10 Most Hated TV Finales Of All Time
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At lest they got endings, I just hate it when a show is canned on a cliffhanger
I despise the Teen Titans series finale, which is an example of a cliffhanger. Season 5 was an extra season given to the team on the show to FINISH developing the characters. But instead, they leave us at a cliffhanger. Isn't the point of an extra season to do the opposite? To finish the story off? Not to mention in my opinion, the rest of Season 5 wasn't very good either.
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For me the biggest BS was as they mentioned How I Met Your Mother. Never in my life have i been so disappointed/mad at a series/movie ending. that was absolutely horrible. It made NO sense at all that ending
Christo p It wasn't just the Ted and Robin crap that annoyed me. They spent an entire season on Barney and Robin's wedding and they got a divorce after 5 minutes
For me it was spending eight seasons hearing about the mysterious Mother, meeting her and falling in love with her in season 9, and then not even a decent send-off when she died. No funeral, no seeing Ted truly grieving for her, just now you see her - now you don't. It was TERRIBLE editing... They totally disrespected the role Tracy played as the love of Ted's life...
If there had actually been some serious grieving scenes from Ted, maybe we wouldn't all be so pissed that he ended up with Robin after all.
Christo p made total sense
Christo p The worst part is that the final scene was filmed YEARS before the finale even aired. They had no choice but to kill Tracy off.
Jay Mike good for you but some of us didn’t
GoT: "hold my ale"
DILLEY DILLEY
These are worst tv endings....
GoT..."Hold my Starbucks coffee"...
Disagree! GOT was right for the books HIMYM came out of the producers butts! Yes crap 💩
@@tammymartinez7488 Tell that to all the people who named their daughters after Dany.
@@medafan53 lmao
I was hoping somone posted that. GoT made all of them cheer 'we aren't as bad as GoT'
Disappointment of the decade.
@@tammymartinez7488 - GoT sucked after they no longer had Martin's books to adapt. The big difference was Martin let his characters grow organically. Benioff and Weiss were good at adapting but crap at creating, and instead of letting the characters grow they took the ending and worked backwards, shoehorning everything in even if it didn't fit.
HIMYM should have been titled "how I met your aunt Robin, and settled for your mother". They threw out multiple sessions of character development, from Ted moving on from Robin, to Barney falling in love and giving up his party life style, all in the span of 15 minutes.
Andrew B they realistically showed how people change and how some don't. Most people like Barney can't. And he couldn't. They told you he couldn't before.
Andrew B I'm honestly surprised if you don't know someone who got divorced from cheating or was with someone that couldn't stop like that
umm, when in the final season did he cheat? and as for saying he couldn't change, they literally showed him changing when he saw his daughter. so if they made them divorce to show he couldn't change, then why show him legitimately change 5 minutes later?
Exactly!
But he did change during the marriage. He only went back to it, as far as we know, when they divorced. And then he permanently changed when he had a daughter. They kind of foreshadowed that when his dad told him he'd change for the right "girl." The way his dad said it, and the fact that losing Barney made the dad change and get better, made it seem like he wasn't saying, "when you find the one you'll settle down." It made it seem like he was saying, "when you have a kid, you'll want to be the best person you can be for them."
The last episode of HIMYM will always bother me and it brings beautiful, petty joy to my heart to know the writers haven't been able to get a show on the air since.
EmileeTv1993 hahahahaha my petty heart rejoices at that.
The schadenfreude is strong with you
That show was a shit show.
Still angry about NBC's last-second cancelling of "Quantum Leap", and Bellisarius Productions's being forced to do the hatchet-job on the cliffhanger "Mirror Image" to make into the heartbreaking and infuriating ending that it was! Meanwhile, Producer Bellisario and Dean Stockwell can't live forever, could we get on with the movie that would give us a PROPER ENDING!?
Absolutely agreed
Absolutely agreed
It said Sam never returned home...
Guess Donna
remarried instead of Beth.
i have a sneaking suspicion that we will need a redo of this list after next weeks GoT ending
Quantum Leap ended with an insane LSD induced trip of an episode and then the line "Dr. Sam Becket (name misspelled) never reached home." It was a kick in the nuts to all the fans.
Didn't the last episode have him leap back into the very first person he leaped into in the first episode implying he was stuck in some permanent loops?
no he leaped to the day he was born and sitting in a bar with people from other leap and a bar man named Al only to realize it might be god and even meet another time traveler who does what he does
And the bartender tells him "From here on, the leaps are going to get harder" and then he leaps into himself with his mission to tell Al's ex-wife that Al is coming home, literally the easiest leap he's ever undertaken. And then he leaps into nothing.
To be fair, the episode was pretty much in post-production when they heard the next series had been cancelled. So there was not a lot they could do to turn the show into a wrap-up. Still one of the worst final episodes ever.
Actually, Quantum Leap's finale is one I point to as an optimal finale. You have Sam find out that what's happening to him isn't random, but serves a greater purpose. When given a chance to choose any jump and mission he wants, Sam uses that opportunity to save his friend Al's first marriage, preventing the downward spiral that had been Al's personal life up to that point. In the end, we're left with a hero who will continue to carry out a vital duty, despite the personal cost.
Yeah and Sliders never ended -.-
I was actually even more offended they broke Barney and Robin up at the end because that made it feel as if their entire had gone to waste. Consequently that was the same thing with Robin and Ted getting back together because realizing they're not good for each other was one of the more mature arcs in the show and I just wish they would've driven that home more decisively instead of throwing the premise out of the window, probably because they were thinking it would be a smart subversion of expectations.
JessiMaiden Barnet and Robin were also shown as bad so that's hypocritical of you. And the reasons we're that Robin wasn't sure she wanted kids or to be married. Things she got over with time(and couldn't have kids, and Ted already.had.them).
