7 TV show, nobody understood

From Gossip Girl to sopranos, these finals led to an endless debate among fans.


It is one thing to be disappointed by The final of the series of a show. It is another to not be sure whether you liked it or not, because you are simply confused. While some programs try to link all the loose ends in their last episodes, many series opted rather for major and last minute revelations which make fans question everything that preceded. "Why is the screen black?" "How could it have been Dan?" and "Everything happened in a snow globe?!" Only the seven television finals below have left the viewers who asked.

Some of these finals remain obtained. Others still have fans looking for indices to date. And some were confusing in the moment but started to make more sense. Read the rest to see if you have managed to give meaning to these famous finals of the divider series, and beware of spoilers.

Read this then: The most hated television finals of all time .

1
Gossip Girl

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Distribution of domestic television from Warner Bros.

After six seasons, the Gossip Girl Final, broadcast in 2012, finally revealed the true identity of the holder rumor merchant ... and that made no sense.

The show landed on Dan Humphrey ( Penn Badgley ) Be Gossip Girl all the time, but as anyone who looked at the drama for adolescents all along you, he could not have known many secrets that have been displayed. It also means that he would have voluntarily shared terrible things about himself and his own family.

Gossip Girl Creator Joshua Safran finally admitted in 2021 that Dan was not the person He had in mind for the blogger when he worked on the series. (He left after season 5.) "I wanted it to be nate [ Chace Crawford ], and it actually makes much more meaning when it is Nate-even when it does not make sense, "he told Daily Beast, adding that the writers even threw clues to the secret identity of Nate.

2
Mad Men

2015 Mad Men The final saw Don Draper ( Jon Hamm ) in California, rather than his New York house. He meditates during a retirement with Stephanie ( Caity Lotz ), the niece of his friend - and widow of the soldier whose identity he had taken - after working through intense emotional luggage. Don smiles, then the show then cuts the emblematic "I would like to buy an advertisement on the world" of 1971. Does this mean that it was the brain behind advertising? There is certainly the air - and the creator of the series Matthew Weiner confirmed this socket - But not everyone was sure what it meant when the last episode of Mad Men Friends for the first time.

And even if Don creates the campaign, does that mean that he is still too focused on his work? Did he reach a kind of inner peace? Does he continue to make the same mistakes again and again as he has always done? All this is under debate.

3
Saint elsewhere

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20th television

The 1988 conclusion of Saint elsewhere is on almost all the finals of the memorable series (and which change the situation). The medical drama ends with Tommy ( Chad Allen ), the son of man has gotten to know Dr. Donald Westphall ( Ed Flanders ), fixing a snow globe. In this reality, Donald is a construction worker. He speaks to his father of Tommy's autism and the way he wonders what he thinks of examining the memory all day. It is then revealed that the Snow Globe has a small version of St. Eligius hospital inside. Basically, he reveals that the whole series and all his characters were the product of the imagination of a little boy.

Surprisingly, the series could have ended on an even more unexpected note. In a 2018 interview with Paley Matters, Saint elsewhere Creator Tom Fontana revealed that he and the writers had sketched many possible conclusions , one of which in which the hospital is destroyed by a nuclear bomb. (Truly.)

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4
Lost

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The 2010 series final of Lost was eagerly awaited, to say the least, by fans of the Fantasy Show, who had separated all possible evidence. During the season preceding the last episode, the program presents a "lateral" chronology, which shows what would have happened if the flight 815 of Oceanic Airlines had not crushed and that the survivors never ended up blocked. As this chronology takes place, the characters "wake up" memories they still have from the island and their relationships with each other. In the end, they all meet in a church after their respective death, ready to pass together. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Not only did this final confused the fans who thought it could mean that the survivors had really perished in the plane crash (they did not do it), but it frustrated the fans who simply wanted answers to some Questions asked by the mythology of the program. Looking back in a Oral history for The independent ( via the collider ), co-creator Carlton Cuse Explain why they simply resisted to attach loose ends.

"When we started writing the final, we had breakfast in my office, and I said:" Look, there is no version of the final that everyone will adopt, especially with A program like this where there are so many mysteries "" "He said." Very early on, we came to the fact that trying to answer all unanswered questions was a disaster recipe. It was didactic and without interest and in fact, just like [the co-creator] Damon [Lindelof] said, not faithful to life. ""

5
Seinfeld

When Seinfeld Finished in 1998, he left some cold fans.

In the two -part final, Jerry ( Jerry Seinfeld ), Elaine ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus ), George ( Jason Alexander ), and Kramer ( Michael Richards ) are on a private plane forced to land in a small town. Although they are blocked there, the group violates a "good Samaritan law" by neglecting to help someone in difficulty and is judged. Many characters from the show's past are brought to testify - which makes a great walk in the past - and the group is found guilty. The final episode of division ends with them serving a year in prison, being punished for generally selfish people, as they are throughout the show.

Same breast itself does not hold 100% this end of the division, however. In a 2017 panel ( As indicated by Vulture ), he admitted: "I sometimes think that we really shouldn't have done it. There was a lot of pressure on us at that time to make a big last show, but Big is always bad in comedy. ""

6
Two and a half men

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Warner Bros. television distribution.

Two and a half men crossed a rehaul when the original star Charlie Sheen left after the eighth season in the middle of a quarrel with creator of the series Chuck Lorre . However, this continued for four more seasons without him - until his character Charlie made a "cameo" in the final.

In the last scene, Charlie (not played in Sheen in this case), approaches his old house when a piano suddenly fell on him, killing him instantly. (The title of the 2015 episode is "of course, it is dead".) Then, the fourth wall of the show is completely broken when Lorre appears on the screen, watching everything playing the chair of a director of a director . He pronounces the sadly famous slogan of Sheen, "Gain!", Before he was also crushed by a falling piano.

Obviously, former collaborators had not reconciled, but what does this final meta mean? Lorre explained to Weekly entertainment that the two men crushed to death mean that "Maybe no one wins, But we hope we laughed along the way. ""

7
The sopranos

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Warner Bros. television distribution.

Mafia drama The sopranos Concluded in 2007 with an episode which is still warmly debated today. Before the final, several of its partners are withdrawn, and there is obviously a target on Tony ( James Gandolfini ) back. In the final scene, he meets his family in a restaurant. While "Don't Stop Belief '" of Journey plays, they arrive one by one, including his daughter Meadow ( Jamie-Lynn Sign ), which parks his car outside. He hears the bell on the ring of the front door (indicating that someone entered - but is it the meadow or an assassin?), Levies the eyes, and the screen is cut in black - the Suddenly spectacle forever. Some fans have taken this to signify that Tony was killed at that time. Others thought it meant that he would continue to live his life in paranoia, knowing that it could end any second.

Creator David Chase resisted to explain the end for years, but in 2021, he finally confessed The Hollywood Reporter that Tony is, in fact, dead . As for knowing why some viewers were not satisfied by the black cup, he said: "They wanted to know that Tony was killed. They wanted to see him go against Linguini, you know? And I just thought:" God, you looked at this guy for seven years and I know he is a criminal. But don't tell me that you don't like it in one way or another, don't tell me that you are not on its side in one way or another. And now you want to see him killed? Do you want justice to be done? You are a criminal after looking at this [explanive] for seven years. It disturbed me, yes. ""


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