8 Perfect TV Finales Ruined By One Thing

The final episode of season two was exactly what the show needed. The season had been a bit of a train-wreck throughout and it was long-due an ending to wrap it all up nicely. Frank Semyon’s long walk to nowhere makes for some really nice visuals, and along the way we see other characters’ similarly bleak deaths play out with appropriate cinematic flair.

For the sake of wrapping up a struggling series, the episode was exactly what was needed. However, it is certainly not without fault and the most egregious fault is the fact that almost everyone - yes, everyone - dies. It’s not common for a series to end with 90% of its central cast biting the dust (sometimes literally), and I feel like that’s for a reason.

It doesn’t feel good or satisfying that everything we’ve invested our time into just amounted to nothing. Yes, the few survivors have well-chosen outcomes but their lives are certainly only viewed in the shadows of all the adjacent deaths. Even with all the work that went into building an overly-complex narrative, it feels like a cheat when the end wipes out anyone who would live to tell the tale.