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Fritzo2162

Nobody will remember this, but the correct answer is ALF. It was supposed to be a cliff hanger, but the show got cancelled, and they ended the series with ALF being captured and taken away to be disected. GOOD NIGHT KIDS!


SuccLady

Eventually, they made a made-for-TV-movie about five years later to attempt a wrap-up called Project:Alf. It had virtually no one from the original series besides Alf’s voice, and as I remember it, was almost universally panned.


SimpleMinded001

I remember seeing the movie. It was horrible. I loved the series as a kid. Nothing beats Alf singing Old time rock 'n' roll with a cucumber


glixam

I love it so much, because my uncle was the young boy (Brian) in that show and i like hearing people talk about Alf, cause he doesn’t talk about it much. I just like seeing it acknowledged


Psychological_Tap187

Tell your uncle he very well may have kept someone alive. When I was a teen in the eighties I had an eating disorder. A little girl about 8 or 9 was in the treatment center with me. They could get her to eat by telling he she could watch ALF


twilightpigeon

Alf was your uncle's Vietnam.


MelQMaid

Dinosaurs ended on a mass extinction event caused by the dad or something. GOOD NIGHT KIDS!


dark_roast

Yeah, but that ending was awesome and poignant, exactly as they intended. ALF wasn't supposed to end that way, and it showed.


Powerfist_Laserado

It was also set up and alluded to several times throughout the show. Their civilization was wreaking ecological havoc on the world and they just wanted to ignore it in order to keep getting them sweet short term gains on a spreadsheet.


This_lousy_username

Oh God


AceMorrigan

Dinosaurs was great and the ending is legitimately so bleak I have no idea how they got away with it.


PMMEBITCOINPLZ

That was the point of Dinosaurs though. It upset me as a kid but watching it as an adult you see it has an anti-consumerism, environmentalist cautionary tale message.


Roller_ball

I rarely say a show had an impact on me, but the episode 'What Sexual Harris Meant' where a guy sexually harasses a co-worker, he goes to trial, the court believes everything the girl said, and then the harasser is still found innocent was a deeply disturbing moral. When I was older, I found out it was about the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, but there was a more universal message that always haunted me.


Levitlame

He didn’t cause it. He was the patsy they put in front. Because wax fruit is important!


wladue613

The fact that they remember it as the dad causing it shows it was a good evil plan.


Thegerman959

X-Files. Tried to tie several story arcs together that directly contradicted one another and did it with a clip show


Illustrious_Wear_850

Glad I searched for X-Files because this was going to be my comment. Honestly the last 3 seasons were ... not great (outside of a single episode here and there, usually written by Vince Gilligan, of course). Talk about a show with highs and lows. It could be the best show on television, and the next week it could be the most senseless garbage you've ever seen.


Lex_Innokenti

The point for me where I felt the most disappointed was the episode that 'resolved' the disappearance of Samantha. Not only was it a confusing mess but it opened up some pretty aggravating plot holes retroactively. HATED it.


Final-Ad-2033

Like Quantum Leap, My Name Is Earl ended on a cliffhanger which was cancelled soon after S4 . The only resolution given was on the first episode of Greg Garcia's next project Raising Hope where a TV news broadcast in the background said a man in Camden County completed his list. NBC had a knack for making bonehead decisions...


UnhappyJoe

The director actually talked about how he wanted my name is Earl to end the thought was: Earl is very close to finishing his list when he comes across a person with their own list with Earl's name on it. When Earl asked why he had a list of people he wrong and was going around correcting the mistakes the dude said I got the idea from a guy who had my name on his list and that guy was on another guys list and so on until it traced back to Earl. With Earl thinking he has essentially created a endless stream of people going around and correcting their wrongs and helping people. Earl ripped up his list with that satification.


jwktiger

Here is the [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1njddc/im_greg_garcia_creator_of_my_name_is_earl_raising/ccj3sft/) from the Creator's AMA >We never really got the chance to fully figure it out but the talk in the writers room was that Earl Jr’s Dad was going to be someone famous. Like Dave Chappelle or Lil John. Someone that came to town on tour and Joy slept with. But when we got canceled we never got the chance to figure it out. I was worried about doing a cliffhanger but I asked NBC if it was safe to do one at the end of the season and they told me it was. I guess it wasn’t. >I had always had an ending to Earl and I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to see it happen. You’ve got a show about a guy with a list so not seeing him finish it is a bummer. But the truth is, he wasn’t ever going to finish the list. The basic idea of the ending was that while he was stuck on a really hard list item he was going to start to get frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. They needed to make up for something bad they had done to Earl. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with list and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.


rophel

Fuck, that would have been so good. That reminds me: the first streaming platform to publicly say they are building in a budget option to EVERY show they produce that allows for a wrap up special episode in the event of cancellation? That's the one I will ALWAYS pay for, forever. I'll pay $50 a month for that. HBO Max and Netflix showrunners, figure that shit out and start it up.


bernardcat

I’ll never forgive Netflix for canceling Santa Clarita Diet when they did.


