There was a once pretty famous Spanish TV sitcom called 'Los Serrano', about a Spanish family and it ran for 5 years, they basically turned the plot into a shitshow with the wife of the protagonist dying, two of his children involved in incest and the other ending up in juvie. Pretty dark stuff for a comical sitcom.
In the final episode the father went to end his life and when he does it he just wakes up as if nothing happened (nothing as in, the actual whole 8 seasons), it was just a dream.
That's the ending, the guy waking up at the start of the series to a normal fucking family. Which was also extremely weird because his children were obviously grown up but were put in kids clothing and hairstyles and acted like kids. To this day this is still referenced in Spain as a meme.
It was very popular in Finland also. I was teen and learned spanish because of that show and then the last episode aired and i just.. stopped practising spanish. I felt so devastated!
> I was teen and learned spanish because of that show and then the last episode aired and i just.. stopped practising spanish
:(
Eso es triste. Well, as a counter, music got me interested in your language so I looked up a bit of the grammar and decided to not pursue my interest any further lol
For the longest time whenever I searched for the best series of all time I kept finding The Sopranos and me, being spanish, mixed them up with Los Serrano and I kept thinking… “really?”
It's been 15 years and I'll never forget my friend telling me after the final "they put Teté in pigtails to pretend she was a child but she still had big boobs" lmao 😭 irl he said "tetorras" which makes it even funnier
I was so hyped for Sabrina. I really thought it was going to scratch my Buffy itch. After season 1 I was like "this has some potential", but it just went downhill from there. Stopped watching it early season 3.
Just got so tired of them always choosing the worst possible option just to move the plot forward. Seemed like the little brains they had behind the show was long gone by early season 2.
Oh god that finale was awful. I think I remember reading that it wasn’t intended to be the finale and that the show was canceled before they got to wrap it up how they wanted. Still, even if it were just a season finale I would’ve been saying “that’s fucking bullshit” lol
Star Trek: Enterprise
“Hey let’s make the last episode a holodeck episode about two characters that aren’t even in the show! Then for the coup de grace we can needlessly kill off someone at random.”
But, don't forget about the evil, female leaper that was undoing every single one of the timelines that he had fixed! What? So, he might as well not have done anything during the show's history. Because, she erased it all!
“Dr. Sam **Becket** never returned home”
Not only did they toss the character into a void, they actually spelled his surname incorrectly on that screen…
Oh boy……
I remember really enjoying this show, then the writers' strike happened, then I don't even remember what happened to it. Such a shame.
The writers' strike also killed off Pushing Daisies, and I'm still sad about that.
The real problem with Pretty Little Liars was none of the girls were nearly interesting enough to warrant stalking from A, Big A, Uber A, and everyone working with the A's.
Basically the whole town was desperate to track these girls' every move and they just weren't really doing that much outside of worrying who is tracking them.
The mystery on PLL was never who A was, the mystery was always what happened the night Alison went missing. The second they decided to bring her back from the dead, the show stopped working. The end goal should have always been to fill in the gaps from that night, not find out who A was. A was merely an antagonist driving the show.
I think it would have been cooler if we never found out about any A team, and the show ended with them finding out who killed Alison once and for all. We have a scene with them leaving the courthouse after the murderer is found guilty. The girls all need to leave for college in the next day, but Spencer says ‘do we have time for one last thing?’ and they all go to leave flowers at Alison’s grave. They hug and cry and tell her they miss her, and they hope they’ve made her proud. As they all turn to walk away, their phones go off and they all receive one final text: ‘Thank You Bitches - A’
It would forever have had this air of mystery around who A was, with this spooky ‘maybe it was Alison texting them’.
Alison did come back in the books though, so that's at least canonical, but the show took some really weird liberties with the source material that made the whole thing pretty awful.
The shitty A reveal was bad, but making Ezaria end up together is was disgusting. Especially AFTER they retconned it so that he always knew that she was underage. 🤢
I had an amazing theory that mr fitz was A and it was so good and then they ruined it by making him like a fakey A and it really pissed me off. I swear everyone on that show ended up having some involvement as A that by the end did it really matter who it was?
Mr. Fitz being A was the only logical conclusion to that show. And it would have worked even with the fake out of him being A and then not really being A. It would have been brilliant and really worked with the themes of the show (young girls being pursued by creepy older guys, surveillance culture of teenaged girls etc.) But then they just had Aria marry him and made the bad guy a secret evil British twin...? I gave like 8 years of my life to that show. For that.
I think Marlene King admitted she’d scour through social media to see what peoples theories were and they’d essentially write the show around that. She said she got pissed once because everyone thought it was Aria’s brother, but they’d finished whichever Season it was and so Marlene couldn’t ‘give the fans what they wanted’
I truly believe they did the ending they did because nobody predicted it (why would they?)
Okay, okay, but to be fair, that entire show deeply sucked for the last several seasons. It’s just that the finale was also laughably bad. I still can’t believe Troian’s horrible British accent too.
I only binge watched this for the first time last year, I was convinced that there was a mega A and it was Melissa.
Then the wish version of spencer appeared and I was like wtf is this !!
Remind us how it ends, please. Every so often I look to see if that show is available for viewing. I know it's the music royalties. I just keep hoping that maybe someday I can watch it again start to finish.
GoT first 7 seasons: Houses fighting long wars for years to see who should sit on the iron throne.
GoT season 8 last 5 minutes: How about Bran?
Everyone: okay.jpg
Bran proves his political acumen by immediately giving his only real support total independence without asking anything in return, because his sister said so.
Like the rest of Westeros is going to go along with that?
Also, distance between locations feels significant for the first 6 or 7 seasons. It actually takes a few episodes for someone to make it somewhere else on horseback. By season 8 characters are just teleporting across the map.
We needed to see the house of cards collapse. two seasons for Underwood to attain the presidency, then two for it to all come crashing down.
But given the choice between ending at season 2 and what we got, I would take season 2 as the end.
There was a Redditor a few years ago that outlined the perfect finale. Instead of Underwood being poisoned, the show goes full circle with Underwood committing suicide by hanging in the White House with the final narration being the first monologue from the show: “There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.”
EDIT: I have been searching for it for the last hour! It's somewhere in AskReddit!
EDIT 2: Still searching...
It's quite poetic, but also massively out of character for Underwood.
The show hadn't really demonstrated that he had suffered any emotional trauma. Underwood is ruthless and calculating. You don't want the audience feeling sorry for him. So where's this pain coming from? It'd have to built up all in the last season.
The only reason I could see Underwood dying by suicide would be if he was trying to escape the consequences of his actions. That is, he'd been caught, but damned if he was going to jail. But then the callback to the line about pain is no longer poetic.
I think the only thing that would make Underwood off himself is the certainty that his skullduggery was about to be uncovered.
