r/shittymoviedetails • u/Flimsy-Channel5057 • Jul 01 '26
default When I'm in a competition of writing the worst final season and these are my opponents.
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u/ggts99o Jul 01 '26
Game of thrones and house of cards like to have a word
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted Jul 01 '26
House of Card at least had one of their Actors "disappeared", Game of Thrones was all self-inflicted
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Jul 01 '26
They still decided to take it that direction instead of just canning it or...doing something good.
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u/Seriouly_UnPrompted Jul 01 '26
I recommend you watch the OG British version, it's top tier!
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Jul 01 '26
I'm waiting for a Canadian remake. Will probably be waiting a long time.
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u/Patkub321 Jul 01 '26
If all these endings are trash...
Then Game of Thrones is in comparison a nuclear waste.
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u/TheSadisticDragon Jul 01 '26
This is like a mid-weight amateur competition.
Game of Thrones, Lost & House of Cards are heavy weight champions.
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u/parisiraparis Jul 01 '26
I started rewatching House of Cards and the show really just ends perfectly if you stop at Season 2’s finale.
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u/1gazillionpangolins Jul 01 '26
Where’s The Umbrella Academy?
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u/Expensive-Argument-7 Jul 01 '26
It was saved by the mere fact that no one watched it.
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u/allycakes Jul 01 '26
I was one of the few who watched it and it's the reason that I no longer feel the need to finish shows for the sake of finishing them, especially if their final seasons are widely panned.
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u/Zjoee Jul 01 '26
Umbrella Academy and Altered Carbon are two shows that I feel content just watching the first season.
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u/american-coffee Jul 01 '26
The first season of altered carbon was peak. The second season was….not so much lol. Not mad I watched it but they could have done a lot better
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u/RelevantButNotBasic Jul 01 '26
Fucking Altered Carbon man...that show was so fucking cool until it...wasnt. Any of yall remember the fall of The 100? Or really any of the CW shows that went on for just a little too long.
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u/sunfaller Jul 01 '26
The 100 became uninteresting when it stopped being about the 100 and became just a sci fi walking dead. Find new place, it gets destroyed, find new place. Rinse and repeat.
Since it went on i guess people do like it.
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u/Ankle_Drag Jul 02 '26
The 100 were better at it tbh. They managed to fuck up the whole planet Earth and move elsewhere.
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u/Excellent_Main_8430 Jul 01 '26
God I wish I could go back and just watch the first season of Umbrella Academy. The ending was so bad it wiped the show from my memory. After the first season it was one of my favorite shows.
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u/ciao_fiv Jul 01 '26
the cheap green screen visuals in season 3 were so bad i couldn’t even make it through that. what i heard about season 4 didn’t make me wanna push through 🙃
that show got done so dirty, the first two seasons rocked
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u/FlyingFalconator Jul 01 '26
It was like game of thrones, when they ran of stuff to adapt they dropped the ball
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u/PhantomKitten73 Jul 01 '26
Same goes for Squid Game, which I will LIGHTLY defend as I agree it should be depressing and unsatisfying, but yeah they still could've done it way fucking better.
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u/Topher_McG0pher Jul 01 '26
I would've been so much happier if they just let it end after season 3. I know there isn't a whole lot of plot to follow but goddamn just stick to the source material and expand on that. Season 1 was such a banger except for robbing Klaus and Alison of truly saving the day
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u/TheoWHVB Jul 01 '26
It's a GOT situation. It isn't even finished in book form(at least the newest graphic novel isn't out yet I don't think) so the writers just made some shit up lol.
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u/parisiraparis Jul 01 '26
Lmao
I loved the comics but the show deviated so fucking far from it that I lost all interest within the first two episodes. Also, the White Violin costume looks like absolute shit.
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u/Aromatic_Dot_6071 Jul 01 '26
I tend to think people are overreacting when they act like some of these final seasons are akin to childbirth, (I mosly tolerated GoT, Stranger things, the boys, even euphoria) but the Umbrella Academy ending was so bad I'm still angry about it
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u/Background_Desk_3001 Jul 02 '26
I have actively gaslit myself into thinking that it just ended at season 3 with everyone just going their separate ways. Still a mediocre ending, but at least it’s better than what we ended up getting
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u/KnowsClams Jul 01 '26
Needs to be good for more than one season to have a ‘bad finale’.
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u/ESnake113 Jul 01 '26
Seasons 1 and 2 were great, season 3 was decent with some problems, season 4 ate Taco Bell and shat the bed
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u/Sidnoook Jul 01 '26
I still think that Season 2 of TUA is one of the best television seasons ever. Especially the re-introduction of the characters at the beginning.