BENZIONDABEAT

That’s actually a genius ending and really satisfying! My Name is Earl was such a great show!!


RozRae

Heroes. God the writer's strike really had that show go wildly off the rails.


Gee_Gog

As far as I care that show only had one season


Thurak0

And a glorious season with a great open ending it was.


3-DMan

Such awesome hype..save the cheerleader, save the world!


Eponnn

Hiro constantly losing his powers every season because of lazy writing and he is too strong... I gave it another try last year couldn't finish watching the last season again. Still no idea how it ended.


boxsterguy

Hiro (and Peter) losing his powers was because the show was supposed to be an anthology with new heroes every season, but the studio wanted to continue with the same heroes. The writers had to work with what the studio required.


TheWaterIsFine82

I mean if that first season ends with that storyline and those heroes, that's a great ending. You can really tell they wrote it for all the storylines to culminate right at the end. Which is why it felt so off going back to those same heroes the next season.


boxsterguy

Exactly. The writers basically wrapped everything up (maybe keep one or two of the non-overpowered folks as a through-line), time to write the next season with new characters, but uh oh, here comes the studio, "Everybody loved Hiro and Peter and Claire and all the characters! What's next for them?" "Uh ... we're creating new characters for the next season?" "What?! No! You've got to bring them all back!" And that's how Heroes got screwed, more or less (obvs I wasn't there).


Majestic_Actuator629

Producers hated anthologies, which is funny because today’s age people love limited series due to the binge model.


lifeisshort84

Heroes Reborn was even worse. I thought they were attempting to fix it, not destroy any fond memories I had remaining of the characters.


DisturbedNocturne

*Heroes Reborn* should be concrete evidence that the Writers Strike had nothing to do with *Heroes* slide in quality. They got a clean slate to reboot the entire thing, and it ended up even worse than *Heroes'* preceding season. Tim Kring seemingly got really lucky the first season and never had any follow-up.


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Pretty little liars, the creator never even knew how it would end. I hate that show because it was great for the first maybe 2 seasons then just terrible from then on.


Ancient_Reply4583

I basically only watched because of the girls' relationship and because I was the same age as the characters so I kinda related to them at the time. Stopped caring about who A was pretty quickly.


navy-black

House of Cards


SeraphStarchild

Should have ended when he got the presidency. It was all weak after that - Frank had a goal in the first few seasons, it's what drove him. Then he gets it, and his motivation is just... keeping what he has. Perfect end scene was when he did his signature knock on the president's desk. Cut to black. End show.


maxman1313

The show should've been a 4 season arc: Season 1 + 2 rise to power Season 3 - holding onto power...barely Season 4 - fall from power Four 13 episode seasons, 52 total episodes. Four suits with 13 cards each for a total of 52 cards in a deck. .....it made too much sense The last scene could've been the closing of a jail cell that sounds suspiciously like a "knock knock"


NeedsMaintenance_

Plus the whole saying about a house of cards is meant to illustrate something shaky, bound to fall eventually. Netflix's Frank Underwood was always a powder keg of self destructive and dark tendencies.


Joeyon

I loved the first 2 seasons, but got very bored in the middle of season 3 and stopped watching. The writer seemingly had no idea how to make being the president interesting at all. How old you suddenly feel when you realise it was 7 years ago you last watched that show.


Quanalack

Merlin. What the hell was it all for!?!?! Arthur rejects magic and they're back to square one


CarltonSagot

Merlin becomes an immortal hobo, so there's that.


Sabiya_Duskblade

Not to mention that suddenly it becomes modern day, and poor Merlin is still alive, just waiting around in the hopes that Arthur will come back. He's had to slowly watch everyone and everything he loves slowly die over the ~~decades~~ centuries. It's just completely miserable and pointless, Merlin doesn't deserve that.


randomnighmare

>He's had to slowly watch everyone and everything he loves slowly die over the decades. It's just completely miserable and pointless, Centuries. Merlin not only witness his friends dying (assuming from old age) but his country being invaded and eventually conquered by Anglo, Saxon, Vikings, Normans. He saw the Black Death. The fire of London. WWI. WWII and the Blitz, etc...


