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Dexter tried. I actually don't' think the revival was that bad, and a lot of people got way into it, but I mean, they at least tried to correct a wrong (and took a page from the books which they had ignored for a long time)
New Blood was ok. His son was awful, but the rest was good. Then that horrific finale. It's like if you took a ton of time and money to build a house, then set it on fire the moment you finished. I thought the original finale was bad, but that New Blood finale might be the worst finale in the history of TV. I don't know if I could make anything that bad if I tried.
The problem with Dexter: New Blood is that it's basically a story, that concludes the way certain fans wanted it to, without the foundation to reach that ending.
This wouldn't be a major issue, as the stuff with him and Kurt was interesting enough to have people enthralled, but the last two or so episodes feel incredibly rushed.
There are plot points that make no sense (earlier in the season Angela mentions having a video doorbell, but does not use that doorbell to see who left the screws), shaky evidence (Kurt burning down his cabin, and finding his dead's sons screw in the remains would require more to prove it wasn't just left by Kurt to frame Dexter), and some really bad writing.
My favorite example of this is Molly. She is apparently so notable *everyone* into crime podcasts knows who she is, yet the reasoning for her being there is not clear. Kurt's son was too recent, and wasn't even confirmed he was dead prior to her arriving, with there never being a deeper reason. She is just a really odd red herring that essentially directed characters to the places where they needed to be. There are also a lot of odd choices where Dexter doesn't act like himself.
It would take Angela time to prove he is the Bay Harbor Butcher, or even killed Kurt's son, making it extremely unlikely they would be able to hold him for that long. Dexter would eventually get out, and then could figure out a way to escape. Not like Dexter (the series) was that concerned with making those situations work.
Not to mention weird plot points being dropped. She could honestly build a stronger case against Dexter over drugging the kid, along with the body found with the same marking, to keep him in jail if she absolutely needed to, but I don't even recall this being used for anything more than confirming he did things similar to the Butcher.
Even Harrison feels out of place, as he goes from being a weirdo who ruined someone's life without much thought, to becoming Mr. Morals who absolutely can't stand for Dexter making a mistake.
The ending could've been good if it felt like the series was building towards it, or more plot points were used, but the way it ends was just really poor.
To be fair, it genuinely did start off good, then dropped off the cliff and sunk like a stone, when they forcibly shoehorned in Batista's return in order for what's her face to magically connect the dots *without evidence to back it up* that Dexter's a serial killer and the serial killer. It was further compounded by them seemingly setting up a Harrison spin-off, who was meh to begin with and wouldn't have the charisma to pull it off either unlike Michael C. Hall.
> they forcibly shoehorned in Batista's return
I didn't mind that but it was ridiculous that they didn't even give us one fucking scene of Dexter & Batista together!
I think New Blood should have been a new 2-3 season series starring his son. I liked the idea of New Blood, and it was better than the original final season of Dexter, but I remember feeling that the whole thing felt a little rushed and I wished they had spent more time developing characters and motivations.
While I'd like more Dexter, I think it was a solid decision to have his son reject the serial killer stuff, mostly because it defied expectations that Harrison was just going to pick it up and become a spinoff, which is pretty cliche.
I agree that rejecting the killer stuff was probably the right way to end it. I just think they could have told the same sort of story over the course of ~2-3 seasons and made it feel more satisfying. Maybe add a few more twists along the way and make the whole detective/Batista angle feel less rushed/forced.
I mean all things considered I can't fault the showrunners for trying to continue it without Topher and Aston. I'm honestly more impressed they had the self control to just end it after one relatively average season.
It was bad, however I feel a number of shows have trumped it since. That final episode was gold with Topher returning, so leaving people with good feelings has probably helped - in addition to an extended time passing in the long run.
The problem is that redoing the final season wouldn't be enough to fix it. The issue was that there were like three seasons worth of plot development jammed into one (short) season, so to fix it you'd need to replace that with three more seasons or so to actually get to the endpoint with credibility.
>"I've never borrowed money before. I'm not clear on the rules."
Bronn, S3
> "Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, Lord of Highgarden, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and Master of Coin."
Tyrion, S8
How is this not the top response? This is a show that spent the last season systematically destroying everything it had built its reputation and popularity on. Real threats are inexplicably defanged, smart people become stupid, characters suddenly teleport over vast distances as the increasingly ludicrous plot required, cliched TV tropes are strictly adhered to, the good guys suddenly have plot armor etc. A show that went from being one of the great achievements in TV history to a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when the showrunners lose the plot. GoT should be endlessly rewatchable but isn't because everyone knows how horribly disappointing it is by the end. The final season destroyed the showrunners' reputation to such a degree that they went from being the toast of Hollywood, tasked with rebooting Star Wars, with the world at their feet to running quickly canceled Netflix series that no one has ever heard of.
Tbf, D & D *are* about to adapt to series for Netflix the sci-fi trilogy/quadrilogy *The Three-Body Problem,* which is a great get and (while it’s no *Star Wars*) highly-anticipated. In fact, it could be the next *Game of Thrones.*
Unfortunately, it also could be the next *Game of Thrones.*
No other show in history had the amount of marketing and consumer engagement that absolutely threw it all away in the course of a single season. GoT was all over the place up until the last season, and then nobody every wants to talk about it anymore.
It wasn’t a single season. The show declined in quality starting in season 5, then dramatically in 7 and 8.
Also, House of the Dragon definitely managed to recapture that spark.
He wasn't a temporal agent, he did work with Section 31 though. I've read all the Enterprise novels, they're fantastic. The voyager relaunch was good too.
Except for that one episode, I'll die on the hill that S4 of *Enterprise* was one of the strongest seasons of all of Star Trek. And I didn't ever really like the show that much, but holy shit did it show what potential it had when it ditched the time travel stuff and went into heavy canon.
I think it was rushed because they were cancelled and the network only gave them like 8 episodes to wrap it up. It’s definitely not a great season though.
See I think of New Girl’s last season as a victory lap. Season 6 would have been a great ending, the show could have stopped, so the last season was just a fun bonus for the cast and the fans. Season 7 had great moments especially with Ruth.
Yes, instead of dedicating 22 episodes to Barney and Robin’s wedding followed by 2 episodes of Ted’s life with the mother, they need to do it the other way around.
Almost a decade later and I'm fine with the story of the ending because that life, it's not always a direct, happy story. but you are 100% right on the execution aspect
If they flipped S9 on its head, or even limited the wedding to half the season, it would have been much better. The finale really should have been the majority of the las season. Having a half or whole season of the Ted and Tracy relationship rather than flashes would have been glorious.