Every obstacle that brought their relationship any problems went away with time.
While Barney's never did. His was inside and his type of person rarely changes so quickly if he hadn't already
JessiMaiden Barnet didn't think he would settle down at some point or even when he was older. He had no destination and resolved his life around sleeping around.
It'd be like someone whose whole life is their career and left it for someone.
UOL Jessi the thing that makes me mad is his kids supporting their dad to persue the person they've known their whole life as aunt robin? Hell no no kids would be okay with that
Barney and Robin's relationship was basically a throw away joke at the end... all the development, and the painful to watch last season all about them for a stupid joke that didn't pay off "oh yeah we got divorced, it didn't work lol" i don't care for excuses, if that happens sometimes or not in real life, they forced us to watch an entire damn season about them to be "undone" at the last minute... and it wouldn't be that bad of said season as somewhat good, but it was awful
I'm going to say that the most disappointing thing about the Smallville series finale wasn't the ruddy suit (the writers actually asserted over and over that we would NEVER see Tom in the suit so I was prepared for that and also it's just a suit calm down), but the fact that the richest character development in the series was that of Lex Luthor, and they undid every ounce of it by ERASING his memory. Why is Lex even evil without his memory? Why would he be an enemy to Clark? What is the POINT of the entire series without that gorgeous arc they created for one of the most iconic villains in comic book history?
Exactly. Not sure where they got that the creators wanted to have Welling don the suit? Like you said they said he'd never wear it in the series and you'd most likely never see it.
I also agree with you about Lex. Making him go super crazy that early in the show as a villain then have him killed off and used via clones made no sense.
In the continuation of the series. Tess Mercer is dead. Lex has enemies from all over reminding him of who he was. Just some rich guy who is living scared. Plus Clark's identity.
Lex isn't evil he is zenophobic and doesn't think any one person should have as much power as superman
I'd say that even Cloe reading the comics to the child for explaining how Clark becomes superman is verydissapointing! I expected Clark making a speack to the world explaining that he was the blur and why he didn't show before instead they made everything faster by Cloe reading that shitty comic!
For me this is the worst series final ever (for the moment) I really don't understend why most of peaple love this final!
Smallville should have ended much earlier.
Inbefore Game of thrones season 8 episode 6
Lol! Had the same thought.
Bran king really?!
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yeah but the video is from 2017.
More like, ALL OF SEASON 8.
I’m STILL pissed about the How I Met Your Mother finale! It was nothing but a big middle finger to the fans.
Jackie McCann why was it exactly? the whole show has been about life not going the way you want it, Ted telling his kids (before the finale) that he'd want to spend as much time as possible with the mother set up her death. Watching the series again after knowing what happens, it works for me even if the finale itself was rushed.
It's even more disappointing when you see the alternate ending.
Agreed. Still have not forgiven them. Used to watch that show all the time, was my go to Netflix show when I wanted something familiar. After the finale I just can't. I do occasionally put it on now and then but I refuse to rewatch the entire last season
SevenFilms but life went just fine for Ted. He got EVERYTHING he wanted. He wanted kids, he wanted Robin and he wanted a girl who matched the mothers personality to a tee. Yes he lost one of those. But still ended up with the one he wanted originally well before meeting his wife.
SevenFilms but life went just fine for Ted. He got EVERYTHING he wanted. He wanted kids, he wanted Robin and he wanted a girl who matched the mothers personality to a tee. Yes he lost one of those. But still ended up with the one he wanted originally well before meeting his wife.
HIMYM was great but the last season felt dry. They dragged the whole Robin and Barney wedding way too long and felt they should have just kept Barney and Robin together and let Ted be with the "one" and that would've been fine.
Tony thats the part that pissed me off the most. the wife dying--alright you can argue for that. Ted getting with Robin--bullshit but a typical cop out. Barney having a kid--actually what the character really needed but done VERY badly. But Robin and Barney getting divorced ten seconds after finally getting married, what the show had been building up for freaking ages to make sure these character developed by the end and just undoing ALL of it was total horseshit.
Then we wouldnt have the show. She died. Without know how she died would be a kick in the balls for all the mentioning of the mother.
Whofan06 its not ten seconds. It happened like years after. Barney didnt need a wife, he needed something to love more then himself. Robin wanted her career. You are rather a fan and understand where these characters played out or a lil bitch and cant stand dramatic change when it happeneds.
Would love to see a fan edit the last season down to essential parts and the mother lives. I'd buy that episode
Joshua Smallwood there's a alternate ending where the they just keep it to where Ted and the "one" meet at the train station talking
Quantum leap was a pretty disappointing ending. You spend five years waiting for Sam to get home and you're left with a cliffhanger.
Eric Finden Not even a proper cliffhanger. "You know what he's tried to stop doing for 5 years? Well he's going to be doing it forever.". Like having your retirement date cancelled.
From what I heard was if there was going to be another season it was going to have Al leap through time looking for Sam. The last season of QL was a mess. Sam leaping into Lee Harvey Oswald because JFK was huge at the time. The evil leaper. The Trilogy storyline. Leaping into Dr. Ruth, Elvis and trying to save Marilyn Monroe. Then the ending.
It wasn't even originally intended to be a finale. It was pulled from the next season line-up while the show was in post, and they had to rework "something."
@Rob Melrose Agreed some of the season worked but for me a lot didn't. I remember the Trilogy storyline in episode 1 was portrayed as a supernatural storyline. Then from episode 2 and 3, Sam just falls in love with a sexy southern gal and has a love child with her. What happened to the Southern Gothic supernatural story?
