Worst TV Series Finales
Show↕ | Finale Title↕ | Year↕ | Network↕ | Why It Flopped↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Game of Thrones | The Iron Throne | 2019 | HBO | Dany's sudden heel turn, Bran becomes king, petitions to remake season 8 - fanbase revolt |
Lost | The End | 2010 | ABC | Flash-sideways was purgatory, mysteries unanswered, they were dead the whole time (sort of) |
Dexter | Remember the Monsters? | 2013 | Showtime | Dexter fakes his death and becomes a lumberjack - infamous beard shot |
How I Met Your Mother | Last Forever | 2014 | CBS | The Mother dies, Ted ends up with Robin after 9 seasons of denial, Barney-Robin divorced |
Seinfeld | The Finale | 1998 | NBC | Gang goes to jail for mocking a carjacking victim - clip show trial felt cheap |
Two and a Half Men | Of Course He's Dead | 2015 | CBS | Charlie Sheen grudge finale, self-aware meta breakdown, piano dropped on Chuck Lorre |
Roseanne | Into That Good Night | 1997 | ABC | The entire last season was revealed to be Roseanne's novel - Dan was dead |
St. Elsewhere | The Last One | 1988 | NBC | Revealed the entire series was in an autistic boy's snow globe - infamous retcon |
The X-Files | The Truth | 2002 | Fox | Recap courtroom drama, alien colonization date reveal, no answers |
Battlestar Galactica | Daybreak | 2009 | Syfy | God did it, colonists abandon all technology, Kara disappears, head Six and Baltar narration |
Quantum Leap | Mirror Image | 1993 | NBC | Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home - on-screen text crushed fans |
True Blood | Thank You | 2014 | HBO | Sookie kills Bill with a stake per his request, epilogue with a faceless husband |
Pretty Little Liars | Till DeAth Do Us PArt | 2017 | Freeform | A.D. reveal was Spencer's long lost identical twin Alex Drake - ludicrous |
Weeds | It's Time Part 2 | 2012 | Showtime | Seven year time jump, legal weed, anticlimactic reunion - nobody cared anymore |
Gossip Girl | New York, I Love You XOXO | 2012 | The CW | Dan Humphrey revealed as Gossip Girl - made no sense in retrospect |
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