The 25 best finals of the television series of all time

From M * A * S * H ​​to break the bad ones, these are the last finals of the series of all time.


All good things must end, and this applies to television programs that we like too. It is often underestimated how difficult it is to end the series of long series - or even a short life and the landscape of television is littered with great showsThe last lasts were divisive or shelves (Hello,Lost andGame Of Thrones) The following 25 represent things wrapped with finals that were emotionally satisfactory, shocking, intelligent and creative. With the best final series of all time, they are all out on a high note. Warning: The main spoilers to come.

1
Six feet Under ground

Six Feet Under finale
Warner Bros. Television

Throughout his five-seasons race, sometimes twisted, often funny darknessSix feet Under groundcrossed his ups and downs. CreatorAlan ball launched its series with the death of the patriarch of the fishermen's family (Richard Jenkins) And things have nothing more obsessed with death. For its final series, the ball "Everyone waiting", took the theme of the show that death is the only common thing that unifies us and brought it to its logical conclusion under the breathtaking fashion . In a series of flash-avers, settled onSIA Ethereal "breathe me," each regular character meets his death. Some are suddenly, some serene, but they score all the journey of fishermen. It was a deeply emotional and satisfying shipment.

2
Sopranos

Sopranos finale
HBO

The final of the series that made it think that everyone thinks theirthe cable had suddenly released! There are so many things that are both famous and infamous about theSopranos The final of the series, made in America, that some of the great things that occur before this controversial dinner scene unfortunately becomes forgotten. Like Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent) Get hit and then his SUV relies on his head. Or Janice (Aida Turtinurro) Decide to take the children of Bobby as a widowed mother-in-law. But it was the dinner scene that finished the series on all the good grades: the family (likeJames Gandolfini's Tony and his unlikely intact nuclear family sat down for a meal in the most American premises) and the threat of violence always present that the life of Tony's crime led. Bonus points to help bring the trip "do not stop cruised" "roar in pop-culture consciousness.

3
MASH POTATOES

M*A*S*H finale
20th television

More106 million people look atThe final of the series ofMASH POTATOESAt night, it was broadcast in 1983. The legend of this massive number of viewers on live television - a number that stood undisputed until theSuper Bowl in 2010-Has helped ENSHRINEMASH POTATOES in the television of fame. The episode itself, "goodbye, goodbye and amen," sees the members of the 4077th as they are near the last days of the Korean War. It's the episode that has Hawkeye Pierce (ALAN ALDA) Reach a heartbreaking psychological breakthrough while remembers a horrible incident on a bus where a refugee woman had to stifle her baby to avoid detection by the enemy. These types of swings between comedy and drama were common on a show likeMASH POTATOES, who tried to balance the realities of the war to animate with the indisted comic sensitivity established in the originalRobert Altman movie.

4
Cheers

Cheers finale
CBS television distribution

After 11 seasons, anchoring the NBC Thursday night's range of comedies, as well as innumerable EMMY rewards,Cheers Close the lights on the Boston bar that we all learned to know and love. The highly anticipated episode, "one for the road", was not short on the main developments of the plot, including the return ofShelley Long As Diane Chambers for the first time since she had left the series in 1987. But while other series finals have opted for dramatic changes when their shows say goodbye,Cheers Finished on a refreshing note of normality, like Sam Malone (TEd danson) Diane left behind for good and returned to his true companion of life, his beloved bar. The last words of the series "Sorry, we are closed," marked the end of the television series, but in the spirits of viewers, this bar can remain open forever.

5
Freaks and Geeks

Freaks & Geeks finale
Dreamworks SKG

One of the things that makes theFreaks and GeeksThe final of the series so great is that no one was sure if it was going to be a final series or not. The myriad of the myriad of NBC Dicolé and flicked this series with low critical appointment - on a group of high school students in adolescence in the 1980s, included the aeration of episodes outside the order, With several episodes that never go to television. By the time "Discos and Dragons" was broadcast in July 2000, the show had been canceled for four months. Nevertheless, the episode provided a handle and soft-sweet note to end the series on, with Daniel (James Franco) Passage of paths with the geeks of the A.V. Club, Nick (Jason Segel) Expand its horizons with its new girlfriend (Lizzy Caplan) to a disco and Lindsay competition (Linda Cardellini) Set aside its summer at the University of Michigan to follow the grateful dead with his friend Kim (Occupied Philippes) Few shows were also teenage lifegunsJudd Apatow-Paul Feig The series was and closing a finish so open seemed exactly correct.

