10 Most Hated TV Finales Of All Time
6. True Blood - ‘Thank You’
There have been worse series finales than True Blood’s anodyne, anti-climactic and lazy send-off, but few so damned disappointing.
Chock full of gratuitous sex, gore, and deliciously arch dialogue, True Blood brought us steaming hot Deep South melodrama with a bloody twist back in 2008. Six years later, the show was a shadow of its former self, the sharp writing and biting characterisation long gone, its fans mostly watching out of inertia rather than the obsessive devotion the show had originally inspired.
The final seventh season was no improvement. And then came the finale.
Wrapping up loose threads in as predictable and inoffensive manner as possible would be fine if this was some primetime medical drama or daytime soap. But this was True Blood, the show that defined itself by being unpredictable and gleefully offensive. Did we really want to see everyone married off and having babies? Were we really expected to believe that all the madness and mayhem had just stopped, like unplugging a dodgy blender?
Worst of all was that final four-year time jump, the second hop into the future in only ten episodes. This has to be be the laziest plot device of all time - skipping telling a story to show everyone what happens in the end.