this is not the worst finales, it's the finales that had the worst ratings vs series average. if anything this is about series that fell off near the end. there are many shows that were popular near the end, so people tuned in to the finale (which would mean a high rating) and hated the finale anyway. Seinfeld is the most popular example, even though i don't really agree with the consensus myself.
The last season of Ozark was great imo. My only gripe was the last scene with their son. Why the complete 180?
Hell yeah, Enterprise! Only #17! Lol
Scrubs ended in May of 2009 with My Finale: Part 2, tied for first as the highest-rated episode. “Season 9” aka “Med School”was a cash grab continuation merging the silly web series spinoff “Scrubs: Interns” that ABC absolutely fucked. There’s no reason to continue watching past My Finale: Part 2, which is how that phenomenal show ended up anywhere near this list.
This graph just highlights the problem with popular TV shows that had no real plan for where they would go.
You do a season, it's popular, people want more. Eventually your quality declines, people lose interest and they just end weakly, if they even get that rather than abruptly cancelled.
If we only had one season of Heroes, we'd still be talking about it in the same hushed tones as Firefly, but it didn't and so we don't. It's just another in a long line of shows that started interesting, and quickly became mediocre. For that reason I'm kind of glad Firefly only got one.
I really don't want a show that lasts for 10 seasons. That's a massive time commitment. I want a story in as few episodes as it takes to tell it well. At least have an outline of what's going to happen, even if you haven't written it all out in full.
How is My name is Earl not on the list? 4 years and they don't even have the respect to give a damn finale.
"The show was dead but they kept going" is visible in a lot of these. Two And A Half Men, you can see exactly where ol' tiger blood left the show. Mythbusters, you can tell which season tried being all B team... without the B team. I scrolled through and knew which one was Scrubs without even looking at the labels. House Of Cards-- no kidding.
Glad to see Ragnarok on here. Was a really good modern day telling of Thor based and filmed in Norway. Mosl the actors would dub over thier own voices in English since it was originally filmed in Norwegian.
Netflix pulled the plug so the show knew it had to wrap up all the story lines in season3. Glad they got it wrapped up but super ashamed of why they had to
I watched the ending to the promised Neverland season 2 on TV, it felt like a slap in the face and I didn't even read the manga. The entirety of season 2 felt like an insult and a disappointment.
I wonder if people just rate the finales badly because they don't want it to end. I can't imagine Ozark being panned on the final episode.
Scrubs
Okay, but that last season? If we disregard that, the show is damn near perfect.
Supernatural
I get that this is weighing in at #30, but that graph is pretty consistent. They end on a low note, but it's not too far outside the normal range overall.
Scorpion wasn't even that good of a show. I stopped maybe season 1. Got really repetitive
No Sopranos?
