Comments on: The 16 Best And Worst TV Series Finales

By: Richard Wayne Canipe

Richard Wayne Canipe — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:08:28 +0000

No wonder All Good Things part 1 & 2 from Star Trek:the next generation didn\’t made it on this list!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:33 +0000

For me personally it's hard to imagine that any show will be able to top The Shield's finale. It really is the perfect end to an incredibly great show.

I personally do really love the Lost finale. I understand that for many the show was about the mysteries, but for me the most interesting aspect of the show was the whole theme 'Science vs. Faith' and the finale I thought really embraced that very concept without definitively choosing a side. On an emotional level, I couldn't imagine anything more satisfying. The final season as a whole certainly wasn't the greatest, but I did really like the finale regardless.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:33 +0000

Anyone who thinks the Sopranos finale was good is an absolte idiot.

Signed,

The Universe

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:33 +0000

Once again, a group of people who don't "get" what LOST was all about, and bash the perfect ending as a result. Ugh. Tiresome.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:33 +0000

@Andrew, I completely agree with about Lost. If you were in it for the mysteries you probably hated it, but on a thematic, emotional and character level the finale was perfect.

By: TheoC

TheoC — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:33 +0000

I loved Six feet Under but I remember being very disappointed with that final episode. The Sopranos finale is genius but overall the final season was disappointing.

I just loved all of Enlightened, weirdly it not being renewed is a good enough ending for me.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

I have to disagree with your opinion on Alias. I just watched the Alias finale last night and thought it was absolutely wonderful. Sydney had wanted to be out of the spy game since episode 2. She told Vaughn she wanted to take down SD6, and then she would be finished. The problem was she always kept being pulled back in. The fact that she's finally able to relax easily is a great thing for her character. Even if she didn't have kids, I'd imagine she'd be doing the same thing with Vaughn. Is a strong female character supposed to keep up the fight forever just because she represents something positive? How long does a marine have to serve their country before they can finally relax? My only complaint about Sydney is that she still wanted to save her mother. That was her only weak point I thought in the final episode. Also, Jack Bristow and Sloane had fantastic endings, fitting their characters, I think.

And I love Buffy but I can agree about that though.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

You missed the mark on the Angel Premise. Angel didn't set up to stop Wolfram & Hart for good, they were extra dimensional, and thus out of his reach. Because he knew he could never stop them for good, they were cut off from the slayers because of joining the firm, and working at the firm was tearing him and his friends apart, he decided that working from within long term would be pointless, and he decided to cripple Wolfram & Hart, temporarily to show people that they weren't invincible.

By: serena

serena — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

The worst series finale in recent memory was THE OFFICE (USA). The most mundane thing any storyteller can do is to give their characters–and their audience–everything they want, finale or not. THE OFFICE began as an awkward comedy about everyday embarrassments, and its big clincher was the Jim/Pam romance, all about withholding romance. So for it to become so saccharine in the last few seasons, and end on a note where literally every single character, even the minor ones like the real estate agent, get what they want, it strikes me as a finale that will not stand the test of time.

By: HS

HS — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

"Why didn't Dawn finally, you know, show us what a Key is all about?"

She did. In Season Five.

Taste is subjective, of course: it's more than fine not to like the Lost or Buffy finales (and Whedon fan that I am, the latter did underwhelm me somewhat). That said, your write-ups of them do kind of betray a failure to understand certain aspects of the episodes / shows. Snark is all well and good, but it's worth backing that snark up with something substantial, otherwise it comes across as hollow.

By: Keil S.

Keil S. — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

The Shield's finale is the best of all time, though I feel The Wire and The Sopranos are better series overall.

By: Alan B

Alan B — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

"Instead of coincidence and fate, the show became about two warring white guys"

If you can get through that many hours of television and still only see those characters are white, then you are obsessed with race to an extremely unhealthy degree.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

I agree with all of these, but there is one giant hole in this article: WHERE THE HELL IS STAR TREK: TNG?!! The last episode of TNG was one of the only shows to end PERFECTLY and you completely disregarded it.