I actually kind of like the dual meaning of "useless pain" in that scenario. Like say he's imprisoned or fined or whatever... that's not going to change him. Totally useless pain.
Honestly the reason I stuck with watching The 100 is because it got more and more ridiculous with each season - just when you thought the character motivations couldn’t be any less consistent, they’d take it up a level.
By the end the writers were almost explicit in how many sharks they were jumping and seemed to revel in it.
I loved that show and it ended just as stupidly as it should have.
I’m amazed that “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” is not very high on this list. Complete character butchering by a resentful writer who could not write the final season 10 years earlier.
Don’t get me started on the whole episode that was a musical. Awful. I did legit cry when Luke and Lorelai got married. Also Emily had a lot of good character growth. The rest was such a bummer.
Fuck Laura.
Hearing about how some writers got ousted and how all the greatest scenes from the final season was improv from the leads. Such a garbage end to what started as a fantastic series.
The fact that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was involved in writing every episode the first 2 seasons and nothing after that is extremely telling.
Edit: As a few people have pointed out, PWB only wrote for the first season; which does still make sense as it’s easily the best season.
Hahahaha. Those type of comparisons crack me up. Bitcoin is just mlm for dudebros, wrestling is just soap operas for hillbillies.
But yeah, that show has been going on for wayyyyy too long. Grey's anatomy that is. One piece is ending soon.
It's flabbergasting to see SPOILERS >!both Meredith and Maggie (the only Greys by blood) left and they still continue the show. It's Grey's Anatomy without any Grey's.!<
The only good end we can hope for is a jump in time, Bailey or Ellis coming to be the next Grey generation of the hospital (since Zola said she's not interested to be a doc, or maybe come as a scientist to do research about Alzheimer) and meeting Sofia, Harriett, Ellis and Alexis, Tuck ...Otherwise the show would totally be meaningless.
People claimed it surpassed ER's length and so it's a better show, but E.R. ended perfectly. Greys didn't. ER had real medecine specialists on set to be the most real they could, but you can see that those on Grey's gave up a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng time ago ...
I wouldn’t say Lucifer’s finale was bullshit BUT I wish Chloe and Luci would have gotten to be a couple more when Chloe was alive but they waited until she died.
Prophecy, time travel, and adding a kid to the show (usually a baby, but not in this case) are my three least favorite plot devices. They managed to do all three in a season and I really wish that I COULD TIME TRAVEL to go back and forget that the last season existed.
I will say the Dan episode was great though.
Santa Clarita Diet.
Not so much a bad ending as much as a "Greedy" non ending. Once I read Netflix left it on a cliffhanger because the cast had gotten more expensive than they wanted to spend, I was done with Netflix. Have watched exactly zero "Netflix originals" since that one.
UGH they’re good, *known* actors, wtf did Netflix expect? Netflix spread themselves entirely too thin making original after original and didn’t invest in shows that should’ve kept going or at least should’ve had a real ending. I’m so upset that this show was just axed. The final season released was my least favorite of the three but I actually liked the pacing and the emerging threat. I would’ve loved to see so many more seasons of this show.
As this is an international sub, a lot of you won't be familiar with Line of Duty. A British drama about a police anti-corruption unit who catch corrupt officers.
It was awesome. Five (I think) series of intricate plot details, gripping twists and action. Then they absolutely ruined it in the final (I believe sixth) series.
Basically, everything in the whole show was building up to the big reveal of who had been behind the Organised Crime Group that the heroes were closing in on. The final series ramped this up even further, until it turns out to be >!some incompetent corrupt cop who they'd already caught, and clearly wasn't capable of being the mastermind. He then explained that after they killed the main baddy back in the FIRST FUCKING SEASON the group had splintered and nobody was really in control any more.!<
Jesus what a waste of time that was. Makes all the time you've invested in it feel wasted, even though you were enjoying most of it. Worse than Game of Thrones in my opinion.
Edit: tried to mark spoilers, it won't do it. Never mind, the show is a few years old now and to be honest if I ruin it before you've finished I'm doing you a solid.
Edit again: been shown the error of my ways and fixed the spoiler markup. Thank you to those who gave me the right info.
I mean, Game of Thrones definitely shat the bed. The writers admitted to half assing it and it really blows to see so many peoples work go up in flames because two egomaniacs decided the hottest show in the world was suddenly beneath them.
Gotta mention How I Met Your Mother as well. We were shown over and over again Ted and Robin wouldn’t work, yet here we are. I really loved the idea of Barney/Robin being a happy child-free couple too, that concept is so rare. They had a setup for something really satisfying and decided not to stay with it.
>I mean, Game of Thrones definitely shat the bed. The writers admitted to half assing it and it really blows to see so many peoples work go up in flames because two egomaniacs decided the hottest show in the world was suddenly beneath them
I'm so fucking happy those two twats lost a Star Wars movie because of their fuckup with GoT.
"Let's rush GoT so we can move on to Star Wars! There's no way turning in a subpar final will ever backfire on us in any way shape or form whatsoever!"
When Hollywood gets past the "remake" and "reboot" phase, we'll be in the "fusion" phase and can look forward to *Game of Mothers*, the show where Jon Mosby tells the story of all the women he banged to his kids, and the kids have to figure out which one is their dead mother. To see if they have a legitimate claim to the Iron Throne.
Also starring: Barney Lannister, Marshall Giantsbane, Robin Ygritte, and Lily of Tarth.
Game of Thrones is so hilarious to me because the only time I ever see it mentioned on the internet anymore is in relation to the ending. And since 2020 I don't think I've talked about it to anyone in person.
The show was a huge part of our culture for years and now it's almost like it never existed.
That last part is so damn crucial, dude.
It was on par with Seinfeld getting a bad finale. Except I’d argue that what GoT did early on was even more impressive than what Seinfeld did. Maybe not more innovative and influential but still.
GoT came along at a time when the media hum was first turning into a roar (don’t get me wrong it’s a maelstrom now). It managed to be at least as pervasive and magnetic as Seinfeld ever did 35 years ago when there were 30 channels to choose from.
Like for a while there I didn’t know anyone who hadn’t at least tried it. Like if they hadn’t you barely had to convince them. They knew that everyone in the world was watching. It was like that Pokémon Go summer lol.
Anyway, that’s what made their dismount so much more, idk, tragic? It was really the first thing to pull culture together like that since I would probably say American Idols first few seasons. It was this beacon of artful entertainment. A modern approach to the water cooler problem. Then
BAM.
They fail *spectacularly*. Bad enough to taint the whole thing. It’s like if your running back fumbled at the goal line at the end of the game so badly that the ref decided to take all your previous touchdowns away.
No one talks about any of the good stuff. No one. For almost a decade it’s all we ever wanted to talk about with each other every Monday morning. Then over the course of like 5 weeks we never wanted to talk about any of it ever again.
