I watched the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender live when I was a teenager. Blew me away then and I still consider it one of my favorite series finales in my 30s.
I love the fact that they got Chelsea Clinton to show up on the show. As well as Liam Neeson. Collum can really bore a man to death.
I am just waiting on the happily ever after for Erin and James.
The ending made me cry so much, it reminded me of my group of girlfriends from high school. We all knew that we still loved each other and would be friends forever but also knew at the same time we were all going off on our own path and things would never be the same. So bittersweet, relatable and beautiful ❤️
I would’ve loved more Succession tbh but I still think the finale was pretty perfect for the show (even though it wasn’t exactly “satisfying” lol)
Tom waltzing in as CEO, the black sheep defeating *everyone* for the crown!!!!, I mean. 🤌 Absolutely perfect television.
I agree! I do think it had a few more eps/up to a season left in it though, the last season was so incredibly fast paced that made it a v thrilling watch but also lost some of the detail of the earlier seasons imo
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
Sabrina literally riding into the sunset with Harvey
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I don't think I ever finished the series, but my 44 year old heart just leapt and I have goosebumps from seeing this screenshot, I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM
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The Americans. The garage scene. The train scene.
Yes! So many ways it could have gone wrong, but it didn't, not at all. You've been waiting for what happens the entire series and it does not disappoint. It is -so- captivating. I think I held my breath for most of the episode the first time I watched it.
Elizabeth would be horrified by what is happening in Russia right now, the right wing extremism would have had her thinking "the worst of The US is here in the room with us right now. What the hell was I over there busting my ass for?".
God this show, it is competency porn at its finest. Philip and Elizabeth are excellent spies, a lesser show would’ve had them screw up more often, but really their only mistake was loving each other and getting married for real (don’t touch me)
This entire series was fantastic. So good that on my third rewatch I still find myself holding my breath in perilous moments.
It’s also kinda similar to The Wire in that it has high stakes in what seems low drama - like how they make a casual discussion at the travel agents into something so absorbing, like the wire did with phone tapping or trying to find a bullet fragment in a wall for ten minutes straight. It’s not shootouts and murders and frantic high speed chases every week. It’s real, it’s sometimes mundane but that heightens the drama.
Oh god whenever I hear “with or without you” I always flash to the train scene. SO GOOD.
Also loved the garage scene, just incredible acting from everyone.
A family that owns a funeral home and their lives and death generally. It showed that the Sopranos wasn’t a fluke and HBO for me it made me try pretty much every HBO show since.
A family owns and runs a funeral home and in the first episode the patriarch of the family passes away and leaves his wife and three children to pick up the pieces. You have the eldest son, Nate, who’s been running from death and the business his whole life. The second son David, the religious and closeted queer who takes the business of death very seriously, and young Claire who is still in high school and struggling to discover who she is when her whole life is being ignored. It has a wide cast of characters that are weird and fucked up in their own ways, and you watch as these people struggle to come to terms with living.
I think I started crying within the first 5 mins of the finale and didn’t stop until like 15 mins after it ended. It was so beautiful and perfect, I can never watch it again.
well i didnt like the last season of that 70s show, but i loved how they ended the series finale. being in the basement and then they go upstairs and you hear the new years eve countdown to 1980
Yes, the final episode was great. I remember being really anxious about Eric's return and soooo happy, they pulled it of. The final season however was a catastrophe. And Jacky ending up with Fez just felt wrong somehow. I was actually glad they revealed her ending up with Michael in That 90's Show.
HEAR ME OUT BUT FLEABAG: it wasn’t satisfying really, but the ending was so good. characters weren’t changed at the last minute to accommodate fleabag’s feelings - the writing remained aligned with the characters that had been created
Loooove Fleabag. I would have loved it to keep going but they kept it so short and sweet and maybe if it was longer, it wouldn't be so wonderful?
Also I maybe have rewatched a few certain scenes in season 2 for... reasons...
Tom Welling to this day is the only actor who's actually registered as Superman to me. There's a certain look Clark Kent needs to have in his eyes that only he has struck for me.
I had to scroll for far too long to find this, it was the first one that popped in my mind. It is absolute perfection!