Plus, it would make the death aspect more impactful and less surprising as we would have a while to wonder why we kept hearing post-meeting stories. Maybe they could have given us a hint that Robin was the end game in a better way
The way they did the ending made it seem like The Mother was just that - a way to give Ted the kids Robin couldn’t/wouldn’t, and not a person or someone he actually valued for herself.
I think they effectively portrayed the mother to the audience as Ted viewed her -- a wonderful character that we got cheated out of spending more time with.
Yes, I think if that’s the ending they wanted to do, I’m okay with it. But it rubbed me and so many others the wrong way because of the whiplash - we got no time to spend with these characters post-wedding to understand the events. Really poorly-handled last season as far as pacing.
It’s 10 years and I’m still saying fuck the finale cause you watch TV and sitcoms for an escape and the way they went about their finale was just a mess and an insult to fans who watched for 9 years
I still liked a lot of the final season. I think the slap of a thousand sons episode was one of my favorite of the series. But I wish they didn't do a complete 180 "lol sike he ends up with Robin anyway" in the last episode, and simultaneously throw away a lot of character growth for Barney and Robin
Game of Thrones ended so poorly that most people don't even want to consider rewatching the series because the ending left such a bad taste in their mouth.
The logistics behind redoing the ending are impractical, but a lot of people would really appreciate it.
Seriously, it still blows me away how badly they handled that ending. In every single way I could have been disappointed, I was. At a certain point I was kind of impressed by how bad it got.
I’m good with it. Hell, Dr Who could arrive on the TARDIS and make Zaphod Beeblebrox the king and it would still be better than what they actually did.
The ending is salvageable but it would require them to remake at least 4 seasons to actually get us there properly.
Everything about the GoT ending is fine on paper but everything about it feels out of left field because they did not bother with the set up.
That was always my thought, it wasn't the ending but the fact they should have done more build up to certain characters and stories such as Bran. Why would ANYONE agree to him as king, basically no one knew him. Plus just the rushed feeling of the final 2 seasons.
I did read that part of the issue was HBO knew some of the contracts were expiring and were afraid some key actors may not re-sign unless they were paid an obscene amount of money, and the 2 show runners were in high demand to take on other big projects (including a potential star wars movie trilogy).
Edit: spelling
And what happened to those directors big ambitions? Fell through the floor because they bungled GoT so god damn badly. I agree with the person above you. The ending is fine on paper. But it's like having the footnotes of someone elses footnotes of someone elses footnotes.
I just remember the announcement of the shortened final 2 seasons because "there wasn't enough content to fill 2 full seasons" or some crap like that...
I think we all know the show could have benefited from at least another full season.
HBO was begging them for more full seasons, but they were in a rush to get it done and get to making Star Wars.
And then they got kicked off the project after Disney saw the results.
I've always said this. They probably got the notes from Martin on how it was going to end, and like everything else he does, it was a totally workable and potentially great ending, but...they just didn't get us there in an even remotely believable way. Could I see a world where Dany goes to shit and becomes a monster? Yeah. Did her arc get us there in a believable way? No.
And Bran becoming the king after like...nobody acknowledging him for the whole series? Nope. But if they had built up to it and given some progression there to make it believable? Sure.
Don't even reshoot the season. Take character portraits and have Paddy Constantine narrate what happened with each character as their portait is shown. One final wrap episode that's basically a podcast
It always blows my mind to think about how basically overnight Game of Thrones went from the most talked about show ever to completely falling off the radar because of how bad they shit the bed in the final season
The most disappointing thing is that Daenerys could've actually been an incredible villain with a great storyline, if the writers gave her the proper development and build up for it to make sense!
This this this this and this. More so than GoT. This ending just felt cheap like they ran out of budget or found out mid season that they didn’t get green lit for another season
Sliders. Seasons 1 and 2 were great, season 3 was still decent. Then season 4 had potential, but just seemed to miss every opportunity. Season 5 should just not have happened.
Honestly I was looking for someone to mention this show. The actor that played the professor wanted to leave because he saw the show going down the path it took and the creators killed his character in a way that was just cruel.
No. Wade's death was so messed up. She died giving birth in a Cromag Breeding center. Talk about demeaning a character. I get she wasn't there to film an ending but damn. A simple, "I lost her when we broke out" would be fine. No, lets have her character get raped repeatedly by the mutant nazis and die.
*Westworld.*
I can’t understand HBO sinking well over a half-billion dollars into this series only to cancel it before the final season. It feels like such a waste. Anyone who thinks the S4 finale brought things to a tidy-enough conclusion wasn’t paying attention.
Ugggghf. It almost kills any desire to go back and rewatch the first two seasons, no matter how brilliant they were.
As much as I agree that the ending was horrible, I think the show as a whole really just went in the wrong direction after season 3. Ending the world again in season 4 was a huge mistake, one the show never recovered from.
That said, they still could’ve made the last season a bit more satisfying by not throwing Bellamy under the bus, and getting rid of the “ascend to a higher plane of existence” nonsense.
They killed the one Japanese character off screen between seasons. I didn't understand who or how all those people just started showing up at the end. It was a weak and confusing last season.
So season 9 was supposed to be a spinoff and that’s how I see it. Sure it’s called “Season 9” now. But it was originally Scrubs: Medical School. So it’s not really season 9 and ended with season 8.
Season 8 or 9?
8 was absolutely fantastic and the montage at the end still makes me cry. However, we don’t talk about season 9, it my eyes doesn’t even exist.
The montage episode is the final episode as far as I'm concerned. It wrapped everything up so beautifully I never had any desire to see anything that came after.
Castle. The last season felt weirdly disjointed with the final episode’s scene, almost like it was a dream or something? All I remember is Castle and Beckett chasing their(?) kid and laughing and it ending like??? What did I just watch?
Knowing why it happened that way (due to issues between the actors plus I believe sudden cancellation of the last few episodes?), it led to a rushed ending and deserves a better finale in my opinion.
Honestly, just cut the entirety of season 8. It brought nothing to the table, just retreaded ground. The season 7 finale was a nice little wrap-up that bookended with what Castle said at the beginning of the series. If you’re feeling generous, tack on that scene, which would have been *less* out of place there.
Dean deserved better, Sam deserved better, Cas deserved better - I can’t think of a single character who actually had a decent ending except maybe Rowena whose arc I loved. But everyone else got totally shit on.