For me, the Evil Leaper had Jump the Shark written all over it. In stead of writing compelling stories like they used too, lets just have Sam have a evil nemesis. His Cobra to Sam and Al’s GI Joe. Plus and I can’t believe I forgot this, the Swept Away episode with Brook Shields. It felt like a 4th wall braking wink to the audience. And yes the Civil War episode with the twist ending was one of the worst of the show.
I loved the show and I would of hated it if the show went into another season what would happen. More outrages stories. Al and maybe Sam leaping into famous people. Sam and Al trying to save guys like MLK or trying to warn the US from the Pearl Harbor attack. And since Al was Italian I could see an episode where Al leaps into Roman times.
in a few weeks, guaranteed there will be an updated list that will undoubtedly include game of thrones
Will it also be including the Heroes series finale?
Skeptical Chris oh yeah?
Yeah
The HIMYM ending was the biggest insult to fans I've ever seen
TopNotchCringe and the movie continued it.
the alternate endings better
D. San what movie
TopNotchCringe worst ending of a tv show I've ever seen on my 20 some years in this earth. Ruined the whole thing for me, I don't even watch reruns anymore.
Well i loved that ending it was unexpected and realistic. The thing is that a lot of people loved it.
The worst endings are the ones that don't actually end.. shows that just go off randomly .. hate that
Like CSI, Supernatural (that should've ended on Season 5, when the series creator stepped down), NCIS, *insert more CBS shows*, Big Bang Theory... etc.
Quantum Leap.After all of that and Sam never returned home.😠
Well it was not planned that way (another Season was planned) and there's an alternate ending available. So in fact the writers just had to bring up something for closure.
Even after all these years I hold a grudge against that ending.
Great video... loved it. A big thumbs up.cheers mate.
When Quantum Leap got cancelled, the producers tacked on a final five minutes to their horrendous cliffhanger season finale in an attempt to end the series properly. But those five minutes were the worst things that they could have done. Though the weight of the blame should be on NBC for breaking their promise to keep the show around for another season, the tacked on ending had no satisfaction whatsoever.
The only good thing at the end was Al getting his happy ending.
I thought that was awful and a betrayal to the show, too. For one, the "leap" wasn't a real leap. It was just Sam materializing in front of Al's wife and telling her he was alive. No actual effort involved by Sam at all. Second, it nullifies the episode with Al's wife when it was clear that God did NOT want Sam to save that marriage and made things like the end of the Dr. Ruth episode pointless.
You beat me to it--it was the first thing that came to mind, and I'm kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned. I felt the same about the finale of "Sliders", too, which also ended on a cliffhanger.
How I Met Your Mother's ending was so bad it ruined the entire series retroactively. I was a huge fan, now I can't watch an episode. It is the worst.
For real. I'll probably never watch an episode again.
Brett PGH Same, I really don't enjoy the show anymore after the last season. Dexter is almost the same way, but I just ignore that whole last season and pretend it ended at 7. Dexter's is a very much worse finale, but idk why HIMYM's makes me dislike the show as a whole now.
I agree
there are a lot of bad endings out there but with most you can just ignore the last episode or last season and it's tolerable
there are a few series finales however that were so bad they ruined everything that had came before
LOST had basically just given up the ghost (dunno if that's a pun) by Season 2 or so. The writers were making stuff up (as was revealed by one of the crew on the show) and didn't have a plan.
The ending was just thrown together, they couldn't even get former cast members to return to actually make it feel like a real ending. It was just lazy.
Brett PGH it changed the entire dynamic of the show horrible ending
With 5 days left until the Game of Thrones finale airs, I believe you'll be updating this list very soon.
Just finished HIMYM a week ago, and yes I agree it was very disappointing. I think the hardest part for me is watching Barney’s story arc. He actually has character development and you see him change for the better only for him to wind up back where he started and now he’s a single dad.
The how I met your mother finale was the worst I'm still not over it
supergeorgia32 why? because you expected a ride off into the sunset ending.
SevenFilms No, we expected an ending that would fit the series and complete the story. The ending we got was rushed, filled with bad story telling, and used the ending that was originally made for the conclusion of one of the earlier seasons. If you think about it, the finale was a ride off into the sunset since Ted came back to Robin after all those years despite knowing their relationship would fail. Boy, Ted went from a character I wanted to root for to a character I hope dies alone.
AeroRomeo except they had it set up from the very first episode that it about Robin and he wants be with her I have no problem with the ending the mom is even talked about like she gone early on you missing the point of the show it's a person who talking to there kids see if they will allow him try move on with someone else
@@deaththekid201 That was their plan when they thought the show might get 3 seasons at best. But after 9 seasons they should have changed their plan.
And the finale was especially bad because it was so rushed...when the whole fucking season was about 1 event.
So stupid. They should have dedicated way more time to the "mother" character.
Broken Wave i don't agree with that the mom not important she just a tool for story telling
Why wasn't Quantum Leap's finale "Mirror Image" on this list?!
Simon Cordell it's wasn't that bad.... Though I cried like someone had killed my whole family.... Maybe it was....
The Roseanne ending was brilliant. Tired of hearing how disappointing it was. Life is hard sometimes. Roseanne captured that beautifully
Stargate Universe should definitely be on this list, basically right in the middle of everything the entire crew of the ship go into sleeping pods and that was it, end of the show....
That was more MGM's fault than the writers fault. Between fans abandoning Universe because it was different from the first two shows, airing issues, and MGM being in the midst of bankruptcy at the time, the franchise was doomed. How I miss it so.