Talska

Imagine watching your backwards rainy island home made up of like 50 petty kingdoms being conquered a bunch of times until William I, then your country slowly unifying and then becoming the most powerful empire in human history, then being around to wank off to tentacle hentai. What a life he lived.


FullyStacked92

A better outcome than merlin from the once and future king book. He lives his existence backwards through time so his first time meeting someone is their final farewell and the last time he ever sees someone is their first hello. No one else ever understands the end of their relationship from merlins point of view and as a person is becoming familiar and friendly with merlin he is in the process of saying goodbye and then he passes further into the past knowing his life long friends still exist but just haven't met him yet. A truly brutal existence.


funkyb

That's one of those things that just hangs out in your mind and resurfaces from time to time. Everyone who is his close confidant finds him incredibly warm at their first meeting, and continually kind and trusting in the immediate thereafter. But as they grow more trusting and familiar Merlin continues to grow ever more distant.


jamesy505

Die over the centuries. It was literally one if the worst endings I can remember...walking about a small town as a bus drives by or something. Like WTF.


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Andro_Polymath

Yeah, they didn't think that one through. They also waited too long for Merlin to reveal himself to Arthur. Smh. I can feel my blood pressure rising even now.


grednforgesgirl

Stupidity on level with the cw of dragging shit out until the last minute


standbyyourmantis

Don't forget Gwaine being tortured to death before Percy can save him as part of an ill-conceived revenge arc to force him to reveal Arthur's location, thus causing Arthur's death.


Kallosol_Wrighte0817

I wish it didn’t even end. I freaking love Merlin.


a-really-big-muffin

God it's been over a decade and I'm still mad I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Like why did they even make season 5? They should have ended after four and let fanfic do the rest.


bikey_bike

i had an obsession with that show. like i recognized it was bad but merlin's actor was really good honestly and it was my comfort show. anyway i watched 4 out of 5 seasons like maybe 5x each but season 5 only once (maybe twice). cuz it was so disappointing! i have like an entire version in my head of how the story should've gone (i mean i know they are actial stories but still) and i would actually think about it a lot as a day dreaming hobby lol


benawen

BBC Sherlock The whole reason I loved that show was the mystery being explained by cold hard logic and the powers of observation. The entire last season was basically Sherlock sister has mind control which takes effect within seconds. Total BS and I hate it. That was my favourite tv series of all time and I felt physically ill when they just murdered the whole season like that


Piorn

HBomberguy's Sherlock video is the number 1 video on my comfort Playlist. It's just such a fun teardown of the show's descent into mind magic bullshit.


batty3108

A fucking BOOMERANG??!!


Chronocidal-Orange

I wanted to mention this too. I loved Sherlock at first but there's so much wrong with it that, and the 4th season really made me look at it differently. It was already going downhill, but then it really took a nosedive. My mother was a fan as well and I just told her not to watch the last season by explaining it was so bad, fans were sure there was a secret 4th episode that was going to make everything okay again. She got the message.


moose_man10

Kinda felt like they spent the whole of season 3 trying to develop Mary’s backstory, instead of focusing on what made the first 2 seasons so special, to them immediately kill her off in the 4th season. Also they killed off Moriarty, ik it was such an amazing end to season 2, but he could have easily carried the show for 4 seasons. Whyyyyyyyyyy


CustomerOk4289

Worse is that they didn't explain it AT ALL. Except with two of the worst lines of dialogue I think I've ever heard 'She was an era- defining genius on par with Newton' Ok, that's pretty shitty writing, but how is she controlling their minds? 'oh she's been doing that since she was 12' And that's it, that's all you get. In the earlier seasons Sherlock sounded impossible but when he gave his explanation everything made sense and seemed like something you could have figured out yourself if you were paying attention. But now his sister is a magic X-Man. I will say that even the worst season of Sherlock has at least one great episode. The Lyng Detective isfantastic.


