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I almost threw my phone across the room when I saw Scrubs on this list, but then I saw that they used season 9 as their basis for the “ending,” which, of course, is preposterous.
Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?
Looks like it’s “My Night to Remember”, which is a clip show. Which tend to have poor ratings as a concept.
I’d have to agree. Remembering the days when you’d wait a week or two for the new episode on TV just for it to be a compilation of scenes from older episodes…
I actually thought the musical episode was quite well done as far as musical episodes go.
They absolutely should have just done it as a spin off series instead of tacking it on the end of the actual series.
This is nice, but I’d like more to see the opposite, where the series went out on a perfect note. Like Breaking Bad or M*A*S*H (imho).
- House M.D.
- The Black Adder
- Fawlty Towers
The thing about House is that it had been bad for 3 seasons (and that’s being generous) before the finale. Does it really count as a bad finale if the series was already falling apart?
Perhaps I’m the exception for loving every episode; haven’t noticed any degradation in quality whatsoever.
Oh, I thought it was going downhill once he went to rehab. I stopped watching after he went to prison.
I absolutely loved that season. It was something fresh, a new way to see how Gregory handles the outside world without losing his wits when the chips are down.
Star Trek TNG
I have to say “All Good Things” (the TNG finale) was pretty decent. Though the rest of season 7 just felt like they had run out of ideas and were raiding the reject pile from previous seasons.
I like TNG a lot but I think the last season was the second worst season after only the first season. Peak TNG was season 4-5 IMO.
It was pure fan service but both Parks and Recreation as well as Schitt’s Creek can go on that list.
Or a show that got better just before it was canceled. Entreprise is a good example of a show that was just finding its voice just before the end. Even on this graph, the last season has some lows, including the finale of course, but it’s more consistent than the first seasons.
And Dexter completely fucked it TWICE!
More on the way! Apparently they’ve renewed two more shows. And supposedly even Michael Hall is in one of them!
What?? They better not make his douchy kid the star… I swear to God
They just need to make the reboot a dream sequence and restart.
I look forward to seeing what the wigs department has in store for us.
I genuinely wouldn’t even be mad if they do it
I think they included Scrubs “9th season” which was actually a prank that didn’t happen, the real finale looks pretty highly rated
The biggest mistake they made was calling it Season 9.
Had they made a spin off style show with a slightly different name and called it season 1, I bet the viewers would have lowered their expectations and had more time to accumulate to the new cast.
It was meant to be a spin-off called “Scrubs: Med School” and would have been better received in that light.
There was a massive change in cast, new set and setting, a move to academia, etc. It wasn’t Scrubs, but a spinoff featuring Turk and Cox.
Where is the HIMYM hate? I never had an ending piss on the viewer more than how that train wreck ended. Made essentially 48 hours play over an entire season that meant nothing, and as an extra shocker even the twist meant nothing and only served as a reminder that the whole season meant nothing.
I wish I still had my writeup on that last season, and especially the episode How Your Mother Met Me, which I think was a genuinely terrible episode that removed all depth from the Mother, and the only reason I think it got any praise was because of the ukalele rendition of La Vie En Rose at the end.
But yes, that entire season undid 8 years of character development for most of the characters, spent the entire season building up to the Barney & Robins wedding, which it then immediately undid, spent an entire season overdeveloping Barney to being a genuinely good person whose whole persona was a simple act of benevolent revenge…only to undo it and have him revert back to being a POS womanizer (until he knocks up some lady), gives us this big buildup for Tracy only to mention in passing that she died…like seriously it was about 7 seconds, and show Ted literally and figuratively letting go of Robin once and for all…only for him be like "oh yeah if was you i loved all along at the end.
I liked it because that’s kind of how real life actually ends up
#12
Supernatural, blacklist, and castle were really rollercoasters of good and bad episodes and seasons lol
Honestly both surprised but not at all surprised that Promised Neverland is #2
Surprised because it’s an anime in the #2 spot. Not surprised because it is SUCH A BAD ENDING
Does it match the manga?
I know people weren’t exactly happy with the manga ending but… S2 is truly something to behold.
It is hard to convey to somebody who doesn’t know the story just how badly they messed this up.
What they removed:
Fan favourite arc and characters.
Guns, lots of guns.
Literally god.
An entire civil war.
What they replaced it with:
“Martha? My mom is also called Martha let’s end racism”
A PowerPoint presentation (half the last episode is a slideshow)
“Martha? My mom is also called Martha let’s end racism”
Is that literally what happened or is this a reference to Batman Vs. Superman. If it’s not a reference that’s weird that it happened twice.
