As TV Fans, especially in 2019, we can get fully immersed in a show until the bitter
end.
Be it, Sons of Anarchy, LOST, or Ally McBeal.
However, some shows leave fans bitterly disappointed, with underwhelming endings that made little
sense.
So today on Top 10 Beyond The Screen, I’m going to be counting down our list of the
Top 10 Worst TV Show Endings You Will Be Glad You Missed.
Let's jump in.
10 Gossip Girl Oh Gossip Girl, it was hot trash that we couldn’t
help but love.
It managed to run for 6 seasons between 2007 and 2012 and followed teenagers in the Upper
East Side, who are plagued by the secretive Gossip Girl.
Now, the show arguably went on for way too long, and was riveting enough when the characters
were in High School, but it managed to lose its charm in later seasons, once the gang
moved on to College.
By the final season, Gossip Girl was revolving around Serena dating an older man, and Chuck
and Blair’s crumbling relationship.
However, it was the reveal of Gossip Girl which fans were most excited for, and it made
zero sense.
Zero.
It turned out that Gossip Girl was Dan Humphrey played by Penn Badgley.
Honestly, he would’ve had to have been a superhero, or a magician in order to make
this twist make sense.
Huffington Post’s Laura Prudom said, I quote, “If you were looking for depth, morals,
or solid characterization, the Gossip Girl finale didn’t provide them, but then again,
the show never has, so let’s simply be grateful that we can say XOXO to the series for the
last time, and never speak of it again, unless you catch the Season 1 reruns in syndication.”
-- Straight Savagery.
9 Smallville Now, I’m sure a lot of people will be upset
that I’ve included this on our list -- but I’ve done it, and I’m proud.
Fight me.
Smallville of course follows Clark Kent before he becomes known as Superman.
The show ran for 10 seasons between 2001 and 2011, and was a smash amongst teens and comic
fans alike.
Now, of course the show took place pre-Superman, and showed his progression to becoming the
hero we know and love.
But, one of the biggest complaints the finale had was never seeing Clark Kent in his full
Superman costume -- something fans were so desperate to see.
However, it didn’t quite happen, well, not as fans expected it to.
Instead, the shot we got was Clark ripping open his shirt, revealing the iconic S, but
that’s it.
Fans were of course very upset, leaving some happy that the show had come to an end.
Savage.
8 Pretty Little Liars Now, I won’t lie, for a period of time I
was obsessed with Pretty Little Liars, that was until they continued to drag out a plot
point that could have ended in season one.
The show followed the lives of four high school girls who clique falls apart after their friend
disappears.
One year later, however, the estranged friends reunite as they begin receiving messages from
an unknown person called “A” who threatens to expose all of their dark secrets.
Because apparently these high schools are up to god knows what, even dating their teachers.
Scandalous.
The show ran for 7 long and painful seasons, between 2010 and 2017.
Many had their ideas of who “A” could be throughout the run of the show, however,
in the finale it was revealed to be Spencer’s surprise twin sister Alex Drake, who happened
to have an English accent, of course.
This reveal created a lot of plot holes, with a twist that make absolutely no sense.
7 Roseanne Roseanne was a sitcom starring the incredibly
controversial Roseanne Barr and revolves around the fictional Connor Family.
The show lasted for 10 seasons, airing between 1988 to 1997, and then March 2018, to May
2018.
Now, the final episode we’re talking about here is the original run which ended in 97.
With the last episode of the iconic show destroying everything that made it such a great series
about a blue-collar family.
The finale revealed the death of John Goodman’s character who suffered a heart attack -- meaning
that the entirety of season 9 never actually happened, and instead Roseanne had been presenting
a fictional version of her live.
In the real world everything was different, even couple and character’s sexualities.
The finale was such a disaster, that when the show was revived in 2018 they basically
ignored that entire plot.
6 The Sopranos The Sopranos was a crime drama that ran for
6 seasons between 1999 and 2007, with the story revolving around Tony Soprano, played
by James Gandolfini, a New Jersey-based mobster, portraying the difficulties that he faces
as he tries to balance family life with his role as the leader of a criminal organization.
Now, the show was a success from the get-go, leading fans to believe that they would get
a just as amazing ending.
However, that was not the case.
Many fans were debating whether we would see Tony die, if we would see him get arrested.
But instead, we got nothing.
And I mean nothing.
The show ends forever with Tony sat at a family dinner, looking up at a door opening, and
then the show cuts violently to black.
And that’s it.
That’s how it ends forever.