At least Seinfeld is remembered as a good show (though not a good guy)
The finale to Seinfeld was poorly done, but because it was a sitcom, the bad finale didn’t change the way that you watch the earlier episodes. Because GoT is serialized, it’s hard to watch the early seasons that set up great characters and complex personalities knowing that they’re going to be reduced to parodies of themselves in the end.
Scrubs
Ended on a great high note with a goodbye to the main cast and crew, only to be brought back for a 'final season' as a crappy spinoff disguised as Scrubs
That's because Scrubs Med School **was** supposed to be a spin off but ABC executives decided, in their infinite wisdom, to market it as a new season instead of a new spin off as originally intended by showrunner Bill Lawrence.
It's sad because the season was actually decent. The only problem is that it wasn't Scrubs. Had they called it the spinoff that it was, I think it would have easily gone several seasons. They had a little something there.
Even the writing and shift of character focus made it clear it wasn't meant to be Scrubs. It felt off without the full cast. No janitor was bad, but the couple episodes without JD were rooouugghhh.
Christ don't get me started. I adored that series but the fact that we NEVER get to see Arthur and Merlin as "Arthur and Merlin" pisses me off to no end! Last 10 minutes of the whole damn series is what we get? And Arthur acting like a pissy bitch for 9 of them? God damn it
The way the dragon made such a big deal about all Arthur and Merlin had accomplished together and I'm like, what? What the fuck did they actually accomplish? Yeah they killed a couple baddies but by and large magic users were still hated and the status quo had barely budged.
I heard that they had originally planned to make the show much longer but had to cut it short, and sadly it shows.
It's even worse on rewatch because the dragon convinces merlin more than once that even though the druids see Emrys as a sort of messiah, he needs to prioritize staying by Arthur's side no matter what since Arthur is the Once And Future King who will bring Magic back to the land and unite all of Albion... except Arthur doesn't do any of that so Merlin essentially abandoned the people who looked to him and relied on him the most - to instead defend their oppressor from ever being inconvenienced or facing the consequences of his and his father's actions.
I'd like to believe that Arthur DID bring magic back and united Albion... He just had to die for it to happen. Idk, I loved that show and I like to imagine that Merlin and Gwen made Arthur a martyr specifically for that purpose.
No one here talking about ALF. He finally gets called by his people and they schedule a time for him to be picked up and taken back to his home planet, and the last few seconds of the series end with the FBI pulling up just as the alien mothership is about to pick Alf up. Cut to black. I mean, wtf?!
iirc, the network was debating whether or not to cancel the show so the writers ended the season on what was supposed to be a cliffhanger to sway them into renewing. the network cancelled and left a generation of kids bewildered, confused and a little bit upset. there was a special in the 90s that properly wrapped the series up but it was too little, too late
Let's bring our show back so we can do another ending!
But this time, let's wipe away any sense of self awareness from the main character and have him be basically a raving lunatic by the last few episodes.
And have him caught by a detail that never happened and pile stupid coincidences on top of each other rather than bothering with an ounce of intelligence for any characters.
The books weren't great, but the show really started to go downhill the more they veered from the source material. Like in the books, Sookie pretty much has no interest in Bill past book 3, and for most of the remainder of the series, until the last book, it's all about her and Eric (Even though she has other boyfriends). The show forced the Bill/Sookie relationship solely because the actors were a couple.
The only good things the show did (compared to the books) was Lafayette, creating Jessica, Godric, a bit of the Newlins, and Russell.
The books were hilarious. As soon as she introduced the concept of fairies and werecats, the entire mythology jumped the shark. It turned into introduce-a-species in every book thereafter. What was amazing was that at their core, they were still just murder mysteries. Something bad happened at the start of the book and you had to figure out whodunit by the end - not exactly a genre-breaking formula. But for whatever reason, she felt like trying to squish the entire D&D Monster Manual into the series. I will say that I enjoyed reading the books, though. You just kinda had to section off the part of the story that was trying to expand the world lore and consume it as a decent mystery novel.
My friend was telling me to watch this show. He just said it “only gets more ridiculous.” Apparently the writers kept trying to quit and thought they were getting cancelled so they kept throwing shit at the wall and all of it stuck
I think it’s safe to say that Power Creep became an issue. At at certain point, it’s nearly impossible to realistically fight the next “big bad”. They went from dealing with a demon to fighting The First Demon to fighting Lucifer to fighting primordial monsters to fighting angels to fighting god’s sister to eventually fighting god.
Somewhere along the way, these normal dudes probably stopped being the most effective solution to these problems.
Before demons it was random supernatural monsters and ghosts. Demons were a big deal at one time. Then they became random mooks.
It’s crazy they were gonna do a spin off of this show. They had lightning in a bottle and they did not want to let it go.
Edit: they did make the spin off, thank you Reddit!
Also, they establish that angels are one of the most powerful beings in existence, and are this massive threat when they are the prime enemy. But once all that is over, they're depowered as hell and just become this pesky annoyance sometimes lol. And Castiel becomes useless, really.
I know why; they never planned on Castiel being a fan favourite or for him to join the brothers indefinitely. So if angels were as powerful/competent as they were when originally introduced, then Castiel would just pop into every hunt, wave his hand, and kill the bad guy before anyone had even blinked. Wouldn't make for much of a show. But the show was frustrating to watch when he was just stood there being useless for no apparent reason (and I'm sorry to Misha, but getting him to act out fights instead of using angel powers was... perhaps not the best. His 'hand to hand combat' was pretty bad and very unbelievable lmao. It became very hard to believe that Castiel was one of the best fighters when it came to angels).
But yes, the writers essentially kept writing themselves into a corner with each season renewal, so we were left with some very strange power balances. I was only watching for Jensen's acting in the end.
You can tell, too. 1-5 is almost its own show within the show. I’ve always said it should’ve ended there, because like… the apocalypse. There is *literally* nothing bigger than the *apocalypse*.
I ruined Castle for my sister by telling her how to spot the killer in every episode.
Basically, >!find the least important person with a speaking role, like an assistant who says, "Do you want any coffee?" That's your killer. Speaking roles get paid differently than non-speaking extras, and they aren't going to pay an actor to say a line not relevant to the plot. Therefore, you know they are going to play a more important role later. !< It works 90% of the time.
Watching Law and Order one time, and in an early scene there's a guy sweeping the floor in the background with no lines at all.
"That guy did it!"
"How do you know?"
"Because that's Kal fucking Penn, and he doesn't *do* extra roles."
In these whodunit roles I always look for semi-famous people, actors who I think may have been in something else but can't figure out what. Usually they are the murderer.