I was making a joke but in this case it was two characters sharing the name “Emma”.
Not only a PowerPoint presentation but a PowerPoint presentation is that spoils nearly a lot of shit if someone actually wanted to read the manga (I never read the manga but seeing the characters and the ::: spoiler Spoiler [fact they make it out to the real world is pretty much a spoiler)] spoiler :::
You’re missing the caps title in your spoiler tag. Like:
::: spoiler Spoiler [text] :::
How is Mythbusters on there? It’s not like there was some kind of plot to follow, loose ends in the storyline, or some kind of contrived plot device to finish everything off.
A couple of years after the show originally came to an end, Discovery tried to revive it but with a completely different crew running everything. It was terrible and Discovery ended the revived show after a handful of episodes. That’s why the last few dots on the plot are all way down there, not just the final episode. As the revived show went, the finale wasn’t really any worse (or better) than the others.
Yep, I remember that. I watched one episode and never watched it again. I guess I had it in my head that “That’s not Mythbusters…” and let it go.
Also they Moved mythbusters from Discovery (basic cable) to a higher tier that included The Learning Channel and lots of other stuff I wasn’t interested in fucking with the plan for - iirc this was the last two years. Discovery ran the new eps in re-runs later.
I do recall they kept moving the time slot around. Frustrating as heck if you wanted to watch the show.
this is not the worst finales, it’s the finales that had the worst ratings vs series average. if anything this is about series that fell off near the end. there are many shows that were popular near the end, so people tuned in to the finale (which would mean a high rating) and hated the finale anyway. Seinfeld is the most popular example, even though i don’t really agree with the consensus myself.
This graph just highlights the problem with popular TV shows that had no real plan for where they would go.
You do a season, it’s popular, people want more. Eventually your quality declines, people lose interest and they just end weakly, if they even get that rather than abruptly cancelled.
If we only had one season of Heroes, we’d still be talking about it in the same hushed tones as Firefly, but it didn’t and so we don’t. It’s just another in a long line of shows that started interesting, and quickly became mediocre. For that reason I’m kind of glad Firefly only got one.
I really don’t want a show that lasts for 10 seasons. That’s a massive time commitment. I want a story in as few episodes as it takes to tell it well. At least have an outline of what’s going to happen, even if you haven’t written it all out in full.
I really don’t want a show that lasts for 10 seasons.
Same. I like it when shows do not overstay their welcome, and like it much worse when the writers pad the story for an extra season or three.
The IT Crowd is a fine example of this. Any more, or any less, and we might have been disappointed as an audience.
Meanwhile it is my hope that What we do in the Shadows knows when to call it quits.
What happened to Myth Busters?
Different crew. It was so badly reviewed, viewer count fell off a cliff, so Discovery pulled the show after season 15.
Edit: To be clear, season 14 was the final season with the original hosts. Discovery renewed it for season 15, two years later after casting new hosts
I expected to see The Sopranos on here.
Why? The ending was pe
It’s mostly agreed upon as a good ending today, but when it aired it had very mixed reactions.
Damn, Seinfeld didn’t even make the cut. At the time, it was considered one of the worst of all time, especially for a show that was choosing to end while it was still going strong.
this is ratings not reviews. the Seinfeld finale has one of the highest ratings among finales, and i believe it was the highest at the time.
this is more about shows where people lost interest near the end. so less about finales and more about shows that jumped the shark or otherwise fell off near the end.
Oh I see, that makes more sense.
How is My name is Earl not on the list? 4 years and they don’t even have the respect to give a damn finale.
The Man in the high castle was really just the last minute that’s so absurd. Aside from that it was not bad. Which is telling how bad that last minute was.
I don’t recall thr ending of misfits to be bad though, have to look that up.
They had a choice; end the show on a hasty summary or end it on an unresolved cliffhanger. I’m honestly impressed that they shoved the entire last planned season into one episode. It felt cheap, I wanted to see Smith become the monster at a better pace that showed us all the details of his fall, but I don’t envy the showrumners’ position.
Unlike Enterprise, where they halfway invalidated the entire series by making it Riker’s off-hours book report.
Yeah, why isn’t Enterprise on this list!?
Literally right above The Man in the High Castle.
People wanted to see a redemption ark for the main bad guy from Man in the High Castle (forget his name it’s been a while). But I loved the fact that I grew to hate him and lost faith in him as they showed how much of a hyprocrit he was. Although the finale was crazy and rushed, I thought his story was satisfying.