That wasn’t a finale in the sense of a planned ending
The season finale of season 7 of the X-Files was supposed to be the real end. Every storyline was done, they went back to the location of the first episode and Mulder gets taken by the aliens. There were no plans for a season 8 and the tagline even said it was the end of the journey
Then the studio wanted more seasons later on and the last 2 happened
stuffums I agree.
How I Met Your Mother
So much salt
Mark Lewis Concur. They undid SEASONS of character growth because the writers "always intended to have Ted and Robin be together"
Benjamin Saunders im sorry, could you see barney being happy of having a kid in season 2? No. He needed to grow to have a kid. Robin was always hold back by love instead of working, now shes got her face on side of busses and shit.
You dont even realise how much they've grown. You rather just bitch and think nah, last season sucked and didnt make sense even tho, with someone as insecure as ted, only he would tell a story to his kids this elaborated so him going for robin and moving on from the mother wouldnt be a big deal..
kalvin warren-mccarthy Actually Barney has always wanted kids. He grew to want more then that a family a wife.. you could see that. He slowly grow tired of one night stands and looked for relationships and then what happened? He got married, then divorced, then back to one night stands. Forgetting that he grew past that.
Robin always put career before love. Sure. Let's say she didn't grow past that... She did. She made career choices based on love MULTIPLE times in the last half of the show. Let's say she still put career before love and that's why she and Barney split. But oh hey now that Ted is here she is magically ready.
Ted moved on from Robin. In the real finale, The end of the Aisle when Robin and Barney finally become the people they needed to become they kissed. Ted saw this and what did he do? Look sad? Longing? Angry? No, he smiled, he was happy. He finally moved on and became the person he needed to be to before he was ready for their mother. Like he said in episode. This is a story of how I became the person who i needed to be when I met your mother. That was the entire point of the show. What did they do? Oh no it was always Robin. But that's okay because there mom is dead any way. It doesn't matter. The writers confirmed shortly after that they made a mistake because they always intended to put them together. But the characters grew in different ways.
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You make good points. But I disagree with you on Barney. He's the type that will never stay married. Especially with Robin. I was never a fan of putting those two together. The biggest growth was that he actually made the effort to get married after years of shitting on marriage. But it was never gonna last long. He's a womanizer to the day all the way thru.
Now, I could be wrong. But IF say he got a kid much sooner, then maybe it truly changes him. If anything, he make a great parent, but a lousy husband.
Where the hell is Seinfeld on this list?
Wasn’t the best... but wasn’t the worst....
That ended well.
Horrible people went to prison for being horrible.
BBC's Merlin had a horrible ending. They build it up for 5 seasons to completely murder it in 1 episode...
I just recently saw the finale. Was majorly pissed that after the previous seasons build up, they ended it that way. Almost wished I'd never watched the show at all!!
I miss that show
I loved that show so much but yeah the ending was bad. They hyped the Merlin vs Morgana fight for several seasons and it ended in the blink of an eye. I just get how often showrunners completely botch final seasons/episodes. I know some shows get canned before the story fully unfolds but most of the "bad" ones are popular, long-running shows that have time to resolve their storylines before the end.
Wow, I just realized I can’t even remember the mother’s name from HIMYM. That in itself just tells me how disappointing she and season 9 was. Smh
polishrocker93 lol If memory serves me well I believe it was Tracy
I lost interest in the last season. The whole season taking place in a few days was just boring and didn't seem to fit with the rest of the show. Plus, setting up an entire show to lead up to the mother, only for her to die almost immediately and ended up with the girl he had long since gotten over. oops, spoiler.
@@ImNorman I agree I love the show alot but I definitely started too loose its peak.
Her name is told just once at the end of the show I think. Until that moment she is just known as "the mother"
What’s himym
Shouting about the truth with no actual answers. Isn't that every episode of the X-Files.
Most Hated TV Finales Of All Time
10. The X-Files
9. Smallville
8. Roseanne
7. Battlestar Galactica
6. True Blood
5. Star Trek Enterprise
4. Two And A Half Men
3. Lost
2. Dexter
1. HIMYM
Tahlia Evans you forgot Seinfeld
0. GoT
Sopranos..
Me chanting “Pretty Little Liars”
Scrubs season 8 finale was the true series finale. Season 9 does not exist. (OMG what were they thinking when they tried that Season 9 garbage instead of making a spin off)
There was a vote (no bullshit, this actually happened) after Zach Braff decided he wanted to be done with show as to whether they should continue or not; everybody who voted "yes" ended up on season 9, which should tell you exactly how well that went...
I pretend that Season 9 doesn't exist, too. The ending to 8 was perfect.
I honestly just see season 9 as a failed spin off anyway. I mean the official title was “Scrubs: Med School”.
I loved scrubs and i was ok witt season 9, that show was so good ended so well, that honestly they had to make a spin off, but they didnt wanna ruin their show all the way, so they did a small season, wasnt bad it was a tester for a spin off which is were the vote came from, viewership wasn’t that good so they didn’t continue but didnt do any damage to their name either, it was smart, we got a couple more Dr Cox jokes (which is what we all secretly which we had a personal rant from him) and they squeezed a couple more dollars out of the franchise, rare everyone won but everyone kinda won in that situation, come on i love he girl who fucked ugly fat dudes , gave me a character to root for 😂😂😂😂
Omg I agree..season 9 was so crap.. I also don't even count that season..
No Quantum Leap? only one Scott Bakula series per list?
I said Quantum Leap too.
Basically the quantum leap version of "poochie died on his way back to his home planet"
Word Unheard the finale was great EXCEPT for the end card.
