I liked the last episode of Enterprise because that entire series was trash and making it Rikers holodeck saves it from itself.
The last episode of Enterprise is the one before that. There is no Riker’s holodeck!
Wait, no lost? Ah kids these days.
When I saw what the list was about, Lost was the first series that came to mind.
People were too confused by the ending to rate it correctly.
It was a little trippy
Speaking of kids no Quantum Leap either. It’s ending was also terrible.
To be fair they didn’t expect it to be the end. They had been cancelled and only had time to change the final message to say he never came home.
At least “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” was spelled correctly.
Probably because the ending is good. Re-watch the show, but focus on the characters other than the mysteries.
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Probably excluded if it missed the minimum 7.0 average rating for the series, which it would have if we take the numbers on Lostpedia. I have no idea if those are accurate though, since it shows the final episode having better rating than all other episodes in the final season.
Exactly what I came to say!
Game of thrones was not mentioned in a single comment (at the time of writing this comment).
I guess it wasn’t soo bad on an objective scale but just fully killed the relevance of the show.
I use Game of Thrones as a textbook example of how to write a show with a diverse set of characters, locations, and motivations (in the early seasons all those moving pieces fit together remarkably well), and also how not to do that, with all the plots going to pieces and the characters and their motivations falling apart in the last couple seasons.
It’s pretty amazing how strong the show starts and how hard it screws the pooch by the end.
As long as they had source material to follow, the showrunners did okay. When they passed the end of the latest book, it all went to hell.
The still had the source material, they just wanted to end it as soon as possible.
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Legit I’ve never had a desire to rewatch any of it since the ending.
I remember seeing leaks being posted on freefolk and thinking no fucking way these are real, realising they were, and then shitting on the rest of the last season with my partner, only way we got through it.
I’m not sure how you could capture the cultural significance of the show in this type of graph.
I don’t know what y’all are talking about about. GoT ended after season 5. It’s a shame they never finished it.
I find it weird how a lot of people always talk about the ending of game of thrones was bad, bit season 7 was just as bad or worse. Season 6 was pretty bad as well, all it had going was basically: man i wonder what the next season is like. I don’t even think the ending is too bad, it’s just implemented horribly. They just needed to end it as quickly as possible. Season 7 was pretty much the low point for me. It became like a twitter show. Oh people like that character, he’s not gonna fie and gets more screen time. Or i don’t remember what season it was, but i remember watching it and thinking: why are they focusing the camera so much on this random ginger soldier. I only figured out way later that he’s a singer who had a cameo in the show. The show had so many flaws that people (me too) just overlooked because i was just interested in where it’s going and i haven’t read the books at this point. But when season 8 came around people just realised that it’s in fact not going anywhere.
I was going to argue that while season 7 was bad, it wasn’t as bad as season 8. But then, I remembered how shit the Beyond the Wall episode was.
- They come up with the stupidest fucking idea of catching a wight. Jon Snow saw them at Hardhome. It was an insane number of dead people. How the fuck do they think they are going to trap something that is dead?
- Why the fuck are wights doing squad patrols throughout north of the wall? They’re fucking dead. They don’t need rest, food, or water. Just scatter wights throughout the area as lookouts.
- Why in the ever loving fuck are they sending the most important characters to go on a suicide mission?? I’m not even going to elaborate on that.
- We saw the entire party leave the Wall and walk around searching for wights. When they get to that little island and start fighting them, all of a sudden, there are all these unnamed characters showing up just to die. Where the fuck did they come from‽
- They send a kid that grew up entirely in King’s Landing on an unarmed marathon to get help. The kid, malnourished, dehydrated af, and alone, covers a distance that took them days to travel. Once there, they send a raven to cover half the distance of the entire island to get Danerys to fly to find them. Except Danerys has never been north of the Wall. How the fuck does she know where she is going??
I gotta stop. This is just too stupid.
One of the things that Game of Thrones did well early was always ensure the payoff was worth it. If you didn’t like an episode here or there, it was fine because it advanced the plot enough that you still followed the breadcrumbs and another episode down the line made it worth it.
Season 8 was so bad because many people tolerated elements of seasons 5, 6, and 7 because they were hoping for payoff. When that payoff was underwhelming at best and utterly nonsensical at worst, people tuned out fast. People spent hundreds of hours over a decade watching the show and discussing it with their friends, and in the end, it wasn’t worth it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something disappear so completely and quickly from the cultural zeitgeist.
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
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.
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.
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.
I’m surprised that Ozark is not on the list.
It’s the very last one on the list.
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).
It was pure fan service but both Parks and Recreation as well as Schitt’s Creek can go on that list.
- House M.D.
- The Black Adder
- Fawlty Towers
Star Trek TNG
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.
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.
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.
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.
The most recent Futurama series ending was 10/10.
They brought it back again but whatever that show is goated
Futurama has nailed two out of its four finales. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” seemed impossible to beat, but holy shit, “Meanwhile” pulled it off.
“What do you say? Wanna go around again?”
“The show was dead but they kept going” is visible in a lot of these. Two And A Half Men, you can see exactly where ol’ tiger blood left the show. Mythbusters, you can tell which season tried being all B team… without the B team. I scrolled through and knew which one was Scrubs without even looking at the labels. House Of Cards-- no kidding.
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.
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.
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.
Mass effect style? Where the last 10 minutes are so bad they reach across space and time and make the experience retroactively worse?
What the hell happened to Myth busters?
I thought the same thing till I remembered they booted Kari, tory, and grant for having the gall to ask for fair pay. Iirc they tried to make finding a new crew a whole “thing” on the show and the fans absolutely hated it. Adam likes to spin it as “production costs going up” which yeah, having 3 Unpaid inters asking for fair compensation is a cost you should’ve budgeted for after 7 or 8 years. Couple that with Adam’s reputation for being a drama queen and an absolute nightmare to work with, and they show was pretty cooked by the end.
I think it’s just that Discovery didn’t want to let it end. After Adam and Jamie left, they had like 2 more seasons with new hosts. I actually don’t know if the quality of the show dropped, I never really gave it a chance.
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.
Also, doesn’t a show that was consistently bad have a bad finale? The finale could even be a high point of the otherwise bad show and still be worse than any of the ones on the list.
exactly… definitely an interesting list; i just think it doesn’t reflect what the title says.
I wonder if people just rate the finales badly because they don’t want it to end. I can’t imagine Ozark being panned on the final episode.
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.
Yeah and I don’t like the inconsistency. If they include the continuation of Scrubs, they should have done the same with Dexter.
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.
You mean you haven’t seen the Scrubs webseries?
That is the ninth season.
The last season of Ozark was great imo. My only gripe was the last scene with their son. Why the complete 180?
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.