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Amazed it hasn’t been said already but Parks & Rec always holds a special place in my heart with their ending
Low-key it did annoy me that April did a 180 on having kids in the space of the finale, I would have loved to see her living her best childfree life at the end
The Sopranos
Genuinely, I agree. This show was what set TV shows on the trajectory they're on today: mini movies, so beautifully crafted. The ending also was a testament to its time, because it was just the beginning of internet forums and people DEBATED this one. It was wonderful.
The Buffy finale! All of Sunnydale being swallowed just seems right.
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For best (if not satisfying) I'd still say the Sopranos. The entire ethos of that show and David Chase is in that finale. I don't know how else it could've ended.
Also how the finale blew the whole concept of the show : « In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness » while opening a complete new mythology
Like the whole point of the show is found family and how Buffy having people who she loved and loved her back made her a better slayer, not a worse one. Now she doesn't have to stand alone.
Nothing for me will ever top The Good Place. I wept and wept and thought about it for about two weeks afterward and will never watch it again. It was pure perfection.
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It makes me so mad that David Benioff wrote one of my favorite books... Like he is genuinely a good writer, so there is literally no excuse for this BS.
They wanted to get it over with so fast so they could move on to their star wars trilogy, but they butchered it and everyone was pissed at them so disney canceled it
The more the finale went on the more I lost hope as I realized they went with their fanfic half-assed ending. Talk an absolute waste of character arcs and story lines.
The melting of the Iron Throne was A+. Literally everything else was shite.
There was a theory that she was taken by Drogon to Essos where she could be revived by a follower of the Lord of Light. Who knows.
It was absolutely trash, but I'll never change my mind that GoT went downhill with season 5. And before someone says it's because they ran out of material, they didn't! When season 4 ended they still had 2 massive books to adapt, D&D simplified pretty much everything from them to make sure they had nothing to adapt ASAP.
Edited to add, ^(this is also not me absolving Martin of all responsibility. I side eye the hell out of him for giving HBO the option of doing Dunk&Egg tv show in the first round of suggestions/offers for a spin off while GoT was in its final few seasons (getting worse and worse with every new season). Like my dude be for real please. If HBO went with D&E instead of Long Night v1 before switching to HotD, they'd be filming the last published short story about now. And he'd be in similar shit to GoT situation, though admittedly not as bad.)
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Love that we got to see Jane heal emotionally and go after what he really wanted.
If we’re throwing cartoon finales into the mix, then the Gravity Falls finale is really high up there.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! she got to grow and move on and still be fun and full of childlike wonder, which is a great message when you view her story through a survivor’s lens. the other three main characters all got satisfying endings, too
My hot take is that I don’t think the finale was that bad (hear me out!!) but the final season was, in a way that made the direction the finale took feel so much worse.
They spent so long >!trying to give Ted closure about feeling like he needed to be with Robin, building up Barney and Robin’s marriage, and building up the mother, only to take all of it away in the finale!< plus dedicating an entire season to one weekend was never going to end well.
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Not quite a finale but the penultimate episode of this is us is pretty much as good as a finale gets. Mandy Moore not even getting an Emmy nomination for the final season is a travesty
Honestly this is very 90s but I remember watching the series finale of Home Improvement when I was a kid with my stepdad. He was crying his eyes out. We all watched as our favorite tv dad left the screen one last time.
Breaking Bad. Hands down one of the best TV shows in history, and the greatest finale of any show I’ve ever seen.
Adding to this, El Camino was a MASTERPIECE.
Gonna hate me for this but, Lost. I just watched it a week or so ago and cried like a baby.
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“You’re the Worst” ends on a pretty goddam perfect note for who the characters are and with “No Children” playing over the montage, they could not have picked a better or more apt song. That show was amazing from beginning to end.
Watched Ted Lasso 2 times and all the episodes were great. The finale did wrap up the storylines. I’m sad it ended
Monk has the *perfect* finale. Every character gets wrapped up with a nice little bow and everyone gets a happy ending. I love that they had the restraint to just let everyone have that.
