Swamp Thing's abrupt series finale "Loose Ends" was aptly named

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"It’s the first of the ill-fated series’ episodes that telegraphs just how suddenly Warner Bros. canceled the show, while also reducing the length of the season from 13 episodes to 10 (while the crew was still shooting)," says Charles Pulliam-Moore of the one-season DC Universe series that was canceled after one episode. "It’s a hurried attempt to weave together several slow-growing narratives into a sendoff that tries to do its characters justice and make a statement about what kind of show Swamp Thing was always trying to be—a show that the studio seemingly didn’t understand. When you look at the whole of Swamp Thing’s first season, you can see that it’s one of the few (if not the only) live-action adaptations of a superhero comic book that almost entirely eschewed its superheroic trappings in favor of modeling itself after a distinctly different kind of genre. While Swamp Thing’s littered with heroes and villains from DC’s comics, it wasn’t a cape series—it was a collection of hour-long horror stories about the vicious, evil things lurking in a small Louisiana town."