20 TV Show Finales That Are Totally Flawless

20. Always - Friday Night Lights

Over its five-season run, Friday Night Lights was many things, from sports drama to family drama, an assessment of high school pressure, drug use, religion, politics and sexuality, and a sincere, complex portrait of marriage against the odds.

Throughout the show, the core of the story had been about Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his wife Tami (Connie Britton), a couple undeniably made for each other and constantly acting with the other's best interests at heart, and the finale Always makes sure to hammer this home.

Whilst the various students and football stars of East Dillon High patch up their fraught relationships and prepare for one last big game, Eric agrees to move out of Dillon for the good of Tami's career, a decision years in the making which ends the series of a seriously bittersweet high note.

Much like the rest of Friday Night Lights (save for the disastrous second season), Always is a poetic and hopeful depiction of family, selflessness and chasing dreams, and it's simply a beautiful send-off.