We watch television series with the intrigue of knowing how they will end. What will happen to the characters or what will happen after that mysterious cliffhanger . Season after season and episode after episode, that climactic moment comes at some point. ‘Series Finale’ is that phrase that fills us with nerves, and that can only mean masterpiece or absolute failure . Throughout this post we will talk about some of the endings of television series that disappointed the masses .
lost
After 6 seasons and 121 episodes, the series of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 came to an end on May 23, 2010. Until then, never had a television series generated so much expectation. And, after a world premiere simultaneously , we can say that it did not rain to everyone’s taste.
The end of Lost culminates a sixth season that is not the most brilliant, but it puts a lot of coherence to all those meaningless events that we had seen during the previous 17 chapters. Some loved the ending, and others are still cursing JJ Abrams around the corners for having sold us the bike.
The criticism at the end of Lost is not the final chapter itself, but rather the fact that the unknowns for which many were still hooked on the series were never resolved .
Game of Thrones
We are still recovering from the disappointment that was the season finale of this series. For those who were once faithful followers of Game of Thrones , it is difficult to explain the monumental disappointment that was the closure of this vast universe. David Benioff and DB Weiss — ” D. & D. ” to friends and haters — lost interest in the project seasons before it ended and the plot suffered as a result.
Characters who were once ambitious and cunning have become watered down and lose coherence . The ones who were good-natured became Disney villains overnight and vice versa. The script of each new episode made more water than the previous one. And the world premieres had failures due to carelessness in each of their production stages.
The season was a complete disaster. Let’s remember that streaming premiere of a night battle that looked totally pixelated. The mythical ‘ SICANSÍOS ‘ (‘ She can’t see us ‘), which could not be dubbed or translated as it did not even appear in the script . Or the infamous Starbucks disposable cup as the mismatch of the century. The eighth of Game of Thrones exemplified what happens in a multi-million dollar project when the board has emotionally abandoned ship.
Our beloved cast of actors was the first to feel let down. They needed a lot of strength and therapy to face the interviews promoting the last seasons. Kit Harington himself, who played Jon Snow, described the last season as disappointing when asked to summarize it in one word – the interviewer’s face was a poem, by the way. We will always have the first five seasons and the thousands of best-written fanfics on the Internet. In the meantime, we will continue to pretend that the last season never existed.
The entourage
How could such an absolutely brilliant series have such a mediocre ending? The eighth season of Entourage ended in an eighth episode in which each character seemed to attack their own personality . An unfortunate ending no matter how you look at it that absolutely nobody liked.
Luckily, it seems the writers of the series finished the work like this on purpose —probably to criticize the ‘they were happy and they ate partridges’ so widespread in Hollywood, which, after all, is the environment that criticized the series—.
A few years later, Entourage (the movie) hit theaters around the world. And, finally, we got to see the ending we all hoped to see . The film begins a few weeks after the epilogue that the series told us about. Within a few minutes, everything they had built in that series finale went to waste, and we were able to see a kind of long chapter of the series that, this time, was what we wanted to see from this HBO production.
Lois & Clark: The Adventures of Superman
If Lost outraged you for not explaining anything, this series was spectacular. Broadcast between 1993 and 1997, Lois and Clark: The Adventures of Superman ended prematurely after the fourth season and about 88 episodes.
ABC decided to cancel the series when a fifth season was already in the works , so they solved it in a somewhat strange way. At the end of the third season, Lois and Superman finally got married. During the last season, both characters wanted to have a child, but after multiple investigations, the couple is informed that they cannot conceive.
Apparently, the drafts of the fifth season drew a scenario in which both protagonists raise a Kryptonian son who grows rapidly. When the writers learned that the series was not going to continue, they improvised a happy ending, but quite absurd. At the end of chapter 22, the two arrive home and find a basket with a baby dressed in Superman logos . Next to the baby is a note that says the child belongs to them. Why? Well, because it was good for the writers. For some, this was the first time we had faced a deus-ex-machina .
How I Met Your Mother
For 9 years, the children of Ted Mosby were listening to the badge that their father gave telling their stories. And it is that, if an objective had this sitcom , it was to solve that question . Or so we thought. Poor naive.
At the time, this ending was one of the most hated in television history , with a near-scratch approval on IMDb. However, what the general public did not reflect on is that the creators of this series were deceiving us from the beginning. Ted is not telling his children how he met their mother. Why would he tell the story starting a decade earlier and detailing point by point his affair with another woman? Would that make any sense?
What this series really tells us is how Ted spent a decade trying to woo the woman of his life. And he succeeded, even if he had to swallow a bitter pill and admit to his children that his mother was nothing more than a second course. Possibly, the criticism came from the fact that many thought they had wasted their time watching the series. However, it is an ending that gives the viewer a good reality check .
Dexter
This series was highly praised by critics, with a very brilliant first four seasons, but which gradually declined .
Dexter ‘s ending was not liked for being realistic. The serial killer kills Debra and we see how the protagonist leaves by boat, entering directly into the eye of a storm. A one-way trip, because they let us know that he would die shortly after.
However, after the credits we could see that he is still alive , and now he lives in the middle of nowhere, working as a lumberjack. The change of opinion did not end up liking the audience, who did not buy the idea that the character would disappear and start a new life with a low profile.