I watched the ending to the promised Neverland season 2 on TV, it felt like a slap in the face and I didn’t even read the manga. The entirety of season 2 felt like an insult and a disappointment.
Wasn’t Fear the Walking Dead shit from the beginning?
Didn’t deliver what it promised and season one was pretty rough. Season two was better. Season three was shockingly good, as in easily the best season of both shows. Then they gave the showrunner the boot so they could put Gimple on it and he ran it into the ground for season four, which was fucking awful. Don’t know what happened after that because I don’t think I finished the season.
How good is season three? Better than TWD season one? I really wanted to like FTWD but didn’t make it past episode 3.
From what I remember:
Season 5 was even worse, but at times it was “so bad it’s good”, so it was entertaining in an unintended way. Watch it to laugh at the mind-blowingly bad writing 😂 I wonder what drugs they had in that writer’s room…
Season 6 actually had some really good moments/episodes in the first half, but then it fell apart again.
Season 7 was mostly nonsense, and I stopped watching after the second to last episode.
Maybe one day I’ll watch the rest (season 8 was the last)…
Season 8 was hot fucking garbage. One of the only shows I straight up refused to finish because of just how bad the last season was. Made it halfway and called it quits, had the stupidest “twists” I’ve ever seen in a show.
Dont know how I even made it that far, was tempted to stop at 7 but figured I came far enough I may as well see it through.
Bad decision.
The whole premise was that they would show the outbreak and society’s downfall, as it was skipped over in The Walking Dead. That’s how the series started as well.
Then they skipped over big parts of it again, making the series just like The Walking Dead but with even worse characters.
Hell yeah, Enterprise! Only #17! Lol
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 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.
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I’m not sure how you could capture the cultural significance of the show in this type of graph.
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.
I don’t know what y’all are talking about about. GoT ended after season 5. It’s a shame they never finished it.
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 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.
What the hell happened to Myth busters?
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.
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.
How the fuck is Star Vs. The Forces of Evil not on this list?
Star betrays her own established character and kills billions because of a forced ship.
Wait, what! I only saw until midway, but now I’m curious. What happens?
Tl;dr
Star gets mad at her mother, screams “It’s not a phase mom! Toffee did nothing wrong.”
Decides that magic should be destroyed forever because Mewnie’s Queen is too good at it and because Marco is dying from a magical poison. So it is destroyed in every universe because Glossaryck said “Star is the main character so what she wants is morally right.”
Then he dies because he is a magical creature.
Star realizes that even though the poison no longer exists, there is no way to see Marco again because the fucking portal network is now gone for good…
So she uses the last of magic to realize she’s made a horrible mistake and goes back in time to stop herself from destroying magic…
Naw I’m kidding she actually makes Mewnie crash into the Earth the planets begin to merge, causing cataclysms on both planets that kill many in the process…
The show pretends this is a happy ending as we see Star’s friends magically survived the merging of the planets thanks to Princess Horsehead (who should be dead as she is a magical creature but consistency is for losers)
RIP: Spider with a top hat, everyone in the literal afterlife, and the millions of people who Star killed in the cataclysm of Mewnie and Earth merging.
Funfact: People who would watch a show like what the first two seasons promised are fans of magic existing more than they are of genocide. So this ending was not well liked and I personally do not consider it canon.
Especially since so many fanworks have Star hanging with Dipper and Luz from Gravity Falls and Owl House who being seekers of the supernatural would never be able to in canon forgive Star for this…
That’s… a way to end a show. Now I’m glad I didn’t continue watching it.
Thanks for the info!
…huh
I kinda dropped off when I realized the show was going to have a plot and shipping and I was just looking for a gag cartoon. Don’t think I could have predicted that.
Glad to see Ragnarok on here. Was a really good modern day telling of Thor based and filmed in Norway. Mosl the actors would dub over thier own voices in English since it was originally filmed in Norwegian.
Netflix pulled the plug so the show knew it had to wrap up all the story lines in season3. Glad they got it wrapped up but super ashamed of why they had to
On some level… how does anyone get a Netflix show and pretend they’re getting four or five seasons? First season is a freebie, second season is a victory lap, and then you’re fucking doomed. Yet serious industry professionals keep acting like it’s network TV, and if the ratings keep up with their time-slot, they’ll definitely get renewed. Cliffhangers for everyone!
Even fans act like it’s a surprise. “I can’t believe Netflix cancelled this after two seasons!” Really? Why can’t you believe that? It’s what they always do. It’s what they keep doing, to any show smaller than Stranger Things.
Yeah I was so disappointed in session 3 and the ending.
That fucking supernatural ending, that shit sucked
I didn’t mind it…I did cry when Dean died. The stuff in heaven could’ve been better but hey… It was covid…
For me, it felt like “Oh, shit! Squeeze one more in there we forgot to kill Dean!” I literally walked out the room while it was playing
It was a good ending. Dean was never going to do anything else than hunting monsters. Sam clearly wanted a life beyond that . It was also a reminder of how easy death comes and how fragile life is
All cars go to heaven
I thought the second to last episode was the ending and was happy. Then saw there was one more and wondered if they could top it.
