The Good Place
Oh god yes. So good that it’ll be hard for me to watch again
Take it sleazy.
Star Trek The Next Generation has one of the best, if not the best, finale to an ongoing episodic tv series ever. I don’t want to compare it to the kind of shows that are just one big story split up into hour long chunks, because that’s a totally different style of show and many have good endings. But for shows that are mostly separate, TNG did it better than any show I can think of.
It did a fair, but not gratuitous amount of fan service, and it was all in service of the actual plot. And it still somehow felt like a good episode of the show. But it also perfectly bookended the show back with the very first episode of the show. It was as close to perfect as you can get.
So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky’s the limit.
Marvellous finale.
Man this quote is just so good.
DS9 was better.
DS9 turned into an ongoing story that was just broken up into hour long chunks though. So it’s ending isn’t really comparable to TNG that stayed episodic all the way through.
Only at the very end, and the beginning of S6. Other than those, it was still an episodic show with each episode telling its own story against the backdrop of the war.
Yes at the final seasons and the final episode is part of that.
The Wire
Rome
I mean, The Wire was virtually perfect TV. Everything about it was good.
Six Feet Under
Succession
Avatar the Last Airbender
LOST
The Americans
The Leftovers
Mr. Robot
Cowboy Bebop (the anime, obviously.) You’re gonna carry that weight.
- Person of Interest
- Breaking bad
- Better call saul
- Dark
Justified. Fringe. Person of interest.
Just watched the first episode of Justified and it was ok but not phenomenal. I’ve seen so many recommendations for the show - when does it hit the sweet spot that makes you say “Ooh yes, this is goooood?”
Give it time
Justified is all about the amazing characters more than the story. Which is pretty much in line with its source material. The first episode adapts a short story and then it flies on its own and it is amazing.
I’m so looking forward to the sequel “Justified: City Primeval”.
- Black Sails
- Killjoys
- Psych
- Leverage
- In Plain Sight
- Burn Notice
- Ash Vs Evil Dead
- Black Lightning
- Cloak and Dagger
- The Man in the High Castle
- Undone
House MD.
Person of interest (even though the series was cut short)
Frasier
Futurama. It has at least 3 very satisfying endings.
a lot of people hated it but i personally liked How I met your mothers end
Bad Sisters
Claes Bang was the MVP of that show. The performances were all great, but he was just so perfectly ‘the prick’ that the entire show held together. If he hadn’t nailed that character we’d have felt a whole lot more shitty about cheering on attempted murder.
100%. What a prick indeed. He is an amazing actor.
Every time he called Grace ‘mammy’ my wife clenched up. If I ever want to piss her off now, I call her ‘mammy’. But it’s risky.
Don’t be a prick 😉 you know what happened to him!!