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

Six Feet Under has one of the best endings of any modern TV show, while also being the best-written show of its time, surpassing even The Sopranos, which is my favourite show of all times. It's also one of the most, for lack of a better term, human shows, only being surpassed by The Leftovers in that regard.
Gommorah - La Serie also had a great, albeit forseeable, ending, also one of the best crime shows ever, i rank it higher than The Wire.
 
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The Frontier is not a masterpiece by any means, but at least it had a solid ending. If you're in the mood for historical back-stabby junk food, it's only 18 episodes and it won't leave you dissatisfied when it ends.
 
Life on Mars (UK), pure kino.

Black Sails. Great show from start to finish.

Stargate Universe. The final scene echoes the first scene of the pilot. It was a rough journey but despite the cancellation after 2 seasons, the final episode showed how much the crew has learned to put aside their differences and became a family. It's a shame that we will never know what happened after the Destiny started its long jump between galaxies. I may be one of the few people out there who liked the cast, the crew and the setting. Syfy cancelled the show mostly for financial reasons, at the same time MGM was going bankrupt and they didn't want to produce the entire show just by themselves. After that, Syfy decided to stop being a sci-fi channel and went full wrestling and reality shows.

ExtremeZap said:
The Shield was fantastic from episode 1 through the finale.

100% stuck the landing. I rewatch it all the time.
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I love The Shield but it's tough to rewatch the later seasons because you see the characters face the consequences of their actions. The feels, man.

Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
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.
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and Battlestar Galactica. The WGA strike started around the time they were shooting the first half of the 4th season. The showrunner wasn't sure if the show would come back so he wrote the episode 10 as a series finale (if you've watched it, you know how dark that ending could have been). The show was originally supposed to have a 5th season but Syfy changed their mind and told Moore that it would end with the second part of the fourth season. That's why the story in the second half felt rushed. A lot of people didn't like the ending, I was fine with it.
 
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Childrens Hospital has a tacked on extra season on Netflix called Medical Police, and it was great. The series itself had kind of gotten a bit stale and repetitive by season 6 and I missed the actual last season. But Medical Police was an extremely funny and also nostalgic little run. Honestly surprised they were allowed to make it (the CDC creates a virus in order to secure more funding). All the characters were at their best, and the tiresome ones were limited. Only complaint was there wasn't enough Malin Akerman because she is great as a mean, bitchy sociopath.
 
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Justified's first four seasons are some of my favorite TV but seasons five and six are kinda weak, probably because Elmore Leonard died in between production of seasons 4 and 5. Season five also had a lot of production problems, particularly with Edi Gathegi having been meant to be the season antagonist but he decided he wanted out, so they had to re-write the season on the fly.

I'm dreading City Primeval. I want it to be good but with it taking place in Detroit I'm bracing for ACAB and BLM shit.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Just about all of Seinfeld is excellent right until the end. Just stop at the fourth-to-last episode. After that, you've got a two-parter clip show, and then the terrible ending.
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I actually wanted to put Seinfeld as having a good ending (knowing it's not a popular opinion). Yeah the ending is a glorified clipshow but it's a blast having the cast face the TV version of a videogame's "here is all the bad shit you did".
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I actually wanted to put Seinfeld as having a good ending (knowing it's not a popular opinion). Yeah the ending is a glorified clipshow but it's a blast having the cast face the TV version of a videogame's "here is all the bad shit you did".
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Having rewatched it recently, I think the final episode is fine. I think it might have been better received has NBC not run the enormous clip show beforehand. The fun of seeing everyone show up for the last episode is kind of dulled by seeing them in the clip show first.
 
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Flaming Carrot said:
Having rewatched it recently, I think the final episode is fine. I think it might have been better received has NBC not run the enormous clip show beforehand. The fun of seeing everyone show up for the last episode is kind of dulled by seeing them in the clip show first.
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I don't see any better way of finishing the show. More seasons would have declined the quality (Friends) and a bombastic ending wouldn't fit the tone, while an anti climax would be needlessly faggoty.

I'm trying to think an anime with a great ending, but most either end with "read the manga, assholes" or leaving enough for future installment that will never come. The only one that I remember with a definitive ending that wasn't annoying was "Chaika the Coffin Princess", a cute action show that I really liked for some reason that actually ended after two seasons with a sweet ending.
 
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I wanna say Twin Peaks S3. Just stop after Cooper goes through the door in the basement at the Great Northern. I guess its cool Coop tried to save Laura Palmer from dying but ended up just fucking himself over by getting transported to another reality. Or whatever the ending meant.
 
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I don't see any better way of finishing the show. More seasons would have declined the quality (Friends) and a bombastic ending wouldn't fit the tone, while an anti climax would be needlessly faggoty.

I'm trying to think an anime with a great ending, but most either end with "read the manga, assholes" or leaving enough for future installment that will never come. The only one that I remember with a definitive ending that wasn't annoying was "Chaika the Coffin Princess", a cute action show that I really liked for some reason that actually ended after two seasons with a sweet ending.
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Yu Yu Hakusho's anime ending is way more kino than the manga.
 
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Anonitolia said:
The Simpsons ended at Homer's Enemy
was a pretty good way to go tbh
good on Fox for letting the show lie dormant afterwards and sending it off on a high note
and never making anymore episodes ever again
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I'd say Lisa's Wedding would have been the best possible finale for the show. Just do the old switcherooo and make the Lisa's Wedding episode a season 10 or 12 episode and there. Done.
 
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