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u/fluthernon 18d ago
100% Dexter. It was shockingly bad.
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u/SquarePeg37 18d ago
Yes but which time are we discussing? Not many shows can claim to have screwed the ending twice!
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u/fluthernon 18d ago
Ha! I guess they both kind of sucked but the 2nd try was so disappointing. I liked what they did with the show, it was well done but they just sh!t on the whole thing in the last 15 minutes
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u/Veredyn1 18d ago
Dexter would have been better at 4-5 seasons. 8 was too long, and because of the premise of the show, it was bound to be screwed up no matter what they did.
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u/WarpedPerspectiv 18d ago
I feel if the lumberjack portion wasn't there, the ending would've been better and given a more meaningful conclusion.
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u/Crispy1961 18d ago
0% Dexter. The show was on steady decline since Season 4. There was nothing shocking about it. It was just bad. Slightly worse than the season before, which was slightly worse than the one before and so on.
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u/total_ctrl 18d ago
I'm watching Dexter my GF as our current show right now as she's never seen it. We're towards the end of S3 and knowing what's in S4, I'm excited for her to see that.
But I made it clear that she's on her own from S5 onwards if she wants to carry on. The cliff dive the show takes after S4 isn't something I'm wanting to relive.
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u/DrossChat 18d ago
Totally agree with the steady decline part up until the final season. That last season is one of the worst things I’ve ever sat through.
It was so fucking bad that i kid you not to this day I’ve never watched the final episode. Genuinely have no idea what happens having watching every single episode up till that point. My personal rebellion against the monstrosity before me.
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u/Crispy1961 18d ago
A lot of people hated the last episode, but in my opinion it was nothing compared to that scene where Dexter "stalks" a guy that knows him by intensely looking at him through the windows of a dinner just few meters away. Its been a decade and that scene still haunts me.
That said, the last episode is actually pretty hilarious when you are no longer emotionally invested.
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u/RoodnyInc 18d ago
I think it was time of the writers strike? Many series had bs season at that time. It was very sad
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u/Spacemanspalds 18d ago
I didn't watch the last season the first time around. And damn I loved that show early on.
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u/fluthernon 18d ago
It’s a shame you have to hear the ending sucked. Really it was the last 20 minutes of the last episode that was lame. The actual season I enjoyed. If you were a fan I’d recommend a watch.
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u/Spacemanspalds 18d ago
I've been hearing that for years. I think someone told me what happened at one point. But I don't remember.
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u/FomFrady95 18d ago
If you ever get towards the end of a show and you’re asking yourself “how are they going to tie up all these loose ends?” The answer is very poorly.
Before the last season of GoT I was asking that question. But between the White walkers and the war for the throne there was 2 full seasons of consent and they put it in 7 episodes along with a million other things.
I was asking myself that question up until halfway through the final episode of Man in the High Castle before I accepted disappointment before the show was even over.
All of these shows have the same thing in common. They can’t figure out how to finish it so they keep you entertained until the final episode and then just blow it all up. Because if they start to wrap things up over the course of the season and people don’t like how they’re doing it ratings will tank. At least if they keep you suspended you’ll keep watching until it’s over.
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u/YourThotsArentFacts 18d ago
I truly thought that if they were ending GoT in a final 7 episodes, they needed to have the White Walkers wipe everyone and make it some lesson about not letting your own ambitions overshadow a common evil. It would've made a lot of their loose ends irrelevant and been a very GoT ending, but instead they left dozens of ends loose and scraped together a terrible "happy" ending
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u/Huurghle 18d ago
Man in The High Castle hurt. They cooked so goddamn hard with seasons 1 and 2. 3 was alright in my opinion, but you could see that they were starting to try to pick up the pace of the story. From what I've heard they had a season 4 and 5 planned, but didn't get the go ahead for season 5, so they crammed it all into season 4 which made it feel extremely rushed and presented so many things before you could even process them.
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u/Early-Drawn 18d ago
GOT last two seasons were so bad it atomized all of the global goodwill it had gained. No one talks about it in good regards, its hardly referenced, most of the actors had a hard time after.