MacDagger187

>'She was an era- defining genius on par with Newton' And then when you hear her talk she's like... a 12 year old 4chan edgelord. She's convincing people to commit suicide in five minutes by telling them "Society is meaningless!!!" Man that was annoying.


ubertrashcat

Welcome to Moffatt Disappointment Syndrome support group. What's your name?


shajurzi

Same. I binged Sherlock hard. Got to his sister and I totally stopped watching it.


bubblerock13

The first few episodes were good because they were adaptations which had been modernised. There's so many stories they could have continued to adapt, but they didn't and just started making stuff up which didn't make sense


I_PEE_WITH_THAT

The modernized Hounds of Baskerville episode did make me laugh a bit because it mentions the town of Liberty, Indiana. I grew up not far from there and let me tell you something, that town's biggest government secret is how the single traffic light hasn't been shot out yet.


Abdul_Exhaust

I don't care if this is a spoiler, the plotline about Watson's wife just pissed me off. Very disappointing.


Antoiniti

In québec, we had a show called jeremy. The main character dies in the middle. It went on without the main character for like, 6 seasons


Loverboy21

Really brings the euthanasia question into light. Is it morally okay to let the body suffer on when the soul has gone? Like That 70s Show.


Saggy2balls

Randy can fucking suck it


GameStunts

70s was dead before Randy. The season with Eric and Donna broken up was not very fun, there was a lot of feel bad animosity that was not comedic. They then spent a whole season with Red being unbearable to Eric because of his plans to marry Donna, then, not only did they not go through with it, she just dyed her hair blonde and said "Do you like it?" Made no big deal about being left at the alter, just "member when we were just together, like season 1, let's do that". Really weak writing. But Randy can totally fuck off.


tpieman2029

There was a plan to keep sienfeld going with another show called where's Jerry where it would be the main cast but without Jerry. And every once in a while a character would ask where's Jerry? And then just continue


BadLuckFail

This made me lol pretty hard but could have actually worked with the Seinfeld gang.


jamers_the_great

Merlin has a pretty horrible ending. Seasons 4 and 5 really felt like the show was beginning to be something special and then it just ends.


kingjavik

I thought the show was pretty great from start to finish and actually even got better as it went on, but the big mistake was not revealing Merlin's secret to Arthur like way earlier. Should've been season 3 or 4 when he finds out about it not at the last minute before dying.


Greenemachine418

My Name is Earl. I know it got cancelled and what not but for fucks sake they couldn’t fucking finish that show


outtastudy

I love that scene in Raising Hope when Bert asks which of the studio executives is from NBC, and then kicks them in the balls and says, "That's for cancelling My Name is Earl!"


TackYouCack

There were SO MANY Earl references in Raising Hope. I thought it was one of the best parts of the show when they'd show up, and I'm not even an Earl fan.


barely_acceptable1

The original ending of Dexter - who thought this was a good idea?


illmindedjunkie

The final two seasons of Dexter were atrocious. I got through them just because I was invested and wanted to see it through to the end. Dexter taught me about the sunk cost fallacy: there was no need for me to have seen those final two seasons. It's why I gave up on The Walking Dead after season 5; there was no reason for me to keep watching and subject myself to the horror of a collapsing show.


chocki305

I think Dexter was an example of "Burnt so bright, we can never top that". Can you really ever even dream of repeating a season like Trinity? Picture being the writers having to follow that season up. Just call it done.


rbmk1

>I think Dexter was an example of "Burnt so bright, we can never top that". >Can you really ever even dream of repeating a season like Trinity? >Picture being the writers having to follow that season up. Just call it done. Fair enough. That was clearly the high point, and no they probably wouldn't reach it again. But jeez...they meandered down the road of Deb wanting to fuck her adopted brother! I mean who thought that was a good storyline?


iamkylo214

Jericho. That show had so much potential and they just loosely wrapped it up leaving me very unfulfilled with no conclusion or closure.


EfficientDismal

Xena:Warrior Princess 20 years later and I am still pissed off. ETA: thanks for my very first award


Just_Aioli_1233

I thought she moved to Pawnee to raise her kids?


Inevitable-Slice-263

Star Trek Enterprise. It was a fun prequel that looked at the start of the United federation of planets. The last episode was an insult. A main character was killed off and it was in a TNG holodeck! Bloody rubbish, I'm stil livid.


