TV shows/series that ended disappointing.

Jessie

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1. Dexter
2. Sopranos
3. True Blood
4. Seinfeld
5. Dallas
6. Dynasty
 

Emelee

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I actually think Seinfeld ended perfectly.

My disappointments;
How I Met Your Mother (the alternative ending was so much better!!)
Sopranos (what?!)
Dallas
Friends (LAME!)
Revenge (Emily shouldn't have gotten such a happy ending, being a sociopath and all)
Alf (getting captured by the authorities - the end)
Desperate Housewives (never understood why only Susan got such a crappy ending)
 

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As for shows I found disappointing with their ending


Dexter


And my mind goes blank...
 

Toni

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I must be the easiest fan to please because I loved the endings of shows you mention like "Dexter", "DH", "Revenge" or, yes, even "Lost".

Of course, the worst series finale award goes to...​

Even though I knew what would happen because it was aired in Spain one year later, and even with the well-chosen guest ex-stars, the "Conundrum" fiasco was even worse than all the other fiascos seen in the show since Ms. Reed showed off her bouffant in the 7th Year...Maybe it was inevitable given how much I had loved (and love) the series and its stars but...

Other awful endings (Spoilers if you haven´t watched these shows YET):​
After killing the love story between Bruce and Cybill through her spontaneous abortion :eek::mad: in the season premiere, the show went downhill after a previous season with almost no Cybill at all and supporting characters with no interest. The last scene that you can see down here, though, was a reminder of what made the series the big success that it was for a couple of years or so. There would had been no "Ally McBeal", "Bones", or, indeed, "Remington Steele", without them.

After 5 seasons of talking and f....ng, that crazy Carrie girl from "Sex and the City" decides that she wants to marry the biggest jerk she has ever met. Great. In the video below you can see the 3 endings that were filmed, though only one was shown:

More to come...
 
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One of the better-written, acted and directed American drama series, "Thirtysomething" ended its run with an open-ended episode that featured its main couple in deep trouble, after a 4th season that gave such unmemorable moments like the unpredictable death of one of its male leads, the unbelievable relationship of one of the ladies with a Mr. Burns-type older man, and other unfortunate plot twists. The problem with this show is that they didn´t need plot twists, only decent storylines to follow every season with a lot of character development. The final episode was so depressing that I chose to put here the Season 1 trailer instead (kidding: I didn´t find it!)



The last season of the very lesbian soap "The L Word" was a big F.U. to the channel who didn´t want to give them more TV life. It was a shorter season and it was a Whodunit (upon their own admission, "Dallas"-style) that reminded more of the "Woman in the pool" cliffhanger than the infamous "Who Shot JR". The character played by Mia Kirshner was found drown in the pool in the season premiere and they told us in flashbacks what had happened all through the season. The worst of all, that at the end, they didn´t say who did it! The video shows the last minutes of the series, after seeing the flashbacks with all the suspects threatening the "poor" victim!

Say what you will, but the decline of TNT Dallas in its last season would have been stopped if a new show-runner had been brough aboard and the Cider House had been shown the door. Duffy and Gray did their best acting in the show during the last ten episodes and the new ideas introduced in the season finale might have been great if handled properly (and I mean "properly"). But no, they had to kill off the Creepster, turn Juan Pablo di Pace into the Devil, and destroy the fine characters that were John Ross and Pamela Rebecca. Shame shame shame!!

 

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Recent addition to the list: Reign.

It was basically a season finale with at least three proper set ups/cliffhangers for season five with an added huge time jump to the inevitable end for poor Mary. Even the writers admitted as much.
 

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I never watched it, but I recall everyone belly-aching about the ending of Lost.

I thought the final episode of Lost was very good, it was some of the episodes that proceeded it that were pretty lame.

Dallas's final episode was truly awful. I didn't like how Glee ended either. Brookside's finale was disappointing too with Jimmy Corkhill giving a monologue while sitting on a sofa on the pavement.
 

Angela Channing

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I never watched it, but I recall everyone belly-aching about the ending of Lost.
I kind of liked it as it was typical Lost in that the ending answered a lot of questions but left many unanswered.

Edit: Oops, I just realised I said this already over a year ago. :embarrassed:
 
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And like I said, I never watched it, so all I had to go on was a lot of vocal dissatisfaction among a lot of people claiming to be fans. When I said 'everyone' (not
everyone as @Ome 'quoted') it was more figurative than literal.
 

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Dallas. It's the one which annoys the hell out of me to this day. Of course I'm speaking about Conundrum. Why do I have such a reaction to an episode of a once brilliant series? There are so many words to express my frustration I'm afraid of crashing Soapchat again.
 

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I was in my teens when Dallas ended, so I wouldn't have called it disappointment as such, but I remember being very very sad. Not only because it was ending but because seeing JR crumble like that just broke me. I thought he was dead. :(
 

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The Wonder Years, when we told by voice-over that Kevin and Winnie didn't end up together.
There would had been no "Ally McBeal", "Bones", or, indeed, "Remington Steele", without them.
Remington Steele came before Moonlighting.
 
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