Worst Series Finale EVER

[sanalayla]

 What happens when a show you love goes off air and their series finale is just absolutely terrible? So terrible that you want to pretend that it never happened? That you just want to write a fanfic and pretend that fanfic was the REAL ending? 

This just happened to me with the series ending of "Medium". For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, I'll just give a brief synopsis without trying to bore you too much. 

"Medium" was the story of a woman who is a psychic and she has a husband, along with three beautiful girls about 11, 5, and 1 respectively. The psychic gets a job with the DA's office and helps them solve cases (usually gruesome and scary cases) using her "gifts".

The fundamental thing that makes this show worth watching (for me) was the relationship between Allison (the main character) and Joe (her husband). They had a pure soulmates connection and were exactly the sort of healthy, sweet, romantic, and loving relationship that you just rarely get to see on TV. (Another example would be the couple in Friday Night Lights.)

They weathered her crazy visions and dreams, they dealt with raising a teenager, tried riding out the horrible economy, etc. They would argue about who would drive the kids to school and they'd figure out what to do when the bills were piling up and the money just wasn't coming in. 

And - so - I sat down to watch the final episode of this 7-year series. And what do they do? THEY KILL JOE. 

Yes. 

I'm still rather upset about this. Needless to say. So, what about you guys? Any show end in a way that made you want to send poop in an envelope to TPTB? 

(As a random aside, I realized that I am damn glad that "SV" didn't end in S8. I think that I am DUE the ending we're getting in S10.) 

Comments

[flatlined.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Medium in a while but THEY DID WHAT? WHO WOULD THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA?

[sanalayla.livejournal.com]

Yup. The finale was a mess. First, they make it seem like he's been working for a Mexican drug lord for 7 years and then they show that he really IS dead. And then they fast-forward 41 years and let us know that Allison and girls were OK after he died, but - 41 years later - Allison died and then she & Joe went to heaven together.