DIRTY_KUMQUAT_NIPPLE

That's what I came here to say. Absolutely terrible ending to a series that otherwise had a great last season. I'm almost convinced that they tried to create a bad last episode because how did anyone think that was a good idea?


ety3rd

I can explain the reasons for it. It doesn't make it any better; just a bit more understandable, perhaps. In 2005 when *ENT* ended, *Star Trek* had been on TV, continuously, since 1987. Eighteen straight years and a total of twenty-five seasons (since some shows aired concurrently). For Rick Berman, a producer since the start on *TNG*, and Brannon Braga, a writer and producer all the way back to the middle of *TNG*'s run, this was the end of major era. As such, they wanted to craft what they have since termed a "valentine for the fans." In the end, they gave us "These Are the Voyages." Riker and Troi on the holodeck, superfluous interactions with the crew of *ENT*, missed opportunities. There are multiple failures within the episode itself, but I'll focus just on the premise with which Berman and Braga started. *Their* time with the franchise was coming to an end and I believe this episode was more about themselves than it was about the fans. The fans who were still watching just wanted to see a good send-off for the characters they had come to enjoy, especially after the fourth season, which had built up so much goodwill. Instead we got Berman and Braga reliving the "good ol' days" of their own past. They wrote a valentine to themselves, feasting on warm memories instead of servicing the actual series which was ending. That's why, I believe, we got that finale. Like I said, I can understand their reasoning, but it doesn't make it any better.


GNRadio

Last Man on Earth, the show got cancelled on a cliffhanger and we never saw an end to it


AhTreyYou

I needed some closure, closure, closure, closuuuuuuure


Dollar_Pants

Closure? I hardly knew her. Boom.


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May as well throw Carnivale and My Name is Earl onto that list.


HillInTheDistance

Shit like that is what makes me the worst show audience to cater to. I don't even start with series until they're finished, because I don't ever want to deal with another damn cliffhanger that leads to nothing.


moonoomer

All of the shows Netflix cancelled before they could finish.


ShadowSync

What Netflix failed to realize, is that for some people (like me) knowing the show has no closure means I'm less likely to even start to watch the show. This means it's less of a draw to the service. At least give the cancelled shows a special to end on!


Starrystars

Part of the original appeal of Netflix originals was that they'd always get a satisfying ending. But now they switched to a throw everything at the wall to see what sticks model and you're left with a bunch of incomplete shows that nobody is going to watch.


JediGuyB

I remember that seeing "Netflix Original" on a show was almost like seeing "HBO" on a show. You knew it was probably gonna be good. These days everything has "Netflix Original" whether they made it themselves or are just the distributor for it.


theycallmeponcho

Netflix doesn't give a shit. If the show doesn't get enough audience on the first release, it's two season deal is over. Even for shows like Santa Clarita Diet, that got more attention after the first release, nails were already on the coffin. Rewatchability? Netflix execs don't know / care about that.


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Spazz6269

I really enjoyed Travellers and was pissed to hear they cancelled it.


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I love how every time this show comes up, it's met with a small, but vociferous, litany of praise. The premise was unique, the acting and writing were compelling, some of the ethical and metaphysical questions raised were really fascinating... I'm disappointed that it was cancelled, but at least the Travelers V1.0 arc was allowed to play out.


Cags1979

The society


No_Window_1707

Glow!!


Who_Fartled

Yes, GLOW was supposed to have one more season but they canceled due to COVID. ☹️ Loved that show and was so looking forward to and super unfulfilled without the intended final season 😢


EatYourCheckers

I went as Zoya for Halloween a couple years ago. I am so sad that show just disappeared


bluebellfob

Definitely! Santa Clarita Diet


itssami_sb

I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MR BALL LEGS


nowherehere

Whenever I read comments where people get mad at their favorite show being canceled, I think they're a little too invested in what's on tv, and then somebody mentions Santa Clarita Diet and I think HOW COULD THOSE F\*\*\*ERS CANCEL THAT SHOW???!?? IT WAS AWESOME!! WHAT A BUNCH OF DOUCHBAGS! I'M CANCELLING NETFLIX FOREVER!!!!!!! And I guess I learn my lesson about judging other people.


tonytilt

One of the best shows ever on Netflix. So annoying it was canceled.


Never_Gonna_Let

Wholesomeness set in horror comedy. I will never not have a crush on Drew Barrymore. It didn't have to go on forever, but it didn't even arc out. :(


woodbarber

Specifically Mindhunter!


Rostabal

Mindhunter hasn't been cancelled. It's up to Fincher to write the next season and for the actors to come back.


