20 TV Shows That Failed To Stick The Landing

We were promised scorched earth, and yet what The Boys delivered with its final season - a long-time-coming showdown between hero hunter Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and malevolent villain Homelander (Antony Starr) - was more akin to a mild campfire. 

The Boys' final chapter had a lot holding it back: tedious subplots dragged for far too long, like The Deep (Chace Crawford) and his feud with the new Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell); characters with ample potential were tossed aside with minimal fuss, like Butcher and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher); and the show's Hollywood satire became so on-the-nose it was often irritating, like when it roped in so many A-listers in to play over-the-top versions of themselves. 

It had its moments - Antony Starr still stuns - but all told The Boys' swan song lacked the wit and meaning of all that came before, leading everyone to bloody but emotionally lacklustre fates. 

With no room to focus on the moving parts that really mattered (let's be honest, there should have been a whole season dealing with Butcher's villain arc), The Boys' finale was a real dud that failed to live up to its own standards.