Comments on: Buffy? Battlestar? Tell us your best and worst show finales

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:04:05 +0000

And Ashes to Ashes can now be added to the list of shows that had a great ending. I’m still not quite over the whole thing. Was super.

By: Hil

Hil — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:10:44 +0000

Six Feet Under had the best finale ever. By best I mean, it made me cry like a baby for about 15 minutes afterwards. Nothing has ever done that before.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:04:25 +0000

Yes, the yubnub song is sadly lacking in the modern version. I don’t know what Lucas was thinking.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:01:28 +0000

Unless it all turns out to have been the dream of an autistic child…

By: digressica

digressica — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:49 +0000

I agree with Patrick. M*A*S*H still holds the title for best ever finale.

Although Life On Mars tied things up quite nicely too.

By: RealKeiron

RealKeiron — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:26:54 +0000

The end of Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty lame. Maybe if the writers had been told earlier that the show was being axed, they could have tied up more loose ends. As it was, “Born to Run” was just a rushed mess.

Then, there was Blake’s 7 (from the early 80s) , everyone gets shot in the finale. No chance of a 30th anniversary reunion show.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:40:31 +0000

I remember the Blake’s 7 ending too. These days I’d have been given counseling.

How about Edge of Darkness (the Bob Peck one not the Mel Gibson one)? Ending was arguably bonkers – “did he turn into a _tree_?” – but it was an _ending_. “We, the writers, have nothing more to say about this.” I admire that sort of finality.

By: StuartW

StuartW — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:15:51 +0000

Your mention of Twin Peaks makes me think of a similarly tricksy one – Lost. Will be back here in a month or two I expect, because I can’t see how that’s going to end well.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:10:56 +0000

No-one’s mentioned Twin Peaks yet. That went from masterful first season finale to migraine material at the end of season two. And Agent Cooper!? Nooooooo.

By: StuartW

StuartW — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:34:58 +0000

I’m going to go old school as well, all the way back to BLAKE’S 7. It’s OK, I don’t expect anyone else to remember it…

… But it’s the first time I remember seeing an unhappy ending on TV. I was only a childling, and was a big fan of the sho- *programme* in the same uncomprehending way as I was a big fan of Dr Who and, um, Pebble Mill. Anyway, the end of the series was this – for me, as a kid – utterly mindblowing finale where, basically, all the goodies got the shit shot out of them. All of them. Dead. The baddies won. In a child’s world, the baddies never win.

I was asking my mum about it for months afterwards apparently, completely dumbfounded.

It would be overstating it to say it shaped me as the miserable shit I am today, but, you know, it DID. Bye then!