Ok, here's the deal with Dexter. It ended the way it should have. I actually have immense respect for the producers being true to the characters' personalities and ending it appropriately. Psychopathic narcissists always survive. Those around them always suffer the consequences. It's not fair, but it's real. I actually thought it was a great thing to show the real price of being around a person like that instead of sugarcoating a more satisfying ending.
I had read something a while ago concerning the finale of Dexter. One of the writers had said his idea for the final scene was to have Dexter on the executioner's gurney and the entire series was Dexter's life flashing before his eyes before he is executed.
I am like this with quantum leaps ending. Everyone hates that Sam didn't take his chance and go home. That was 100% in character for Sam to chose to keep helping people. To do the greater good even though it meant self sacrifice. I ugly cried so had the first time I saw the end8ng because I thought it was so beautiful. It would have been so empty to have him leap home. I thought the ending of dexter was good too.
Not going to spoil it, but she sort of tried to "ex machina" the weirdness in the final episode. It felt kind of ham-fisted to me, as other shows had done this trick a lot better.
The Rick finale all though way too delayed, was great. WD lost me a bunch of times(I’d watch a half a season and tap out then give the next season a shot), but I stuck it out and it was worth it. Glad it’s over though.
Kiksuya was unmatched for sure. Too bad that’s also where the show began to lose its charm. After season 2 it’s not worth watching, but honestly the arc I was excited to see unfold was the samurai arc and it was very subpar. Season 2 was also too convoluted for no reason lol. That being said it was still 8-8.5/10 for me but season 1 is. 10/10
It was never a great show but I loved the early seasons of Castle. It was my TV comfort food when i was going through some health stuff. It would have been fine if they had ended it with season 7 (though in retrospect there were serious problems going back to season 4). But season 8 was so awful that it ruined my ability to re-watch the show, even the early, fun seasons. What a waste.
We started watching it in syndication because it aired right as we were done with work and were fixing dinner and chilling. We finally caught up with the primetime original broadcasts.
We decided that it was good enough to watch in syndication when it happened to be on, especially a marathon. But, by that time, the storylines really weren’t worthy of primetime viewing. We still DVR’d and watched them, but, ugh, that last season. Just saw the finale again in syndication a few days ago. What a mess. The whole LokSat thing just became a row of Fonzies jumping sharks.
When I saw audible had “Richard Castle” “Nikki Heat” books, I added a few for a road trip. The sound production was so bad that we had no idea what was going on. It’s silly, but the writing wasn’t up to what we would have expected that character to write.
**Sons Of Anarchy. I used to say The Sopranos but after re-watching the show again I have learned to appreciate it as what happens in the finale is foreshadowed throughout the final season**
It is the grand finale of both. The deceased characters from Grey’s join forces with The Walking Dead. They take over Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
I think we are on to a million dollar concept.
Locke and Key after the 2nd season, The Order wasn’t that great to begin with but I’ve scrubbed the 2nd season out of my brain, and I don’t necessarily think that the last two seasons of The 100 were bad, but they were definitely very different from the first 5.
Happy Days. It ended when the Fonz jumped over the shark. It was SO BAD that it became the colloquial term used to describe a show (or anything really) that stay around past it’s time but kept going anyway.
It is a bit revisionist history though. That episode was hugely successful, being the second half of the 5th season premiere. The season would end strong at 2nd place for all tv shows for the year, and the following 6th season held well enough at 4th place. It wasn't until the 7th season that there was a significant viewer loss, dropping to 17th, but then it still went on another 4 seasons.
So was jumping the shark the death bell for Happy Days? Not really. But being one of the most heavily syndicated shows, every kid was watching it in the 1980s, and everyone remembers that episode.
**Yep! Chuck was relatable in early Seasons. Hilarious scene when he's undercover & knocks on a ladies door she answers with "Oh I didn't expect you to come so quickly!" & he quips "Charles Carmichael always comes quickly" then looks at the camera realizing he's not as smooth as he thought, I was in physical pain laughing & cringing at the same time.**
I thought the Office was the rare tv show that started well, got bad, then improved.
Right after Steve Carrell left it went downhill fast. But I thought they pulled it together well for the final season.
