7 TV Show Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

4. Frasier - He Might End Up Alone

Frasier Goodnight Seattle
NBC

Frasier wraps-up with the Cranes finding a sense of fulfilment. Niles and Daphne have their first child, and Martin and Ronee get married. Everyone is getting what they wanted, except, it seems, for Frasier himself.

While it initially seems as though he's going to go through with moving to San Francisco, where he'd be the host of his own TV show, the ending instead reveals that he's gone to Chicago to be with Charlotte, a woman he's only known a few months.

This is, of course, hinted at by the poem he reads as a farewell speech, to which he adds "while it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took."

That explains why he took the risk, but it also undercuts the perceived happiness of the finale. There's no evidence that Frasier and Charlotte will work out, and indeed they seem quite opposite to each other, and instead it seems more like he's given up on a dream job to chase something he wants because those around him also have it, meaning he might be destined to end up not only alone and without a real place in life.

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