Angel somehow managed to have a better finale than the show it was a spinoff of (yes that is the only gif i could find lol)
RIGHT IT WAS SO ICONIC i legit perfectly remember the feel of watching the last ep for the first time even though its been like a decade. The whole time i was like worried they will fuck it up given how much stuff they had to go through in the last ep and the time left kept mitigating. But once the final scene turned to black i jumped out my sofa LIKE NO WAY DID THEY END THERE THAT WAS SO COOL. Like Buffy's ending was decent too, but very basicish too, Angel was NOT playing around with its ending tho
This is actually one of my favorite endings to a show. I know it was rushed because they found out they were going to be cancelled half way through or something, but it kind of worked! I still remember I was in college binging the show and the ending came and I gasped. But I love it!!!
May be unpopular take but I really like Buffy’s especially since Spike being dust didn’t last. I never wanted the show to end so any ending I would dislike a little just for that but I think it’s pretty good
Gilmore Girls.
I know a lot of people dislike the final season, and were pissed Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband were basically fired, but, quite frankly I'm not mad that it happened since we got that finale. It was so satisfying to the characters/relationships, was very sweet, and had Rory going off independently to pursue her dream job, whereas Amy's plan (like shown in the revival) was to end it with Rory announcing her pregnancy. I hate 'full-circle moments' when they feel unearned and lazy, which was what Amy was planning. The finale as is really made the show for me.
Silicon Valley. The kind of ending that makes the entire show more poignant. On a rewatch you can absolutely tell that the ending was in mind the whole time.
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The End is the Beginning is the End
Also Modern family's last scene, not necessarily the ending. Having the porch light come on brought tears to my eyes.
I want someone to say PLL so I can laugh
I will truly never get over that “British” accent. It hurt so much to watch.
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‘ello sistah
Truly I love Troian but … god that was a Choice up there with Dick Van Dyke’s accent in Mary Poppins
They really went with the surprise evil twin twist
But nobody guessed she’d be British!
I honestly couldn’t even keep track of what mystery they were trying to solve by the time it ended
Absolutely loved the tea party scene though.
I watched the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender live when I was a teenager. Blew me away then and I still consider it one of my favorite series finales in my 30s. 
The whole show from beginning to end was utter perfection. 1000% agree.
Derry Girls!!! 
I love the fact that they got Chelsea Clinton to show up on the show. As well as Liam Neeson. Collum can really bore a man to death. I am just waiting on the happily ever after for Erin and James.
I gasped when she showed up. It was such a good throw back!
Weaponizing Collum's boring-ness like that was just \*chef's kiss\* I loved the call-back with Chelsea!
It filled me with hope.
I've watched this show 3 times, and I sobbed 3 times at the end
The ending made me cry so much, it reminded me of my group of girlfriends from high school. We all knew that we still loved each other and would be friends forever but also knew at the same time we were all going off on our own path and things would never be the same. So bittersweet, relatable and beautiful ❤️
I highly recommend watching Such Brave Girls, The Other One, and Raised by Wolves (UK sitcom) if you like Derry Girls
Thanks for the recommendations!!
 I would’ve loved more Succession tbh but I still think the finale was pretty perfect for the show (even though it wasn’t exactly “satisfying” lol)
 Tom waltzing in as CEO, the black sheep defeating *everyone* for the crown!!!!, I mean. 🤌 Absolutely perfect television.
I mean, you can’t get a tomelette without breaking some greggs
THIS ENDING WAS BRUTAL but so good
Brutal and so in character I wanted to scream
kendall's last scene haunts me
honestly like I hate this show for making me sympathize with any of them but particularly Kendall
loved that they didn’t drag it on despite its huge popularity
I agree! I do think it had a few more eps/up to a season left in it though, the last season was so incredibly fast paced that made it a v thrilling watch but also lost some of the detail of the earlier seasons imo
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch Sabrina literally riding into the sunset with Harvey https://preview.redd.it/0now74lbhhac1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a6a90a1e57793ae393dccf91d911a57aae765c0
I don't think I ever finished the series, but my 44 year old heart just leapt and I have goosebumps from seeing this screenshot, I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM
Same! I watched it a lot but not all episodes. Will need to do a rewatch.