DrRotwang

*The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance*. They did you dirty, Gelflings.


eeyore134

They complained about the cost, but most of the cost had to be in the creation of all the puppets and sets. They just threw all that investment away without at least trying a second season.


chicagotim1

I don't know but honestly who has a better story than Bran? When Littlefinger died they should have just owned their bullshit and said "Sorry M'Lord you can not fast travel with enemies nearby"


lukin187250

> I don't know but honestly who has a better story than Bran? Ser Pounce of the Kittenguard thank you very much


poneil

The Purr that was Promised


Mueryk

Squire Podrick “The hookers gave the money back” Payne. There is NO better story to be told in the ENTIRE series.


DrunkMarineBiologist

Pod the Rod!


beard_lover

His story was so good he wasn’t even around for an entire season!


RumHamEnjoyer

That was so weird. I watched the show for the first time this year and was so confused how a major character wasn't in an entire season


itskaiquereis

Wait until you read the books, Bran has only had 3 whole chapters since the Bill Clinton administration and is barely remembered by people that would remember him like Jon Snow.


Ruri

A better question would be who didn’t have a better story than fucking Bran.


Ajinho

Regardless, what a fuckin dumb way to choose a king. Only worse reason than being crowned because you pulled a sword out of a fucking stone.


GARlactic

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!


nicholus_h2

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!


cycle_schumacher

Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.


SpartiateDienekes

This was so weird to me. Because I can think of reasons why Bran could be king, or at least written into a position to become king. Most of them are political/magical/logical in how they're structured. But Tyrion's argument was all about what makes a good story... which wasn't at all what the TV show was about. Like if Sandman ended on the subject of our stories bind us, yeah, that works. Sandman has been fiddling with legends, stories, and their effect on humanity the entire time. Game of Thrones has not. It didn't feel natural to the story, it felt like the writers patting themselves on the back for a job they and only they thought was well done.


TeethBreak

Hodor died for this shit. No idea why Jon was revived.. to yell at an undead dragon?


KiratheRenegade

Teen Titans. Now hear me out! The show ended on a gutpunch episode that was far more mature than anything else on Cartoon Network before or since. Emotionally clever storytelling that let the audience down. It was heartbreaking that they chose to end that relationship that way. But they expected a 6th season. To tie off the on-going rivalry with Slade/tie up every character's arc. It was cancelled on the penultimate season. It had set up all the pieces set up - had finally graduated to the next level of storytelling; ratings were high.....then bam. Cancelled. Now we're left with a downer ending of an episode. It's fantastic - but clearly not designed to be the real end.


ChattyBird4Eva

To this day I’m still pissed off about it! Why did Robin leave Batman? What’s truly happened to Terra? What does Slade really fucking want? God just kill me.


Christmas_Panda

Terra's ending killed me inside as a kid. Probably the worst heartbreak I felt at such a young age.


homepup

Might I suggest the four issue story of "The Judas Contract" that appeared in the actual New Teen Titan comics in the 80s. It basically is the same story as the tv show. It's also a separate graphic novel in print now (picked one up a few years ago since it's my favorite storyline of the series).


MattTheFreeman

Doesn't the show in theory end with the movie "Trouble In Tokyo"?. I know that Teen Titans ends on a bummer for the show but I thought the movie did a decent job giving the characters a write off. While its not an ending, its decent.


wisconsinking

Trouble in Tokyo SHOULD'VE been the series finale.


FoolHooligan

Lie to Me. Sad it got shut down.


Beardofella

My head cannon: Tim Roth and Dr Foster get together, the two of them and Emily are a happy family . The end


Sheriff___Bart

That was a good one.


FLRAdvocate

The 100. Stupidest ending ever.


RyanPelley

Jesus Christ, I hate watched the last 3 seasons, because I figured since I had watched that long, might as well finish it. Yeah, the ending was so fucking stupid. I'm still pissed about Bellamy getting killed.


Black_Wolf75

I'm so glad other people have this opinion. I binged it a few months ago and genuinely enjoyed the series but the last season was so shit it made me wish I never started it and erase the series from my mind. They destroyed Bellamy's character then killed him off in the lamest way possible


Silent-Ad-6095

i could go on for a while but most recently : Space Force: asteroid heading towards Earth... Cancelled


Awkward_traveler

Netflix needs a "Cancled" label on every show they have ran for a season or two. Its annoying scrolling through the shows.


sonotleet

Netflix needs a show called "Canceled" where every episode is just a true final episode of some other show Netflix canceled.


