💔 A show I found late got cancelled after 1 season and it still bugs me

I found this mystery show about 2 years ago, a whole season already sitting there waiting. Watched all of it in 2 days. Skipped sleep on Friday. My eyes hurt on Saturday morning. I loved the people in it. They had real problems and nobody gave speeches. Then I looked it up to see when season 2 was coming, and it had been cancelled months before. I felt stupid, like I'd turned up to a party after everyone left. There were so many loose ends. A locked room, a missing letter, a man who never explained himself. I scrolled through the comments and some fans had started a petition. A few thousand names, I think. It went nowhere. A few weeks later nobody even mentioned it. What gets me is it was just getting good. The last 3 episodes were the best of the season. Like they'd only just figured out what the show was and then the lights went out. I told my cousin, who never watches anything, and he stayed up and finished it too. Now he's annoyed with me. He says I ruined his week by recommending a dead show. My neighbour says I should be over it by now, it was only a TV show. She cried for a week when her favourite serial ended in the middle of a story. So she has no right to judge me, and I told her that on the stairs. We're fine now. She even asked me what the show was called. I tried reading what fans think would have happened. It helps a little, but not much. Reading a summary is like being told the ending of a film you never saw. Still, I keep a note on my phone with my own guesses for it. I add to it every few months. Nobody asked me to, I just do.

Ratings only count the people who get counted. I never missed an episode of a show that got cancelled. Nobody ever called me to ask what I thought, and no survey had my name.

A medical drama I followed got axed right after a big storyline started. The channel said something about the schedule in one interview and that was all. I still bring it up when someone mentions TV, and people look at me strangely. It's been 4 years now. I still never found out whether the patient in that last scene lived.