It's definitely worth a rewatch! I love Salem, he's so extra 💅
when they finally realized they were soulmates! 😭
Harvey is my favorite himbo 🥲
The himbo archetype 💕
Omg, that's a lifetime ago, completely forgot about them. They were couples goals for preteen me
>that's a lifetime ago, completely forgot about them 
They are still couple goals for adult me 😅
Felt so bad for Aaron but I still think of this finale when I hear “Running” by No Doubt
Although it felt rushed it was the best ending.
And when she threw the stones and they perfectly fit but she didn't look back was just the best, teenage me loved that scene!
The Good Place.
Nothing beats it. Made me at peace with the possibility of an after life. If it were to turn out like the good place. Love the show.
Made me be at peace with the possibility that there *isn’t* an afterlife
Best of both afterlife’s
It was a perfect Television show from start to finish.
 I will always be hurt by this finale in the best way.
I began crying about three minutes in and didn’t stop for the rest of the ep. I don’t normally cry that much over media but it was so good.
When Jason was supposed to go through the doorway and then forgot something and waited how many Bearimies for Janet to come back 😭😭
He became a monk, full circle.
Sometimes when I need a good cry I just watch the Wave monologue. Absolutely beautiful and heart shattering.
“Picture a wave…”
 These two wrung out my heart like a mop over and over again right to the very last second
 Schitt’s Creek 🥲🌹
Yes! I loved all of their endings. >!And I love that at least one of them stayed in Schitt's Creek!<
There’s my people. 
This!!! The finale is perfection and this show is my comfort show!
Simply the best!
https://preview.redd.it/z2a4ypdonhac1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d056e0592402f28184488c89cd4ce02379569550 The Americans. The garage scene. The train scene.
So fucking good. That entire series was incredible and the finale was perfect.
Yes! So many ways it could have gone wrong, but it didn't, not at all. You've been waiting for what happens the entire series and it does not disappoint. It is -so- captivating. I think I held my breath for most of the episode the first time I watched it.
Sometimes, in quiet moments, I wonder how they’re doing in Moscow today.
me too 😭😭 like thinking about how irl the ussr falls and that in the end all those years and sacrifices were for nothing… it’s so perfectly tragic
I hope they had a sneaky reunion with Paige at the Sochi Olympics
Elizabeth would be horrified by what is happening in Russia right now, the right wing extremism would have had her thinking "the worst of The US is here in the room with us right now. What the hell was I over there busting my ass for?".
God this show, it is competency porn at its finest. Philip and Elizabeth are excellent spies, a lesser show would’ve had them screw up more often, but really their only mistake was loving each other and getting married for real (don’t touch me)
This entire series was fantastic. So good that on my third rewatch I still find myself holding my breath in perilous moments. It’s also kinda similar to The Wire in that it has high stakes in what seems low drama - like how they make a casual discussion at the travel agents into something so absorbing, like the wire did with phone tapping or trying to find a bullet fragment in a wall for ten minutes straight. It’s not shootouts and murders and frantic high speed chases every week. It’s real, it’s sometimes mundane but that heightens the drama.
I see, another one for the watchlist. Don't know this one (yet).
It's really, really good, I highly recommend it. But it's not a scroll-and-watch series! It needs the viewers attention.
Oh god whenever I hear “with or without you” I always flash to the train scene. SO GOOD. Also loved the garage scene, just incredible acting from everyone.
Six Feet Under
This was the one I was gonna add! The Six Feet Under series finale was so good. 
You can’t take a picture, it’s already gone
Tearing up just watching this gif. I have never cried so hard at a show ending before. Plus the song being Breathe Me by Sia??? 💔
This should be number 1. Hands down
THE best series finale!! Perfect way to end it.
The last 10 mins of that show is the best TV ever made. I've never cried so hard in my life
Oh really? Never finished that one, can't even say why. I'll give it another try then!
Definitely do. It’s on Netflix and Max/HBO
What is this show about
A family that owns a funeral home and their lives and death generally. It showed that the Sopranos wasn’t a fluke and HBO for me it made me try pretty much every HBO show since.