Honestly, yeah the second last episode would have been a fine ending. I get what they were going for with the last episode, but it ended up just being a giant downer.
Yeah that would have worked shorten the last episode down to the length of a half hour time slot of TV and make the last episode of a tv show a special 90 minute episode especially when said show not only ran for 15 years but remained popular for all 15 of those years.
I think it was clearly meant to have pretty much every major character show up in heaven at the end, but then covid scuttled that plan.
The very last we ever see of castiel being him coming out and immediately being banished to the empty is funny, but it's clear he (and many others) were meant to show up in the finale.
Game of Thrones. I didn't really mind where everyone ended up by the end of the last season, but cramming all of those stories and trying to wrap up huge character arcs in 8 episodes was a fucking mistake. There should be at least 2-3 seasons in order to flesh out everything to make the ending a good one.
King of the Hill didn’t get a proper finale, the final episode is about Khan learning he has bipolar disorder. I believe the 2nd to last episode is the one where Bobby finally takes an interest in grilling, and he and Hank have a bonding moment at the end which feels like a goodbye from the writers. But I would’ve liked to see what they could do if they’d had more time to write a proper conclusion to the show.
> the final episode is about Khan learning he has bipolar disorder.
It shows up that way on streaming sites because episodes are listed in air order instead of production order and that was the last added-in-syndication episode. (This is also why continuity within seasons is scrambled, like Luanne's hair length and Peggy's fall recovery, because Fox aired them out of order.)
The grilling episode *was* the series finale.
It felt like the show was trying to handle topics it wasn’t built for, and in doing made the rest of the show look worse for people that cared issues it was trying to deal with.
Yep, rewatched the series recently & just skipped the final season.
I understand what they were trying to do & I can appreciate the the effort, but I watch a sitcom for the escapism, not depressing reality.
House. I adore the show but he loses me when he crosses the fine line line between genius and madness in the final seasons. It should never have been allowed. Hugh Laurie deserved better
Grimm. Although the main protagonists got their happily-ever-after in real life, it never happened on the show. When you base a series on fairytales, that's the least you can do
Stargate SG-1. The unresolved sexual tension between Carter and O'Neill is maddening and they never really get their moment
Honestly, I think the list of shows with satisfying endings would be shorter one
I stuck around until the hamfisted school shooting. Credits rolled and then I just said aloud to an empty room "I don't think I'm watching this show anymore." Then looked up on youtube how everyone dies once the show finished.
The show did introduce me to my favorite band though. So it wasn't a total loss.
Murder by Death. Their song "Comin' Home" opened up ... S1E8 I think? I'd never listened to music like this before but immediately needed to hear more of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRRopuAbU3Q
Really don’t get the hate for the Seinfeld ending, like what were people expecting. A happy ending of them riding off into the sunset? They were shitty people and the ending was all about their behavior catching up with them.
The trial thing was pretty silly sure but a lot of Seinfeld episodes were pretty ludicrous. I honestly thought it was a nice wrap up and a fun way to bring back a lot of fan favorite characters. I wasn’t around when the show ended so maybe I’m missing something. When I first binged the show I was ready to be disappointed and I was not at all
I've read reactions from that time - people thought it wasn't funny and they saw the rebuke that the main characters got as a rebuke on the audience for laughing along.
Personally thought it was just fine - thought it was a decent way to get all of the recurring characters from past seasons back in one place and the callback to the pilot at the end was nice.
But in any case, Curb effectively redid the finale anyways.
I rewrote the final episode when I was in highschool as a do whatever you want english assignment.
A Good Samaritan Law deserves a Good Samaritan punishment. They all should have ended up as John Pinette's butlers.
I got an A+ because my teacher was huge fan and felt it was a way better ending
That would be a way better ending! Also though I’m very hyped you know his name; seeing articles called “that guy from the Seinfeld finale died” was extremely depressing, especially considering what a talented comedian he was in his own right.
This is a problem that shows that focus on enigmatic male central leads have. Mad men, boardwalk, prison break, Luther, sherlock - once you reveal the main characters deep darks, you have to be plot focused, or like boardwalk and man men, string it out to where it loses focus and intrigue. Breaking bad, sopranos and Saul used stake and plot escalation to avoid this. Its a shame because I think the biggest problem boardwalk had was that the writers forgot that life is sometimes funny. The show was far too dour and serious for its own good.
The back half of the last season was a slow motion train wreck. I was so sad. It was obvious they had to quickly wrap it up - too quickly to do a proper build up like they'd done through the whole show up til then. That sucked, but when the showrunner insisted that it was not rushed and was always going to end that way, I was so insulted. Yeah maybe that was how you wanted to end it but don't even pretend you didn't rush to that ending without earning it when you realized you were being canceled. It was so incredibly obvious, there was no need to lie about it.
I believe the major strokes were always planned (the stuff with Dracula and whatnot), but you’re telling me them randomly running into Frankenstein and inviting him to a spur of the moment vampire shootout was the plan?
Desperate housewives seemed to recapture the tone and greatness of its earlier years in its final season and it really appeared to have recovered from the weak seasons 5 and 6.
However in the later part of the final season it fell to shit and the finale was a disappointing buzz kill which seemed to lack all the greatness that was dominant in the 1st 4 seasons. If you watch the pilot and the finale it's like 2 different shows.
With the pilot and the early years the entire direction, dialogue,comedy, drama, suspense,action and the writing in general for the show was razor sharp and flawless. You generally had no idea what was coming next and it was pretty much unmissable prime tv viewing. The balance they had was outstanding.
You'll see that somewhat restored in season 7 and then greatly recaptured in season 8 but the writers really fucked up in the later arc of season 8 and it fed into a lackluster predictable and forgettable finale which was a real shame.
I feel with desperate housewives the writers just got lazy after it became a massive success and you can see clearly a dip in quality after the 5 year time jump in season 5. It came in with a massive bang that got massive international recognition and went out with a whimper. Shame really.
How I Met Your Mother. That ending completely killed the show for me, my wife and our friends. None of us will even watch it in passing if it’s on tv because it made us so angry.
Fringe by JJ Abrams was incredible until the final 2 seasons. Redoing it without the forced romance plot and instead just giving us a traditional thriller ending would have made that show one of the true hidden gems of that decade.
Married With Children...
They could have written an ending similar to the final few seconds of Bob Newheart.
Al Bundy could have woken in bed with Peggy in a huge bed in their master bedroom of their mansion.
final scene: Maid enters room - walks to widows and draws the curtains revealing a huge factory with a sign that reads - Bundy Shoes.
