10 TV Shows That Failed Spectacularly In Their Final Season

10. Game Of Thrones

Let's get the most infamous example in recent times out of the way first - Game of Thrones' eighth season was a crushing, agonising disappointment, enough that some fans now consider the entire series "ruined."

It's telling that HBO's generally stellar adaptation of George R.R. Martin's fantasy novels fell out of cultural discourse near-immediately after its final season finished airing, so infuriated were fans by its perceived failures.

Indeed, its rushed, clumsy six-episode final volume only proves that much more maddening because the show had hit such stratospheric highs in the years prior.

It was later widely reported that creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss were keen to wrap the show up and move onto other projects, but in turn they aggressively truncated numerous crucial storylines and character arcs which ultimately failed to convince.

Worst of all, of course, was Daenerys' (Emilia Clarke) hurried, unpersuasive heel turn and eventual demise, and the wildly unpopular decision to crown Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) the new king of the Seven Kingdoms.

Given the show's incredible dramatic achievements up to this point, it clearly needed more runway to execute its final vision in a satisfactory manner. Instead, it raced to the finish line and the end result was a sweaty, jerky mess.