By: oobug

oobug — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

While I like this list, the worst finale I can think of is that of the 2000s Battlestar Galactica series. After 4 seasons of episode introductions claiming that the Cylons "have a plan," this plan appears to get subverted without ever being revealed. Instead, we get highly dissatisfying emotional… resolutions? …for the lead characters, which play out as if they were specifically crafted to disappoint optimistic fans.

Granted, the show was on a steady downhill climb since the midpoint of season 3.

By: Rita

Rita — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

Don't you watch anything before 1995? What happened to the Newhart finale, one of the best; or the Dick Van Dyke final show; and of course, the last show of Mary Tyler Moore.

By: AV

AV — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

Babylon 5 had a very satisfying ending (actually filmed the season before its final year but only aired at the end of that final season). I would love to say my other 90s sci fi series DS9 had as good a final ep but to me it fell short (although I appear to be in the minority on that front).

By: Fenil

Fenil — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

You cannot be serious about Seinfeld. You might dislike the finale but to put it in the worst finale list is totally bonkers.

By: Karan

Karan — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

You probably missed the Scrubs Finale… I think it was one of the best finales for a show ever!.. A reason why you might not consider it is because they came back another season with an all new cast & setting. But the original finale was a perfect to an amazing series.

By: Randall

Randall — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

By: Monique A Williams

Monique A Williams — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

I'm so glad to see both Angel and Buffy on this list. Angel's final season was such a great turnaround, given how awful that 4th season was, and the finale was ultra satisfying. Buffy, possibly my favorite show of all time, had a weak 7th season and didn't have that same feeling. Though I enjoyed what season 6 brought to the show, if it ended at season 5, it would have been on the list for best finales.

By: Viewer

Viewer — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

I agree on the ones I've seen, except Buffy and Angel – I'd flip them. Those shows were about character arcs; on Buffy, we were given conclusions for all the main characters, while on Angel, we were not. I'm a little rusty, but with the Buffy finale, Spike makes a true sacrifice, Anya becomes truly human/mortal by dying, Buffy becomes almost a regular girl by being only one of many slayers, etc. With Angel, we don't have that completion, and the show was about redemption one day at a time, but it ends in the middle of a suicidal battle? That was weird and didn't seem true to what had been the message of the show.

By: Fairportfan

Fairportfan — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

The "Seinfeld" finale should be at the top of the list of great finales: It put that lousy excuse for entertainment out of our misery forever.

By: MBlaize

MBlaize — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

Disagree with Lost.
I thought it an extremely beautiful ending.

Concluded everything
SPOILER ALERT.
Though they were in Limbo, and chose to move onto the next life together, it tied up the ending of them moving on from the island together.

For people, who claim it was "confusing" I agree with you in certain in certain episodes you were "lost." Could that have been the intention of the writers? I believe it was. The ending was not confusing and if you didn't understand you weren't really paying attention.

Not only was I blown away as a huge Lost fan, but I honestly couldn't have come up with such a great storyline to conclude their journey of being lost. The island brought them together, they tried to leave the island on their terms, the island chose candidated them for someone to take Jacobs place, and the candidate was chosen and they moved on back to reality, and the conclusion of them being woken up in Limbo and brought to the church where they moved on in the afterlife together was so beautifully written. And yes the show ended where it began with Jack lying back down.

Wonderful show and conclusion.
This writer is pretty bias about saying it was terrible.
I know certain people, who were in favor of it, many who didn't use their brain and understand it, and others, who just weren't happy with it.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

In The Shield when Vics at the office cubicle thats surely not years later, but like the first night on the job.

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Fri, 13 May 2016 08:55:32 +0000

Of the ones I've seen, I'd say Six Feet Under was the best. I think it's far from the best show, but the finale was so perfect and I don't see any show surpassing it. I would say The Sopranos' is the next best (although obviously that's controversial) followed by The Wire's.
I haven't seen The Shield.