Blog:My Top 10 Worst Series Finales


 * 10. Star Trek: The Original Series - I'll admit, this one's here pretty much just because I needed something to fill out the list. But still, it's a pretty stupid way to round off the series. A crazy woman swaps bodies with Kirk because women aren't allowed to captain starships? Pretty sure that was really sexist even for the time, and William Shatner spends the whole episode acting even more ludicrously over the top than usual (though it IS pretty funny to watch him doing so).


 * 9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) - I really don't get why they decided to end the show like this. They had an epic three-parter where Krang and Shredder come back and team up with Lord Dregg... and the actual finale's just some run of the mill episode where Dregg wears a silly-looking power suit to try killing the Turtles? About the only way it feels like a finale is that they brought back Krang's original suit (but not Krang himself) for one last time, but other than that... meh.


 * 8. Roseanne - Okay, clearly Roseanne Barr was already going insane two decades before she melted down and got her relaunched show cancelled. The entire last season felt completely at odds with everything the show was supposed to be about, and then that "it was all just a novel" ending? Yeah, even someone as completely nuts as Barr could see that it was a good idea to ignore that.


 * 7. Game of Thrones - Is this, as a lot of people call it, the WORST. FINALE. EVER? No, I don't think so. In fact, I actually think the second-last episode was the one that really screwed everything up, since it basically said to the audience "Hey, guess what, you've been rooting for a genocidal lunatic and a gullible moron all along!" But yeah, the finale dragged out doing nothing for the first half, then everything after that was pretty rushed and handled in the stupidest manner possible. Not the worst finale of a series, but probably the most disappointing one.


 * 6. Power Rangers: Dino Super Charge - I still really like both seasons of the show overall, but still, what was up with this ending? It really felt like some bad fanfic ending where the writer realised they'd written themselves into a corner, and just decided to come up with the stupidest ending possible. As much as I disliked Jurassic World: Lost Kingdom, even that movie depicted the consequences of humans and dinosaurs having to share the world.


 * 5. Two And a Half Men - Let's face it, this was never really that good of a show. At best, it was a dumb sitcom that was made amusing by Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer. Coming up with a decent ending really shouldn't have been too hard, but it ended up just being an hour of everyone saying "Hey, remember how we had a good thing going until Charlie Sheen screwed it up for us?" Newflash, Chuck Lorre, Sheen leaving was the chance for you to end the show on as much of a high as you were ever going to. You carried it on, ran it into the ground, and then spent your finale insulting Sheen. That's not on him, that's on YOU.


 * 4. Dexter - It takes a special kind of failure to make an episode much worse than the rest of an already awful season. But they did it! The serial killer gets apprehended in the most anticlimactic way possible, Dexter's sister (effectively) dies off-screen from an injury that should have been easily survivable, which causes Dexter to try to kill himself by driving his boat into the mother of all hurricanes... which somehow deposits him in Canada, where he decides to become a lumberjack? I'm not sure what's worse - the episode itself, or the fact that someone at Marvel saw this episode and decided "The guy who wrote this? That's who we want to turn one of our properties into a TV series! Twice!"


 * 3. Star Trek: Enterprise - It's telling how more and more people are defending Rick Berman's running of the Star Trek franchise, but this is STILL one thing no Trek fan will ever defend. As it says on the episode page, it would have worked perfectly fine as a mid-season crossover episode with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Heck, they might have even pulled it off as a finale if they'd cut down the number of Riker segments, or it had been double-length. Instead, we got a short, seriously underwhelming Enterprise' story, and a bunch of completely needless TNG sections, topped off with a seriously anticlimactic death for Tucker. Yeah, I'm happy to believe the theory that the episode was just a badly-written TNG-holonovel that never really took place.


 * 2. How I Met Your Mother - You had one job, guys. To show how Ted finally met and fell in love with the mother, and how the two of them, along with Robyn and Barney lived happily ever after. And you completely failed at all of those things (well, okay, not quite all of them since Ted's first meeting with the mother was kinda cute, but still...). In retrospect, this show should have been called "How I Settled For Your Mother Because Robyn Wasn't Interested At First". The fact that the alternate version on the DVD managed to fix the whole thing with just a few extra scenes and a new voiceover shows how royally they screwed up with this episode.


 * 1. House of Cards US - Let me put it this way, the first time I saw the finale of this show, it was late at night, I was really tired, and I thought I was just too tired to make any sense of it. So, I watched it again the next morning with a fresh mind - and it somehow made EVEN LESS sense. I know the whole situation around Kevin Spacey royally screwed things up, but that's no excuse for writing a finale so bad that I'm struggling to even explain where it went wrong, because I honestly don't even understand what was supposed to be happening in this episode! Near as I can make it, the President of the United States nearly starts World War III because she's having a staffing problem (or maybe her pregnancy's making her act crazy, I really don't know), then stabs a guy to death in the middle of the Oval Office, and then the whole thing just stops there? The only way any of this would be at all forgivable would be if the writers had believed there'd be one more season and weren't expecting the show to be cancelled, but even BEFORE Spacey's firing everyone knew this would be the last season. So yeah... it sucks.