6
Newhart

Newhart finale
Fox of the twentieth century

One of the last finals of the series of all time,Newhart Throwing his viewers for a loop in the last moments of his last episode, entitled (appropriately) "The last Newhart." The SITCOM of the CBS, which was broadcast from 1982 to 1990, was the second success of television for the comedianBob Newhart. On his original series,The Bob Newhart showHe played a living psychologist with his wife, Emily (Suzanne Pleshtte) InNewhartHe played an author who owned and operated a charming little inn in Rural Vermont. In the final, after a few cases with a Japanese contingent looking to buy the Stratford Inn, the character of Newhart is struck in the head with a golf ball and wakes up like his character fromThe Bob Newhart show, complete with plipette like Emily in bed next to him. All business with Vermont Inn were only a dream elaborated that Dr. Bob Hartley had. The hoarse reaction of the studio hearing at the appearance of Emily sentNewhart on the highest notes.

7
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere finale snow globe
Fox of the twentieth century

Of all the finals of the series that ended in major and blowing twists,St. Elsewhere is the only one with an entire television universe named after that.St. ElsewhereCompleted his sixth and last season on NBC with an episode entitled "The Last", in which the Hot Hospital was sold at the archdiocese of Boston and that several characters left to take up new challenges of their lives. All this is much less memorable than what happened in closing moments, as we find that the activities at St. Eligius Hospital were all in the spirit of a young autistic boy named Tommy Westphall (Chad Allen) That the entire ofSt. Elsewhere was a story that a boy dreamed in his head was a quite fanciful notion that she inspired some people to tie into other television universes who had crossed trails withSt. Elsewhere To prove that many, many other shows existed in the "Tommy Westphal Universe" universe.

8
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Mary Tyler Moore Show finale
Fox of the twentieth century

Before Sam Malone, closes the lights in Cheers, Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) Close the lights at the WJM-TV press room, after being shot by all staff (except forTed Knight'sTed Baxter, who inexplicably and hilaridly kept his work). The news team, including Mary, Lou (Ed Asner), Pursue ann (White Betty White), and Murray (Gavin Macleod) All must leave their jobs, and the other. The episode does not breathe, of course. The irrepressible comic energy of the show is always present and returns Rhoda appearances (Valerie Harper) and Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) gave the episode an added comedic boost. But Marie breaks down while she thanked Lou and the others to be her family look for you every time.

9
breaking Bad

Breaking Bad
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

The final of the series ofbreaking Bad came on the heels of several other series of the seriesLost,Sopranos,Battlestar Galactica, andMad Men-It is alternativelyfrustrated or confused their fans.breaking Bad'S "Felina" came closest to the closing of a tailor just on the middle: attach the ends of the shows and give Walter White (Bryan Cranston) Some great moments to chew, while saying that he was the bad guy. Nothing ambiguous, nothing for fans to fight. The 2019 continuation filmEl Camino Felt largely useless since "Felina" did all the work to end thebreaking Bad History the right way.

10
Americans

The Americans
20th television

Find a final of the series that no one has a complaint about an incredibly difficult in this modern age. That is whyAmericans stands out so strongly. The final episode, entitled "Start", sees Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys andKeri Russell) In a race to stay ahead of being discovered like Soviet spies - and once they are, in a race to get out of the country with their daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor), only for her to choose to stay in America at the last second. Open destinies for Paige and every character of the show, the FBI agent Dogdé Stan (Noahmmerich) - What are the confrontation parking-garage with the Jennings is a classic scene of all time - forgot to the Henry (Keidrich sellati), was the ideal way to end a series where the main characters were never totally certain of what their paths would be.

11
Leftovers

The Leftovers
Warner Bros. Television distribution

The small post-apocalyptic series of HBO that could have givenLost.Damon LindelofA chance to redemption: a final of the series that large partitions of people did not hate! He really nailed withLeftovers, who was not exactly an easy thing to do on a show where so many questions about the nature of the series-defined a little while after a global cataclysm, where 2% of the world's population disappeared - remained resolutely unanswered. The solution was twofold: center the final on your strongest character (Carrie Coon Nora Durst) and have his experience to reach these answers to be an open question. Has Nora really traveled through a dimensional door or simply a comforting story to tell?Leftovers Fans fight forever forever, but whatever side, you land, Nora and Kevin (Justin Theroux) The meeting was a massive emotional crescendo to go out.

12
Tonight's show with Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson finale
Carson Entertainment Group

This one is a slight cheat, since the real final episode ofJohnny Carson Tonight was a show clip of his greatest moments over the years. But clip emissions do not count! Real Final episode of Carson before retiring and giving up the show toJay Leno guests presentedRobin Williams andBette Midler. Williams was his usual live, crunchy of hyperspeed jokes on everything fromDan Quaile to his newborn baby. Midler, who owed a good start of his departure to Hollywood in the first appearances on Carson, Serenaded Johnny no less than three times three times: once with a comic parody of "you made me love," once on a beautiful duo "here is this rain day," and finally, through the scene, critrant "one for my baby (and one more for the road)" Although Carson looked at tears eyes, in one of the biggest photos simple in the history of television.