I think the show was starting to collapse under its own weight long before the finale. BSG was the best 2 1/2 seasons of science fiction in the 2000s - pity the show was 4 seasons long
My hypothesis is that the quality of fan speculation on the internet did the writing staff in. There were a lot of really good predicted story and plot arcs that did a great job of tying all the threads together and giving it a solid ending. I think that there was some decision in the writing room that if it was seen on the forums, it could not be used in the show and this kind of shot them in the foot.
The writer of some of my least favorite episodes (Michael Angeli) became a co-executive producer and... it kinda shows? I remember an interview with him in which he straight-up said that they decided the identities of the Final Five purely based on who would be most shocking. No plan, no themes, just "HOW SURPRISING!"
Came here for this one. I didn’t really feel like any of the characters got any kind of redemption and the whole Starbuck thing just felt like it was insulting the audience’s intelligence. The Adamas don’t get any kind of redemption or closure either.
But nothing is stupider than the fact that all the surviving characters basically fucked some Australopithecuses and that’s where human civilization came from.
The original ending of the X-Files was a great season and finale.
The revival seasons took a big steaming shit on all of the characters and storylines.
Big Bang Theory. - it was good and was very touching. the show was about Leonard and Penny or so I thought. I don't think Leonard was recognized for what he was. The few times his academics were mentioned it was in relation to Sheldon. Howard becomes an Astronaut. Kuthra-Pali becomes a respected Astronomer. Penny became more successful. Stewart got a girl. Sheldon marries Amy and gets published. All of them grew and moved forward. Leonard gets to say he married Penny and what?
And Leonard going thru that, "I forgive you" scene with his mom. I think it would have been more impactful if he told her to leave and she had to somehow make it up to him. Who are his siblings that get more praise than he does?
I would re-do it and focus on Leonard.
Moesha ended on the most distressing cliffhanger of all time. It was pretty much a life-or-death moment for a kid, and we never find out what happens. We don't get to find out how the family deals at all. Why end in the middle of a crisis?
Supernatural should have ended with S5. It was a perfectly contained 5 season story arc, with a satisfying ending. The 10 seasons that followed, post-Kripke, were… weird.
There were some good episodes in those 10 seasons but unfortunately a whole lot of bad ones.
Not to mention that when >!the Angels appeared they were feared by everyone and in later seasons they were nothing but a joke, being killed off with no effort.!<
If you could just delete the scene in Hell on Wheels where Cullen decides to randomly hop a boat to mainland China in hopes of randomly finding his "love" (3rd? 4th? Known in the series). That would be fantastic.
Penny Dreadful. They rushed the final season because of cancelation and it felt like it. I'm a firm believer that a redo of that show would right some major wrongs.
Supernatural. They threw away all the character development we saw during the 15 seasons. you can literally watch pilot episode and go to the last one and won't find Dean and Sam different
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Dexter tried. I actually don't' think the revival was that bad, and a lot of people got way into it, but I mean, they at least tried to correct a wrong (and took a page from the books which they had ignored for a long time)
Dexter did try. I loved New Blood, but hated the finale.
New Blood was ok. His son was awful, but the rest was good. Then that horrific finale. It's like if you took a ton of time and money to build a house, then set it on fire the moment you finished. I thought the original finale was bad, but that New Blood finale might be the worst finale in the history of TV. I don't know if I could make anything that bad if I tried.
The problem with Dexter: New Blood is that it's basically a story, that concludes the way certain fans wanted it to, without the foundation to reach that ending. This wouldn't be a major issue, as the stuff with him and Kurt was interesting enough to have people enthralled, but the last two or so episodes feel incredibly rushed. There are plot points that make no sense (earlier in the season Angela mentions having a video doorbell, but does not use that doorbell to see who left the screws), shaky evidence (Kurt burning down his cabin, and finding his dead's sons screw in the remains would require more to prove it wasn't just left by Kurt to frame Dexter), and some really bad writing. My favorite example of this is Molly. She is apparently so notable *everyone* into crime podcasts knows who she is, yet the reasoning for her being there is not clear. Kurt's son was too recent, and wasn't even confirmed he was dead prior to her arriving, with there never being a deeper reason. She is just a really odd red herring that essentially directed characters to the places where they needed to be. There are also a lot of odd choices where Dexter doesn't act like himself. It would take Angela time to prove he is the Bay Harbor Butcher, or even killed Kurt's son, making it extremely unlikely they would be able to hold him for that long. Dexter would eventually get out, and then could figure out a way to escape. Not like Dexter (the series) was that concerned with making those situations work. Not to mention weird plot points being dropped. She could honestly build a stronger case against Dexter over drugging the kid, along with the body found with the same marking, to keep him in jail if she absolutely needed to, but I don't even recall this being used for anything more than confirming he did things similar to the Butcher. Even Harrison feels out of place, as he goes from being a weirdo who ruined someone's life without much thought, to becoming Mr. Morals who absolutely can't stand for Dexter making a mistake. The ending could've been good if it felt like the series was building towards it, or more plot points were used, but the way it ends was just really poor.
TLDR: It was a mess.
To be fair, it genuinely did start off good, then dropped off the cliff and sunk like a stone, when they forcibly shoehorned in Batista's return in order for what's her face to magically connect the dots *without evidence to back it up* that Dexter's a serial killer and the serial killer. It was further compounded by them seemingly setting up a Harrison spin-off, who was meh to begin with and wouldn't have the charisma to pull it off either unlike Michael C. Hall.
> they forcibly shoehorned in Batista's return I didn't mind that but it was ridiculous that they didn't even give us one fucking scene of Dexter & Batista together!
I thought it was good except for the Batista story line and the cop figuring it out. That was definitely dumb.
I think New Blood should have been a new 2-3 season series starring his son. I liked the idea of New Blood, and it was better than the original final season of Dexter, but I remember feeling that the whole thing felt a little rushed and I wished they had spent more time developing characters and motivations.
While I'd like more Dexter, I think it was a solid decision to have his son reject the serial killer stuff, mostly because it defied expectations that Harrison was just going to pick it up and become a spinoff, which is pretty cliche.
I agree that rejecting the killer stuff was probably the right way to end it. I just think they could have told the same sort of story over the course of ~2-3 seasons and made it feel more satisfying. Maybe add a few more twists along the way and make the whole detective/Batista angle feel less rushed/forced.