Most thought it was an error, but no, this was the real ending.
Leadings fans to come up with their own conclusion as to what happened to one of the greatest
characters ever seen on TV.
5 How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother was a 9 season long
sitcom which ran from 2005 to 2014, and followed the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group
of friends in New York City.
The show is framed by Ted, in the year 2030, who recounts to his son and daughter the events
that led him to meeting their mother.
Now, unlike our other numbers, this was a show that folks adored to the end, even the
finale -- it was just one aspect that upset fans.
The reveal of the mother.
However, what went down was Ted meeting The Mother, only to have her die in a last-minute
montage.
And then, after their whole back-and-forth, Ted and his love interest throughout the show,
Robin, just get back together -- as though the previous seasons didn’t matter at all.
4 Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men was a sitcom, originally
starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer.
It ran for 12, long and painful seasons, between 2003 and 2015, and followed a hedonistic jingle
writer, Charlie, his uptight brother, Alan, and Alan’s son, Jake.
The series had been limping along for years, even before the final series arrived.
Now, this was in part due to the departure of Charlie Sheen several seasons before -- and
by the end, the show was a shell of its former self, waiting to be put out of its misery.
Now, the final episode was absolutely absurd, with creator Chuck Lorre deciding to go balls
to the wall meta with it, breaking the fourth wall, and expecting us to all be ok with it.
Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen the final episode, which I’m sure you haven’t.
The final scene saw Charlie returns to his house, only for him to die by a falling piano.
And then, the camera pans out to see Lorre in a director’s chair saying “winning”
the bizarre catchphrase coined by Charlie Sheen, before the piano drops on him too.
3 True Blood True Blood was a horror fantasy show which
ran for 7 seasons between 2008 and 2014.
The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse, played by Anna Paquin, a telepathic waitress
living in Louisiana.
The show is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded “Tru
Blood” that allows vampired to come out of the coffin and let their presence be known
to mankind, in turn chronicling their struggle for equal rights and assimilation.
The early years of the show were wonderful -- full to the brim with sex, blood and sass.
All the best things.
However, during its final season, it hit an abrupt decline, losing the appeal it once
had.
There were meaningless new characters, and a lackluster storyline.
Not only that, but the main love interest dies, and the show jumps forward, showing
Sookie happy with a character we have never met before.
The UK telegraph described it as, I quote, “a betrayal of everything that originally
made the series so much fun...at its very end, True Blood had lost its fangs.”
2 Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is perhaps one of the most
successful TV shows of all time, running for 8 seasons between 2011 and 2019.
For anyone living under a rock, the show is of course set in Westeros and follows the
battle for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.
Now, of course after 8 seasons of build-up, fans were desperate to find out who finally
sit on the Iron Throne, and if the land of living would defeat the land of the dead.
However, when the time finally came, many were left disappointed with not just the final
episode, but the final season has a whole, which felt incredibly rushed.
Character development was abandoned, and story arcs were aggressively rushed, with popular
characters not even given the due they deserved.
Daenerys’ deserved better.
As did Cersei and Jaime Lannister.
Daenerys’ journey to becoming the Mad Queen happened far too abruptly, making it utterly
unbelievable, even in a fictional world filled with dragons.
And to top it off, no one expected a happy ending, especially for a show that relied
on the unexpected, however, we did expect more than a banished Jon Snow, and a default
King -- a King that no one gave a crap about.
Yeah, that’s right, Bran Stark.
Saying that, at least Sansa became Queen of the North, and really, that’s all I care
about.
1 Dexter Dexter was a crime drama which ran for 8 seasons
between October 2006 and September 2013.
The show was set in Miami and centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician specializing
in blood spatter pattern analysis for the Miami PD.
However, Dexter also leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer hunting
down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.
As you would expect, viewers became obsessed with the title character, beautifully played
by Michael C. Hall -- a character that you couldn’t help but sympathize and fall in
love with.
For a while, each season seemed to be better than the last, however, when it came to season
4, Dexter began to show signs of peaking.
Of course, loyal fans stuck with the show, even through it’s lackluster times, in hopes
of some kind of satisfying ending.
However, that never happened, with the ending of the show feeling incredibly rushed, and
angered long time fans.
Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen the finale -- Dexter gives his sister a burial
at sea, and then goes on to become a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest.
Most fans would have preferred for the killer to be caught, or died along the way, but instead
he was given an incredibly bleak ending that even Michael C. Hall was upset about.
Well, there we have it!
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Were there any terrible TV show endings that we missed?
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do a part 2.
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