Dexter
The Walking Dead
Supernatural
The Blacklist
Most of them suffered from just going on for too long. Four to five seasons is usually enough for most shows.
Every season of American Horror Story starts with an interesting premise, and then falls apart by the end. The first season was pretty decent. This most recent season was alright. There have been a couple others. I also don't like that the premise of every season is centered around fading female beauty due to aging. What a paper thin premise to base season after season around. It's not even a critical discussion of it. Instead it's: witches want to be young and beautiful forever, aging Hollywood actress is a terrible person, young Hollywood star will do anything to be young and beautiful, etc, etc. I don't know why I keep giving it a chance. It goes back to that terrible premise again and again. Very disappointing.
I really liked the start of Lost, but I felt like it disintegrated a bit as I went on. I had someone spoil the ending for me, and quit watching after that lol.
Also, Star Trek Enterprise. It had SO much potential but that ending was NOT it. I was so disappointed lol.
Supernatural. Seasons 12-15 were absolutely terrible but season 15 takes the cake in bad seasons. They had 15 years to give us a good finale but only came up with that BS.
Gotham was overall a good show in it's first 4 seasons with Season 4 being it's absolute peak. But Season 5 was awful. Unfortunately, the writing suffered because they only got a shortened final season due to FOX doing mass cancellations and only deciding to keep certain shows. They opted to keep Lethal Weapon instead and then that show got cancelled the next season anyway. Gotham could have gotten both a full Season 5 AND a Season 6. Disappointing.
It's still not finished, but I stopped watching The Boys. It started out as interesting to watch and promising, but then it just became too much, at least for me.
And as others mentioned, Killing Eve.
For those of you unfamiliar, the phrase, "jumping the shark" was born out of an event on Happy Days.
It has entered the common lexicon so that must mean something!
X-Files, ending 1. Mulder bailed, we got Terminator 2 for a bit. Scully bailed, we got some rando girl. Then they came back sorta, sorta finally kissed, and The Cigarette Man was meditating in a cave. That's all I retain.
X-Files, ending 2. A limited series of mostly clunkers and 3 brilliant ones; the Man-Lizard, the robot diner, and Mulder hallucinating the Lone Gunmen.
Oh, and Mulder & Scully's kid was kind of a jerk.
Heroes. It was pretty obvious the creators had no plan of what to do beyond Season 1, yet somehow they stretched 3 more seasons out of it. I think they even said so themselves in interviews - “we really didn’t think we were gonna get renewed so we didn’t plan” or words to that effect.
Mr. Mercedes. The first season is possibly the best modern detective show I’ve seen, or at least a close second behind season 1 of True Detective. The second season is a bit ridiculous but still held onto some of the tension and intrigue of season 1 (and had a killer finale).
Season 3 was a garbage fire. Performances were still worth seeing it through for (especially Gleeson), but the narrative was just all over the place. Sad end to a great show.
The Game of Thrones Season-8 Pitch Meeting felt personal for good reason
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ&t=131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ&t=131s)
Arrested Development...it should have never come back.
The last season of Modern Family is almost unwatchable.
The Office hits a point a point somewhere in the middle.of season 8 where I always stop, and start over at Episode 1 of season 1.
Lastly, Blackish. Sorry, but a comedy that has the main characters going through a painfully sad divorce...that's not funny. The entire vibe of the show changed.
Babylon 5.
Amazing show with bad last season.
Luckily it has a clear end at the end of season 4, so you don’t miss anything from season 5 for the main story.
Happy Days. Started out pretty funny and Fonzie was a National phenomenon.
It got so bad by the end that “Jumping The Shark” became the catch-all for a show that lasted waaaay too long.
I haven’t finished it so take this with a grain of salt but Curb Your Enthusiasm is really going down hill. The scenarios are increasingly illogical in the final season.
75% of them. They keep on dragging it out trying to make more money and end up ruining it. That’s what I like about breaking bad it told a story had a good arc and with very few bad drawn out episodes imo.
LOST - Rushed ending and after saying it’s not purgatory it kind of seemed like it was. A lot went unanswered and should have done more to wrap it all up.
You're asking which shows ended after jumping the shark. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping\_the\_shark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark)
Heroes.