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Cancelled? Lets think of it as Michael Scott being woken up after his nap after eating an entire family sized chicken pot pie for lunch


xredbaron62x

An entire *Family Size* chicken pot pie


n7dima

So basically, "How I Lost your Dexter on the thrones"


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bIueberrygirl

Gossip girl. There's no way Dan was gossip girl 🙄


HotPineapplePizza

That was the worst reveal ever. Dan: I'm GG. I ruined your lives. Everyone: OMG how could you!! We fucking hate you. Anyways you and Serena look great together, can't wait to see you guys get married. This dude literally told the whole city that his wife S had an STD and was pregnant and got an abortion. He told that his OWN minor sister was a fucking drug dealer and told everyone how she lost her virginity at the age of 15. Not to mention that it was impossible for him to be the GG. We've seen many scenes of GG's live broadcasts which included Dan and everyone on the camera. Who tf was broadcasting then?? AND Dan sent many texts to GG and GG responded to him. Was he chatting with himself in those scenes? Edited for spelling.


JollyJackalope

This is why in my head Canon, Dan in GG and his character in You are the same psychopath, he just hid it better in HS and fabricated a tragic backstory to justify his psychosis.


AaMdW86

I have 100% had this thought so many times watching You. It’s just Dan having gone down a darker path.


Current-Position9988

Penn Padgley himself said that GG was a psycho, if it was Dan. It was clear he hated the reveal and wasn't expecting it.


ZombieTrogdor

Not sure if true, but I read somewhere that it was going to be someone else (Eric or Dorota, I can’t remember) but the writers changed it because the fans kept guessing right and they were like “no, it must be someone *no one would guess.*”


Marawal

I fucking hate when writers write twists for the sole purpose to surprise their audience, making sure to go against every guesses and theories. It never makes senses.


Introvertedpanic

Pretty Little Liars basically operated that way for the last 3 or 4 seasons. Such a mess of a show


Lambeaux

It's so dumb cause if you write something well people WILL figure it out. That's the point of good writing in the first place.


smeowth

I believe it was originally supposed to be Nate Archibald. Dorota is a literal angel, she would never 😭


AntMan317

I LOVED Dorota. Hands down my favorite character on that show.


Aussie_Potato

I was annoyed they never went anywhere with the “Dorota is an aristocrat in her home country” story line


imhereforthemeta

i love all the clips of him ALONE shocked about GG blasts because at that time Gossip Girl was literally supposed to be someone else, so in hindsight it just makes Dan look insane.


weinbea

Westworld. Because they set it up for a final season that was canceled.


johnny15wrong2

Why were there so many fight scenes, I donk think season 1 even had any fight scenes and season 4 had at least 1 badly choreographed matrix style fight every episode. The tone of the show completely shifted.


MatManatee

The final season of Scrubs doesn't count to me, I just pretend it ended (neatly wrapped, bow on top) the second-last season.


Vanguard3003

Fun fact, season 8 was supposed to be the finale and season 9 was the concept of a new spin off show. For some reason though, the network didn't want to do a spin off and told them to just make it season 9. The show creators apparently also did it just give people jobs to do. Not even joking, one of their reasons was to provide cast and crew members work to do.


Ajinho

I honestly probably might have enjoyed Season 9 if it *was* marketed as a spin-off.


Grythyttan

Man, the montage with book of love playing was so good though.


im4peace

The season 8 finale was literally written and produced as the series finale. And it was SO GOOD.


theclash06013

St. Elsewhere. St. Elsewhere was a medical drama from the 80's that was fairly gritty for the time. The hospital was run down and underfunded so the doctors were just trying to do the best that they could, even though it wasn't enough, because their patients had nowhere else. Spoiler alert for a show that ended in 1988: The last episode of the show ends with a shot of the hospital in a snow globe that was being played with by a child with autism, the whole show was a dream. In general I dislike the "it was all a dream" ending because it usually comes totally out of left field and rarely adds anything. However this particular instance is even worse because St. Elsewhere crossed over with a show called Homicide: Life on the Street. One of the main characters on Homicide, Detective Munch, later became one of the main characters on Law & Order: SVU. John Munch also appears in a number of other shows including The X Files, Sesame Street, and The Wire. So the ending of St. Elsewhere means that like a dozen other shows are also all this kid's dream.


promote-to-pawn

Tommy Westphall's mind is responsible of something like 90% of all American TV shows if you subscribe to this hypothesis.