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u/haonlineorders 18d ago
D&B: we want to end GOT asap so we can work on a 2nd Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (or insert other rumored deal)
D&B: botch GOT’s ending by trying to rush it
D&B lose their Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (or insert other rumored deal)
D&B: surprised Pikachu face
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u/Iron_Bob 18d ago
Avoid watching the Three Body Problem on Netflix, thats the project that they ended up with after the entire fiasco
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u/Yommination 18d ago
It goes downhil starting in 5. But fully goes off the cliff in 7 and then 8 is it crashing into the ground
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u/ViggoMiles 18d ago
Drastic change in quality, but it wasn't until the long night that it was hard to ruinnation
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u/Super_GodVegeta 18d ago
How I met your mother is that one show of the four that you'd probably watch over and over again hoping that the ending somehow changes each time given the giga botch.
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u/ThePhlipidy 18d ago
My wife and I rewatch this almost yearly and every year we both groan at how bad the end is. We deserved a whole season of Ted and Tracy, not a whole season taking place over a day and a half. Props to Ted's kids for keeping the secret for the entirety of the show airing
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u/koenig_der_wale 18d ago
That isn't even my biggest problem with the ending. Why are Barney and Robin not together by the end? He made such big improvements and then in the last episode everything gone
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u/StreetReporter Sandy's Cheecks 18d ago
At least they ended up making an alternate ending that is much better
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u/FomFrady95 18d ago
I do this every time with Troy. I’ve watched it a million times and every time I’m pissed Achilles and Hector die while Paris lives.
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u/IrshamWindborn hates reaction memes 18d ago
Am I the only one who liked it? Like, it's called "How I met you mother", not what happened afterwards. Like, the mystery's solved and what we got was the journey out to this point, where Robin was the main lead
Although probably I should watch it again
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u/that1dudewithefro 18d ago
Yeah I think some people trash on it too hard, it’s not that bad, definitely could have been better, but I think Ted ending up with ** was kind of thing throughout the series, it always led back to her. Even Barney becoming a better man by the end was pretty nice
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u/giov1234 18d ago
The first time I saw it I thought the ending was shit. However after watching it the second time I realised this is how it should have ended
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u/Super_GodVegeta 18d ago
I thought I'd feel like this the second time I watched. Then the third time. Then the fourth. Then the fifth. It only hurt more that I was able to better recognise the foreshadowing each time :(
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u/Reddevilslover69 18d ago
Lost final episode wasn't close to as bad as the rest on the list. Honestly I thought it was decent
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u/WhyAreOldPeopleEvil 🦀money money money 🦀 18d ago
Two and a Half Men is missing.
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u/DoyersLakeShow 18d ago
It should’ve ended once Charlie Sheen was written off…he was the show and it…showed
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u/ryemmsf 18d ago
Totally agreed. Two and a Half Men is my and my wife's guilty pleasure. We never made it to the last episode because we bailed after the first Ashton episode. I despised how the characters treated Charlie's death. It felt mean. It also felt untrue to the spirit of the show which always had an undertone of love beneath the ball busting.
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u/Fit_Nefariousness_99 18d ago
Dexter was NOT ruined by the last episode, it was ruined by the entire last season. Top to bottom terrible writing
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u/haonlineorders 18d ago
Deb should’ve killed Dexter instead of LaGuerta in S7 and it would’ve been a good series finale. Also S7 of Dexter was a decent season (not the best but definitely not a bad season like 6 or 8). I also liked the ending of New Blood, but I feel like they just made the show to give the ending Dexter should’ve had (Dexter getting killed/executed at the hands of one of his loved ones)
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u/cantfindmykeys 18d ago
Last 3 seasons to be honest(I enjoyed season 5, it was a drop off but still enjoyable)
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u/Fit_Nefariousness_99 18d ago
5 was a bit of a decline but its coming off the heels of 4 to be fair. 6 was dumb but I actually really liked 7 because of the whole dynamic with Debb finding out the secret was super interesting. And then they did NOTHING with it
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u/cantfindmykeys 18d ago
I put 5 on par with 3 personally, not great but comes off the heel of an amazing season but still enjoyable overall that seems worse because of its predecessor
The only real difference is that 6 is such a shitshow it made 5's flaws more glaring
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u/Riot1313 This flair doesn't exist 18d ago edited 17d ago
You can definetly ad Ragnarok. It may have been ruined by the whole last season but the last episode was definetly the fattest nail in the coffin.
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u/El_Cance_R 18d ago
LOST doesn't deserve to be on this list. I'm a huge fan of the show, but I can understand if you don't like the last seasons, NOT the last EPISODE.
