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I’m genuinely frustrated and disappointed with how the final season was handled.

This show started with so much heart. It wasn’t perfect, but it felt real. The characters actually grew over time, and the family dynamic was the main reason people stayed invested. Bennie, Regina, Lucretia, even the kids — everything worked because it felt like a messy but believable family trying to figure life out together.

But the final stretch? It honestly feels like a completely different show.

Everything is rushed to the point of being confusing. Major storylines are introduced and resolved almost immediately. Emotional scenes have no weight because they’re cut off or followed by something that completely kills the moment. It feels like whole episodes were missing.

Bennie wanting to sell the garage is the best example of how off everything felt. That garage wasn’t just a job, it was literally part of his identity for the entire series. There was zero proper build-up for that kind of decision, and it ends up feeling forced just to create drama for the sake of ending storylines.

What really frustrates me is the lack of payoff. Years of character development just get compressed into a handful of rushed scenes. Nothing breathes. Nothing lands properly. It’s like the writers had a checklist instead of a conclusion.

And it’s not even that the ideas were bad — it’s the execution. If they had time, this could’ve been a strong final season. Instead it feels incomplete, like a rough draft that somehow got released as the final product.

Honestly, it’s hard not to feel disappointed when a show that built so much emotional investment ends like this. It doesn’t feel like closure. It feels like something was taken away before it was finished.

They really need to do a proper remake of the final season. Not a spin-off, not a short special — a full rewrite that actually respects the characters and gives the story the time it deserves.

I honestly can’t remember the last time a sitcom ending disappointed me this much.
What makes it worse is that The Upshaws wasn’t a bad show at all — actually the opposite. The earlier seasons felt authentic, emotional, funny, and surprisingly grounded. The characters felt real. Bennie, Regina, Lucretia, the kids… it genuinely felt like a messy but believable family trying to survive life together.
That’s why the last episodes hit so strangely.
Everything suddenly became rushed. Important conversations were skipped. Emotional moments barely had time to breathe before cutting to the next scene. Character decisions that should have taken an entire season to build happened in minutes.
And Bennie wanting to sell the garage honestly made no sense to me.
The garage was basically part of his identity for the entire series. It represented his pride, his struggles, his role in the family, and his growth over the years. Then suddenly near the end it feels like the writers forced conflict just to wrap things up quickly.
The tonal shift was also weird. Earlier seasons balanced comedy and emotional realism naturally, but the ending felt like a checklist:
resolve this conflict;
push this character arc;
end this relationship tension;
roll credits.
It didn’t feel earned.
Maybe Netflix rushed the production or maybe the writers didn’t get enough episodes to finish things properly, but the final stretch genuinely felt unfinished. Not unfinished in a “leave room for interpretation” way — unfinished in a “we ran out of time” way.
What surprised me most is how emotionally frustrating it felt. When you spend years watching characters grow, you expect the ending to respect that investment. Instead, the final episodes almost felt disconnected from the heart of the show.
I still love the series overall, but the ending honestly left me more empty than satisfied.