13
angel

Angel finale
20th television

angel, the reversal of Los AngelesBuffy against vampires, went to strange and wild places in his fifth and last season. Angel of vampire holder (David Boreanaz) And his crew against demon went to work for the work of the Wolfram & Hart law, in the belly of the beast. After a season of bizarre experiments (an episode of puppets!) And a tragic loss (Fred!), The series ended with its heroes in a corner but determined to get out of the fighting. The reduction lasts from the credits, just as angel and crew in charge of what seemed likely to be heroic death was frustrating at a level, but also deeply suitable for a show whose themes often focused on the fight against the good fight No matter the duration of life. At a certain level,angel Out of mid-battle means that his fight will never end.

14
Stop and catch fire

Halt and Catch Fire finale
Networks AMC

The sub-heroerne drama of AMC on the calculation of the pioneers in the first days of the internet started as a show very different from the one he finished, mainly because he made them a season or realize that his two The most powerful characters were the women who were initially secondary. The final of the series almost explicitly recognizes this by building its strongest emotional arc around Donna (Kerry Bishe) and Cameron (Mackenzie Davis), and the professional partnership that had implored and could never be rebuilt again. In a phenomenal scene, Donna and Cameron imagine what future business between them could be, and just when you think it's a sweet and sour fantasy that can never compete, gave cam approach one last time with the One of the time of all the biggest finals: "I have an idea."

15
Rock

30 Rock
Nbuniversal television distribution

For a show as always absurd thatTina Fey's Rock Was his series of two final parts entitled "Hogcock!" And "Last lunch" - a surprisingly emotional family business. With Liz Lemon (Fey) Faced with the cancellation of his TV show, just at the time she and my husbandJames Marsden Adopt children, she is at the crossroads. As it's Jack (Alec Baldwin), who believes in navigating around the world to think about the next big idea ... until it lands on one (dishwasher with doors through patio doors!) Before getting out of the harbor . Jack and Liz's relationship receives a call for tenders and even Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) Obtaining the tear when she sings the song "Rural Juor", whose words are surprisingly applicable to the situation. Of course, this pleasant absurdity returns in the closing moments, a prospective Flash to the future where a Kenneth immortelle (Jack McBrayer) is running NBC in the middleJetflying cars.

16
Crazy of you

Mad About You finale
Sony Television Photos

You would not have waited so simple married life-in-nyc asCrazy of youInspire a final as bold as the one she delivers. At the end of his seventh season, in an episode called "the last border" (named after the theme song of the show), we see Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser andHelen Hunt) Through the eyes of their daughter, Mabel. And not the baby version of Mabel we had seen on the show, but a Flash-up mabrow-up, played byJananea Garifalo As a grass documentary, making a film about his neurotic parents. As we bet through the future, Paul and Jamie end up separating, only to come back together at the end. This final became retroactively a final afterCrazy of you returned for aRenaissance season In 2019, but it's still the final of the show.

17
United States of Tara

The United States of Tara
Showtime Networks

The Showtime series on a Kansas woman (Toni Collette) With several personalities last three turbulence seasons for the Gregson family. And while the series itself sometimes did not know how to balance all the good things on its plate - including a quick performance of the future of the futureOscar winner Brie larsonFinal, with Tara leaving the house for intensive treatment in Boston, ended on a note of heat and grace. It was a final indication that if the Tara modification culmination gave the series its combustible spark, its foundation of the family is what held it together. Young marshal (Keir Gilchrist) Say not to let doctors in Boston "Shoot all the good parties" - Tara's answer ", the guys are my good parties" - have been adopted that the episode would fall into the column of the finals of Television in tears.

18
Friday night lights

Friday Night Lights finale
Nbuniversal television distribution

In "Always", the final of the series of football drama at Texas High SchoolFriday night lightsTaylor coach (Kyle Chandler) And his wife, Tami (Connie Britton), reach a crossroads, like the lion dillon of the East play their last match. Although there is, again, a football championship must be considered, the human drama of these characters we liked was still in the center of the series. So the main challenges of the episode are not only who earn the game, but the coach and Ms. Coach can understand their next step as a team we need to be. In a final gesture that speaks of the volumes on the sensitivity of the series, the coach gives his own ambitions aside to follow the occasion of Tami once. It's a fantastic note to get out, recognizing how emotional core of the show has become at the center of the show.