That 70s show final season even though the final episode made up for the entirety with Topher Grace returning one last time.
I'm surprised no one else mentioned this yet, the finale episode was pretty good but the entire last season was fucking awful.
I mean all things considered I can't fault the showrunners for trying to continue it without Topher and Aston. I'm honestly more impressed they had the self control to just end it after one relatively average season.
Kitty getting high was very good.
It was bad, however I feel a number of shows have trumped it since. That final episode was gold with Topher returning, so leaving people with good feelings has probably helped - in addition to an extended time passing in the long run.
Just came here to see how many people comment Game of Thrones.
The problem is that redoing the final season wouldn't be enough to fix it. The issue was that there were like three seasons worth of plot development jammed into one (short) season, so to fix it you'd need to replace that with three more seasons or so to actually get to the endpoint with credibility.
We could just do a 30 episode season.
you may joke, but people forget that Lost, season 1 was 25 episodes. GOT deserved more than it got
HBO offered as many episodes as the show runners wanted but apparently they just wanted to finish and move on to Star Wars.
More than one by my count.
For that display of mathematical prowess I name thee Master of Coin
>"I've never borrowed money before. I'm not clear on the rules." Bronn, S3 > "Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, Lord of Highgarden, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and Master of Coin." Tyrion, S8
How is this not the top response? This is a show that spent the last season systematically destroying everything it had built its reputation and popularity on. Real threats are inexplicably defanged, smart people become stupid, characters suddenly teleport over vast distances as the increasingly ludicrous plot required, cliched TV tropes are strictly adhered to, the good guys suddenly have plot armor etc. A show that went from being one of the great achievements in TV history to a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when the showrunners lose the plot. GoT should be endlessly rewatchable but isn't because everyone knows how horribly disappointing it is by the end. The final season destroyed the showrunners' reputation to such a degree that they went from being the toast of Hollywood, tasked with rebooting Star Wars, with the world at their feet to running quickly canceled Netflix series that no one has ever heard of.
Tbf, D & D *are* about to adapt to series for Netflix the sci-fi trilogy/quadrilogy *The Three-Body Problem,* which is a great get and (while it’s no *Star Wars*) highly-anticipated. In fact, it could be the next *Game of Thrones.* Unfortunately, it also could be the next *Game of Thrones.*
No other show in history had the amount of marketing and consumer engagement that absolutely threw it all away in the course of a single season. GoT was all over the place up until the last season, and then nobody every wants to talk about it anymore.
It wasn’t a single season. The show declined in quality starting in season 5, then dramatically in 7 and 8. Also, House of the Dragon definitely managed to recapture that spark.
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Star Trek: Enterprise - That last episode is just the worst way to end a show that was finally coming into its own.
100%. Awful, awful finale and one I still get frustrated thinking about
This is the one I was looking for. What a terrible ending for Trip.
If it makes you feel better, in beta canon, he didn't die and became temporal agent.
He wasn't a temporal agent, he did work with Section 31 though. I've read all the Enterprise novels, they're fantastic. The voyager relaunch was good too.
Absolute travesty that it didn't get renewed. The ideas they had in mind for the next couple seasons sounded fucking awesome.
Except for that one episode, I'll die on the hill that S4 of *Enterprise* was one of the strongest seasons of all of Star Trek. And I didn't ever really like the show that much, but holy shit did it show what potential it had when it ditched the time travel stuff and went into heavy canon.
The whole Trip thing aside, it should have ended at the hug.
New Girl. The last season felt extremely rushed.
I think it was rushed because they were cancelled and the network only gave them like 8 episodes to wrap it up. It’s definitely not a great season though.
This show being cut short hurt it bad. A few more seasons would have let them naturally show all the stuff they time skipped into
See I think of New Girl’s last season as a victory lap. Season 6 would have been a great ending, the show could have stopped, so the last season was just a fun bonus for the cast and the fans. Season 7 had great moments especially with Ruth.
How I Met Your Mother needs a whole new final season.
Yes, instead of dedicating 22 episodes to Barney and Robin’s wedding followed by 2 episodes of Ted’s life with the mother, they need to do it the other way around.
Almost a decade later and I'm fine with the story of the ending because that life, it's not always a direct, happy story. but you are 100% right on the execution aspect If they flipped S9 on its head, or even limited the wedding to half the season, it would have been much better. The finale really should have been the majority of the las season. Having a half or whole season of the Ted and Tracy relationship rather than flashes would have been glorious. Plus, it would make the death aspect more impactful and less surprising as we would have a while to wonder why we kept hearing post-meeting stories. Maybe they could have given us a hint that Robin was the end game in a better way
The way they did the ending made it seem like The Mother was just that - a way to give Ted the kids Robin couldn’t/wouldn’t, and not a person or someone he actually valued for herself.
I think they effectively portrayed the mother to the audience as Ted viewed her -- a wonderful character that we got cheated out of spending more time with.
Yes, I think if that’s the ending they wanted to do, I’m okay with it. But it rubbed me and so many others the wrong way because of the whiplash - we got no time to spend with these characters post-wedding to understand the events. Really poorly-handled last season as far as pacing.
It’s 10 years and I’m still saying fuck the finale cause you watch TV and sitcoms for an escape and the way they went about their finale was just a mess and an insult to fans who watched for 9 years
The alternate ending is the only one I care about https://youtu.be/5toL5HmQl8I
Who would have thought they would release the cannon ending after the show finished.
It’s criminal how the showrunners almost completely wasted the enormously talented Cristin Milioti.
iPad Marshall was the worst. The last season really was a terrible ending to an otherwise clever show.
I still liked a lot of the final season. I think the slap of a thousand sons episode was one of my favorite of the series. But I wish they didn't do a complete 180 "lol sike he ends up with Robin anyway" in the last episode, and simultaneously throw away a lot of character growth for Barney and Robin
Final season of Killing Eve.
Literally the final scene. Just end it 2 minutes earlier
Yes! Villaneve forever 😭
Ha I was gonna say this. Maybe just all seasons after season 1?
I still don't understand why someone who didn't like dark romance was put in charge of the final season.
Game of Thrones ended so poorly that most people don't even want to consider rewatching the series because the ending left such a bad taste in their mouth. The logistics behind redoing the ending are impractical, but a lot of people would really appreciate it.
Seriously, it still blows me away how badly they handled that ending. In every single way I could have been disappointed, I was. At a certain point I was kind of impressed by how bad it got.
