r/television

Big fan of dream logic, high strangeness kinda shows the aforementioned ones in the title or even From or Twin Peaks. Stuff that is confusing and disorienting but has a great hook. And hopefully a resolution to the mysteries. Thank you!

The finale was really good, I seriously don't get what you people are saying.

I seriously don't know what you expected, at this rate people are just hating on it for attention.

It's not that shows have bad endings, it's just a trend now to hate on every ending.

The only show which people hated the ending for that actually had a bad ending was Game of Thrones. Every other finale was perfectly fine.

With the Boys ending, I seriously don't see what the problem is.

"oh well they spent so much time building up homelander just for him to die pathetically🤓☝️"

If this is your reason then you are the most lemon brained individual on Earth.

No shit he died pathetically, that was hos whole point. Homelander has always been a loser, we know this, he is nothing without his powers. And you know what we got from him once he lost his powers, nothing. Exactly!.

Gain a bit of media literacy.

Complaining about Homelander being a loser is like saying you hate ice cream because it's too cold, or you hate salt because it's too salty.

That was literally the whole point of Homelander.

True detective

Breaking Bad

Game of thrones

The boys

Lost

From

Banshee

Midnight mass

The haunting of hill House

Fall of house usher

Money heist

Dark

Vikings

The walking dead

All of us are dead

TV is not like it used to be. Back in the day, most TV stories were contained within the episode. At the end of the episode, things were wrapped up in a neat bow, and the status quo was reset to be exactly how it was at the beginning. It was rare for shows to have a continuing story that ran for a season or series. Today, that's common.

Sadly that brings a few problems with the mentality of the modern fan base. In 2026 a lot of viewers get very invested in the stories, plots and characters of modern shows. They discuss them on reddit, X and other forums in detail, sometimes tedious detail. Here lies the problem.

A great many viewers become so absorbed into shows that they write their own fan fiction in their heads. I'll call it HFF, Head Fan-Fiction. Some call it head canon. Whatever. It's the same thing. Unfortunately no two fans write their own HFF exactly the same. They certainly don't write their HFF the same as the actual writers of the show.

So, the show or season comes to an end and the when the HFF of the viewer doesn't match that of the actual writers, the viewer becomes upset. As we know, upset people on the internet just have to express it, and often with a heavy, heavy dose of vitriol. The writers can't win because nothing they come up with will every match exactly the HFFs of the fans.

We've seen it countless times with popular shows. LOST, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, The Boys... There are more, but you don't need a list. Did these shows end badly? Maybe. I'm sure the creators don't thinks so.

No matter how a show is written to end there will be a large chunk of the loud fanbase that are angry about it. What can we do about it? I don't know. A return to episodic wrapped up bookend style? Single show seasons? You'll probably just say 'better writing' but that is only half the issue. It's HFF.

Anyway, have a nice day.

;TLDR You write your own endings in your head and get angry when they don't happen.

Watched yesterday the ending of "The Boys" and I can't take it anymore.

I can't force myself in the near future again to start watching some new/ongoing series, that I may start to like/love, only to be butchered along the way.

I can overlook bad episodes in any series that show soul and good writing overall, but I am not able to assist anymore the slow degradation of a TV show, that requires your attention and time for so many hours, only for the production/creators to not respect the viewer at all in the journey to its end.

Longer time between seasons, lowering budgets, cancellation after 1-2 seasons and other reasons that others have mentioned before me do not help but maintain this feeling of fatigue.

As the title says: what shows have you watched that kept their quality and identity along the way, or maybe even got better as the seasons passed? Preferably with an honorable, appropriate ending?

Nobody seems to remember these shows and I have no idea why shows like Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Ed Edd n Eddy, CatDog and Powerpuff Girls are remembered more often than these 5.

i know lots of people say the pilot of the OC is amazing, it’s been years since i watched it but i do recall it being pretty good especially for a teen drama.

i think the pilot of This Is Us is fantastic, and I remember really liking the Sex and the City one too, it immediately got me so engaged in the show!

i guess these are pretty subjective though, i wonder if there are pilots that are critically acclaimed and considered perfect by pretty much everyone

Seen all the top shows….cant think of a better ending to a show than The Shield. Don’t want to spoil anything but those who have seen it will know.