19
Buffy against vampires

Buff the Vampire Slayer finale
20th television

The Hellmouth - The open pit of evil that had always drawn vampires, monsters and ghoulies in Sunnydale - was finally destroyed in "chosen", the final episode ofBuffyAlthough not effortlessly, personal sacrifice and loss. The effort: Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) Sprint in front of a sunny sweet to escape with his friends. The sacrifice: Spike (James Marsters) Use his cool medallion trick to burn all the vampires and kill themselves in the process. Loss: Anya (Emma caulfield) The meeting on its side beyond tragic before the scooby gang can know the ultimate triumph. Oh, and Willows (Alyson Hannigan) The hair becomes the Goddess - White as she finally fails to exploit all her witch powers.

20
Orange is the new black

Orange is the New Black
Lionsgate Television

WhileCards house was the first Foray Netflix in the original programming,Orange is the new black Was a little indicatable, the one who was most satisfying until the end. "Unlikely" because the creator of the seriesJenji Kohan's reputation, afterWeeds, was in the creation of grimace concepts that spiral in the disorder after a season or two. And whileOITNB He certainly had his criticisms over the years, he ended up on his strongest season of all time, where she manipulated problems such as ice and the most common prison complex. He also presented a real tragedy, which is where the final episode takes with Taystee (Danielle Brooks) Try to give meaning to the loss she has lived around her. Most of the main lines of scenario are attached, like Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura prepon) Gather, although some, like red (Kate Mullgrew) The descent in dementia is sad crushed. Always,OITNB Given his fans the sending that they wanted and needed, especially with characters like Taystee making the decision to continue.

21
Star Trek: the next generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation
CBS television distribution

After seven seasons,Star Trek: the next generation Finished his race with the episode in two parts "all the good things ..." Inside Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) Jumping through the random time, you have to find a solution to a spatial abnormality that could one day swallow all the existence. But none of this is as interesting as watching Picard Square with q (John de Lancie) Picard has always introduced such a fierce intelligence that it was natural for its greatest rival would be an omnipotent extra-dimensional being. The interesting thing about theThe next generation The finale is that it starts as if it's going to be a change, all the final style, but in the end, with Picard playing poker among his crews and his friends, it's a classic of all the rooms. All the best for movies and the spin-off series.

22
Golden girls

Golden Girls
Buena Vista Television

The funny thing about theDaddy's Girls The final is that three of the four main starsWhite Betty White,McClanahan Street, andEstelle Getty-Immediate immediately to the spin-off seriesPalace of gold. So, in terms of the audience of television, we really said goodbye toBea arthur like Dorothy. But it was enough! Losing Dorothy was like losing the power center of the show. In the final episode, Dorothy lets be with his new husband, Lucas (Leslie Nielsen) The latest farewells between the four women are truly funny, while Dorothy continues to run for a greater goodbye - and devastatoir. You can say that tears are real when Dorothy says to women, "You'll always be my sisters."

23
Hajack rider

BoJack Horseman
Debmar-Mercury

The Animated Netflix seriesHajack rider Never was a happy place to be, despite its gift for the gags of the voluntary view and absurd comedy flowers. It was, at its center, a show on a very depressed horse which is also a drug addict with a feeling of guilt and self-destruction largely unparalleled on television. Horse talking or not,Rail Could cut near the bone and feel pretty real, with stabbing perspectives in the human condition. Again, the fulfillment of this via a horse is remarkable. In the final, a sober bijack and out of prison attends Princess Carolyn's wedding and reflects with all the people of his life, most of whom he is hurt. It's like everythingRail The final should be, deeply melancholy - with a point of sweetness and even optimism in its fringes.

24
The hills

The Hills
Trifecta Entertainment & Media

WhileThe hills managed to box for a few seasons after his star,Lauren Conrad, went to start his own fashion line and not have to interact withSpencer Pratt More, the final series threw a last title-Grabber, as starKristin Cavallari seemed to go to sunset, far from her friendBrody JennerOnly to reveal that the whole scene was filmed on a Hollywood backlot. This was considered a clear nod to the long-standing rumors that the series was scripted. To further form controversy flames, another end was produced, with Brody returning home to find his Pal Lauren Conrad there, probably to grill at the exit of his longstanding rival Kristin.

25
Broad city

Broad City
Viacom Networks

ABBI Jacobson andILANA GLAZER Completed their race like Brooklyn BFFS by engaging in an emotional finish, painful and finally edifying, where Abbi takes steps to leave New York and move to Colorado for its next big opportunity. Ilaana manages it most ILANA, in an episode that includes she who tries to dig a clear toilet across the city, so the show does not go out without being the mostBroad city it might be. And in the last moments of the series, with confidence in the sustainable friendship of the abbi and ilana at a height of all time, the camera pulls the square of Union Square to see several other ABBI style friendships -and-ilana existing all around us. LetBroad city go allReally love at the end.


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