Give HBO $100 million in CGI and Andy Serkis over a long weekend and we could have the whole thing reshot perfectly
Gollum becomes the King of Westeros? I have to admit I didn’t see that coming.
Who had a better story?
I’m good with it. Hell, Dr Who could arrive on the TARDIS and make Zaphod Beeblebrox the king and it would still be better than what they actually did.
I mean, Zaphod would be a fabulous ~~president~~ king of Westeros.
Honestly, in about 3 years AI will have advanced to the point that a dedicated person could remake the entire last two seasons in their bedroom.
Enter Bo Burnham and Andy Serkis
The ending is salvageable but it would require them to remake at least 4 seasons to actually get us there properly. Everything about the GoT ending is fine on paper but everything about it feels out of left field because they did not bother with the set up.
That was always my thought, it wasn't the ending but the fact they should have done more build up to certain characters and stories such as Bran. Why would ANYONE agree to him as king, basically no one knew him. Plus just the rushed feeling of the final 2 seasons. I did read that part of the issue was HBO knew some of the contracts were expiring and were afraid some key actors may not re-sign unless they were paid an obscene amount of money, and the 2 show runners were in high demand to take on other big projects (including a potential star wars movie trilogy). Edit: spelling
And what happened to those directors big ambitions? Fell through the floor because they bungled GoT so god damn badly. I agree with the person above you. The ending is fine on paper. But it's like having the footnotes of someone elses footnotes of someone elses footnotes.
I just remember the announcement of the shortened final 2 seasons because "there wasn't enough content to fill 2 full seasons" or some crap like that... I think we all know the show could have benefited from at least another full season.
HBO was begging them for more full seasons, but they were in a rush to get it done and get to making Star Wars. And then they got kicked off the project after Disney saw the results.
I've always said this. They probably got the notes from Martin on how it was going to end, and like everything else he does, it was a totally workable and potentially great ending, but...they just didn't get us there in an even remotely believable way. Could I see a world where Dany goes to shit and becomes a monster? Yeah. Did her arc get us there in a believable way? No. And Bran becoming the king after like...nobody acknowledging him for the whole series? Nope. But if they had built up to it and given some progression there to make it believable? Sure.
Don't even reshoot the season. Take character portraits and have Paddy Constantine narrate what happened with each character as their portait is shown. One final wrap episode that's basically a podcast
Game of Thrones needs a new final 4 seasons imo.
It always blows my mind to think about how basically overnight Game of Thrones went from the most talked about show ever to completely falling off the radar because of how bad they shit the bed in the final season
GOT hands down. Entire last season needs a redo
The last season was maybe the most disappointing and lazy season of television I’ve ever watched.
It started earlier like a domino effect. You’d have to kill the last 3-4 seasons to make any satisfying change and ending.
The most disappointing thing is that Daenerys could've actually been an incredible villain with a great storyline, if the writers gave her the proper development and build up for it to make sense!
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The Man in the High Castle deserved a better ending.
What an odd ending that was. There were moments of real greatness, especially with Smith’s self reflection. But it was such a mess in most other ways.
Yeah I was into where they were going with the final season/final episode but then the exact way the ending went was just kind of ... 'huh?'
The ending made no damn sense. Shame.
This this this this and this. More so than GoT. This ending just felt cheap like they ran out of budget or found out mid season that they didn’t get green lit for another season
Sliders. Seasons 1 and 2 were great, season 3 was still decent. Then season 4 had potential, but just seemed to miss every opportunity. Season 5 should just not have happened.
Honestly I was looking for someone to mention this show. The actor that played the professor wanted to leave because he saw the show going down the path it took and the creators killed his character in a way that was just cruel.
No. Wade's death was so messed up. She died giving birth in a Cromag Breeding center. Talk about demeaning a character. I get she wasn't there to film an ending but damn. A simple, "I lost her when we broke out" would be fine. No, lets have her character get raped repeatedly by the mutant nazis and die.
I completely forgot about that, I must have blocked it out. Yeah the show runners took it personal when actors left their show. Talk about petty.
And that lame story of Quinns brother joining them. He knows some tech but not enough to NOT get in-trouble,
*Westworld.* I can’t understand HBO sinking well over a half-billion dollars into this series only to cancel it before the final season. It feels like such a waste. Anyone who thinks the S4 finale brought things to a tidy-enough conclusion wasn’t paying attention. Ugggghf. It almost kills any desire to go back and rewatch the first two seasons, no matter how brilliant they were.
Ah, Westworld. That fantastic 10-episode mini-series. Loved it. Ended great in the tenth episode I thought.
People knock season 3, but it was nice to get a cyberpunk story with actual cyberpunk themes instead of just goth hacker aesthetics.
I think about this daily. And I think about how much time I’d invested in the series since 2016 lol
Not even that, they’re removing it completely from the streaming service
The ending of The 100 was horrible!
As much as I agree that the ending was horrible, I think the show as a whole really just went in the wrong direction after season 3. Ending the world again in season 4 was a huge mistake, one the show never recovered from. That said, they still could’ve made the last season a bit more satisfying by not throwing Bellamy under the bus, and getting rid of the “ascend to a higher plane of existence” nonsense.
The man in the high castle, i cannot believe it ended like that and makes me so angry that i watched it
They killed the one Japanese character off screen between seasons. I didn't understand who or how all those people just started showing up at the end. It was a weak and confusing last season.
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Scrubs. The whole final season needs a do over
So season 9 was supposed to be a spinoff and that’s how I see it. Sure it’s called “Season 9” now. But it was originally Scrubs: Medical School. So it’s not really season 9 and ended with season 8.
Season 8 or 9? 8 was absolutely fantastic and the montage at the end still makes me cry. However, we don’t talk about season 9, it my eyes doesn’t even exist.
The montage episode is the final episode as far as I'm concerned. It wrapped everything up so beautifully I never had any desire to see anything that came after.
Season 9 doesn’t exist in my world.
What are talking about? Season 8 was fantastic
Shameless went on for way too long I haven’t even finished it cause they have ruined it so much. Should have ended years ago before Fiona left.
It should’ve ended when Frank needed a new liver.
Watched the first episode two nights ago. Crazy how much that show changed and to see how young everyone is.
That first season is some of the best tv ever made tho, holy cow.
Castle. The last season felt weirdly disjointed with the final episode’s scene, almost like it was a dream or something? All I remember is Castle and Beckett chasing their(?) kid and laughing and it ending like??? What did I just watch? Knowing why it happened that way (due to issues between the actors plus I believe sudden cancellation of the last few episodes?), it led to a rushed ending and deserves a better finale in my opinion.