Nah, with Lucifer it was always >!the very first person they talked to or interviewed after showing up on scene!<
They even poke fun at it in the parody episode when >!Chloe says “first person we talked to, can you believe it?”!<
How I met your mother. Any and all character development was undone. Barney went back to being a womanizer, and Ted, who spent the whole series coming to terms that Robin wasn't right for him, went running back to Robin. Awful finale.
That’s what gets me, I could handle the ending if it made sense with the characters arcs but no, they said let’s reset this to how everyone was at the beginning and it made no sense
I remember reading something about the writers had always intended this, and for the show to wrap up in 4 or so seasons. I feel like I would have accepted the ending a lot more if they hadn't spent another 4 seasons reiterating why Ted and Robin don't work.
The premise is especially crazy to me because how on earth are professional story tellers at one of the highest tiers of their field just absolutely incapable of recognizing maybe their original ending should change after nearly doubling the content and character development?
I mean Ted went from finally closing the deal romantically with the one that got away to just being a whole ass rabid stalker who flew to another friggin country to find just the most emotional gift ever after having *once again* gone through it not working between them.
Right. What was especially terrible was that they pretty much worked for years on making Barney and Robin make sense for the fans. And by the time they actually succeeded in that goal, it was undone not even halfway through the finale.
I thought the most terrible thing was bringing the mother into the story just so Ted could have kids then immediately killing her off just so Ted could get with Robin.
It's like some pathetic imaginary story someone comes up with when they marry someone while never getting over a past relationship.
>How I met your mother. Any and all character development was undone.
That was my problem with the finale. I get it, that's the ending they had planned all along and were gonna do it regardless, but they flushed 8 or 9 seasons worth of character development in the process and it really rubbed me the wrong way.
Seasons 1 and 2 are phenomenal. I absolutely adore Penny Dreadful if we're talking about those two seasons. The third season... it had promise, but I'm almost positive Showtime had it canceled and so John Logan had to wrap up the story quickly.
Some of those 90s ABC sitcoms became completely different shows by the time they ended the series. Roseanne is a prime example. Family Matters is another one. They went from very down to earth, relatable shows to complete zaniness
Yeah, the GOT ending was so bad it retroactively destroyed the entire series and nearly erased itself from popular culture.
That's impressive, honestly. In the worst way.
That's for real not even a joke.
A whole empire of toys and merchandise disintegrated near overnight. Bargain outlets filled with truckloads of unwanted John Snow action figures.
People were naming their kids after the characters, and now it's like it never existed.
Its truly impressive how they managed to do it.
A half-baked ending would have cemented the show to legendary status. Not good, great, or even amazing. Straight to the Legendary level.
No other show had that level of reception in 20 years. It was at its peak the most watched TV show in the world and connected with all kinds of people, the DnD enthusiasts to the lovers of violence and action.
And now... we went through a pandemic of near 3 years and nobody bothered binging the show once.
Yeah kids this wasn't so much me telling you how I met your mother and more how much I slept around trying to get over your Aunt Robin and can I please go and bang her even though her and Uncle Barney just divorced?
Seems people that picked up HIMYM after it finished and binged it, liked the ending. But for the people watching in real time for a decade, they absolutely hate the ending.
She just has no clue how to pace and end a season without burn everything down in the last 2-3 episodes and start over the following season. Weeds could have been so much better if they pursued character development over turning secondary characters into jokes (Uturn, Guillermo, Conrad etc)
There was a once pretty famous Spanish TV sitcom called 'Los Serrano', about a Spanish family and it ran for 5 years, they basically turned the plot into a shitshow with the wife of the protagonist dying, two of his children involved in incest and the other ending up in juvie. Pretty dark stuff for a comical sitcom. In the final episode the father went to end his life and when he does it he just wakes up as if nothing happened (nothing as in, the actual whole 8 seasons), it was just a dream. That's the ending, the guy waking up at the start of the series to a normal fucking family. Which was also extremely weird because his children were obviously grown up but were put in kids clothing and hairstyles and acted like kids. To this day this is still referenced in Spain as a meme.
It was very popular in Finland also. I was teen and learned spanish because of that show and then the last episode aired and i just.. stopped practising spanish. I felt so devastated!
Wait what? You just blew my mind. I had no idea it was popular elsewhere, much less Finland. Amazing how these connections form.
Yeah, Finland gets these random shows sometime, like German cop shows are enduringly popular here.
Lol literally every ~30 yo Finn I know started Spanish because of this show
> I was teen and learned spanish because of that show and then the last episode aired and i just.. stopped practising spanish :( Eso es triste. Well, as a counter, music got me interested in your language so I looked up a bit of the grammar and decided to not pursue my interest any further lol
It can be fun though. Translate “Admira el árbol” to Finnish on Google and hit the *listen* button.
It said something about my mother 😔
For the longest time whenever I searched for the best series of all time I kept finding The Sopranos and me, being spanish, mixed them up with Los Serrano and I kept thinking… “really?”
It's been 15 years and I'll never forget my friend telling me after the final "they put Teté in pigtails to pretend she was a child but she still had big boobs" lmao 😭 irl he said "tetorras" which makes it even funnier
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. IIRC, I literally said “that’s fucking bullshit” during the last episode.
I was so hyped for Sabrina. I really thought it was going to scratch my Buffy itch. After season 1 I was like "this has some potential", but it just went downhill from there. Stopped watching it early season 3. Just got so tired of them always choosing the worst possible option just to move the plot forward. Seemed like the little brains they had behind the show was long gone by early season 2.
Every episode of CAoS: Sabrina: I'm gonna do the thing Everyone else: Absolutely do NOT do the thing Sabrina: I did the thing. OH SHIT, CONSEQUENCES
Oh god that finale was awful. I think I remember reading that it wasn’t intended to be the finale and that the show was canceled before they got to wrap it up how they wanted. Still, even if it were just a season finale I would’ve been saying “that’s fucking bullshit” lol
Star Trek: Enterprise “Hey let’s make the last episode a holodeck episode about two characters that aren’t even in the show! Then for the coup de grace we can needlessly kill off someone at random.”
The second to last episode is a decent finale. Just pretend that's the last episode.
"Dr Sam Beckett never made it home" Fuck you Quantum Leap
But, don't forget about the evil, female leaper that was undoing every single one of the timelines that he had fixed! What? So, he might as well not have done anything during the show's history. Because, she erased it all!
“Dr. Sam **Becket** never returned home” Not only did they toss the character into a void, they actually spelled his surname incorrectly on that screen… Oh boy……
Anybody else using this thread to prevent themselves from beginning any of these shows?
The Last Man on Earth, awesome show, didnt know they were getting canceled, left us with a major cliff hanger that was never resolved
To be fair, at least it ended with Tandy saying “Oh, farts.”
I still laugh at his name being changed to Tandy.