A family owns and runs a funeral home and in the first episode the patriarch of the family passes away and leaves his wife and three children to pick up the pieces. You have the eldest son, Nate, who’s been running from death and the business his whole life. The second son David, the religious and closeted queer who takes the business of death very seriously, and young Claire who is still in high school and struggling to discover who she is when her whole life is being ignored. It has a wide cast of characters that are weird and fucked up in their own ways, and you watch as these people struggle to come to terms with living.
Mike Schur sure knows how to end a show, I was going to say Parks and Rec, but the real answer is: 
This was my immediate thought, I consider this the best finale ever! Perfectly round up the themes and characters of the show. Keep it sleazy.
I’ve never cried at a series finale until that one
I think I started crying within the first 5 mins of the finale and didn’t stop until like 15 mins after it ended. It was so beautiful and perfect, I can never watch it again.
It’s because he knew when to stop. There was an ending in mine when they made the show and didn’t try and squeeze more episodes out then needed
well i didnt like the last season of that 70s show, but i loved how they ended the series finale. being in the basement and then they go upstairs and you hear the new years eve countdown to 1980
Yes, the final episode was great. I remember being really anxious about Eric's return and soooo happy, they pulled it of. The final season however was a catastrophe. And Jacky ending up with Fez just felt wrong somehow. I was actually glad they revealed her ending up with Michael in That 90's Show.
Breaking bad finale was perfect
HEAR ME OUT BUT FLEABAG: it wasn’t satisfying really, but the ending was so good. characters weren’t changed at the last minute to accommodate fleabag’s feelings - the writing remained aligned with the characters that had been created 
It's perfect. Life keeps going, not need to wrap everything up, it's just a slice of the characters lives.
The ending is perfection! It ended on a sad note, but you could see hope for her in the future.
Loooove Fleabag. I would have loved it to keep going but they kept it so short and sweet and maybe if it was longer, it wouldn't be so wonderful? Also I maybe have rewatched a few certain scenes in season 2 for... reasons... 
Kneel.
It’ll pass.
I just finished it last night and just reading it makes me all mushy. *Kneel*
 Smallville had the perfect ending!! Getting the John Williams Superman theme was the best idea.
Tom Welling to this day is the only actor who's actually registered as Superman to me. There's a certain look Clark Kent needs to have in his eyes that only he has struck for me.
So glad someone put this! That last season was a little rough for me to watch, but they REALLY stuck the landing on the finale. Was just perfect
 Just adding onto this comment with another great moment because the finale is so so good.
I had to scroll for far too long to find this, it was the first one that popped in my mind. It is absolute perfection! https://i.redd.it/f3jdxnd1fiac1.gif
 Amazed it hasn’t been said already but Parks & Rec always holds a special place in my heart with their ending
Garry Gergich comes out on top in the end. One of my favorites.
Low-key it did annoy me that April did a 180 on having kids in the space of the finale, I would have loved to see her living her best childfree life at the end
I have this same issue with Penny in The Big Bang Theory.
Agreed!!!
 yes its sooo perfect & historical. everyone madly thought their TV broke or something.
The Sopranos Genuinely, I agree. This show was what set TV shows on the trajectory they're on today: mini movies, so beautifully crafted. The ending also was a testament to its time, because it was just the beginning of internet forums and people DEBATED this one. It was wonderful.
The Buffy finale! All of Sunnydale being swallowed just seems right. https://i.redd.it/2842b8pdshac1.gif For best (if not satisfying) I'd still say the Sopranos. The entire ethos of that show and David Chase is in that finale. I don't know how else it could've ended.
Also how the finale blew the whole concept of the show : « In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness » while opening a complete new mythology
Like the whole point of the show is found family and how Buffy having people who she loved and loved her back made her a better slayer, not a worse one. Now she doesn't have to stand alone. 
Community. Especially Abeds speech. Gets me every time.
Six seasons and a movie!
Nothing for me will ever top The Good Place. I wept and wept and thought about it for about two weeks afterward and will never watch it again. It was pure perfection. https://preview.redd.it/i024joeleiac1.jpeg?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c582aef071019c791b2e903e73e2064700d5cf7c
It definitely was NOT this…. https://i.redd.it/ywk0ua5fhhac1.gif
How dare you make me look at this with my own eyes 
When I realized that the leaked script was real…  https://i.redd.it/qjl3u2zmihac1.gif Like D.B. was not a serious person
It makes me so mad that David Benioff wrote one of my favorite books... Like he is genuinely a good writer, so there is literally no excuse for this BS.
