7 TV Shows With Near-Perfect Endings

9. Dishonourable Mention #2: Scrubs

While many people in the medical industry have praised Scrubs for its oddly realistic approach to how hospital staff interact with one another and their patients, the show had always been known for its surreal cutaways and fantasies playing out in the head of lead character J.D.

In season eight, J.D. decides to move away from Sacred Heart hospital to be closer to his son, and with him, say goodbye to all the characters he'd be leaving behind. In the final episode, an encounter with a patient's son makes J.D. question his own future and what choices he can make and control.

In the final scene, a montage set to Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love, J.D. imagines a heart-warming future filled with family, friends and happiness. It was a delightfully moving finale that encapsulated the series entirely, until...

The show came back almost a year later with half the cast returning and a new generation of doctors to lead. Received poorly due to its sticky writing and unlikeable new cast, the whole ninth season felt like you had just seen your favourite band in concert, they'd finished their encore and left the stage, only to immediately return with a new frontman who sounds nothing like the previous one, and they're about to play some new experimental hits. While some fans don't consider the ninth season to actually be part of the canon, we can't help but shake this awful extension to a fun a rewatchable series.