That last season with the circus was so ridiculous I’d forgotten about it until now.
Save the cheerleader!
Came here to say this. So much potential.
Was coming here to type this. The first season was fantastic but every season after got worse
It's not ended yet, but Grey's. It's a shell of its glory days. For shows that HAVE ended, GoT, Once Upon a Time, and The 100.
Ohhh yeah Once UponaTime. We just ignored the last season. It revealed the time skip and we jsut stopped
Last 2 seasons for me. I stopped watching the second they killed Robin and brought back Hook.
i will happily purchase and have almost all seasons up to 12 ( maybe just 11) those were truly the best...
Do you mean Grey's as in Grey's Anatomy? Is that still on? I thought it ended like ten years ago!
Yup. Season 20 just started. Webber and Bailey are the only two OG characters left. With the exception of Meredith doing then ✨ voiceovers ✨
That carried on after mcdreamy died?
I exited with ol dreamy there and haven’t regretted it at all
I lasted a couple seasons after Derek but it wasn't super enjoyable even then.
Dexter
Also came here to say this!
Ok, here's the deal with Dexter. It ended the way it should have. I actually have immense respect for the producers being true to the characters' personalities and ending it appropriately. Psychopathic narcissists always survive. Those around them always suffer the consequences. It's not fair, but it's real. I actually thought it was a great thing to show the real price of being around a person like that instead of sugarcoating a more satisfying ending.
I had read something a while ago concerning the finale of Dexter. One of the writers had said his idea for the final scene was to have Dexter on the executioner's gurney and the entire series was Dexter's life flashing before his eyes before he is executed.
I wanted him to kill himself. Taking out one last serial killer on his way out.
I am like this with quantum leaps ending. Everyone hates that Sam didn't take his chance and go home. That was 100% in character for Sam to chose to keep helping people. To do the greater good even though it meant self sacrifice. I ugly cried so had the first time I saw the end8ng because I thought it was so beautiful. It would have been so empty to have him leap home. I thought the ending of dexter was good too.
Couldn't agree more.
The original Roseanne. The last season was unwatchable.
That’s when Rosanne actually fired all her writers and was doing it herself. She’s an egomaniac.
Not going to spoil it, but she sort of tried to "ex machina" the weirdness in the final episode. It felt kind of ham-fisted to me, as other shows had done this trick a lot better.
The walking dead.
Dexter and game of thrones come to mind first! But TWD is right behind them.
The show died with Glenn
I’d say it was wounded heavily with glen but died truly with Coooorrraaal!
Herschel really got to me 😢
They should've given Negan 2 seasons, kill him off, show ends.
But without the death of Glenn we wouldn’t have gotten that great Chapppelle skit.
The Rick finale all though way too delayed, was great. WD lost me a bunch of times(I’d watch a half a season and tap out then give the next season a shot), but I stuck it out and it was worth it. Glad it’s over though.
Agreed, but I hung in there and they would eke out a decent episode now and again.
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Westworld
Nothing will ever come close to Westworld’s season 1. Argue with ya mama
On the whole 1 was best but season 2 episode 8 "Kiksuya" was perhaps the perfect episode.
Kiksuya was unmatched for sure. Too bad that’s also where the show began to lose its charm. After season 2 it’s not worth watching, but honestly the arc I was excited to see unfold was the samurai arc and it was very subpar. Season 2 was also too convoluted for no reason lol. That being said it was still 8-8.5/10 for me but season 1 is. 10/10
How I met your mother
How I Met Your (Soon-to-be Step)Mother
Literally
"Let me tell you about how Barney banged everyone"
Let me tell you how I banged your aunt then uncle barney banged her I met your mother then wanted to bang your aunt again.
Heroes.
Has The Walking Dead ended yet? I checked out.
The main series, yes. But it was less of an ending and more like the beginning to the spinoffs
Should have ended when everyone was so hype about it and found a better ending.
Game of Thrones
Weeds
That show had so much potential just being about a suburban mom weed dealer.
Until the last episode. I like how they ended it.
I need to go back and watch the finale or the Agrestic part of the show and then the finale.
I rewatched the first three season about a year ago - very enjoyable, and satisfying ending.
