Most AWESOMEST finale: BREAKING BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Guess I got ... what I deSERVED~!” dum dum....
duh duh duh dad da da da da dummmmmmm
They wound down the show backward to the first episode.
It was basically a comic take on Finnegan's Wake.
Shear genius.
My two suggestions would be:
The Prisoner (that was just mean. If it weren’t the 60s, McGoohan would have hanged.)
The Fugitive (as if Gerard would give Kimball 24 hours to find the one-armed man).
Mary Tyler Moore. They’re all fired. Now what?
And #1
Gilligan’s Island (not counting the later movies). That’s it? They’re stuck?!
Barney gets a sex change, marries Ted and then it turns out their children are the product of some creepy cloning technology.
Kind of disturbing, but it makes sense based on the characters.
The only ones I saw were Seinfeld and St. Elsewhere (I liked Quantum Leap but never saw the end). Seinfeld’s ending was a disappointment and the end of St. Elsewhere was weird. I still remember it after all these years without having to watch the clip, so that must say something.
Never watched one episode of any of them. I wasn’t in to network programming back then, and I don’t do situation comedies either.
I love the endings for Lost and Sopranos, it’s good to not have everything tied in a bow and handed to you, do a little thinking, figure stuff out. BSG was odd, but so was the show.
The best ever was the Newhart one where he woke up in bed in his previous series as if it was all a bad dream.
ALF.
I’ve come to accept the Sopranos ending. St. Elsewhere was a great show and the finale was a total betrayal of the viewers.
I confess, I am a huge fan of “Mad Men” but I am dreading thinking about how they are going to end it. I hope it won’t be ambiguous like the Sopranos.
At least they had a finale. I still fume about no real ending for shows like Deadwood and Jericho.
The ending of the Star Trek series “Enterprise” was really weird
The last season of Roseanne occurred only because the network offered an obscene amount of money. So, the writers intentionally "jumped the shark", only to bring it back to reality at the end.
Similarly, I was disappointed in the last season of Babylon 5. Since the series wasn't renewed by the time they wrapped season 4, the writers created an awesome season finale that was expected to be a series finale. Season 5 was a letdown after that.
Revolution was just cancelled a few weeks ago, after production has finished for this season. So, tonight's episode is the series finale, although it was supposed to be just a season finale (and cliffhanger). I expect it to be disappointment, too.
The Seinfeld finale was the first one I saw. I didn’t get it. I watched a few episodes of battlestar galactica. I have seen none of the other shows. I think I am better for it
Are you kidding me, Quantum Leap had one of the greatest endings, it was noble what Sam did for Al.
I heard Twin Peaks ending was bad.
I agree with #4 (Battlestar Galactica - remake) and #3(Dexter).
BSG had the people walking off in several different directions in tall grass.
Dexter basically gives his kid to a female serial killer who absconds to South America and he ends up in some northwestern area cutting down trees.
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Over the years, many programs had weak or silly conclusions.
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One of the best ever was the finale to the comedy series Newhart. I didn’t watch that series, except for the finale, but I did watch Bob’s previous series, The Bob Newhart Show. Thus, I though the Newart finale was one of the best ever.
Strangely, the finale was revised on the DVD sets. Apparently, there were legal questions that could not be resolved.
I’ve always thought that the Sopranos’ ending was meant to leave the door open for a movie or a new series with at least some of the characters — maybe AJ becoming the head of the family (although AJ was portrayed in the original series as violent, but as dumb as a doorknob).
The concept of finales never appealed to me. When a series ended, I guess I just liked to think individual stories and adventures kept continuing on, unseen. Like Captain Kirk and the Enterprise just kept on exploring new worlds, and Marshall Dillon kept on hunting down villainous owlhoots, and sitcoms characters just kept getting into their usual scrapes.
Perhaps a premise like “The Fugitive” necessitated a wrap-up, but otherwise, I’d easily do without them. Maybe it also has to do with how there’s such a sense of self-consciousness that comes with a conclusion, which I find a turn-off. Whether it’s used as some emotional venting, or some perceived desire to make a “statement,” or the notion that a series is like some kind of novel that requires a big, fancy climax, I’m highly inclined to find the results too preciously annoying.