TV series with a GOOD ending - and what season you should stop at

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I feel like with every Netflix show being cancelled just when they're getting good, I figure it would be a good idea to compose a list of shows that ended on a good note - even if there are later seasons that should be ignored.

1. The Good Place (all seasons): Elenor Shellstop is dead. But don't worry, she's in the Good Place. Except, she does not belong there. Ending wraps up all storylines with a heartwarming touch

2. Lucifer (Seasons 1-3, do NOT watch further seasons): Lucifer quits running hell and opens a bar in Los Angelas. When someone he helped was murdered in front of him, he ends up offerign his services to help Detective Decker solve crimes in the city. Season 3 ends on an open-ended resolution that sorts out plot lines to a sastisfactory amount. Do NOT watch further as that's Netflix no mans land.
 
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it has not ended, but I am really liking From. Second season kind of feels like they are milking it, but it's a refreshing show imo.


No tranny yet too
 
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rel=alternate said:
it has not ended, but I am really liking From. Second season kind of feels like they are milking it, but it's a refreshing show imo.


No tranny yet too
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if it doesn't have a good ending it cannot be added to the list. what if it ends on a cliffhanger and gets cancelled?
 
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Betonhaus said:
if it doesn't have a good ending it cannot be added to the list. what if it ends on a cliffhanger and gets cancelled?
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a good ending is very subjective though.

I think that you mentionning Lucifer is the perfect example.

The pleasure is not in the ending, which you examplify by mentionning when you think the show should have stopped. You yourself decided when the show should have ended

In Lucifer, you want this sexual tension and the case. Just like in Bones. The moment they burst this bublle of what could happen, they blow it. Because it will never fit your own narrative you nurtured for years, and you don't want the drama.

There is a reason most shows ending is boteched. They put all their energy into keeping it going. Once they start tying things together is when everybody just want to wrap up. And the story is so messed up by this point they have to rush it.
 
As I mentioned in the Danny Masterson thread in A&H, That 70s Shows first three seasons were great. The show itself had a decent ending but it really should have stopped after the first three seasons.
 
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rel=alternate said:
a good ending is very subjective though.

I think that you mentionning Lucifer is the perfect example.

The pleasure is not in the ending, which you examplify by mentionning when you think the show should have stopped. You yourself decided when the show should have ended

In Lucifer, you want this sexual tension and the case. Just like in Bones. The moment they burst this bublle of what could happen, they blow it. Because it will never fit your own narrative you nurtured for years, and you don't want the drama.

There is a reason most shows ending is boteched. They put all their energy into keeping it going. Once they start tying things together is when everybody just want to wrap up. And the story is so messed up by this point they have to rush it.
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I define an ending when it's sorta ok, but the next season has garbage writing. I wasn't aware there were six seasons until i wrote this post, so i concede it may have improved. But S04E01 was so so horrible.

Oh right the new Voltron was good
 
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We got further back in time with the ending of the old TV series The Fugitive (forget the early 2000s reboot). The finale got the highest ratings of the time until the final episode of M*A*S*H.
 
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Succession just ended last week, and I think it's the only non short form series I liked at the start that didn't end up shitting the bed by the end in a decade.
 
Mant shows during the WGA era come to head.

>Chuck (not Sneed), the Zachary Levy show, can be stopped at S4. S5 was made during the 2007 WGA Writer's Strike & pretty much ruins everything the last 4 seasons stood for.

>Life, the 2007 cop-kino on NBC. It's surprisingly not as bad despite the writers strike, but it does feel a bit rushed. As if 2-3 seasons worth of stuff was done at once.
 
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I got hooked on The Mentalist a few years ago. Season one to season six episode eight were great, and it had a really satisfying ending that wrapped everything up. Then they just ran out of story and the rest of the show sucked ass.
 
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Shows (good shows, in the past, meaning the 90's) generally peak around the fourth or fifth season and proceed to jump the shark (to use a appropriate 90's term).

By the seventh season you're gonna be stale and uninvolving unless you're South Park (and even then, they waver). Even The Simpsons hasn't been relevant since nineteen-ninety fucking four.
 
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Ted Lasso ended this week. I know people cribbed about the last season but I enjoyed it. It only had three seasons which was good. Succession had four but I think it could have benefited from one less as it was the same planning and backstabbing for all four seasons.

I'm also watching part two of season 4 of Manifest which is also a last season. To be clear, I hate this show. Do not watch it. Don't even think of watching it.
I'm only watching because of sunk cost fallacy.

My favourite ending of all time was Buffy. Thems was back in the days of multiple seasons with twenty two episodes a pop which was way too much.
More recently Better Call Saul had a good run and good ending. I preferred it to Breaking Bad
 
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I'm also watching part two of season 4 of Manifest which is also a last season. To be clear, I hate this show. Do not watch it. Don't even think of watching it.
I'm only watching because of sunk cost fallacy.
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I started watching it a while ago but it was clearly cliffhanger porn and I got tired of that crap a long time ago.
 
Gonna cheat by saying the watchmen motion comic. Its been on tv so it counts.

Its literally the original watchmen comic panel by panel except voice acted and animated, and since the original watchmen comic is like one of the 3 worthwhile things to come out of the comic industry the past 50 years, if you're too fucking lazy to read it, you can now watch it.

Mind you its NOT a full replacement for reading the comic, because between each comic chapter there's an intermission where you get to read snippets from "under the hood" a sort of in universe "behind the scenes" biography of one of the characters expanding on watchmen lore, but appart from that its a 1:1 adaptation and since he original watchmen is good so is this.
 
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I think The Drew Carey Show had a good ending. It started a trend of the final scene being the same as the first scene, but that's now their fault. People bitch about the last two seasons not having Kate but she was a terrible character after the first season and Kellie was nicer, hotter, and more compatible with Drew. Plus they got experimental with the final season and had weird zany camera angles just for lulz.

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Mant shows during the WGA era come to head.

>Chuck (not Sneed), the Zachary Levy show, can be stopped at S4. S5 was made during the 2007 WGA Writer's Strike & pretty much ruins everything the last 4 seasons stood for.

>Life, the 2007 cop-kino on NBC. It's surprisingly not as bad despite the writers strike, but it does feel a bit rushed. As if 2-3 seasons worth of stuff was done at once.
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Life is weird. I like it because I was into Zen at the time, but all they really did was turn mindfulness into a superpower. Beyond that he's kind of retarded like he only read the cliffnotes of Zen. Anyway, I never watched season 2 but someone told me they toned the Zen stuff way down and turned it more into a traditional cop show. If true, it really should have ended after one season because the finale was great with him blasting those dudes away in downtown LA and getting his good name back. Spoiler.
 
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Blackadder Goes Forth.

Whilst on Blackadder, I'd probably only watch Series 2, 3 and 4. Series 1 wasn't bad but it's definitely the weakest. There was also a forgettable one-off special made after Series 4 ended.
 
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