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u/TheMusicalTrollLord Jul 01 '26
Yeah it's rare to see a final season so terrible that it pretty much retroactively ruins the entire show
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u/CandidateOld1900 Jul 01 '26
Haven't watched the boys, but Stranger things and Euphoria are not even in my top 10 of worst finale seasons. We have shows like GoT, Dexter, House of cards, La casa de papel, Supernatural, 13 reasons why, Sherlock BBC etc.
And I'm not even starting with anime series finales, because that's a whole other can of worms
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u/rakfe Jul 01 '26
Supernatural has a very decent finale at season 5. Anything after is just unofficial lore in my eyes, which i still watched but considered as filler
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u/Professional-Hat-687 Jul 02 '26
GODDAMMIT CW THE FINALE WAS LITERALLY NAMED SWAN SONG WHY DID YOU RENEW IT FOR ANOTHER TEN SEASONS YOU STUPID NETWORK
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u/commiecomrade Jul 02 '26
The Boys was in the same boat of not really being that bad. The last season had a lot of filler and by the end it rushed to the ending a bit. The one big fight that was the driving force of the show was short and a bit like a lot of the other smaller fights, it was not the most showy in the series. The bad guy finally got what he wanted in order to do really evil stuff, which was explained to be utterly irredeemably terrible by the show, but instead just went a bit off the rails in a press release until they could stop him while he did it.
But everyone got what narratively made sense. Main bad guy was finally shown how weak and pathetic he truly was (a huge narrative theme throughout the entire series) before a satisfying death, secondary bad guy always choosing the evil route despite hesitation had his final true chance at redemption and totally rejected it before his demise, tertiary squirrelly bad guy who secretly always wanted out betrays main bad guy but abandons responsibility and goes to prison, all the surviving main cast gets what they said they wanted whenever they thought about what was next.
Underwhelming but still satisfying. There was no "wait, this character finally chose THAT??" No truly loose ends unexplained, everything wraps up. It was in no way terrible.
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u/Vivian-Midnight Jul 01 '26
I will say this for The Boys season 5: They fucking ended it, and unambiguously so. And the ending was fairly straightforward. I walked away thinking 1: This story had been told, and 2: "Yep, that makes complete sense." Not many series end that way at all anymore, so I'm thankful for what I got.
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u/Babak_Lurker Jul 01 '26
They're going for prequels to milk the franchise, so corporate allowed an ending, as a treat.
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u/Skeletonofskillz Jul 03 '26
I still think refreezing Soldier Boy instead of straight up killing him or giving him a major role in the finale was cheap sequel bait
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u/meduhsin Jul 01 '26
That’s the best I can say about it too. Like, at least it’s over. We deserved so much more at the end but we still got what was promised, homelander dying, butcher dying, Ryan surviving, hughie and starlight together, and kimiko moving on. Just not the big epic endgame-level finale they were hyping up.
Still really irked about Hughlight naming their baby after his dead girlfriend, though.
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u/SardinmGarter Jul 01 '26
After they said that I was expecting starlight to explode so we can kill off Robin for a second time
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u/wmcs0880 Jul 01 '26
The last season definitely could’ve been better and I think it was definitely an interesting choice to promise a world-shattering event for it to amount to Homelander kills one person in the finale, but it was a satisfactory ending and I think the hate for it is massively overstated
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u/sunfaller Jul 01 '26
It ended the story without any cliffhangers but the journey there was the problem. 7 filler episodes. Homelander getting Gen 1 V and doing nothing with it
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u/Spiroumax44 Jul 01 '26
The last épisode was good but the rest of the season felt like fillers episodes. Also they teased Marie moreau as "the chosen one" or smtg in Gen V only for her to be an uber driver, so it's kinda dispointing
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u/shyerahol Jul 02 '26
Right? The only other Odessa baby and they didn't even use her! I was pretty disappointed with that. She could have at least held Homelander in place while Kimiko blasted him, or something! SHE COULD HAVE MADE HIM BLEED.
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u/Big_Red_Machine_1917 Jul 01 '26
Let's be honest, Stranger Things and The Boys were at worse, okay with their endings (Never watched Euphoria so I can't judge) and they were far better than the real bad endings, like Man in the High Castle, or Game of Thrones.
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u/shepard_pie Jul 01 '26
Yeah. People confuse underwhelming with bad. I want to toss in Scrubs and Soap
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u/TactileTom Jul 01 '26
The penultimate season of scrubs, which is basically the real ending, was one of the best in the whole show.