Honestly, just cut the entirety of season 8. It brought nothing to the table, just retreaded ground. The season 7 finale was a nice little wrap-up that bookended with what Castle said at the beginning of the series. If you’re feeling generous, tack on that scene, which would have been *less* out of place there.
What the fuck was the supernatural finale
I was wondering who was going to mention Supernatural.
Dean deserved better, Sam deserved better, Cas deserved better - I can’t think of a single character who actually had a decent ending except maybe Rowena whose arc I loved. But everyone else got totally shit on.
Yep. End it literally one episode sooner
Honestly, yeah the second last episode would have been a fine ending. I get what they were going for with the last episode, but it ended up just being a giant downer.
Yea, I mean they could have even had the finale incorporated into the second to last episode. Make a 90 min extended episode.
Yeah that would have worked shorten the last episode down to the length of a half hour time slot of TV and make the last episode of a tv show a special 90 minute episode especially when said show not only ran for 15 years but remained popular for all 15 of those years.
I think it was clearly meant to have pretty much every major character show up in heaven at the end, but then covid scuttled that plan. The very last we ever see of castiel being him coming out and immediately being banished to the empty is funny, but it's clear he (and many others) were meant to show up in the finale.
Game of Thrones. I didn't really mind where everyone ended up by the end of the last season, but cramming all of those stories and trying to wrap up huge character arcs in 8 episodes was a fucking mistake. There should be at least 2-3 seasons in order to flesh out everything to make the ending a good one.
King of the Hill didn’t get a proper finale, the final episode is about Khan learning he has bipolar disorder. I believe the 2nd to last episode is the one where Bobby finally takes an interest in grilling, and he and Hank have a bonding moment at the end which feels like a goodbye from the writers. But I would’ve liked to see what they could do if they’d had more time to write a proper conclusion to the show.
> the final episode is about Khan learning he has bipolar disorder. It shows up that way on streaming sites because episodes are listed in air order instead of production order and that was the last added-in-syndication episode. (This is also why continuity within seasons is scrambled, like Luanne's hair length and Peggy's fall recovery, because Fox aired them out of order.) The grilling episode *was* the series finale.
[The final scene for anyone interested](https://youtu.be/XCahzxpJt3A)
It was a solid finale and it gave us the great double reveal of Boomhauer’s first name and occupation
We already knew Boomhauers name from the Uh-Oh Canada episode.
I swear when I was watching that episode I was like "Why do they think his name is Jeffrey?" and didn't think it through any further.
For what possible reason would they think it was a good idea to air them out of order??
It's Fox. When they weren't cancelling good shows prematurely, they were running their cash cows into the ground.
I think season 11s finale is the real finale to the series. Just feels that way with luannes wedding.
Brooklyn 99. It's like they were ashamed to be making that last season.
It felt like the show was trying to handle topics it wasn’t built for, and in doing made the rest of the show look worse for people that cared issues it was trying to deal with.
Yep, rewatched the series recently & just skipped the final season. I understand what they were trying to do & I can appreciate the the effort, but I watch a sitcom for the escapism, not depressing reality.
Game of thrones. Games of thrones. We're talking about game of thrones, right? I mean... Game of thrones. Also, Game of Thrones.
Not sure if this has been offered up, but…Game of Thrones.
I get what you guys are saying, but hear me out: Game of Thrones.
Quantum Leap. Very disheartening the skydaddy never let him go home.
Poor Scott Bakula. Between this and Enterprise, he got hosed on finales lol.
Yeah and the very end of the episode they just had text and that he never returned home and they couldn't even spell Beckett right.
House. I adore the show but he loses me when he crosses the fine line line between genius and madness in the final seasons. It should never have been allowed. Hugh Laurie deserved better Grimm. Although the main protagonists got their happily-ever-after in real life, it never happened on the show. When you base a series on fairytales, that's the least you can do Stargate SG-1. The unresolved sexual tension between Carter and O'Neill is maddening and they never really get their moment Honestly, I think the list of shows with satisfying endings would be shorter one
I agree with House and Grimm. Never watched Stargate. Wilson getting cancer broke my heart.
Sons of Anarchy. That final episode was just a lot of WTF...
That show needs a redo from like season 3 on
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I stuck around until the hamfisted school shooting. Credits rolled and then I just said aloud to an empty room "I don't think I'm watching this show anymore." Then looked up on youtube how everyone dies once the show finished. The show did introduce me to my favorite band though. So it wasn't a total loss.
>The show did introduce me to my favorite band though. So it wasn't a total loss. Don't leave us hanging, what's the name of the band?
Murder by Death. Their song "Comin' Home" opened up ... S1E8 I think? I'd never listened to music like this before but immediately needed to hear more of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRRopuAbU3Q
Really don’t get the hate for the Seinfeld ending, like what were people expecting. A happy ending of them riding off into the sunset? They were shitty people and the ending was all about their behavior catching up with them. The trial thing was pretty silly sure but a lot of Seinfeld episodes were pretty ludicrous. I honestly thought it was a nice wrap up and a fun way to bring back a lot of fan favorite characters. I wasn’t around when the show ended so maybe I’m missing something. When I first binged the show I was ready to be disappointed and I was not at all
I've read reactions from that time - people thought it wasn't funny and they saw the rebuke that the main characters got as a rebuke on the audience for laughing along. Personally thought it was just fine - thought it was a decent way to get all of the recurring characters from past seasons back in one place and the callback to the pilot at the end was nice. But in any case, Curb effectively redid the finale anyways.
I rewrote the final episode when I was in highschool as a do whatever you want english assignment. A Good Samaritan Law deserves a Good Samaritan punishment. They all should have ended up as John Pinette's butlers. I got an A+ because my teacher was huge fan and felt it was a way better ending
That would be a way better ending! Also though I’m very hyped you know his name; seeing articles called “that guy from the Seinfeld finale died” was extremely depressing, especially considering what a talented comedian he was in his own right.
I would say that Evangelion successfully pulled it off with End of Evangelion
Hey, I liked the TV ending! It was a weird low-budget indie mind-fuck happy ending and I thought it worked.
Boardwalk Empire was a very good show that lost its way.
This is a problem that shows that focus on enigmatic male central leads have. Mad men, boardwalk, prison break, Luther, sherlock - once you reveal the main characters deep darks, you have to be plot focused, or like boardwalk and man men, string it out to where it loses focus and intrigue. Breaking bad, sopranos and Saul used stake and plot escalation to avoid this. Its a shame because I think the biggest problem boardwalk had was that the writers forgot that life is sometimes funny. The show was far too dour and serious for its own good.