It's nice to see so many other crappy finales that the end of "St. Elsewhere" didn't even make the list. (That's the one where, in the final scene, we learn the whole series was the fantasy of an autistic child, who imagined his hard-hart father and retired grandfather as surgeons in a hospital that was under construction. It included a jab straight at the audience, as dad and grand-dad discussed the boy's fascination with a snowglobe containing a miniature of the hospital, to the effect of "what does he get out of staring at that glass box all day" - clearly jabbing the audience's watching their TVs. It was a finale still hated after all these years.)
I was going to make the same comment. St Elsewhere was one of my favorite shows in 80s largely because of Howie Mandel and several tie-ins to other MTM shows. Having it all be an autistic child's dream was a huge let down, similar to Dallas wasting a whole season as Pam Ewing's dream.
@@jlrva3864And the ending meant all those other shows that it crossed over with like Cheers were all in that kid’s head
The last episode of the old Twin Peaks makes me mad, mostly because it ends on a cliffhanger.
I love how I met your mother but whenever I think of it I am immediately reminded of the awful finale
Liam Davies same
Liam Davies I mean by love/hate thing after the series finale.
It was my favorite show, I used to watch reruns all the time until the finale... never watched again, not even my favorite episodes...i tried once, but it lasted two minutes, as soon as Ted start taking I realized the show was dead for me... deleted from my dVR... what a way to kill an excellent show....
Oh definitely
Say what you will about the bad ending, but the writers knew from the very beginning how they wanted it to end and deserve some credit for that. Bc all of the other shows on this list gave bad endings bc they didn't know what else to do. HIMYM filmed the ending in the very beginning of the show since they needed the kids to remain young. Also, those kids never told. They all deserve more appreciation and respect then they get.
How I met your mother will always be #1 for me
_AGREED._
It was ok, I liked of but I didn't love it.
Which ending?
AeroRomeo Agreed 💯
AeroRomeo The alternate ending was not that good either.
There was a show in Sweden that started in 1987 and ran for 5 seasons. It was called "Department store" and in the beginning, the show was centered around the head of sales in the department store. Her name was Karin and she was living with her daughter and "sister". Her Nemesis and rival at the department store was Margaretha, the head of purchase. At the beginning, the viewers were, more or less, told that Karin was the good and Margaretha was the evil. Karin was killed off at the end of season 2 and at the end of the final season, Margaretha had her job and was living in her apartment with her ex-husband and her daughter. The one you'd hated from the start walked away with everything.
My beef with the HIMYM finale is that there were a tonne of story lines that could have made fleshed out 22 minute episodes on their own that ended up crammed into 30 second montages
Northern Exposure’s entire final season. Despite it being an ensemble show, the loss of Rob Morrow left some pretty huge plot holes to fill. The series had already curdled as David Chase took over (there are stories of him having been jealous of NX’s Emmy wins while he ran I’ll Fly Away with no Emmy wins) and tinkered with plot lines and characters. Adding a new doctor while making Chris Maggie’s new love interest turned the show into a shell of itself. And the engagement party finale at Maurice’s didn’t salvage anything.
"Fighting the same villains alongside the same supporting cast only without the elements that make him iconic." = Gotham
S Y N A P T I C Gotham has been great these past 2 seasons. If it gets picked up for season 5, they've pretty much said he will be putting the cowl on before that season is over. The most recent episode had a gut wrenching cliffhanger twist that no one saw coming. It has really grown into a great Batman show
Gotham is focused on Gordon though, with Bruce being more of a supporting character. Smallville on the other hand is all about Clark. Plus, he already has defeated nearly every single Superman villain permantenly by the end of season 10, up until now it does not look like Gotham is going to go the same route with the Batman villains.
@CactusHeart79 I'm pretty sure that was the point he was making lol.
He quoted what the guy said about Smallville in the video we just watched and applied it to Gotham instead
Had best live action joker
Gotham seemed more like let's watch these weirdos talk about Jim's soul I havnt seen it all but that seems to come up alot
I wonder why this was recommended two years after upload
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I like the "How I Meet Your Mother" ending a lot. Robin was never right to the mother of the main character's kids. But she was the perfect person for her to grow old with.
I can't believe you forgot the Sopranos ending. That WHOLE episode was a huge let down.
How about quantum leap? Poor guy went through so much to end up being trapped to leap for the rest of his life with just a piece of text at the end to explain the ending
that one really fucked with me, that whole weird bar with previous characters playing new roles, then you find out Dr Sam Beckett never returned home..."oh boy"
They didn't know QL was being canceled. It was just supposed to be a regular episode, so they scrambled to make it a finale, after it was already filmed. Not really the showrunner's fault.
Yep. And that title card "Dr. Sam Becket never returned home." didn't even spell his name right! Beckett, with TWO t's, not one. sheesh.
Maybe they were referring to a different person without the extra T in his last name, and the guy in the show did really return home.
Im just impressed anybody remembered this show lol, Think a few of us are definitely showing our ages.
Quantum Leap! Total kick in the slats
The 'Lost' finale aired in the U.S. the same weekend as the finale for 'Ashes to Ashes' aired in the U.K. The latter also was 'this is Purgatory', but Ashes to Ashes did it SO much better that it brought the mess that Lost had become into even starker release.
Oh! I know the Smallville one!! My screenwriting teacher worked on the show for years. Apparently, the actor that played Clark Kent was terrified of the Superman curse (basically everyone (at that point in time) who had played superman ended up dead or disabled) So he insisted on not wearing the costume. Nothing they did could convince him, so they just gave up.
but he did wear it...
Married With Children didn’t even have a series finale. After a decade on the air, and big fan base, the cast read in the papers that the series had been canceled.
That was WELL before it became standard to end shows even if they were cancelled. Shows just vanished overnight constantly then.
I seem to recall the show ending with Kelly's wedding.
