10 Most Hated TV Finales Of All Time
4. Two And A Half Men - ‘Of Course He’s Dead’
The finale to Chuck Lorre’s Two And A Half Men has to be the meanest, laziest attempt at a send-off there’s ever been for a once popular sitcom.
Back in 2011, in a dramatic bust-up between Lorre and the show’s star, the drug-addicted Charlie Sheen, Sheen was fired and the remainder of season eight was cancelled. Sheen then had a very public, unusually weird meltdown and the show resumed production with Ashton Kutcher replacing Sheen’s Charlie Harper as a brand new character.
Expensive but with tumbling ratings, the show was cancelled with season twelve’s double-sized series finale, which heavily teased Sheen’s return to the series. The storyline featured Harper’s apparent return from the grave and his Sideshow Bob style gruesome threats toward his surviving family.
Interposing the usual cringeworthy jokes about humiliating sex with fourth-wall-smashing gags about how hackneyed and strained Two And A Half Men had become, the episode was seasoned with constant barbed digs at Charlie the actor, transparently disguised as snark directed at Charlie the character.
Sheen, of course, was nowhere to be seen… and by the time a piano was literally dropped on the head of his faceless stand-in, Lorre’s self-indulgent gameplan was obvious. He’d decided to use the series finale of his hit sitcom to sh*t on his former star and the show itself, to the audience that had made him rich. Losing.