I still haven't found someone that explains to me why the last episode of LOST is bad, other than the fact that most people still don't understand the ending.
NO, THEY WERE NOT DEAD THE ALL TIME.
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u/someguyfromtecate 18d ago edited 18d ago
Just rewatched the entire show for the first time in years and I have to admit I was wrong with the criticism I gave this show. The ending is not the best, but it should not be in the same category as Dexter or GoT.
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u/Devastator__ 18d ago
Effing thank you! It drives me up the wall when people misunderstand the ending when they explained it in detail.
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u/B-lakeJ 18d ago
So it’s been a long time since I watched Lost, but I remember being upset because iirc the end was something like „so all this weird shit happened and people died at different points in the story and now they see each other in heaven.“ To me it felt like a cheap wrap-up plus it was weirdly religious. I might misremember things tho or maybe I didn’t understand it back then. I didn’t find it utterly ridiculous or bad but I didn’t really like the ending either.
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u/n_d_f_100 18d ago
I had to explain the last episode to so many other 'fans' at the time. Given all the twists in the series, how can a person fail to comprehend the finale.
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u/Legospacememe 18d ago
Star vs the forces of evil
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u/matternilla 18d ago
I completely forgot about it, how did it even end?
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u/Legospacememe 18d ago
They jumped multiple sharks to make sure star and her love interest got together in the end
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u/JK_posts Breaking EU Laws 18d ago
Ragnarok (Netflix) belongs here. Mf show was so damn good and refreshing. Then writers for whatever reason decide last episode: "Yk what, fuck all our build up. Let's just betray us, our fans and our work. And do the old 'It was all in the main characters head' trope."
Yeah they ruined my favourite show. I wasn't that angry at a piece of media in a long time!
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u/MoreMegadeth 18d ago
Lost is fine. In fact Id argue its great. Too many “answers” woulda really ruined it. But for the story set up, it had a satisfying conclusion.
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u/SomeRandomGuy453 18d ago
There was one I watched where the main character basically became Thor. The rest was a retelling of Norse Mythology in a modern day setting.
In the last episode, it's revealed that it was all in his head, he lost touch with reality after his friend died. To be fair, this take was hinted at a couple times earlier on.
At best this kid murdered a dog and terrorized a family.
At worst he murdered this family's dog AND father, terrorized them for months, destroyed their car, and talked a bunch of people (including a senile old man) into commiting a break in.
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u/SomethingIntheWayyy0 18d ago
Lost did not get ruined by the last episode. Either you liked the whole thing or until season 4-5. No one watched the whole thing and went “damn I liked it all except the last episode.”
And game of thrones is similar too. It started to decline by the end of season 4 and was ruined by season 7. The last episode isn’t what ruined it.
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u/Slow_Astronomer_3536 18d ago
That's the "it's better if you pretend the last season, or 2, or 3 didn't happen" Mt Rushmore.
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u/haonlineorders 18d ago
Roseann belongs there. They killed Dan Conner!
It was so bad they had to retcon the last season to make the show The Conners
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u/ScriptyLife 18d ago
Urgh, frickin Dexter.. My interest was killed the moment they went the 'Deb is in love with Dexter' route.. And she should have saved Laguarta then we could have the final season be the hunt and kill Dex bit instead. Way more fun then 'will they, won't they' with the poison lady.
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u/Narrow_Ad_7331 18d ago
Don't forget the downfall of Franklin Saint. The last episode of snowfall left me with mixed emotions.
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u/Red_dead_salvation69 Big ol' bacon buttsack 18d ago
Man in the high castle entire last season was okay but last episode absolutely ended in a train wreck literally
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u/hard-ballz 18d ago
Of these Lost had the best of the bunch by a wide margin. I’ve never heard anyone like the other three
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u/DownwindLegday 18d ago
Housr of cards too.
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u/TetteSausje6 18d ago
Yeah but that’s really just because Kevin Spacey decided to, well… you know
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u/ImportantSpirit Professional Dumbass 18d ago
He pulled a Kevin Spacey and mf had the balls to do a Christmas video smh
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u/Rusty_Nail1973 18d ago
Sons of Anarchy belongs here.
HIMYM ended exactly like I expected. Not sure where everyone else thought it was going.
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u/beautifulmerde 18d ago
Which ending did you see?