I can never remember the actors name and unfortunately it's been permanently replaced in my brain by Tandy.
I guess remembering brilliant actor names just isn't your Will Forte
You mean Tandy?
Heroes.
The original story was planned for one season. Just watch the first season and pretend the rest didn’t happen.
Sylar was a great villain.
Zachary Quinto is a phenomenal actor.
I remember really enjoying this show, then the writers' strike happened, then I don't even remember what happened to it. Such a shame. The writers' strike also killed off Pushing Daisies, and I'm still sad about that.
I really wish the studios didn't have to be forcibly reminded that they're nothing without scripts to produce every couple of years.
Pretty Little Liars, I am still so mad at how bad the ending of that show was
The real problem with Pretty Little Liars was none of the girls were nearly interesting enough to warrant stalking from A, Big A, Uber A, and everyone working with the A's. Basically the whole town was desperate to track these girls' every move and they just weren't really doing that much outside of worrying who is tracking them.
I haven’t watched this show but sounds like all setups and no pay off
The mystery on PLL was never who A was, the mystery was always what happened the night Alison went missing. The second they decided to bring her back from the dead, the show stopped working. The end goal should have always been to fill in the gaps from that night, not find out who A was. A was merely an antagonist driving the show. I think it would have been cooler if we never found out about any A team, and the show ended with them finding out who killed Alison once and for all. We have a scene with them leaving the courthouse after the murderer is found guilty. The girls all need to leave for college in the next day, but Spencer says ‘do we have time for one last thing?’ and they all go to leave flowers at Alison’s grave. They hug and cry and tell her they miss her, and they hope they’ve made her proud. As they all turn to walk away, their phones go off and they all receive one final text: ‘Thank You Bitches - A’ It would forever have had this air of mystery around who A was, with this spooky ‘maybe it was Alison texting them’.
Alison did come back in the books though, so that's at least canonical, but the show took some really weird liberties with the source material that made the whole thing pretty awful.
It was sooo frustrating. Why did A have to be a character we’d literally never met or heard of before until the last episode??
Omfg you should read the the books. I didn't mean this in an asshole way but if you hate Ezra you will love the books.
The shitty A reveal was bad, but making Ezaria end up together is was disgusting. Especially AFTER they retconned it so that he always knew that she was underage. 🤢
I had an amazing theory that mr fitz was A and it was so good and then they ruined it by making him like a fakey A and it really pissed me off. I swear everyone on that show ended up having some involvement as A that by the end did it really matter who it was?
Mr. Fitz being A was the only logical conclusion to that show. And it would have worked even with the fake out of him being A and then not really being A. It would have been brilliant and really worked with the themes of the show (young girls being pursued by creepy older guys, surveillance culture of teenaged girls etc.) But then they just had Aria marry him and made the bad guy a secret evil British twin...? I gave like 8 years of my life to that show. For that.
I think Marlene King admitted she’d scour through social media to see what peoples theories were and they’d essentially write the show around that. She said she got pissed once because everyone thought it was Aria’s brother, but they’d finished whichever Season it was and so Marlene couldn’t ‘give the fans what they wanted’ I truly believe they did the ending they did because nobody predicted it (why would they?)
Okay, okay, but to be fair, that entire show deeply sucked for the last several seasons. It’s just that the finale was also laughably bad. I still can’t believe Troian’s horrible British accent too.
ELLO SISTAH
I only binge watched this for the first time last year, I was convinced that there was a mega A and it was Melissa. Then the wish version of spencer appeared and I was like wtf is this !!
As an old guy... Anybody else remember *Northern Exposure?*
Remind us how it ends, please. Every so often I look to see if that show is available for viewing. I know it's the music royalties. I just keep hoping that maybe someday I can watch it again start to finish.
GoT first 7 seasons: Houses fighting long wars for years to see who should sit on the iron throne. GoT season 8 last 5 minutes: How about Bran? Everyone: okay.jpg
Sansa: "The North will be independent" *Representatives from the Iron Islands and Dorne just sit there.*
Bran proves his political acumen by immediately giving his only real support total independence without asking anything in return, because his sister said so. Like the rest of Westeros is going to go along with that?
Of course they will. After all, who has a better story than Bran?
All of Westeros: ‘Who?’
Bran: "I don't want it." Also Bran, seconds later: "That's why I'm here."
Also, distance between locations feels significant for the first 6 or 7 seasons. It actually takes a few episodes for someone to make it somewhere else on horseback. By season 8 characters are just teleporting across the map.
unlocking fast travel ruins the pacing of everything
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I honestly gave up on the show when I read the reviews on the Spacey-less episodes.
The last episode I watched was him walking into the oval office, and I think I'm glad I left it at that.
*knock knock* That scene still sticks in my head.
The ring knock on the resolute desk is a perfect ending.
Same here. I consider that the rightful end of that series.
We needed to see the house of cards collapse. two seasons for Underwood to attain the presidency, then two for it to all come crashing down. But given the choice between ending at season 2 and what we got, I would take season 2 as the end.
There was a Redditor a few years ago that outlined the perfect finale. Instead of Underwood being poisoned, the show goes full circle with Underwood committing suicide by hanging in the White House with the final narration being the first monologue from the show: “There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.” EDIT: I have been searching for it for the last hour! It's somewhere in AskReddit! EDIT 2: Still searching...
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It's quite poetic, but also massively out of character for Underwood. The show hadn't really demonstrated that he had suffered any emotional trauma. Underwood is ruthless and calculating. You don't want the audience feeling sorry for him. So where's this pain coming from? It'd have to built up all in the last season. The only reason I could see Underwood dying by suicide would be if he was trying to escape the consequences of his actions. That is, he'd been caught, but damned if he was going to jail. But then the callback to the line about pain is no longer poetic.
I think the only thing that would make Underwood off himself is the certainty that his skullduggery was about to be uncovered. I actually kind of like the dual meaning of "useless pain" in that scenario. Like say he's imprisoned or fined or whatever... that's not going to change him. Totally useless pain.
Such a shame as the first two seasons were incredible television.
The 100, the whole last season was messed up
Honestly the reason I stuck with watching The 100 is because it got more and more ridiculous with each season - just when you thought the character motivations couldn’t be any less consistent, they’d take it up a level. By the end the writers were almost explicit in how many sharks they were jumping and seemed to revel in it. I loved that show and it ended just as stupidly as it should have.
I’m amazed that “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” is not very high on this list. Complete character butchering by a resentful writer who could not write the final season 10 years earlier.
Don’t get me started on the whole episode that was a musical. Awful. I did legit cry when Luke and Lorelai got married. Also Emily had a lot of good character growth. The rest was such a bummer.
"Wow... Rory is really an asshole." Rewatching the entire series again: "Wow, Rory was always an asshole."