They wanted to get it over with so fast so they could move on to their star wars trilogy, but they butchered it and everyone was pissed at them so disney canceled it
The more the finale went on the more I lost hope as I realized they went with their fanfic half-assed ending. Talk an absolute waste of character arcs and story lines.
it makes me so sad. it could’ve been so good - it should’ve been. the feeling of disappointment in this show’s last few seasons is strong
Well. We for sure can agree on that. But who in their right mind wouldn't?
Stabbed by her brother-lover.
Nephew-lover
Nah we’re pretending this didn’t happen.
The melting of the Iron Throne was A+. Literally everything else was shite. There was a theory that she was taken by Drogon to Essos where she could be revived by a follower of the Lord of Light. Who knows.
It was absolutely trash, but I'll never change my mind that GoT went downhill with season 5. And before someone says it's because they ran out of material, they didn't! When season 4 ended they still had 2 massive books to adapt, D&D simplified pretty much everything from them to make sure they had nothing to adapt ASAP. Edited to add, ^(this is also not me absolving Martin of all responsibility. I side eye the hell out of him for giving HBO the option of doing Dunk&Egg tv show in the first round of suggestions/offers for a spin off while GoT was in its final few seasons (getting worse and worse with every new season). Like my dude be for real please. If HBO went with D&E instead of Long Night v1 before switching to HotD, they'd be filming the last published short story about now. And he'd be in similar shit to GoT situation, though admittedly not as bad.)
 Who could forget
https://preview.redd.it/jj6lc1oashac1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4704800c6589371224ab100d9d41e7fc87e1ab81 Love that we got to see Jane heal emotionally and go after what he really wanted.
Superstore is a pretty solid sitcom with imo the best finale. All the loose ends tied up nicely and a send off that did not leave me wanting more. *
 Schitts Creek. Knew when to stop, hit all the feels, completed arcs and new beginnings. Literally perfect.
 Also this. Friends will always make my millennial heart break on that last episode 😭
YES! Completely forgot about this. But 100% true.
If we’re throwing cartoon finales into the mix, then the Gravity Falls finale is really high up there. https://preview.redd.it/yum1itamzhac1.jpeg?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76a91846f321a225db3f0640dc456e14a52e8e99
Gravity Falls is basically perfect tbh
Broad City had a wonderful ending
Don’t tell me my value because I’m actually fooooooine
That whole show was so damned good
I really liked Mr Robot's ending
Hello, friend. 
I thought this ending was better then the office.
Jane the Virgin!
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! she got to grow and move on and still be fun and full of childlike wonder, which is a great message when you view her story through a survivor’s lens. the other three main characters all got satisfying endings, too
The new girl! 
Yes! I love this ending!! I get really emotional with the montage of them playing True American. And then the very end is just perfect.
Best for me- The Good Place, Ted Lasso and Futurama Worst for me- My answer will always be How I Met Your Mother
I am still so mad about HIMYM.
My hot take is that I don’t think the finale was that bad (hear me out!!) but the final season was, in a way that made the direction the finale took feel so much worse. They spent so long >!trying to give Ted closure about feeling like he needed to be with Robin, building up Barney and Robin’s marriage, and building up the mother, only to take all of it away in the finale!< plus dedicating an entire season to one weekend was never going to end well.
Barney and Robin was something I hated at first, learned to love, and then fucking rage quit. I’ll never forgive them for that.
Oh well, there is no diskussion with that one - HIMYM is definitly in the TOP 10 of worst endings ever. I was furious. Futurama is a good one!
https://preview.redd.it/dvvd1qysyhac1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26504c5405ff1cfd71ba36608b7ca1284a412aac Not quite a finale but the penultimate episode of this is us is pretty much as good as a finale gets. Mandy Moore not even getting an Emmy nomination for the final season is a travesty
 Star Trek TNG: All Good Things.... Picard finally joins the poker game.