I honestly don't remember what happened at the end of mwc, but Fox better have given them a good send off bc they made Fox broadcast channel.
@@robirvine6970 Not true. There are much older shows and a lot of shows around that time (late 80s and 90s) that had season finales. Do some research.
@@DavidFrancis24824 No. Very few shows that were cancelled did final episodes. Also "do some research"? what are you? nine? Do you say LOL in real life as well?
Castle.
*7 Years later*
Enough said.
i totally agree, they should of atleast put a scene of them being rushed to the hosptial and maybe ended it with them in a hosptial bed side by side after surviving holding hands... or something instead of the whole "7 years later" bullshit
Smallville season 10 was basically all build up that just kinda went nowhere
No Sopranos? I think everyone who watched it thought the cable went out!
True. It was a mistake not being more explicit with Members Only Guy, imo. It's aged well but only because ppl figured it out in the meantime.
The meaning of the finale was very simple: Because of the choices he made, Tony and his family made it out of the mob life, but as the final shot illustrated, he'll spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
You didn't sing, but you did give us Neal Patrick Harris dancing. That's good enough for me.
Quantum Leap, While I understand why , It just felt like the writers were like. Yeah Let's tell everyone that Sam has absolutely no shot of ever making it home, The End
Still worst finale ever.
I liked the end of QL.
I agree! It was heartbreaking. Al's life was completely different with him and Beth being married and having kids and all, so although they never specifically said it, he was probably not on the QL project. Which means, Sam lost his only friend and confidant there. And it says at the end "Sam Becket (spelling mistake even!) never returned home". It should have said "Sam Beckett CHOSE to never return home". This way it sounded as though he had no choice. Can't help it - that end had me crying and I think it sucked.
The real problem with the finale of "How I met your mother" was character development thrown off the cliff... I prefer the alternate ending BUT there's still the problem with Barney's character >.
I read the title of this video and immediately thought “Dexter” because I haven’t seen that many shows (only 2 on this list) but i loved Dexter so much and HATED how it ended
my worst VV show ending would be ALF as it didn't end. Then years latter we got a really bad attempt to end it in Project ALF with none of the returning cast. other disappointments, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Sonic Sat AM, Captain N, Goliath Chronicles, Lois and Clark, Love Hina Again, Kadocha, Digimon season 2, DS9, co e to think of it older TV shows, Lassie, Denis the Menace, didn't have endings, they just ended.
The key would be if the Alf "finale" was intended to end the series, or just be a cliffhanger for a S5 that never happened.
Pushing Daisies was a victim of the writer strike. It continued on in comics however.
Rewatching HIMYM it seems more obvious now they planned on Robin being the one he ends up with. It's barely about the mother
Which is why they should have named it How I Met Your Stepmother.
There was one bit of the last season of HIMYM that genuinely made me cry and only makes sense if you know the ending. The episode which starts with Ted telling Tracy his stories only to discover that she knew them all already, now fast forward to the end of that episode and one line of dialogue and some, might I say, fantastic acting from Josh Radnor. So the conclusion of Ted's story was that Robin's mother was at that point was assumed to not be coming to the wedding, but 'surprisingly' does and Tracy says 'What mother is gonna miss her own daughter's wedding?' and Ted starts to cry, this scene made me well up like a baby when I watched the show back years after the finale.
I actually love the lost ending.. sure there are maaany questions left unanswered, but this series is one great piece of art, one of my favorite series ever and the ending doesnt change anything about it.. it could be much worse in my opinion
I still hate the final episode of "Angel". After all of the years the fans invested in following the characters story arcs, to end it on cliffhanger with no resolution was a "slap in the face" to true fans. They killed off so many beloved characters in the final season and left so many questions that would never be answered.
How did Chuck not make this list? Ending killed 95% the show.
I actually liked the Chuck ending.
+Stephen Hogger It was fine, just a little more open-ended than maybe you would have wanted.
the chuck ending was good also be ready to watch chuck movie when its out zachary levi and rest of cast still want it to happen
i agree chuck ending was good ps believe it or not if season 5 didn't happen it would have ended with last episode in season 4 which in my opinion would suck morgan saying that last lines and him having the intersect-but thanks to fan popularity they made a successful ending.
Time to do a part 2 of this and include Game of Thrones on the list.
Yes
if avengers was a show endgame would be there aswell
Angel pissed me off, loved the show, hated the ending
Dexter has to be on here...
it's #2
Fingaz Mc poop
Fingaz Mc agreed
Fingaz Mc i would of rather seen Dexter go to prison, which is just sad.
my name is earl's finale pissed me off cause it was a cliffhanger that never had a ending
I think the same writer mentions how the story ends in an episode of Raising Arizona or whatever that show was called
It was "Raising Hope," Keegan. I'd totally forgotten that. As I recall, though, they don't actually say what happened. It was on a news show and the reporter said something about, "Remember that guy who won the lottery and was trying to make up for his past? You'll never believe how it ended!" There were a few references to "My Name is Earl." They walk by a poster for "My Name is Earl - The Movie" too, or something.
1. Knight Rider [original 80's series]
2. Angel
3. Magnum PI
4. Chances
were the worst TV series endings.
Angel omfg i forgot that one heh :( such a waste of decent narrative potential
Chuck. Ok it wasn't just the finale, the last few episodes of that series ruined the relationship that was the heart of the show and I will never be over it.
Let me guess: Dexter and How I Met Your Mother.
Firefly, because it didn't get one because Fox murders any series with semi intelligent writing.
Firefly did get an ending.... An entire movie.... derp
Serenity
Covfefe Hamberder It’s not shit. The brilliance of it just went over your head.
I could point out that serenity was the ending, but honestly id rather pretend that never happened just blame fox.