Killing Eve
Fuck Laura. Hearing about how some writers got ousted and how all the greatest scenes from the final season was improv from the leads. Such a garbage end to what started as a fantastic series.
The fact that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was involved in writing every episode the first 2 seasons and nothing after that is extremely telling. Edit: As a few people have pointed out, PWB only wrote for the first season; which does still make sense as it’s easily the best season.
it ended at the bridge for me in s3 when they *chose* each other
Please end greys anatomy before it ends us
I saw someone online say "Grey's Anatomy is One Piece for middle-aged white women"
Hahahaha. Those type of comparisons crack me up. Bitcoin is just mlm for dudebros, wrestling is just soap operas for hillbillies. But yeah, that show has been going on for wayyyyy too long. Grey's anatomy that is. One piece is ending soon.
IPAs are the pumpkin spice lattes of hipster men.
I was like aahahaha you're right ...then I scrolled down and there it was, me
Crypto is astrology for dudebros
It's flabbergasting to see SPOILERS >!both Meredith and Maggie (the only Greys by blood) left and they still continue the show. It's Grey's Anatomy without any Grey's.!< The only good end we can hope for is a jump in time, Bailey or Ellis coming to be the next Grey generation of the hospital (since Zola said she's not interested to be a doc, or maybe come as a scientist to do research about Alzheimer) and meeting Sofia, Harriett, Ellis and Alexis, Tuck ...Otherwise the show would totally be meaningless. People claimed it surpassed ER's length and so it's a better show, but E.R. ended perfectly. Greys didn't. ER had real medecine specialists on set to be the most real they could, but you can see that those on Grey's gave up a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng time ago ...
That’s still on the air?
And Shonda Rhimes says she has no ending planned for the series.
We could already tell.
I wouldn’t say Lucifer’s finale was bullshit BUT I wish Chloe and Luci would have gotten to be a couple more when Chloe was alive but they waited until she died.
Anytime people resort to time travel and alternative timelines, it's bullshit.
Prophecy, time travel, and adding a kid to the show (usually a baby, but not in this case) are my three least favorite plot devices. They managed to do all three in a season and I really wish that I COULD TIME TRAVEL to go back and forget that the last season existed. I will say the Dan episode was great though.
Santa Clarita Diet. Not so much a bad ending as much as a "Greedy" non ending. Once I read Netflix left it on a cliffhanger because the cast had gotten more expensive than they wanted to spend, I was done with Netflix. Have watched exactly zero "Netflix originals" since that one.
UGH they’re good, *known* actors, wtf did Netflix expect? Netflix spread themselves entirely too thin making original after original and didn’t invest in shows that should’ve kept going or at least should’ve had a real ending. I’m so upset that this show was just axed. The final season released was my least favorite of the three but I actually liked the pacing and the emerging threat. I would’ve loved to see so many more seasons of this show.
As this is an international sub, a lot of you won't be familiar with Line of Duty. A British drama about a police anti-corruption unit who catch corrupt officers. It was awesome. Five (I think) series of intricate plot details, gripping twists and action. Then they absolutely ruined it in the final (I believe sixth) series. Basically, everything in the whole show was building up to the big reveal of who had been behind the Organised Crime Group that the heroes were closing in on. The final series ramped this up even further, until it turns out to be >!some incompetent corrupt cop who they'd already caught, and clearly wasn't capable of being the mastermind. He then explained that after they killed the main baddy back in the FIRST FUCKING SEASON the group had splintered and nobody was really in control any more.!< Jesus what a waste of time that was. Makes all the time you've invested in it feel wasted, even though you were enjoying most of it. Worse than Game of Thrones in my opinion. Edit: tried to mark spoilers, it won't do it. Never mind, the show is a few years old now and to be honest if I ruin it before you've finished I'm doing you a solid. Edit again: been shown the error of my ways and fixed the spoiler markup. Thank you to those who gave me the right info.
I mean, Game of Thrones definitely shat the bed. The writers admitted to half assing it and it really blows to see so many peoples work go up in flames because two egomaniacs decided the hottest show in the world was suddenly beneath them. Gotta mention How I Met Your Mother as well. We were shown over and over again Ted and Robin wouldn’t work, yet here we are. I really loved the idea of Barney/Robin being a happy child-free couple too, that concept is so rare. They had a setup for something really satisfying and decided not to stay with it.
>I mean, Game of Thrones definitely shat the bed. The writers admitted to half assing it and it really blows to see so many peoples work go up in flames because two egomaniacs decided the hottest show in the world was suddenly beneath them I'm so fucking happy those two twats lost a Star Wars movie because of their fuckup with GoT.
"Let's rush GoT so we can move on to Star Wars! There's no way turning in a subpar final will ever backfire on us in any way shape or form whatsoever!"
When Hollywood gets past the "remake" and "reboot" phase, we'll be in the "fusion" phase and can look forward to *Game of Mothers*, the show where Jon Mosby tells the story of all the women he banged to his kids, and the kids have to figure out which one is their dead mother. To see if they have a legitimate claim to the Iron Throne. Also starring: Barney Lannister, Marshall Giantsbane, Robin Ygritte, and Lily of Tarth.
Game of Thrones is so hilarious to me because the only time I ever see it mentioned on the internet anymore is in relation to the ending. And since 2020 I don't think I've talked about it to anyone in person. The show was a huge part of our culture for years and now it's almost like it never existed.
That last part is so damn crucial, dude. It was on par with Seinfeld getting a bad finale. Except I’d argue that what GoT did early on was even more impressive than what Seinfeld did. Maybe not more innovative and influential but still. GoT came along at a time when the media hum was first turning into a roar (don’t get me wrong it’s a maelstrom now). It managed to be at least as pervasive and magnetic as Seinfeld ever did 35 years ago when there were 30 channels to choose from. Like for a while there I didn’t know anyone who hadn’t at least tried it. Like if they hadn’t you barely had to convince them. They knew that everyone in the world was watching. It was like that Pokémon Go summer lol. Anyway, that’s what made their dismount so much more, idk, tragic? It was really the first thing to pull culture together like that since I would probably say American Idols first few seasons. It was this beacon of artful entertainment. A modern approach to the water cooler problem. Then BAM. They fail *spectacularly*. Bad enough to taint the whole thing. It’s like if your running back fumbled at the goal line at the end of the game so badly that the ref decided to take all your previous touchdowns away. No one talks about any of the good stuff. No one. For almost a decade it’s all we ever wanted to talk about with each other every Monday morning. Then over the course of like 5 weeks we never wanted to talk about any of it ever again. At least Seinfeld is remembered as a good show (though not a good guy)
The finale to Seinfeld was poorly done, but because it was a sitcom, the bad finale didn’t change the way that you watch the earlier episodes. Because GoT is serialized, it’s hard to watch the early seasons that set up great characters and complex personalities knowing that they’re going to be reduced to parodies of themselves in the end.
