10 TV Show Finales Fans Totally Rejected
1. Line Of Duty
By the time its sixth and possibly-final season began airing, British police procedural series Line of Duty had become a national phenomenon, with each new episode trending on social media as fans attempted to figure out the identity of "H" aka The Fourth Man, the high-ranking bent copper with links to organised crime.
Season six's finale broke TV records in the UK, scoring 12.8 million viewers, the most of any drama since records started being kept in 2002.
But the fan sentiment was one of profound disappointment when H was outed as feckless Detective Superintendent Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle).
Rather than opt for a gob-smackingly ingenious villain reveal, the show angled for a more banal - if believable - depiction of corruption flourishing under the guise of mediocrity, Buckells' unlikely ascension aided by the myriad structural and systemic failings in the police system.
But like many disappointing series finales, this felt more like an overzealous attempt to skirt expectations than an effort to actually say something about society.
It was far from entirely worthless, but landed with an immaculate thud after so much excitable social media hype.