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The most controversial TV finales of all time

Nothing is more frustrating than when a series splits its fans with how it stuck the landing

The most controversial TV finales of all time

Nothing is more frustrating than when a series splits its fans with how it stuck the landing

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The most controversial TV finales of all time

Nothing is more frustrating than when a series splits its fans with how it stuck the landing

Nothing hurts a television lover worse than when a really solid show doesn't stick the landing. On the other hand, nothing draws the fans out like a series finale that splits its fanbase. That's where the most controversial series finales come in: the pop culture installments that are as (if not more) infamous as the shows that spawned them.

After the "Game of Thrones" finale caused an uproar with disappointed fans online, a steep decline on viewer satisfaction on Rotten Tomatoes and even a petition to re-do the final season, the big finish in King's Landing and Winterfell is just the beginning of watcher dissatisfaction. Can it compete with say, an imagined world in a snow globe? Below are 11 of the most controversial television finales of all time.

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"Seinfeld"

With a reported 76 million people watching (seriously), "Seinfeld" remains one of the most watched series finales in history, but its big finish left its fans deeply divided. While the gang went to jail after witnessing a carjacking, but the real selling point was the laundry list of people who returned to act as character witnesses for these terrible humans. Some fans loved the finish. Others regarded it as disrespectful to both the characters and the intensely loyal fandom. Nevertheless, it remains a pivotal television moment 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and Larry David made bank.

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"Dexter"

After eight seasons of following Dexter Morgan and his problematic compulsion to kill, the series took a strange turn and decided that the only way for Dexter to get the ending he wanted, he would need to go live in solitude ... in the woods ... as a lumberjack? The big finale twist felt underwhelming and half-baked for a show that pushed the boundaries so often. Even Michael C. Hall admitted in an AMA on Reddit that he experienced "sadness" when reading the final script, which is generous actor speak for "disappointed." Instead of taking a big narrative swing, "Dexter" took a swing for a tree trunk and the creative decision hit viewers the same way: with a thud.

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"Dinosaurs"

"Dinosaurs" was ABC바카라 게임 웹사이트s white collar, paleontological play on the sitcom boom of the 90s. Follow the Sinclair family, the series told the everyday story of a dinosaur family that typically ended with humor. Though the series took a few swipes at social issues throughout its four season run, none were more bold than its final move. After the dinosaur people of Earth took the planet for granted, a massive storm was triggered, effectively ended their species forever: Baby Sinclair and all. The series finishes on a zoom out from the Sinclair home with ominous music playing before breaking to a dinosaur newscaster telling the world goodbye, one last time.

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"How I Met Your Mother"

Any "HIMYM" fan you speak to is likely still not over the botched finale. Proof that an intended finale isn바카라 게임 웹사이트t always how you should stick your landing, the titular mother appeared in the final season only to die soon after. After years of 바카라 게임 웹사이트will they, won바카라 게임 웹사이트t they?바카라 게임 웹사이트 between Robin and Ted (and Barney, honestly), the narrator of the series finally leaves his post of narrating his whole life story to his kids and goes to be with the woman he's supposed to be with. The move didn't make a ton of sense, with most viewers having given up on a Ted and Robin reunion. The otherwise beloved series has an almost universally despised finale.

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"Lost"

Perhaps the most controversial on the list, you either love the "Lost" finale or you hate it. There바카라 게임 웹사이트s not a lot of in between. After six seasons of unanswered questions, polar bears and time travel, the final few episodes seem to abandon all reason. Viewers held out, hoping that the series finale would answer the dangling questions, but it all led to a church in an alternate timeline where most of the survivors of the doomed Oceanic 815 reunited before 바카라 게임 웹사이트moving on.바카라 게임 웹사이트 Some interpreted it as them being dead all along. Others considered it to be a touching message about the power of humanity. Most were just angry about those polar bears. But the whole series ended on a quiet shot of the beach, deserted and lifeless, the day of the crash.

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"Mad Men"

The portrait of mid-century white collar America had its up and down moments, but it remains one of the most critically acclaimed shows of the 21st century. As the final season came to a close, the women of the 1960s ad world continued to hold the show together while Don Draper fell apart. With the finale on the horizon, it appeared that Don was all but deconstructed and yet the series' final moments suggest that the antihero bounces back, turning his near breakdown into advertising genius. Some said it was a perfect finale. Others argued it resolved Don바카라 게임 웹사이트s story too quickly. Either way, we바카라 게임 웹사이트re talking about it.

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"The Office"

This one is a toss up. The back and forth of whether Michael Scott would return for the show바카라 게임 웹사이트s final season clouded an otherwise perfect series. After missing season eight and popping in and out through season nine, the series eventually learned that having Michael swoop in one last time in the end was definitely the right move. After a few uneven seasons, the final episode served its purpose, revisiting the best employees that Dunder Mifflin ever had. This finale is less of a controversy and more of a much needed smooth landing to a very rocky descent.

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"Roseanne"

Before her recent return, Roseanne Barr was responsible for one of the greatest sitcoms about the working class in television history. The series dared to be provocative: not because it was a gimmick but because the subjects it tackled shined a light on what it was like to be blue collar in America. But after a bizarre lottery win, "Roseanne" took viewers on a massive final episode roller coaster, revealing in a ten minute monologue from Roseanne Conner that the family바카라 게임 웹사이트s patriarch had died a couple seasons prior and that integral parts of the series were fabricated in the mind of Roseanne 바카라 게임 웹사이트 a motherly attempt to write her family the way she believed they would be happiest. The finale split viewers, with a good number of them staunchly opposes to the narrative twist.

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"Sons of Anarchy"

"Sons of Anarchy" was always fated to end tragically, but no one would have guessed that it would have hit them as hard as a truck. No, literally. Jax drove himself directly into a tractor trailer a la "City of Angels," but with more motors and leather. The Hamlet-inspired series caught a lot of fans off guard in its final episodes, with a savage murder of Gemma and that gruesome final scene. Jax knew his only way out of SAMCRO was via death, but viewers weren바카라 게임 웹사이트t having it.

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"The Sopranos"

It was the cut to black that made HBO subscribers panic in fear that their televisions had cut off too soon. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Don바카라 게임 웹사이트t Stop Believin바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트 soundtracked the final moments of what may still be HBO바카라 게임 웹사이트s greatest creation, but the big finish for Tony Soprano didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t scratch an itch for everyone. The series left the fate of the mob boss up in the air with a hard stop, making people (furiously) wonder if he lived or died at the hand of a few different people. Some "Sopranos" fans call the move genius. Others call it terrible.

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"St. Elsewhere"

Ah, the original controversial finale. After six seasons, the prolific hospital drama alluded to the idea that the entire series, and all its groundbreaking storylines, took place in the imagination of an autistic boy. In a final shot, he is holding a snow globe and inside is a replica of St. Eligius hospital, where the series took place. The small legion of super fans were vexed 바카라 게임 웹사이트 had they really been played? Was this whole, very realistic medical series actually just the manifestation of an autistic boy바카라 게임 웹사이트s mind, or was there something else deeper? Turns out they just got played.