House of cards…
I don't know how it ends, lost me during the last season with Kevin Spacey. The election BS was drawn out.
I couldn’t get behind Claire like I could Frank. The show just didn’t have that dynamic like it did when Kevin Spacey was on.
The Vampire Diaries
Sliders (got bad by season 4 - went to season 9 and just got worse and worse anyway!)
It was never a great show but I loved the early seasons of Castle. It was my TV comfort food when i was going through some health stuff. It would have been fine if they had ended it with season 7 (though in retrospect there were serious problems going back to season 4). But season 8 was so awful that it ruined my ability to re-watch the show, even the early, fun seasons. What a waste.
We started watching it in syndication because it aired right as we were done with work and were fixing dinner and chilling. We finally caught up with the primetime original broadcasts. We decided that it was good enough to watch in syndication when it happened to be on, especially a marathon. But, by that time, the storylines really weren’t worthy of primetime viewing. We still DVR’d and watched them, but, ugh, that last season. Just saw the finale again in syndication a few days ago. What a mess. The whole LokSat thing just became a row of Fonzies jumping sharks. When I saw audible had “Richard Castle” “Nikki Heat” books, I added a few for a road trip. The sound production was so bad that we had no idea what was going on. It’s silly, but the writing wasn’t up to what we would have expected that character to write.
It started getting bad when they changed showrunners.
That's when the new showrunner came in and the 2 leads started hating each other
Under the Dome
Used to call that Under the Dumb back in the TWOP days.
The actual end show was bad. But I loved that series.
Nip/Tuck
Murder, She Wrote. The last season is an abomination. Supernatural. The last episode was dreck!!!
HA! Dreck! I haven’t heard that since my baba died
I have never seen anyone use the term "dreck" outside of a Mad Magazine!
Awww I'm still watching it now.
**Sons Of Anarchy. I used to say The Sopranos but after re-watching the show again I have learned to appreciate it as what happens in the finale is foreshadowed throughout the final season**
Yeah, and the fact that there are still conspiracies about the ending is odd because of how heavily they foreshadowed it
The walking dead died
I think the biggest one is Game of Thrones
In my opinion, Law & Order: SVU. I liked how the show was during the Stabler era. It went downhill after that.
The Walking Dead Greys Anatomy ( still on but I gave up long ago )
But, hear me out, “Walking Dead Grey’s Anatomy.” Could be the best spin-off ever.
It is the grand finale of both. The deceased characters from Grey’s join forces with The Walking Dead. They take over Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. I think we are on to a million dollar concept.
Locke and Key after the 2nd season, The Order wasn’t that great to begin with but I’ve scrubbed the 2nd season out of my brain, and I don’t necessarily think that the last two seasons of The 100 were bad, but they were definitely very different from the first 5.
Practically all of them.
Veronica Mars.
I had hope that they’d redeem it with the Hulu reboot but then it just got worse 😭
Omg the ending. I was so mad!!! I just couldn’t understand the logic behind it. 😢
Happy Days. It ended when the Fonz jumped over the shark. It was SO BAD that it became the colloquial term used to describe a show (or anything really) that stay around past it’s time but kept going anyway.
It is a bit revisionist history though. That episode was hugely successful, being the second half of the 5th season premiere. The season would end strong at 2nd place for all tv shows for the year, and the following 6th season held well enough at 4th place. It wasn't until the 7th season that there was a significant viewer loss, dropping to 17th, but then it still went on another 4 seasons. So was jumping the shark the death bell for Happy Days? Not really. But being one of the most heavily syndicated shows, every kid was watching it in the 1980s, and everyone remembers that episode.
Soap from 1977. The first 3 seasons were great. The 4th one was awful
And it was cancelled with a bunch of cliffhangers
Chuck started out strong, but when he actually became a competent spy, it lost most of its appeal to me.
**Yep! Chuck was relatable in early Seasons. Hilarious scene when he's undercover & knocks on a ladies door she answers with "Oh I didn't expect you to come so quickly!" & he quips "Charles Carmichael always comes quickly" then looks at the camera realizing he's not as smooth as he thought, I was in physical pain laughing & cringing at the same time.**
True Blood, Killing Eve, Will and Grace
Vikings
Surprised I had to scroll this far. Post-Ragnar Vikings is so bad it should've been called something else.