Smallville did a lot of things right but messed up a few things:
1) kept Lana around way too long
2) kept Lois and Clark in the “friends” for longer than necessary (and then they don’t even get married after a 7 time jump)
3) NEVER SHOW CLARK ACTUALLY SAVING ANYONE AS SUPERMAN
I'm amazed that so many people didn't see the ending of How I Met Your Mother coming. For me it was obvious. The story literally starts when he met Robin for the first time and it was years before he met Tracy. Not to mention numerous clues leading up to the finale that screamed she would die in the last episode.
a lot of people dont know that the script for the whole show was written prior to filming so it was supposed to end like that from the beging. The show changed over the years not strictly following the script except for the finale.
x-files ain't over guys........
But it is. No one cares for the lame resurrection in Season 10.
Christian Beier yes they do you plank
I care. And I enjoyed it. And season 11 is confirmed. So: it is not over.
It is over now. No season 12
Sopranos: cut to black in mid sen.....
Family Matters: Steve Urkel finally gets Laura & we don't even get to see their wedding?
Spider-Man ( 90's animated series ): "We're going to find the REAL Mary Jane Watson" ....WHERE THE FUCK DID THEY GO?
Agent Carter: um....when did they start turning the SSR into SHIELD? Weren't they supposed to be building up to that? Damn you ABC...
Angel: *massive horde of monsters descend on LA* "I want to slay that dragon" *cut to credits*
Castle: a whole season of needless expansion on the conspiracy surrounding the murder of Beckett's mother culminating in a rushed ending that included the overused fast forward gimmick....
The Spiderman one I can totally remember being frustrated. First show disappointment.
newageBoundhippie So wrong about Angel
Angel, Agent Carter and Castle were all canceled, There were rumors about the cancellation so beforehand so show runners wrote the final shows of the season to serve as both kick off to new season (if the got picked up) or series finales (if they didn’t)
You don’t understand the finale of Angel. It was about keeping up the fight no matter what and that it will never end (which was a major theme in the last season).
Lost didn't disappoint me because I had the good sense to stop watching after the first season.
People watched that show and analyzed each and every detail trying to unravel the mystery, but the joke's on them, as there was no explanation for it all. At least none that was planned out in advance and carefully hinted at. The writers just pulled things out of their asses as they went along, throwing in whatever weird shit they happened to think of while baked, without any thought as how it would all be explained.
I absolutely LOVE the ending of Lost. Tears all over the place . And I swear I can answer most questions. I really don't see the point in asking things such as "WHAT IS THE ISLAND POWER" , that would be like asking what is the force in Star Wars
Midichlorians
EXACTLY
I just finished it last night. I loved it as well.
HIMYMs ending will always be terrible for me
With HIMYM I pretend that alternative finale was the real one.
same
Every show that Fox or SyFy cancelled without any kind of ending at all.
The Lost finale disappointed me at first, but later I found out that I was too dumb to understand it and now I find it brilliant. For those who have never seen it, some didn't like it because the show doesn't spoon feed you answers, but the answers are there. Even for those who hated the ending, everyone thought the story arc into the final season was amazing. It is worth watching.This show has the best twists, characters, and emotional and WTF moments. The best way to know if you will like the ending is to see if you appreciate endings that are ambiguous like in movies like Inception and Annihilation.
Jericho.....I LOVED the first season.....they killed the second...
Have you read the season 3 and 4 graphic novels?
I know it's not popular opinion, but I love the ending of Battlestar.
How the hell did the Sopranos escape this list?
100% Right man. Lost and Sopranos were def the worst for me - so many seasons and so much time invested just for complete let downs. And Sopranos should arguably be no 1 because it ended so abruptly most people thought their TV or DVD player was playing up. Shocking.
Because most people in hindsight think the Sopranos ending was brilliant. The backlash was more a temporary thing because some fans didn't get it
Not me I still think it was the worst.It was like wtf! all this time for what?It's not like we will ever get closure.
Jim Gray he Sopranos is not for stupid people. Its not going to hold your hand and spell everything out for you. The ending was brilliant and was built up over 7 seasons
because the sopranos ending was great
I really enjoyed the final episode of Lost. What I didn't enjoy was the last season leading up to it. They ignored sooooo many plot threads from the island that were just... dropped (forgotten? ignored? who knows!). The last episode felt good to me and weirdly appropriate. But the way we got there meant that the last episode had to do too much and could never achieve the level it "needed" to.
I only vaguely followed Enterprise, and even suffered nerd rage at that Enterprise ending. >.
I followed Enterprise closely, loved it. If they had made S4 first, the show might have never been cancelled. But I did like the finale. I get why people say they didn't, but the episode *BEFORE* that was an Enterprise ending. So they got their proper ending, just wasn't in the actual last episode as such.
Little Fears me too. I dislike the show after the first season and I could understand why fans of it would dislike it. Especially.since next gen was so old by then. But I read they thought of it as a send off to Star trek that started/was revatalized by next gen so I understand them too
I saw the episode where the "good" guy tortured someone. I don't get entertainment from watching evil crap. If that was the best humanity had to offer, then I'd root for the "villains".
That only happened twice in the whole of Enterprise, during a season that was intended to speak about 9/11 and Islamic terrorism. Context is everything: Archer, like the USA post-9/11, is not cruel and brutal. But the rage of losing 7 million innocent citizens (Enterprise) or 5,000 innocent citizens (USA) made the protagonist go too far in desperation from time to time. It's important to note, when those episodes of Enterprise were being written, prisoners at Abu Garib were being tortured by "the good guys" on a daily basis much worse than anything you saw in that episode.