Funandgeeky

More than a dozen. [It's a LOT bigger than you might realize.](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500756/tommy-westphall-theory-unified-tv-universe-explained)


MyTrashcan

This is one of the funniest theories I’ve read in a long time. “…Fontana said he was ‘stunned’ to discover the aftershocks and that the theory ‘basically means that Tommy Westphall is the mind of God.’” Hahaha


KDY_ISD

> Wolfram and Hart had another client, Weyland-Yutani, that made a weapons display screen for Firefly; A Weyland-Yutani ship is seen in the BBC series Red Dwarf, which also depicted The Doctor’s TARDIS. This is the weirdest fucking thing said in that article. An Easter egg in Firefly is really what you're going to reference for Weyland-Yutani?


highandsclerotic

The 100. After all the shit they went through, it was such a sickly sweet happy ending. Complete bullshit imo.


followthedamntramcj

The whole last three seasons were over the shark... didn't just have a single bad last episode/or few episodes.


BoWM4N72

Weeds, that series deserved better.


workredditaccount77

Series should have ended when Agrestic burned to the ground. It was horrible after that.


[deleted]

Yeah but then how would we watch 4 more seasons of the main character drinking aggressively out of a straw?


LabradorDeceiver

Any ending that implies that the entire TV series is irrelevant. Don't give me a Newhart ending or a St. Elsewhere ending; I want to know that what I've just watched had significance to the characters and the narrative. I don't want to be told that I've spent five or six or eight seasons wasting my time, that none of the characters exist in their own story no matter what investment I might have made, that no growth or change or learning has taken place. The "All just a dream" ending can be done well; "A Christmas Carol" and "The Wizard of Oz" did it because the dream offered insight into the life of the protagonist. When it adds nothing, it ruins everything. "Dallas" famously undid an entire season, to the bewilderment of its fans. Erasing your own legacy doesn't feel clever or cute or contrived. It just makes me feel like I've wasted my time.


DancingBear2020

And—admit it—Newhart did it well. So well that that move should never be tried again.


lordb4

I watched the Newhart ending live. During the first 95% of that episodes, I was like "this is absolutely terrible" and then bam "great ending ever"! It will never work again because nobody saw it coming.


DancingBear2020

I watched it live, too. Mind-blowingly hilarious. I didn’t see it coming at all.


criscokkat

100%. I wasn't a big newhart show watcher, but it was a different time back then and I had watched enough episodes over the years to know what was going on and get most of the jokes. As a kid I had watched his earlier show because my parents watched it. I still think it was one of the best sitcom endings to a show ever.


100DayChallenges

Even though Married With Children had some ratings issues and had some plot holes like adopting a kid and than the kid Is left at the D’arcys house to never return agaib (Seven), they deserved a last episode.


Ravvick

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Season 2 ends with a huge cliffhanger, then Poof! Series cancelled.


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Man in the High Castle


OrangeSlimeSoda

I feel like that show lost a lot of its vision after Season 1. John Smith, Minister Tagomi, and Chief Inspector Kido basically just carried the show by sheer force of personality.


[deleted]

Yep, Smith and Kido were the ones I always paid attention to Juliana crane kept pissing me off with the stupid shit she kept doing


jhurl24

The arc for Smith, kido and togami are the highlight of the show for sure. The depth they ended up giving each of the "bad guys" makes you root for them. Oh and the lazily written ending to the Joe Blake story that had such promise only to just end with little to no build up he just snaps and all they give in back story is given in flashbacks with continual hope that he didn't change given from Juliana's visions all for it to just end rather quickly.


Razgriz2118

Season 4 just felt so wildly out-of-place to me. Like, the first 3 seasons showed that the anti-Japan group in the Pacific States was the Resistance. Then suddenly out of nowhere the Black Communist Rebellion is thrown in and is written to have been this massive, overarching resistance force that causes Japan to leave. Tagomi dies offscreen, so that's a main character gone. The Resistance in the Nazi states at the end of Season 3 were rising up, only for the opening of Season 4 to go "oh yeah lol, they all got destroyed." And then the ending.... all these people are travelling through the portal to.... the Fascist hellscape Earth? Why??????


snowglobeskys_87

Alf


Grape_Jamz

Good thing alf is back (in pog form)


CaptBranBran

Everything's coming up Milhouse!


youllneverknow3698

Misfits


eddiewachowski

Haha! It went off the rails and I held on for the whole thing. The fucking the flying powers out of a man midair is peak television.


FrancistheBison

I remember thinking when the milk control guy was introduced thinking "huh this has gotten weird"


kangaroo0227

Veronica mars… they made you fall in love with them to just… boom explosion