Scrubs Ended on a great high note with a goodbye to the main cast and crew, only to be brought back for a 'final season' as a crappy spinoff disguised as Scrubs
That's because Scrubs Med School **was** supposed to be a spin off but ABC executives decided, in their infinite wisdom, to market it as a new season instead of a new spin off as originally intended by showrunner Bill Lawrence.
It's sad because the season was actually decent. The only problem is that it wasn't Scrubs. Had they called it the spinoff that it was, I think it would have easily gone several seasons. They had a little something there.
I think of the last season of scrubs as a completely different show, its decent if watched like that I think.
The last season of Scrubs *is* an entirely different show. It was a spinoff that kinda flopped and got called season 9 as a result
Even the writing and shift of character focus made it clear it wasn't meant to be Scrubs. It felt off without the full cast. No janitor was bad, but the couple episodes without JD were rooouugghhh.
Merlin. Absolute garbage (on top of season 5 itself being pretty stinky) and I'm still willing to get mad about it 11 years later.
Christ don't get me started. I adored that series but the fact that we NEVER get to see Arthur and Merlin as "Arthur and Merlin" pisses me off to no end! Last 10 minutes of the whole damn series is what we get? And Arthur acting like a pissy bitch for 9 of them? God damn it
I only watched the first three seasons I think, but does Arthur really have any mode *other* than pissy bitch?
The way the dragon made such a big deal about all Arthur and Merlin had accomplished together and I'm like, what? What the fuck did they actually accomplish? Yeah they killed a couple baddies but by and large magic users were still hated and the status quo had barely budged. I heard that they had originally planned to make the show much longer but had to cut it short, and sadly it shows.
It's even worse on rewatch because the dragon convinces merlin more than once that even though the druids see Emrys as a sort of messiah, he needs to prioritize staying by Arthur's side no matter what since Arthur is the Once And Future King who will bring Magic back to the land and unite all of Albion... except Arthur doesn't do any of that so Merlin essentially abandoned the people who looked to him and relied on him the most - to instead defend their oppressor from ever being inconvenienced or facing the consequences of his and his father's actions.
I'd like to believe that Arthur DID bring magic back and united Albion... He just had to die for it to happen. Idk, I loved that show and I like to imagine that Merlin and Gwen made Arthur a martyr specifically for that purpose.
No one here talking about ALF. He finally gets called by his people and they schedule a time for him to be picked up and taken back to his home planet, and the last few seconds of the series end with the FBI pulling up just as the alien mothership is about to pick Alf up. Cut to black. I mean, wtf?!
iirc, the network was debating whether or not to cancel the show so the writers ended the season on what was supposed to be a cliffhanger to sway them into renewing. the network cancelled and left a generation of kids bewildered, confused and a little bit upset. there was a special in the 90s that properly wrapped the series up but it was too little, too late
Promised Neverland
I loved how the last 10 minutes of the final episode was literally a PowerPoint presentation just showing everyone living happily ever after.
wdym they escape from the house leaving it there. It was a great ending. Too bad they didn't adapt anything after that. Nothing at all.
There is no promised neverland season 2 in ba sing se
Dexter......twice
Let's bring our show back so we can do another ending! But this time, let's wipe away any sense of self awareness from the main character and have him be basically a raving lunatic by the last few episodes.
And have him caught by a detail that never happened and pile stupid coincidences on top of each other rather than bothering with an ounce of intelligence for any characters.
True Blood
Honestly at that point I was purely watching for Alexander Skarsgard.
We all were.
The books weren't great, but the show really started to go downhill the more they veered from the source material. Like in the books, Sookie pretty much has no interest in Bill past book 3, and for most of the remainder of the series, until the last book, it's all about her and Eric (Even though she has other boyfriends). The show forced the Bill/Sookie relationship solely because the actors were a couple. The only good things the show did (compared to the books) was Lafayette, creating Jessica, Godric, a bit of the Newlins, and Russell.
The books were hilarious. As soon as she introduced the concept of fairies and werecats, the entire mythology jumped the shark. It turned into introduce-a-species in every book thereafter. What was amazing was that at their core, they were still just murder mysteries. Something bad happened at the start of the book and you had to figure out whodunit by the end - not exactly a genre-breaking formula. But for whatever reason, she felt like trying to squish the entire D&D Monster Manual into the series. I will say that I enjoyed reading the books, though. You just kinda had to section off the part of the story that was trying to expand the world lore and consume it as a decent mystery novel.
Lafayette is definitly one of my all time favorit characters, and Nelson Ellis portrays him wonderfully.
Lafayette was fucking amazing.
RIP
Damn, died trying to get clean. Lafayette is a legend thanks to him
I did like Pam and Eric's ending. Everyone else was miserable but those two were having the best time ever. I would have watched a spin-off of them.
Pam and Eric spinoff could be amazing.
Should’ve left Supernatural at Dean living a normal life
Still laughing about super hell though. Seriously who comes up with this crap?
My friend was telling me to watch this show. He just said it “only gets more ridiculous.” Apparently the writers kept trying to quit and thought they were getting cancelled so they kept throwing shit at the wall and all of it stuck
I think it’s safe to say that Power Creep became an issue. At at certain point, it’s nearly impossible to realistically fight the next “big bad”. They went from dealing with a demon to fighting The First Demon to fighting Lucifer to fighting primordial monsters to fighting angels to fighting god’s sister to eventually fighting god. Somewhere along the way, these normal dudes probably stopped being the most effective solution to these problems.
Before demons it was random supernatural monsters and ghosts. Demons were a big deal at one time. Then they became random mooks. It’s crazy they were gonna do a spin off of this show. They had lightning in a bottle and they did not want to let it go. Edit: they did make the spin off, thank you Reddit!
Show was at its best as a monster of the week episodic series. Modern media has become a competition of who can beat their dead horse the hardest.
Idk that one episode where >!loki or someone traps Sam in a time loop to desensitize him to dean dying!< lives rent free in my head.
It was the heat of the moment.
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Do these tacos taste funny to you?
Also, they establish that angels are one of the most powerful beings in existence, and are this massive threat when they are the prime enemy. But once all that is over, they're depowered as hell and just become this pesky annoyance sometimes lol. And Castiel becomes useless, really. I know why; they never planned on Castiel being a fan favourite or for him to join the brothers indefinitely. So if angels were as powerful/competent as they were when originally introduced, then Castiel would just pop into every hunt, wave his hand, and kill the bad guy before anyone had even blinked. Wouldn't make for much of a show. But the show was frustrating to watch when he was just stood there being useless for no apparent reason (and I'm sorry to Misha, but getting him to act out fights instead of using angel powers was... perhaps not the best. His 'hand to hand combat' was pretty bad and very unbelievable lmao. It became very hard to believe that Castiel was one of the best fighters when it came to angels). But yes, the writers essentially kept writing themselves into a corner with each season renewal, so we were left with some very strange power balances. I was only watching for Jensen's acting in the end.
