10 Huge TV Shows Ruined By Their Ending Twist
1. How I Met Your Mother - Robin Is The Endgame
How I Met Your Mother's finale does so many things wrong it's a genuine wonder why anyone thought it was a good idea. Finally giving fans insight into how Ted Mosby and future wife Tracy met, it speeds through their entire relationship in a blink, and then has the audacity to tell us that Tracy's been dead the whole time.
Worse still, Ted then tells his kids the reason he's been telling this long, winding story with a biblically unhappy ending is so that he can ask their permission to start dating his ex Robin again now their mother's gone.
The whole charade does an offensive disservice to long-suffering fans, making Tracy feel like a footnote in her own story whilst betraying every one of Ted's beliefs about fate, true love and happy endings in the process.
Ted himself may have said "Even if you know how something's going to end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride", but this finale makes the rest of the series pretty tough to stomach on re-watches all the same.