conviction Integrity Unit, which looks into old cases and tries to determine, once and for all, if justice had really been served.

CONVICTION only lasted thirteen episodes last season, but was it really... canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold pick this fan favorite series apart, episode by episode, much in the same way Hayley Atwell does with old murder cases. What worked? What sucked? And was Hayley Atwell the show's saving grace, or was she woefully miscast?

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Canceled Too Soon #64 - Emerald City (2017) Sep 14, 2017

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Everyone loves THE WIZARD OF OZ, so of course they made it "badass". From the minds behind shows that were canceled after only one season like SIBERIA, DRACULA and AMERICAN GOTHIC came the sure-fire hit EMERALD CITY, a grim 'n' gritty reboot of L. Frank Baum's fantasy classic, which is now about death and racism and climate change and skinless dudes and warriors wearing cat hats and crucified amnesiacs and witches who nunneries and brothels.

And yet somehow this sure-fire smash from the director of THE IMMORTALS and MIRROR MIRROR was canceled after only one season. But was EMERALD CITY... canceled too soon?

Rachel Cushing from the MOVIE TRIVIA SCHMOEDOWN is here to help William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review this ambitious but strange television event that failed to ignite the imagination of a generation, but might have been kinda neat. Maybe.

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Canceled Too Soon #63 - Doubt, Take Two (2017) Sep 11, 2017

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Katherine Heigl, Elliott Gould and Laverne Cox starred in DOUBT, a legal dramedy on CBS that was canceled after only two episodes. So we reviewed it after only two episodes. Then CBS aired eleven more episodes over the summer, so we have to come back and do it all over again.

Is it possible we were wrong, and that DOUBT wasn't... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are re-opening the case, revealing how much better DOUBT got as time went on, why the big cliffhanger revelation makes no sense whatsoever, and why one of our hosts has completely changed their mind about this show after our original review.

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Canceled Too Soon #62 - Imaginary Mary (2017) Sep 06, 2017

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A grown woman gets a visit from her childhood imaginary friend in DROP DEAD FRED, a movie that does the same thing as IMAGINARY MARY but a heck of a lot better. But we have to review IMAGINARY MARY anyway, so let's do that. It stars Jenna Elfman as Alice, a woman struggling with her adulthood, and Rachel Dratch as the voice of her imaginary friend, Mary.

Was IMAGINARY MARY canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold run down every clichéd episode of this short-lived series to tell you what worked, what flopped, and how a perfectly good idea for a series about an imaginary best friend got transformed into a show that has almost to do with an imaginary best friend. (Also, this show had a surprisingly depressing finale, so there's that.)

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