Have you ever been engrossed in a tv show, excited to bring watch it only to have a major cliffhanger or a totally awful ending? It happens to us all.
A decade later I'm still mad at all the time I wasted watching and trying to figure out Lost--like seriously we were left with more questions than answers and some plot lines were flat-out ignored. Not to mention the near unspeakable ending to GOT that mad even the most die-hard fans groan.
Redditor likeistoleyourbike wanted to know other television shows that totally dropped the ball. They asked:
"What's the most unsatisfying BS ending to a TV series?"
Fans were eager to vent can't their finale frustrations. Potential spoilers ahead.
The season came tumbling down...
“Jericho. All that buildup for it to just never conclude..” TiredExpression
“What really sucks about Jericho is it was canceled after one season originally. It only got brought back for the 2nd season because it had garnered a cult following of some very dedicated fans.”
“So what do the writers do when brought back? Do they close out the story and give us the conclusion we deserve? NO?! THEY GIVE US ANOTHER G*D D*MN CLIFFHANGER! Still after all these years, I'm not salty, not even a little...“ KaiMolan
Spolier alert: In real life she's actually a racist.
“Roseanne's original ‘it was all made up’ ending.” oldatheart515
“I f**king hated that ending. I watched the entire f**king series to get told ‘oh it was all a book and none of it really happened. Also I changed several major plot points.’ Not to mention they completely threw that out the window when they decided they wanted a reboot.” Mangobunny78
Fast forward much?
“Castle was a detective/drama show starring Nathan Fillion (Mal in Firefly). The season is wrapping up, his new-ish wife is becoming a senator (from a detective [Side note: this was confirmed to happen by a guy that was strongly suggested to be a time traveler]), then they're talking in the kitchen and some guy comes in and shoots both of them.”
“They're both bleeding on the ground, then it cuts to years in the future and they're laughing and smiling with their 2 young children with some voice over talking about some BS that I can't even remember.“ stefonio
The King of disappointments.
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“cries in GoT” riddickulusbella
“GoT was among the biggest pop culture phenomena of the past decade. Everyone, their grandma, and their dog was watching.”
“The show ended on such a sour note that we've collectively disowned it. And THAT'S an accomplishment unto itself. People should be regularly rewatching that series like they do with The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, but... nope.” yo_soy_soja
They folded like a, well you know...
“House of Cards. I didn't even feel anything while watching. Not anger, not shock, not diappointment. Just pure apathy, because of how ridiculous and awful the rest of that final season was. I was just like: ‘well, I guess that was that.’ I've never seen a show fall of a cliff like this before.” Dvorak_Antonin
They killed the ending.
“Dexter. I pretend the last season doesn't exist, but unfortunately it seems they are going to restart the series from that point. Crossing my fingers they can somehow salvage the character.” SingleJunction2
“Chilling adventures of Sabrina. The ending was so rushed and it didn't make sense. They killed the main character in the last 5 minutes and we didn't even get to see how the other characters handled her death."
“The most ridiculous thing was that Sabrina and Nicholas just got back together and he out of the blue decided to kill himself to be with her forever. It was a great series with a lot of potential but Netflix decided to cut it at the 4th season giving us a sh*tty ending." Ecate800
“Santa Clarita Diet.”
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“Santa Clarita Diet. It was cancelled on a cliffhanger. I still have so many questions!” rawrr483
“This one made me irrationally angry, what the h*ll was Netflix thinking? You cant just have mr. Ball-legs shove himself in Joe's ear, say "mama" and just cut out forever! F**k you Netflix, you half inflated baseball” Fyrrys
“St Elsewhere a hospital drama that ran for 6 years...”
“St Elsewhere a hospital drama that ran for 6 years. The final episode ends with an autistic boy staring at the hospital in a snow globe....it was all in his head, the entire show.“
“Author Cynthia Burkhead explains that with this final shot, ‘St. Elsewhere managed to take the idea of a dream and alter it just enough, putting it in the imagination of an autistic boy’, and surmises that an ending constructed in this manner ‘reminds viewers that the fiction they have watched for six years is actually fiction within a fiction, occupying a second level of unreality, one level beyond the space of illusion filled by all narrative television.’” BlueFalconPunch
Star Trek...
“Star Trek Enterprise. After having an incredible two partner that easily would have worked as the finale, there is an extra episode which is basically “Riker from TNG plays in events that take place ten years after you last saw everyone.’”
“They kill off one of the main characters, and then cut off Archer just as he's about to give his big speech. At least the very last scene is good fanservice. The books end up retconning the whole thing, but I haven't read them“ tupe12
There are so many fan favorites that get a frustrating ending which is unfortunate when the show was good.
