"The perfect cap to one of the best shows in all of American television."

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"After five seasons of watching Walter White ruin basically everything he touched, 'Felina' doesn’t try to let him off the hook with some clean redemption arc, and it doesn’t end with some vague cut-to-black either. Walt finally admits to Skyler that he did all of it for himself, not for his family. He ties up the loose ends, makes sure his kids get the money, kills the neo-Nazis, frees Jesse, and then dies in the lab. It’s a really well-put-together ending, and it feels satisfying because a monster gets to go out exactly the way he chose."

"'Sozin’s Comet' is one of those finales that just gets everything right. It had to balance huge action with emotional payoff, and somehow it does both without losing what made the show special in the first place. Aang beats Ozai without betraying his own pacifist beliefs, and the energybending never feels cheap or random. At the same time, Zuko and Azula’s Agni Kai is tragic, beautiful, and honestly one of the best scenes in the whole series. Pretty much every character gets the ending they were building toward."

"A philosophical sitcom really had no business hitting this hard. Instead of ending once the group fixes the afterlife and finally reaches the actual Good Place, the show goes one step further and asks what happens when eternal happiness starts to feel empty. The answer it comes up with — a door that lets souls peacefully move on once they feel complete — is both heartbreaking and comforting. It’s such a thoughtful way to end a comedy."

"Edward giving up his alchemy to save his brother in a way that didn’t require sacrificing others’ lives and accepting being just a simple human was the best possible ending to his arc. Al gets his body back. Hohenheim dies in peace after his oldest enemy is defeated, and he has the time to clear things up with his children. Ed and Winry finally admit they’re in love."

"While the last season isn’t usually rated the best, the finale does such a good job of emphasising the themes of the show. It highlights how ‘the system’ is broken but also cyclical. Some characters move on, some are gone, and some fill those same voids the characters left.

Since the main character really is Baltimore as a stand-in for any American city in decay, you get to look at how the big players in the city that you’ve watched have evolved and how the city evolved around them."

"The ending of Blackadder Goes Forth, when the main characters all go over the top to their likely deaths. The episode shows a lot of hidden depths to each character: Blackadder courageously accepts his fate; Baldrick is surprisingly aware of how futile the war is; George admits he’s terrified of meeting the same fate as his friends; and we quickly go from disliking Darling to feeling sorry for him when it’s clear all he wanted was just to make it back home alive and live a simple life with his girlfriend."

"I had a whole post about it, but Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen still holds the record for the most-watched live television broadcast of a scripted show. Considering how modern streaming works, it’s likely that record will never be beaten."

"M*A*S*H nailed the ending as well as any show ever has."

"The ending scene of Gravity Falls is literally the only scene in any media that makes me cry every single time I rewatch it."

"The whole arc from 'Not What He Seems' was so good, and the finale was really everything you could wish for. Love Gravity Falls."

"An absolute masterpiece through and through. Part of me wishes they had made a new season, but Alex Hirsch’s reasoning makes sense, so I’m happy with what we got. Time for a rewatch, I suppose."

"Even though it didn’t have any huge twists, Parks and Recreation’s finale is really noticeable for just how well it tied up every single story for the main cast, hinted at a great future for all of them, and delivered one excellent joke after another. Jerry Gergich’s role in the final episode was an especially great capper to his whole shaggy-dog storyline."

"I can think of zero other examples of a time-jump final season that worked. It’s pretty impressive, honestly. Granted, it was only three years, but still."

"The best part of the Andor series finale is that if you skip the intro to Rogue One and go straight to Kafrene, it picks up flawlessly."

"It really was pretty crazy how fantastically they lined it up after so long. Nobody (ok, some people) would’ve blamed them for slight changes. But nope, it works and lines up perfectly."

"It ended in such a perfect way that Shinichirō Watanabe has repeatedly said over the decades he will not make more of the series, despite all the money that’s been dangled in his face."

"Not a lot of people talk about it, but Succession absolutely stuck the landing. I can’t even recall a show that ended on as high a note as Succession did since Breaking Bad (and its extended universe)."

"I think one of the writers said in an episode interview about this finale that good tragedy needs to feel inevitable. They really nailed it. No one got what they wanted, and they all got what they deserved: Kendall completely distraught, his whole reason for being taken away at the last moment; Roman laughing, because he’s finally free from the bullshit; Shiv’s final act being something that essentially guarantees she’ll live the rest of her life adjacent to power, but never the wielder.

Yet, they’re all still billionaires who will never have to work a day in their lives. Unfortunately, that cannot buy them peace."

"Yes, I know when it came out the ending pissed people off. However, this episode is the perfect cap to one of the best shows in all of American television, and the ending has only gotten better with time."

"One of those subversive 'you’ll understand it later' things that’s actually genius and not pretentious. The fact that people are still talking about it and debating it nearly 20 years later is just a testament to its genius."

"It had one of the most mature endings of any show I’ve ever seen. I was really blown away, especially since my exposure to it was when I would look over the shoulder of my kid as they were watching it.

It started as a wacky show that I felt I begrudgingly tolerated for them to watch and turned into an actual, fulfilling, emotional journey.

I also felt it was a great message to its viewers: 'I hope you enjoyed this, but go live your life.' It was a modern 'happily ever after' for the characters, but applied to the people watching as well."

"This one made me really happy, because the last seasons were so uneven. Like, an amazing episode or arc, followed by an episode I never wanted to watch again. Very happy they stuck the landing at the end."

"Such a great ending. Don't think there was a single thing they could have done to improve it."

"The best finale of all time. I’m already crying just looking at this."

"The show Dark on Netflix had an absolutely amazing ending. A mind-melting show from start to finish, but it still managed to wrap everything up in a way that felt bittersweet yet oh so satisfying."