Nope.
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.
Mass effect style? Where the last 10 minutes are so bad they reach across space and time and make the experience retroactively worse?
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)
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] :::
“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”.
What happened to myth busters?
They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren’t going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.
If you’re referring to Kari, Grant, and Tori they got rid of them completely as I recall.
Kari, Tori, and Grant left when they asked for more money and discovery said no. Fuck discovery for running a good thing. Same mother fuckers ruining HBO and warner brothers.
Fuck Discovery for ruining a good thing
A few years ago I was rewatching the Smyths edit of the show and I was wondering if it was ruined or if the show just was a product of its time and couldn’t exist in <modern year>
I think the internet has turned urban legends on their head. What constitutes a plausible myth has changed. We can just search for a lot of these now (and back then too, but it was less common and there was less stuff online). A lot of new urban legends are floating around now, but I don’t know, a lot of these early episodes tackled timeless schoolyard myths.
But the point wasn’t always to test the myth, the myth was just a premise to see them build things and blow them up. Even when I remembered the outcome from when I was a kid, I loved rewatching some of these episodes. It was really interesting to see how they set their experiments up as well. Very practical, very “workshop-brained” in the very best way.
But more than that, I think there’s just no way any network is bankrolling anything like that anymore. My understanding of TV show finance is very limited but I can’t see a modern Mythbusters being profitable, between the insurance and the networks’ unfailing appetite for canceling shows and writing them off, especially expensive shows. Didn’t Netflix make a spiritual successor with the B team only to cancel it, back when Netflix was just blowing up in popularity?
I firmly believe Mythbusters was made in the best possible era for it. Right when the internet was becoming a part of everyone’s lives but not to an intrusive level. Right when there was enough public interest in educational (well, educational-adjacent) TV and right when it was feasible to make the show.
Of course I’d like Mythbusters to exist in some form today. Maybe a tiny self-funded operation with its own in-house streaming site. But are there enough 25-40 year old vaguely nerdy types willing to pay for it? Adam Savage’s YouTube just isn’t the same. I appreciate it, but it’s a shadow of the real deal.
I do really miss seeing the world through the eyes of a kid flipping channels and landing on Jamie Hyneman creating a frozen poultry cannon.
Didn’t Netflix make a spiritual successor with the B team only to cancel it, back when Netflix was just blowing up in popularity?
Yeah, White Rabbit. I watched it an even then it was very appealing iirc
It ran until Grant died, rest in peace
To this day, losing Grant is still a kick in the head. I always root for Grogu in any context because that was one of his very last projects.
Oh shit, I thought he died after it ended. Still the worst celebrity death for me, and one of the few that I could care about.
What a great guy.
There was a guy on YouTube who built a rig to see if it was possible to cook a turkey by slapping it, and I got emotionally invested in his process!
I do love his youtube channel. It’s like they’re specifically creating content to appeal to my personality. I don’t have a Youtube account but he’s the only one I actually check to see if there’s new videos on.
and the very last episode was just an interview reviewing the best moments, not a bad episode per se, but not worth it of a series finale
The 15th season didn’t include any of the original cast. Not even Adam and Jamie.
I think the other reply to you may be talking about previous seasons, after the build team left, but that’s not the season that’s being marked as last in the image. I’m a bit iffy on how the seasons are numbered, but I believe the build team was gone for seasons 13 and 14 with just Adam and Jamie hosting, then season 15, the final one, was the one with two completely new hosts.
The last season of Ozark was great imo. My only gripe was the last scene with their son. Why the complete 180?
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.
They absolutely should have just done it as a spin off series instead of tacking it on the end of the actual series.
Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?
I actually thought the musical episode was quite well done as far as musical episodes go.
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 remember Stargate being notorious for those. At least one a season.
I was committed on seeing the whole scrubs series but when season 8 ended it had such a great closure I just couldn’t make myself to keep watching.
Season 8 is the last season, you watched all of scrubs and you had the beautiful finale (as even the data shows, it’s amazing and my eyes always wet when I rewatch it).
There is no season 9. There is a spinoff show, called “scrubs med”, which takes place in a med school and has some of the scrubs characters as teachers but they are there just as supporting characters. Somebody in charge of the show decided that for scrubs med to be successful it had to be branded as scrubs “proper”, so the show was released as scrubs, season 9.
Obviously it tanked. Too bad, because I think it was a nice show after all.
Ye, I would have loved a spinoff as well. They underestimated the emotional closure the S8 finale had. That’s the MBA brainrot
there is no season 9 in ba sing se
My wife and I say the same thing, in fact I’ve never seen season 9 she won’t let me haha
Scrubs ended in May of 2009 with My Finale: Part 2, tied for first as the highest-rated episode. “Season 9” aka “Med School”was a cash grab continuation merging the silly web series spinoff “Scrubs: Interns” that ABC absolutely fucked. There’s no reason to continue watching past My Finale: Part 2, which is how that phenomenal show ended up anywhere near this list.