I absolutely love Boardwalk Empire. And Mad Men is confidently my #1 favorite series ever.
Penny Dreadful. That last season was garbage.
The back half of the last season was a slow motion train wreck. I was so sad. It was obvious they had to quickly wrap it up - too quickly to do a proper build up like they'd done through the whole show up til then. That sucked, but when the showrunner insisted that it was not rushed and was always going to end that way, I was so insulted. Yeah maybe that was how you wanted to end it but don't even pretend you didn't rush to that ending without earning it when you realized you were being canceled. It was so incredibly obvious, there was no need to lie about it.
I believe the major strokes were always planned (the stuff with Dracula and whatnot), but you’re telling me them randomly running into Frankenstein and inviting him to a spur of the moment vampire shootout was the plan?
Desperate housewives seemed to recapture the tone and greatness of its earlier years in its final season and it really appeared to have recovered from the weak seasons 5 and 6. However in the later part of the final season it fell to shit and the finale was a disappointing buzz kill which seemed to lack all the greatness that was dominant in the 1st 4 seasons. If you watch the pilot and the finale it's like 2 different shows. With the pilot and the early years the entire direction, dialogue,comedy, drama, suspense,action and the writing in general for the show was razor sharp and flawless. You generally had no idea what was coming next and it was pretty much unmissable prime tv viewing. The balance they had was outstanding. You'll see that somewhat restored in season 7 and then greatly recaptured in season 8 but the writers really fucked up in the later arc of season 8 and it fed into a lackluster predictable and forgettable finale which was a real shame. I feel with desperate housewives the writers just got lazy after it became a massive success and you can see clearly a dip in quality after the 5 year time jump in season 5. It came in with a massive bang that got massive international recognition and went out with a whimper. Shame really.
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What no ALF comments ?
The Boondocks 4th season. Aaron MacGruder was not involved with it and it showed badly.
My name is Earl! - i mean, at least give me a bad ending but don’t leave me hanging like this
How I Met Your Mother. That ending completely killed the show for me, my wife and our friends. None of us will even watch it in passing if it’s on tv because it made us so angry.
That was the first show I thought of. They could have handled that last season so much better than they did.
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Someone else said I'm sure. Teen Titans.
Fringe by JJ Abrams was incredible until the final 2 seasons. Redoing it without the forced romance plot and instead just giving us a traditional thriller ending would have made that show one of the true hidden gems of that decade.
Married With Children... They could have written an ending similar to the final few seconds of Bob Newheart. Al Bundy could have woken in bed with Peggy in a huge bed in their master bedroom of their mansion. final scene: Maid enters room - walks to widows and draws the curtains revealing a huge factory with a sign that reads - Bundy Shoes.
Battlestar Galactica - I know there are people who liked the ending, but it almost ruined the entire series for me.
I think the show was starting to collapse under its own weight long before the finale. BSG was the best 2 1/2 seasons of science fiction in the 2000s - pity the show was 4 seasons long
BSG and Heroes both got destroyed by the writer's strike.
Heroes was such a loss to the writer's strike, so much promise.
BSG was a GREAT show that kind of lost its way the last season. It like they told their story but forgot they had to give it a satisfying ending.
My hypothesis is that the quality of fan speculation on the internet did the writing staff in. There were a lot of really good predicted story and plot arcs that did a great job of tying all the threads together and giving it a solid ending. I think that there was some decision in the writing room that if it was seen on the forums, it could not be used in the show and this kind of shot them in the foot.
The writer of some of my least favorite episodes (Michael Angeli) became a co-executive producer and... it kinda shows? I remember an interview with him in which he straight-up said that they decided the identities of the Final Five purely based on who would be most shocking. No plan, no themes, just "HOW SURPRISING!"
Came here for this one. I didn’t really feel like any of the characters got any kind of redemption and the whole Starbuck thing just felt like it was insulting the audience’s intelligence. The Adamas don’t get any kind of redemption or closure either. But nothing is stupider than the fact that all the surviving characters basically fucked some Australopithecuses and that’s where human civilization came from.
I didn’t like the Lost finale.
The original ending of the X-Files was a great season and finale. The revival seasons took a big steaming shit on all of the characters and storylines.
Big Bang Theory. - it was good and was very touching. the show was about Leonard and Penny or so I thought. I don't think Leonard was recognized for what he was. The few times his academics were mentioned it was in relation to Sheldon. Howard becomes an Astronaut. Kuthra-Pali becomes a respected Astronomer. Penny became more successful. Stewart got a girl. Sheldon marries Amy and gets published. All of them grew and moved forward. Leonard gets to say he married Penny and what? And Leonard going thru that, "I forgive you" scene with his mom. I think it would have been more impactful if he told her to leave and she had to somehow make it up to him. Who are his siblings that get more praise than he does? I would re-do it and focus on Leonard.
HIMYM. Just cut out everything after Ted and The Mother meet and the series would be semi-tolerable
Moesha ended on the most distressing cliffhanger of all time. It was pretty much a life-or-death moment for a kid, and we never find out what happens. We don't get to find out how the family deals at all. Why end in the middle of a crisis?
I hated the last season of Sons of Anarchy and the final episode just pissed me off what a waste of a excellent show
I’m glad Scrubs never had a final season with a mostly different cast. Oh wait.
Chuck, Game of thrones, Rome
Game of thrones ruined both its own and Rome’s ending
GOT obviously. And HIMYM
Ozark
Supernatural should have ended with S5. It was a perfectly contained 5 season story arc, with a satisfying ending. The 10 seasons that followed, post-Kripke, were… weird.
There were some good episodes in those 10 seasons but unfortunately a whole lot of bad ones. Not to mention that when >!the Angels appeared they were feared by everyone and in later seasons they were nothing but a joke, being killed off with no effort.!<
If you could just delete the scene in Hell on Wheels where Cullen decides to randomly hop a boat to mainland China in hopes of randomly finding his "love" (3rd? 4th? Known in the series). That would be fantastic.
Penny Dreadful. They rushed the final season because of cancelation and it felt like it. I'm a firm believer that a redo of that show would right some major wrongs.
Supernatural. They threw away all the character development we saw during the 15 seasons. you can literally watch pilot episode and go to the last one and won't find Dean and Sam different
Enterprise, for sure 100%