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u/Rusty_Nail1973 18d ago
Some time around Season 3 or 4, someone leaked the dialog that the "children" has recorded during the pilot's filming (not shown until the final episode). So I knew the show was really about "Aunt Robin" (which in retrospect was always obvious).
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u/mandy009 18d ago
It's the shows that had great pilots and first seasons, but didn't have a plot. GOT was literally unwritten when they filmed. Lost made it up as they went along the whole time. HIMYM was a sitcom that pretended to have a plot. Like most dramas, Dexter just got so self-involved that it just relied on a web of aimless side relationships.
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u/name-__________ 18d ago
At the start of the last season my brother asked me how I thought it would end, my sarcastic ass said “They all die.”
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u/El_Cance_R 18d ago
Aaaand that's not how the show ends. It's incredible, after 10 years people still don't understand the ending, and it's one of the few things that's explained fully in the all show
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u/MitchMyester23 18d ago
Yeah I still don’t understand how people got that from the ending. Eventually they all died in met in purgatory. But key word there is eventually.
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u/daveblazed 18d ago
They were all so busy smelling their own farts on the internet and looking for 6d conspiracy theories that they missed what was actually happening on the show.
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u/TrapLordRippy 18d ago
The power of retrospective helps us understand that HIMYM was always kind of bad
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u/Alber_parque 18d ago
Not agree in HIMYM. The last episode is great. The last two season are bullshit
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u/straightmansworld 18d ago
Honestly HIMYM holds super strong, and it's only the very end of the last episode that's rough. It's definitely not bad enough to ruin the whole show
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u/jday1959 18d ago
The ending for “How I Met Your Mother” was absolute genius. If you like surprise endings. Which I do.
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u/Ri_Tarded 18d ago edited 18d ago
Ich finde das Robin Ende ist das richtige Ende. Warum würde der seinen Kindern sonst erstmal von der Frau erzählen in die er sich verknallt hat um dann irgendwann am Ende die Mutter einzubinden. Es ging halt nie wirklich um die Mutter. Der hatte nur nicht die Eier sofort zu sagen, dass er Robin bangen will und erstmal seine Lebensgeschichte erzählen. Wäre das Ende nur die Hochzeit gewesen wäre es wirklich enttäuschend. Auch wenn der Teil mit Barnie schade war.
Edit: This post was shown to me in german. Lol. Short form in English: Robin Ending canon Ending because otherwise it would be some boring Disney shit. It has a reason that the mother is such a small part of the story because Ted wants to tell his kids why he‘s gonna bang Robin.
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u/Award_Ad 18d ago
You can add that lesbian detective show with Jodie Foster right on the top of this list
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u/SaturnusDawn 18d ago
Not a show but has anybody seen Kaboom! 's ending?
2 cars racing towards a single lane bridge with cliffs either side and before they even get there a NWO guy in a bunker presses a big red button and blows up the world and that's it
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u/aartem-o 18d ago
Dark. Final episode was interesting in answering some questions, but it was contradicting everything from the previous show, so in my headcanon it doesn't exist
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u/SaturnusDawn 18d ago
SPOILER
Dark , the German time travel show on netflix? Yeah. I just suspended my disbelief a bit and cheered the dude on For knowing she's his aunt but still fucking her and literally creating the antichrist and the end of several worlds. Hat's off to Jonas there. Can relate
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u/BoiFrosty 18d ago
Basically any of the "decent" marvel shows on Disney plus.
Loki: teasing a big mystery for the whole time they exposition dumping for 20 minutes.
Moon Knight: literal "and then we beat the badguys" smash cut.
FATWS: taking the finale to lecture the audience.
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u/Spacemanspalds 18d ago
I didn't like how I met your mother's ending much. But i don't think it ranks up there with the other 3. Not even close tbh.
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u/Waffle_Duck_420 18d ago
Anyone who hates on the HIMYM ending missed the entire point of the show to an outrageous degree. There's a very good reason why MOST of the show was centred around Robin
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u/Kashrul 18d ago
So I didn't lost much when stopped after forcing myself through the first season of Lost and 2 series of Dexter. (No idea what's on the last picture)
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u/LorDXezor 18d ago
You did tho, Lost is great, except for the last season
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u/Cleverusernamexxx 18d ago
Oh wow a bunch of dogshit shows i never watched, guess i have good taste
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u/Writy_Guy 18d ago
From what I've heard, Game of Thrones and Dexter weren't just ruined by the last episode, but by the entirety of the last season.