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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Oh god yes. So good that it'll be hard for me to watch again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Take it sleazy.

[–] kiwifoxtrot 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And better call Saul

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.

Marvellous finale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man this quote is just so good.

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[–] esheyw 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Justified.

Fringe (I like season 5, sue me).

Farscape (the miniseries has some bumps but the actual end is solid).

In a couple months I hope to be able to say The Venture Bros. 🤞

[–] Kingofthezyx 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fringe is an absolute masterpiece beginning to end and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. NO NOTES.

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 1 year ago

It was uneven, but s2 and s3 were incredible pieces of television, and I even loved s1.

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 1 year ago

Amen on all.

The last few episodes of farscape were incredible, need to get a clean copy and Starr again.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, The Wire was virtually perfect TV. Everything about it was good.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MementoMori 4 points 1 year ago

Satisfying and tear-inducing. I know people that still tear up to this day when they hear the ending song. Great show.

[–] Rybodyno 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Midnight Mass. Only 1 season but truly amazing.

https://youtu.be/GZPbmrJ_X48

[–] dbaner 12 points 1 year ago
[–] dtrain 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Better Call Saul

Sopranos

Mad Men

Quantum Leap (original series)

Star Trek TNG

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • 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
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Succession

Avatar the Last Airbender

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
  • Person of Interest
  • Breaking bad
  • Better call saul
  • Dark
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

House MD.

Person of interest (even though the series was cut short)

[–] anon6789 4 points 1 year ago

I loved Person of Interest!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Cowboy Bebop (the anime, obviously.) You're gonna carry that weight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOST

The Americans

The Leftovers

Mr. Robot

[–] whatsarefoogee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lost

Surely you're joking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely not! I love the ending and don’t understand the hate it gets.

[–] MrDetermination 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I loved Alias. Super 8. MI3. Star Trek. But JJ rode the "magic box" thing a little too hard in phase 2 of his career there. I like a lot of what Lost had to offer but that last season was a real cop out. For the most part, instead of answering questions from the series they just made up new questions in the last season and answered some of those. It was some real hand waving BS.

[–] dbaner 3 points 1 year ago

JJ had very little to do with Lost after the first half season. He just helped set up some of the initial mysteries and left it to Lindelof to try and sort out the resolution. Lindelof went on to do some amazing series... the Leftovers and Mrs Davis both have good (although somewhat ambiguous) endings

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Hello my name is Christian Shepard and I'm here to guide you into the gates of heaven"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Futurama. It has at least 3 very satisfying endings.

[–] GINTegg 3 points 1 year ago

Regular show

[–] Candelestine 3 points 1 year ago

I would like to participate in this thread, but I'm too big a fan of unsatisfying endings...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a lot of people hated it but i personally liked How I met your mothers end

[–] Kingofthezyx 2 points 1 year ago

No, I totally agree! A standard "happily ever after" would have been so boring. The ending we got gave context to why Ted was sharing the story with his kids. I was "surprised" at first, but really I think if people consider how the alternatives they wanted would have played out, it wouldn't have been meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] InverseParallax 2 points 1 year ago

Just starting s2, the series is dense, in a good way but still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100%. What a prick indeed. He is an amazing actor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t be a prick 😉 you know what happened to him!!

[–] Bootoo 1 points 1 year ago

Friday night lights

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