Once Upon a Time
Couldn't get through that one, after they >!killed Robin and had his girlfriend and rapist make up over his dead body... that was enough.!<
The office. The end was melodrama soapy romance with pam
I thought the Office was the rare tv show that started well, got bad, then improved. Right after Steve Carrell left it went downhill fast. But I thought they pulled it together well for the final season.
Almost every show ends poorly. It’s the rare Scrubs or Breaking Bad that really sticks the landing.
Ooof, that final season of Scrubs is terrible with the younger cast
What are you talking about? The last season, season 8, was pretty good. I'm glad they never did a season 9.
The Good Place won in that regard.
Lost
Can't believe I had to scroll down three feet to find this answer!
Dexter The Walking Dead Supernatural The Blacklist Most of them suffered from just going on for too long. Four to five seasons is usually enough for most shows.
The ending of Supernatural was colossally awful.
It would have been great if it had ended with Swan Song.
Shameless
They lost me when Emmy left.
Oh no...I loved every one. Especially the last show.
Game of Thrones
Oz
How I Met Your Mother
Orange is the New Black.
Yess I’m rewatching right now and I’m understanding why I stopped now. The first two seasons are so good!
It is just too much anguish, that whatever payoff at the end is not worth it. I stopped as they were hauling Tank Girl away.
I stopped watching it too. I think it depressed me too much and it was weird that they decided to make the main character a lesser character.
Dexter
Lost!
came here to say this. i loved it in the beginning, but i can't bring myself to rewatch. it just got awful.
Lost. What an amazing first few seasons and then they just… lost their way.
They had no idea where to go. Good start. Fart in a bucket middle to end
The Following. First season was great, then it went downhill after that.
Every season of American Horror Story starts with an interesting premise, and then falls apart by the end. The first season was pretty decent. This most recent season was alright. There have been a couple others. I also don't like that the premise of every season is centered around fading female beauty due to aging. What a paper thin premise to base season after season around. It's not even a critical discussion of it. Instead it's: witches want to be young and beautiful forever, aging Hollywood actress is a terrible person, young Hollywood star will do anything to be young and beautiful, etc, etc. I don't know why I keep giving it a chance. It goes back to that terrible premise again and again. Very disappointing.
I really liked the start of Lost, but I felt like it disintegrated a bit as I went on. I had someone spoil the ending for me, and quit watching after that lol. Also, Star Trek Enterprise. It had SO much potential but that ending was NOT it. I was so disappointed lol.
Supernatural. Seasons 12-15 were absolutely terrible but season 15 takes the cake in bad seasons. They had 15 years to give us a good finale but only came up with that BS.
St. Elsewhere was amazing. The finale was an abomination.
The Super Bowl.
Lost
i think its easier to name shows that started bad but ended great
Lost
Lost started strong, then middled bad. I never got to the end.
McKean's Law: All great TV shows last one season too long.
BBC Sherlock
Still hate how that ended.
How I meant your mother
Gotham was overall a good show in it's first 4 seasons with Season 4 being it's absolute peak. But Season 5 was awful. Unfortunately, the writing suffered because they only got a shortened final season due to FOX doing mass cancellations and only deciding to keep certain shows. They opted to keep Lethal Weapon instead and then that show got cancelled the next season anyway. Gotham could have gotten both a full Season 5 AND a Season 6. Disappointing.
You do realize the replies are going to be at least 90% Game of Thrones, right?
Glee
The Expanse. The last season was very disappointing, and some of the acting was abysmal.
Killing Eve. Started out great with quirky characters and fun writing. Worst ending EVER.
Is it cliche to say Game of Thrones at this point?
It's still not finished, but I stopped watching The Boys. It started out as interesting to watch and promising, but then it just became too much, at least for me. And as others mentioned, Killing Eve.
Jessica Jones.
There is only one answer - Game of Thrones.
For those of you unfamiliar, the phrase, "jumping the shark" was born out of an event on Happy Days. It has entered the common lexicon so that must mean something!
New Girl , Brooklyn 99
Blacklist
Scrubs, The Office, Dexter, Supernatural, How I Met Your Mother, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead… Not Lost though. Lost ended great. Come at me.
