#cleverman

[randompolltournaments]

Battle of the Cancelled Shows - Round 2 - Poll 27

Which TV show deserved more seasons?

Firefly

Cleverman

Voting ended onJan 8

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Hate towards any shows will NOT be tolerated!

Why Firefly deserved more seasons:

I am aware there is a movie that is a sequel to the show, but I haven't seen it so the show itself just leaves so many storylines unfinished. Does River get better? Do they get caught? And many other questions get unanswered. The show has such good fun vibes, I would have loved to see a resolution to the plot and growth for the characters.

It is THE canceled before it's time tv show. Also, it was my mom's fave show and I have heard so much about how it deserved better. She wore 4 different shirts that reference the show per week. It was also the show that set up my parents, and therefore the reason I exist. It is what they bonded over when they first met.

Why Cleverman deserved more seasons:

Because there are not enough aboriginal lead stories in media, specially fantasy stories (its either side characters in contemporary stories or historical settings).

[randompolltournaments]

Battle of the Cancelled Shows - Round 1 - Poll 54

Which TV show deserved more seasons?

Cleverman

Strange Empire

Voting ended onDec 24, 2025

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Hate towards any shows will NOT be tolerated!

Why Cleverman deserved more seasons:

Because there are not enough aboriginal lead stories in media, specially fantasy stories (its either side characters in contemporary stories or historical settings).

Why Strange Empire deserved more seasons:

This is an incredible western centered around 3 women. The last episode had major developments for all 3 and had one of the most dramatic cliff hangers I have ever seen.

Additional info:

Additional info for Strange Empire:

As far as I know, the season is still available to watch on Netflix.

[thenixkat]

Cleverman :handshake: Sinners -> White/antiblack fans looking at a work that is deliberately about racism and oppression facing people of color and deciding to obsess about the racist white villain/the actor playing the racist white villain cause they do not care about anything but white people

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[vimesbootstheory]

finished cleverman! honestly it's a banger of a show and I wish more people knew about it

it's an australian show that posits that the myth of the Yowie (I believe? anyway, hairy human-resembling people that are superhumanly strong and live hundreds of years) is real and are a horrifically oppressed class of people in Australia, confined to living in The Zone. when Jimmy, an Australian Aboriginal spiritual leader called the Cleverman, dies, he leaves the role to his half-nephew Koen instead of his nephew Waruu, as everyone had expected

it has one of the more interesting takes I've seen on "fantasy racism", because it doesn't ignore actual racism alongside it. Waruu in particular speaks a lot about his experience as a black man, and Koen's personal journey is all tied up in being mixed-race (idk whether he would use that term), and the conflict between them often comes back to Koen's mother being white

it's a little bleak and occasionally emotionally exhausting, but balances that out with meaty character stuff and genuine fun. and superpowered fights! and so much prosthetic hair! this show has ladies with beards, it's great

[vimesbootstheory]

I forgot how cleverman is legit really good

[residentisaacs]

Iain Glen in making season 2 of Cleverman

[residentisaacs]

Iain Glen as Jarrod Slade in Cleverman // promo

[irelandindc]

Watched the first ep of this back when it first came out, but interested to revisit it now that I’ve been to Australia a couple of times