10 Insane TV Finales NOBODY Saw Coming
1. It's All About Biscuits - Fargo (Season 5)
Though Fargo as a series is by no means over, it can still make this list due to the show's anthology format, with each season being a closed-off, standalone story.
And Fargo's terrific recent fifth season took an absolutely wild off-ramp in its final episode. To begin with, the denouement seems pretty typical, as vile Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) is arrested by the FBI and his troubled ex-wife Dot (Juno Temple) returns to her family.
But as Dot joins her husband and daughter once again, she learns that they have a house guest - her kidnapper-turned-saviour, Ole Munch (Sam Spruell).
The mysterious drifter reveals that he has come to restore balance by exacting a pound of flesh from Dot for the injuries she gave him at the start of the series.
But just when it seems like Dot might have to fight for her survival one last time, things go another way entirely.
Despite his desire to "settle the debt," Munch is literally and figuratively disarmed by the cordiality (aka "Minnesota nice") of Dotty and her family, who instead invite Munch to help make dinner and eat with them.
In the riotous final scene, Munch sits at the dinner table and reveals that he is a 500-year-old sin-eater from Wales and suffers great pain from his curse of immortality.
Dot retorts by suggesting the curse can be lifted by eating a meal made with love (rather than sin), at which point Munch takes a reluctant bite of a biscuit and begins to smile, having seemingly found peace at long last.
For all the ways this glorious season of Fargo could've ended, did anyone think it'd come down to... biscuits?