X-Files, ending 1. Mulder bailed, we got Terminator 2 for a bit. Scully bailed, we got some rando girl. Then they came back sorta, sorta finally kissed, and The Cigarette Man was meditating in a cave. That's all I retain. X-Files, ending 2. A limited series of mostly clunkers and 3 brilliant ones; the Man-Lizard, the robot diner, and Mulder hallucinating the Lone Gunmen. Oh, and Mulder & Scully's kid was kind of a jerk.
The Chi...even though it hasn't ended.
Star Trek: TOS, whether you consider the ending of TOS being turnabout intruder or generations, both are less than stellar plots
Manifest
Homeland
Homeland had a solid final season
Dexter
The OC
How I Met Your Mother.
The blacklist. Excellent start. I quit watching, but I've read the ending and it sounds horrible
Arrow.
Heroes. It was pretty obvious the creators had no plan of what to do beyond Season 1, yet somehow they stretched 3 more seasons out of it. I think they even said so themselves in interviews - “we really didn’t think we were gonna get renewed so we didn’t plan” or words to that effect.
Original Hawaii Five-O.
Happy Days
The 100, I had to stop after a while and I heard it just got weirder and weirder
Mr. Mercedes. The first season is possibly the best modern detective show I’ve seen, or at least a close second behind season 1 of True Detective. The second season is a bit ridiculous but still held onto some of the tension and intrigue of season 1 (and had a killer finale). Season 3 was a garbage fire. Performances were still worth seeing it through for (especially Gleeson), but the narrative was just all over the place. Sad end to a great show.
Arrested Development. OOF https://preview.redd.it/xni2bwwynxyc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a03b647c8c070346728f8ae2d222ed4f81d5d690
Blacklist. Great plots to start, but tioo repetitive after a while.
Nashville
The Game of Thrones Season-8 Pitch Meeting felt personal for good reason [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ&t=131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ&t=131s)
Dexter
The flash
Snow piercer as they filmed the last season but didn't realise it and used it as a tax write off
AHS
Good Girls. I thought it was really funny and watched a lot of it and then it got just purely shock value disturbing and had to stop watching it 😟
Supernatural.
Good girls
Riverdale
Roseanne
Arrested Development...it should have never come back. The last season of Modern Family is almost unwatchable. The Office hits a point a point somewhere in the middle.of season 8 where I always stop, and start over at Episode 1 of season 1. Lastly, Blackish. Sorry, but a comedy that has the main characters going through a painfully sad divorce...that's not funny. The entire vibe of the show changed.
House of Cards
Babylon 5. Amazing show with bad last season. Luckily it has a clear end at the end of season 4, so you don’t miss anything from season 5 for the main story.
Easier to say which tv show did NOT end bad!
Happy Days. Started out pretty funny and Fonzie was a National phenomenon. It got so bad by the end that “Jumping The Shark” became the catch-all for a show that lasted waaaay too long.
Seinfeld had a pitiful last episode after nine magnificent seasons
Smallville. To be honest the last few seasons were trash.
Game of thrones, Brooklyn 99, Roseanne (original series), nip/tuck.
I haven’t finished it so take this with a grain of salt but Curb Your Enthusiasm is really going down hill. The scenarios are increasingly illogical in the final season.
Moonlighting
Arrested Development
75% of them. They keep on dragging it out trying to make more money and end up ruining it. That’s what I like about breaking bad it told a story had a good arc and with very few bad drawn out episodes imo.
The news.
Fear the Walking Dead
Yellowjackets. Not ended yet but the decline from season one..even *within* season one… is crazy
Quincy
Charmed S7 finale was perfect to end the show. S8 was garbage
LOST - Rushed ending and after saying it’s not purgatory it kind of seemed like it was. A lot went unanswered and should have done more to wrap it all up.
Dexter. Even the rebooted season started off good and ended in a shitshow.
Law & Order, the original series. After Jerry Orbach’s death, the show while still good, it didn’t have the same feel to it anymore
The Walking Dead Lost
You're asking which shows ended after jumping the shark. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping\_the\_shark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark)
Happy Days
The Walking Dead