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

[jirawan.livejournal.com]

Really? They killed Joe? That's not cool after he the trials and tribulations he went through with her and the family all these years. I admit I stopped watching the show after the 3rd or 4th season but I loved the portrayal of their family unit and their support of each other especially his support and understanding of her through all her craziness. I'm sorry it ended that way.

I can't think right off hand any shows I watched that really upset me when it "ended". I do have many shows that got "cancelled" with unfinished story that makes for some frustration such as LnC, Drive, Life, Earth 2, Moonlight, Dresden, and many many more.

Also, there are shows that I only watched for couples and when that's over, I quit watching like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy/Angel), Silk Stalkings (Rita/Chris), and more.

[sanalayla.livejournal.com]

Yup. They killed him off. And then confirmed that he had no communication with his family the entire time. 41 years later, Alison dies and they go off and spend eternity together.