Archer acknowledges in a later episode that he's been behaving in ways he would never have behaved before, simply because the threat of the Xindi destroying Earth is too great, and he's going to have a difficult time dealing with his conscience.
It's treated tastefully and within the context of the story arc. If you stopped watching Enterprise because of the episode where he puts the alien in the airlock... man, you missed out on some amazing TV. Do yourself a favour and re-watch series 3.
ABC's Dinosaurs had a quite an ending. I'm surprised that one didn't at least get an honorable mention.
Wasnt that the one where they all froze to death or something ? Im not sure I mean the right thing.
I don't think Dinosaurs was'nt a bad ending. It's just heart-wrenching that it made your eyes burst to tears. If the show has a chance to revive, I hope it takes place in our modern timeline or something.
Ending a sitcom with all the main characters, including gran and a baby, sitting inside waiting to either freeze or starve to death. What were they thinking?!!!! If I wanted something that cheery I'd watch a doco about life in North Korea.
You can add S11 Doctor Who to that one now.
HIMYM was one finale I actually enjoyed. Everyone said it should have been Robin, and in the end it was a Robin. I think it ended in a way that tied everything up pretty neatly. Plus, to this day I still loved Barney/NPH’s “You are the Love of my Life” foreshadowing and speech. Brilliant writing and actions by NPH on that scene.
Hear, hear! :)
I hated the entire final season of HIMYM... which covered all of one weekend...
So you enjoyed your time being wasted.
There was one episode of Quantum Leap where Al and Sam switched places. The finale could've been where Sam was able to go back home but Al was now the permanent Leaper.
That's not far off from a proposed revival of the show (probably won't happen anymore).
After Sam leaps out from Al's Bar, saves Future Al's marriage, and disappears into the ether as a true guardian angel, Al convinces himself to take the Leap and try to find him.
This list makes me afraid of how the finale of GoT will end up being.
Canal Azul -- even though J.R.R. Martin hasn't finished writing all the books, he knows Exactly how the saga will end. He's shared that information with the show's producers. The show will have the same ending as the book. Though, right now, the show is different than the story unfolding in the books.
That is completely incorrect. Martin gave the writers creative freedom when they correctly guessed who Jon Snow's parents were. He is an executive producer and is merely there for advice, not story development. Season 7 (and 8) was completely from the minds of the writers and not Martin himself. In fact, they had to create their own story because of Martin being so far behind on the final novel. Trust me, while he is there to give advice, the plot for season 7 and the final season are all on the writers, not Martin.
This is actually very obvious. 1-6 were very well paced and had some great character development. Season 7, everything is rushed, people warp around the world like they have time travel abilities, because the show is closing and the writers can no longer develop plots and instead have to tie together stories on their own.
Yeah, going to have to jump in here, the way GRRM writes explicitly means he DOES NOT know the ending of the series. See GRRM is by his own words a discovery writer, or a gardener as he calls it. Marten creates a world, builds its ideals, ideas and dimension, and then drops his characters into it, and just watches as they play around in it. This writing stile leads to great characters and relationships, but usually has issues with piloting, and especially endings. Have you ever read a Steven King book and been like "well that's a bad ending?" that is because he, like Martin is a discovery writer. Now Martin is working hard to make sure that that does not happen with A Song of Ice and Fire, which is why it is taking so long for the last few books to come out. Well, that and he's a grouchy old man who has tuns of other commitments and just really wants to be done with the whole thing, but also the first part.
Just as long as Jon and Daenerys don’t wind up sitting on dragons side by side riding off into the sunset I’ll like the finale. Yes the show has Mary Sued both, but in the end they will not get a happy ending
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it will be added in this list!
Trigun was a great show. It was only 26 episodes long. They knew well ahead of time when it was going to end and you would figure that they would tie up the story. The show still ended on a cliffhanger where Vash nearly kills his psychotic, murderer brother leaving his love interest and everything else just up in the air. There was a movie that happened thirteen years later that you would think would tie it up, but instead the movie took place between two episodes like four or five episodes before the end of the series.
After the disasters of season 6-7 and some of 5, the last few seasons of Smallville saved the show for me. I was also a bit disappointed that he wasn't shown in full costume, but it didn't change the fact the seasons 9-10, and a bit of 8, were among the show's best seasons for me.
He was actually doing shit instead of sitting around and crying over Lana.
Dexter's finale made me mad at first, but over time I've grown to appreciate about half of it. The lumberjack thing was a little weird, but I know they were going for a type of clockwork-orange type of feel. They may not have pulled it off totally successfully, but hey, the books got even weirder after the first couple.
i liked the books of dexter until the last one came out and ruined everything for me i even liked the shows ending of dexter way better than book
I initially thought the thumbnail was from Lois & Clark: they go downstairs to find a baby in a cot, with a Superman cloth, with a note saying “this belongs to you.” And people say Father Christmas doesn’t exist. 😏
Lost lol Literally the feeling you get after that ending. That was such an amazing show up until that point. I just couldn't wait to finally get some satisfying closure and some answers to some of the mysteries, but they never came and the end was so unsatisfying. Up until the last episode I would have said easily the best TV show ever, it was so fascinating.
But the satisfying answers to those mysteries are the hardest thing to write, it's easy to create interesting mysteries and stories if you never have to reveal answers to them in a meaningful way that feels right. It's easy to get someone interested in what's in the fancy black box, but if you never reveal what's in the box that's just cheap af writing...and that's what happened in Lost. I felt robbed.
I stopped watching it when the smoke monster came about and I’m pretty happy about that. It was a very engaging show, probably because I quit while it was ahead lol
I didn't care for the Sliders finale, but to be fair, it had dropped in quality since they decided to kill off the Professor.
Still I would love a Sliders reboot.