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Love is crazy. I've finally come to that conclusion. And marriage, you take your life in your hands and just throw caution to the wind in hopes of survival with that step.
When love falls apart, things can get real messy, real fast. And I've always been stunned by people's behavior when love subsides.
More often than not, it's like they become different people. Sometimes people are beset by tragedy and grief and sometimes people smile wide and move on. It's a coin toss.
But my favorite post divorce personality has to be the sudden super villain. Oh honey watch out for them!
Redditor u/hyperyog wanted to hear all the tea from the divorcees out there by asking:
Divorced Redditors, what is the craziest thing you or your former spouse did after divorce?
I once had a friend who burned her ex's house down when he wasn't home. He had started seeing someone almost immediately, so she thought, lemme set their sparks. Yeah, she wasn't well. Whatever happened to just a quick goodbye?
Swiped
dean winters crying GIF by MayhemGiphy"She removed the retaining clips for my windshield wipers, but put the wipers back on the arms. First storm after I got my car back from her, driver side wiper flew off the car on Interstate 40. Good times."
Sicko!
"He wrote suicide notes and put them in my kids backpacks for them/me to find. Then he turned off his phone and went to a coworkers house to play crib and have drinks.. all the while knowing I would be freaking out searching for him thinking he was in danger or worse. Thankfully my kids didn't see the notes and didn't know what was going on. This was just one of the many, many crazy things he did. Two years out and he just recently stopped showing up at my work and driving by my house at night."
A Sad End
"Died of a drug overdose. To be fair, her drug addiction was the reason for the divorce, so maybe that isn't too crazy."
"That's so incredibly difficult to have gone through. I unfortunately know the depths of this kind of pain, and while I'm sure the circumstances surrounding it are different, the loss that still happened is a tragedy. My condolences."
Bye Girl
"Stalked me for 5 years. Would make fake social media profiles to try to follow me (which I would block endlessly) and would try to find where I worked so she could talk to me. This lady cheated on me with 7 different men 2 months after we were married. I kicked her a** to the curb and made her sign the court papers."
"When we had our day in court she cried in the judges office while I just wanted to get this crap done. After, my dad was with me and he threw 50 dollars at her and told her to "change your freaking last name." Good guy Pops. I haven't seen or heard from her in about 5 years, thank goodness."
- Letharos
Take it All!
skin care spinning GIF by Primal Life OrganicsGiphy"I had an ex-boyfriend go through my apartment and take back every gift he had given me that he could find. Then he went in my bedside table and took the condoms. And the vibrator he had given me."
See now, when I'm out... I'm out! I don't want to see you, hear from you or know you. I wish you well in life, but please live it far from me. Anyone agree? Clearly not the people here. Let's continue...
For the Boy
bicycling father and son GIF by NETFLIXGiphy"All I wanted was custody of my son, I gave her everything else except one of our cars. She fought me through 5 hearings, I won. She never came to see him again."
Dangerous Woman
"My ex cheated on me the week my mom died in the hospital. She spent a year and a half trying to get in touch with me. She would call my old work and make fake accounts trying to message me on FB. It was insane. She later sends a certified letter explaining she was sorry that she did what she did and that she aborted our child."
"Wanted me to meet her somewhere so she could apologize face to face. She already married some other guy that she had children with and was still trying to get in touch with me. I never understood her."
- orstius
Be Gone
"After years of telling me she wanted a child, that she wanted to be a mom, that her life's dream was to be a stay at home mom, she got pregnant with the first guy she slept with while we were getting divorced and put the kid up for adoption even before it was born. This was a long-standing thing with her, she always wanted something (car, house, dog, cat, marriage, etc) and the second she got it she immediately hated it."
The "Actor"!
"Called me and pretended he had been hit by a car while we were talking. He even tried to voice the crowd that had gathered around his "body." God-awful acting, but pretty funny listening to him try to mimic a woman's voice. Points for trying to be inclusive, I guess."
"I think he was trying to get me to re-live my trauma of being on the phone with a friend who actually HAD been hit by a car while we were talking. Too bad he didn't realize that hearing the real thing is worlds different than hearing a dumba** try to act it out."
Money Blues
"I was sending 600 dollars a month to support my daughter because she's the only thing I give a sh!t about. My ex texts me and tells me I need to be sending 1200 a month because she's broke and can't pay her bills and I should feel guilty about it. She left me for another guy while I was on deployment I told her to go screw herself--call my lawyer."
Pop Off
Tom Hanks Drinking GIF by The Good FilmsGiphy"Took the sodas from the fridge as he walked out the door. Dumfounded."
See, I blame Alanis Morissette and her "Jagged Little Pill" album. All I'm going to say is... the secret song. I think she gave people ideas. (I love that song) Y'all, seek therapy if you can't shake people. When it's done, let it be done.
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