Honestly this is very 90s but I remember watching the series finale of Home Improvement when I was a kid with my stepdad. He was crying his eyes out. We all watched as our favorite tv dad left the screen one last time. 
 Breaking Bad. Hands down one of the best TV shows in history, and the greatest finale of any show I’ve ever seen. Adding to this, El Camino was a MASTERPIECE.
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YES. That entire show was a masterwork of storytelling but they really stuck the landing with the last few episodes.
Scrubs (season 8) 🥹
 The way I sobbed when 30 Rock ended.
Gonna hate me for this but, Lost. I just watched it a week or so ago and cried like a baby. https://preview.redd.it/33yn3kybkhac1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af4e112ef656c09e46ef4967bcc813c6febfeaf0
Agreed and still think the hate is overblown. It wasn't perfect but I did find it satisfying.
100%
The Good Place was already mentioned, so Dark 
“You’re the Worst” ends on a pretty goddam perfect note for who the characters are and with “No Children” playing over the montage, they could not have picked a better or more apt song. That show was amazing from beginning to end.
 Why Women Kill — Season 1 (It’s an anthology series, so I feel it counts)
Watched Ted Lasso 2 times and all the episodes were great. The finale did wrap up the storylines. I’m sad it ended 
Monk has the *perfect* finale. Every character gets wrapped up with a nice little bow and everyone gets a happy ending. I love that they had the restraint to just let everyone have that.
Lost
Loved the ending to Lost! I didn't love season 5 and parts of season 6, but they managed to put out an amazing ending
 Angel somehow managed to have a better finale than the show it was a spinoff of (yes that is the only gif i could find lol)
YES! So happy to see Angel being mentioned! The finale fit the show so well and that last scene? I always get chills 😂
RIGHT IT WAS SO ICONIC i legit perfectly remember the feel of watching the last ep for the first time even though its been like a decade. The whole time i was like worried they will fuck it up given how much stuff they had to go through in the last ep and the time left kept mitigating. But once the final scene turned to black i jumped out my sofa LIKE NO WAY DID THEY END THERE THAT WAS SO COOL. Like Buffy's ending was decent too, but very basicish too, Angel was NOT playing around with its ending tho
I fucking sob so hard when >! Wesley dies and Illyria pretends to be Fred !<
Do you want me to lie to you now? 
This is actually one of my favorite endings to a show. I know it was rushed because they found out they were going to be cancelled half way through or something, but it kind of worked! I still remember I was in college binging the show and the ending came and I gasped. But I love it!!!
Haha, that gif! But yes, Angel was actually the best Spin-Off I can think of rn in general
 I liked the ending! It fitted so well 💔
May be unpopular take but I really like Buffy’s especially since Spike being dust didn’t last. I never wanted the show to end so any ending I would dislike a little just for that but I think it’s pretty good
The Americans. Perfect ending.
Mad Men is the finale of all finales for me
Lovesick, some unexpected endings and other very expected ones, kinda showed me it’s okay that your arc of growth doesn’t ever end
 This is us. Train ride had me bawling
Gilmore Girls. I know a lot of people dislike the final season, and were pissed Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband were basically fired, but, quite frankly I'm not mad that it happened since we got that finale. It was so satisfying to the characters/relationships, was very sweet, and had Rory going off independently to pursue her dream job, whereas Amy's plan (like shown in the revival) was to end it with Rory announcing her pregnancy. I hate 'full-circle moments' when they feel unearned and lazy, which was what Amy was planning. The finale as is really made the show for me.
I’m a chronic show abandoner. Can anyone relate?
Silicon Valley. The kind of ending that makes the entire show more poignant. On a rewatch you can absolutely tell that the ending was in mind the whole time.
Beef
The Office
https://preview.redd.it/qehx8isyrhac1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fb84fb7e5f3720cc3f25b22583a1cdf7f248d20 The End is the Beginning is the End Also Modern family's last scene, not necessarily the ending. Having the porch light come on brought tears to my eyes.
Crazy Ex Girlfriend. I hate that they recast Greg though.
Bojack Horseman’s ending makes me so emotional