diff --git a/ui/src/dashboards/actions/index.ts b/ui/src/dashboards/actions/index.ts
index 051a6659ba..4fd8fd7985 100644
--- a/ui/src/dashboards/actions/index.ts
+++ b/ui/src/dashboards/actions/index.ts
@@ -630,7 +630,9 @@ export const hydrateTempVarValuesAsync = (
     )
     const templates: Template[] = dashboard.templates
     const queries = templates
-      .filter(template => !!template.query.influxql)
+      .filter(
+        template => getDeep<string>(template, 'query.influxql', '') !== ''
+      )
       .map(async template => {
         const query = makeQueryForTemplate(template.query)
         const response = await proxy({source: source.links.proxy, query})
diff --git a/ui/src/shared/parsing/showSeries.ts b/ui/src/shared/parsing/showSeries.ts
index 3cad741e04..0ebd1436a9 100644
--- a/ui/src/shared/parsing/showSeries.ts
+++ b/ui/src/shared/parsing/showSeries.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import {getDeep} from 'src/utils/wrappers'
+
 interface ParseShowSeriesResponse {
   errors: string[]
   series: string[]
@@ -10,17 +12,15 @@ const parseShowSeries = (response): ParseShowSeriesResponse => {
     return {errors: [results.error], series: []}
   }
 
-  const series = results.series[0]
+  const seriesValues = getDeep<string[]>(results, 'series.0.values', [])
 
-  if (!series.values) {
+  if (!seriesValues.length) {
     return {errors: [], series: []}
   }
 
-  const seriesValues = series.values.map(s => {
-    return s[0]
-  })
+  const series = seriesValues.map(s => s[0])
 
-  return {errors: [], series: seriesValues}
+  return {series, errors: []}
 }
 
 export default parseShowSeries
diff --git a/ui/src/tempVars/components/MetaQueryTemplateBuilder.tsx b/ui/src/tempVars/components/MetaQueryTemplateBuilder.tsx
index c21472bd58..514b2459dc 100644
--- a/ui/src/tempVars/components/MetaQueryTemplateBuilder.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/tempVars/components/MetaQueryTemplateBuilder.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {proxy} from 'src/utils/queryUrlGenerator'
 import {ErrorHandling} from 'src/shared/decorators/errors'
 import TemplateMetaQueryPreview from 'src/tempVars/components/TemplateMetaQueryPreview'
 import {parseMetaQuery, isInvalidMetaQuery} from 'src/tempVars/utils/parsing'
+import {getDeep} from 'src/utils/wrappers'
 
 import {
   TemplateBuilderProps,
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ class CustomMetaQueryTemplateBuilder extends PureComponent<
   constructor(props) {
     super(props)
 
-    const metaQuery = _.get(props.template, 'query.influxql', '')
+    const metaQuery = getDeep<string>(props.template, 'query.influxql', '')
 
     this.state = {
       metaQuery,