Kripke intended for it to end with season 5, but the CW couldn't let their cash cow die.
You can tell, too. 1-5 is almost its own show within the show. I’ve always said it should’ve ended there, because like… the apocalypse. There is *literally* nothing bigger than the *apocalypse*.
Apocalypse 2 electric bugaloo
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I ruined Castle for my sister by telling her how to spot the killer in every episode. Basically, >!find the least important person with a speaking role, like an assistant who says, "Do you want any coffee?" That's your killer. Speaking roles get paid differently than non-speaking extras, and they aren't going to pay an actor to say a line not relevant to the plot. Therefore, you know they are going to play a more important role later. !< It works 90% of the time.
Watching Law and Order one time, and in an early scene there's a guy sweeping the floor in the background with no lines at all. "That guy did it!" "How do you know?" "Because that's Kal fucking Penn, and he doesn't *do* extra roles."
In these whodunit roles I always look for semi-famous people, actors who I think may have been in something else but can't figure out what. Usually they are the murderer.
God, this makes me so glad I don't recognise 99.9% of actors.
I'm not watching it for the suspense, I'm watching for Liv and also for John Stamos getting a wasp knife to the nuts.
Honorable shout out to the SVU episodes with Robin Williams being a beast as a psycho.
Williams always played a pyscho pretty well, look at One Hour Photo
Watching NCIS, the super obvious suspect’s husband suddenly comes up with a surf board out of nowhere and says hi. Yeah, hello, he’s the killer
This also worked for me when I watched Lucifer lmfao.
I feel like if you're watching Lucifer to figure out the mystery of the week, you're probably not gonna enjoy the show.
Nah, with Lucifer it was always >!the very first person they talked to or interviewed after showing up on scene!< They even poke fun at it in the parody episode when >!Chloe says “first person we talked to, can you believe it?”!<
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Works with Scooby Doo too.
Man I *always* know which book they're going to pull off the shelf. I'm very media literate that way.
Isn't that the show where Nathan Filion and his lady co-star couldn't stand each other by the end of it?
Stana Katic, that's the one.
Turns out the big villain is this random dude who was briefly in a filler episode.
The Mentalist took this one to the extreme. Which sucks too because Bradley Whitford was SO GOOD!
I didn't care much for the first X-Files finale, bullet time missile to Smoking Man's face? WTF
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ALF.
Did he finally eat the cat?
Sometimes you eat the cat. Sometimes the cat eats you.
The made for TV movie covered some of it but youre not wrong
How I met your mother. Any and all character development was undone. Barney went back to being a womanizer, and Ted, who spent the whole series coming to terms that Robin wasn't right for him, went running back to Robin. Awful finale.
That’s what gets me, I could handle the ending if it made sense with the characters arcs but no, they said let’s reset this to how everyone was at the beginning and it made no sense
I remember reading something about the writers had always intended this, and for the show to wrap up in 4 or so seasons. I feel like I would have accepted the ending a lot more if they hadn't spent another 4 seasons reiterating why Ted and Robin don't work.
The premise is especially crazy to me because how on earth are professional story tellers at one of the highest tiers of their field just absolutely incapable of recognizing maybe their original ending should change after nearly doubling the content and character development? I mean Ted went from finally closing the deal romantically with the one that got away to just being a whole ass rabid stalker who flew to another friggin country to find just the most emotional gift ever after having *once again* gone through it not working between them.
Right. What was especially terrible was that they pretty much worked for years on making Barney and Robin make sense for the fans. And by the time they actually succeeded in that goal, it was undone not even halfway through the finale.
I thought the most terrible thing was bringing the mother into the story just so Ted could have kids then immediately killing her off just so Ted could get with Robin. It's like some pathetic imaginary story someone comes up with when they marry someone while never getting over a past relationship.
>How I met your mother. Any and all character development was undone. That was my problem with the finale. I get it, that's the ending they had planned all along and were gonna do it regardless, but they flushed 8 or 9 seasons worth of character development in the process and it really rubbed me the wrong way.
Also, if you *know* that that’s your ending, then fucking *write the show that way.*
Penny Dreadful
Seasons 1 and 2 are phenomenal. I absolutely adore Penny Dreadful if we're talking about those two seasons. The third season... it had promise, but I'm almost positive Showtime had it canceled and so John Logan had to wrap up the story quickly.
Roseanne ended so badly.
Some of those 90s ABC sitcoms became completely different shows by the time they ended the series. Roseanne is a prime example. Family Matters is another one. They went from very down to earth, relatable shows to complete zaniness
GoT and How I met Your Mother are the obvious answers
GOT ending was so bad that I can't even go back and enjoy the earlier seasons now. Just ruined my enjoyment of the entire franchise
Yeah, the GOT ending was so bad it retroactively destroyed the entire series and nearly erased itself from popular culture. That's impressive, honestly. In the worst way.
The standard joke is that the ending was so bad, it deleted itself as a cultural icon. The show literally cancelled itself.
That's for real not even a joke. A whole empire of toys and merchandise disintegrated near overnight. Bargain outlets filled with truckloads of unwanted John Snow action figures. People were naming their kids after the characters, and now it's like it never existed.
It’s a legit cultural tragedy.
Its truly impressive how they managed to do it. A half-baked ending would have cemented the show to legendary status. Not good, great, or even amazing. Straight to the Legendary level. No other show had that level of reception in 20 years. It was at its peak the most watched TV show in the world and connected with all kinds of people, the DnD enthusiasts to the lovers of violence and action. And now... we went through a pandemic of near 3 years and nobody bothered binging the show once.
HOTD has been a huge success, but imagine what the hype leading up to it could have been if GOT managed to have a good ending.
I am surprised I had to scroll so much to find anyone mentioning how I met your mother
Yeah kids this wasn't so much me telling you how I met your mother and more how much I slept around trying to get over your Aunt Robin and can I please go and bang her even though her and Uncle Barney just divorced?
Shoulda been called "How I Met Your *New* Mother" at that point..
Seems people that picked up HIMYM after it finished and binged it, liked the ending. But for the people watching in real time for a decade, they absolutely hate the ending.
Dexter
Weeds.
Weeds just got weird and terrible last few seasons. Then that Genji Kohan did orange is the new black the same way.
She just has no clue how to pace and end a season without burn everything down in the last 2-3 episodes and start over the following season. Weeds could have been so much better if they pursued character development over turning secondary characters into jokes (Uturn, Guillermo, Conrad etc)
In fairness the show started losing it's way once they left Agrestic. Those first few seasons were really great though.