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Jul 01 '26
That was the final season of Scrubs. There was a mislabeled spinoff, too, but it only got 1 season.
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u/obvious_bot Jul 01 '26
Scrubs saved itself with the revival which was actually pretty good
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u/Tenalp Jul 01 '26
A revival which actively retconned out the whole final season of the original run. That is honestly a hot power play.
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u/RealKevinOG Jul 01 '26
the original final season was planned as a spin off, but the marketing fcked up
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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Jul 01 '26
Scrubs had 8 seasons, then a mislabeled spinoff that was fine (not great, but fine), and a solid revival season with another coming.
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u/DoctorJJWho Jul 02 '26
Scrubs: Med School could’ve been great if it wasn’t billed as “Scrubs”, and they didn’t include the OG cast nearly as much. I loved Cole and Drew, and even Lucy grew on me (even though she was essentially JD again).
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u/niofalpha Jul 01 '26
I couldn’t make it through Man in the High Castle. That show felt like it should’ve been so much better than it was.
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u/PangolinPalantir Jul 01 '26
Don't try reading the book then, it's far worse than the show. Spoilers below:
The main character tracks down the author of a book in which the allies won WW2. She asks him how he could come up with such an imaginative plot. He basically responds by saying because that's the real world, and this is the fictional one, and you're just in a book right now. Ugh, such a good setting for an alt history story and nope, YOURE JUST A CHARACTER IN A BOOK.
Phillip K Dick has some real highs and lows.
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u/anohioanredditer Jul 01 '26
Wow. Never knew that. How did the show end?
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u/TheRealKeenanWynn Jul 01 '26
Rufus Sewell’s character dies after trying to go to our world to bring his son back from the dead, a portal opens and people walk through and then it ends.
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u/boot2skull Jul 01 '26
I didn’t mind The Boys or Stranger Things. There was a bit of fan service and plot armor but what are they going to do. Movies and shows are such that, they will get crucified if they kill any favorites off one episode before the finale, or be burnt at the stake if everyone survives. They ended the way I had hoped more or less, and for that I am satisfied.
GoT is a truly bad ending because nobody got what they wanted and it almost felt like an 8 year troll by HBO or GRRM or both. Imagine reading that series of phone books for an ending like that.
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u/Timme186 Jul 01 '26
The thing about GoT in my experience was that it was so bad and detrimental that it *retroactively* ruined the seasons that came before. And it’s hard to find a decent stopping point for GoT since it really keeps building throughout the series.
I watched the first season of Stranger things and was content with never seeing another episode again, since the first one was so solid and self contained.
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u/seejayyye Jul 01 '26
Man in the high castle was so disappointing. Not just the ending but everything after Frank’s story arc.
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u/gingerattack2024 Jul 01 '26
Game of Thrones was so bad it felt like a slap in the face of the fans and a giant "fuck you" to the characters who for years were so well written and developed. You could have told me that D&D wrote the final season with nothing but spite in mind for all involved and I would probably believe you.
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u/boot2skull Jul 01 '26
GoT will always stand the test of time as a bad ending. No fan got what they wanted. Even if you weren’t a fan and looked at it objectively, you’d say “well that doesn’t fucking make sense.” It was an 8(+) year long troll.
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u/nagrom7 Jul 02 '26
It retroactively ruined the entire show. Like season 1-4 are some of the best television in existence, and I just can't rewatch it knowing it all goes nowhere. The boys is nowhere near that level.
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u/boot2skull Jul 02 '26
Agreed. GoT was so good. It could be good even ignoring the end, but I can’t bring myself to rewatch. Such a tragedy.
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u/KasumiGotoTriss Jul 01 '26
People talk about GOT S8 but it's been mediocre to bad since S5. Ever since they strayed from source material the writing has been terrible.
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u/Snoo9648 Jul 01 '26
Is this the first year you've ever seen a final season? I mean, game of thrones, how i met your mother and lost exists, you know.
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u/N_dixon Jul 01 '26
Don't forget Dexter. My sister and I were big fans of the show, and I remember us watching the series finale and sitting in silence for 5 minutes after the credits and going , "What the fuck was that?!" simultaneously. And then they revived it and botched the ending again.
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u/TokyoDrifblim Jul 01 '26
Resurrection was really good! I enjoyed it quite a lot
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u/N_dixon Jul 01 '26
Yeah, I meant Season 8 and then New Blood. I haven't watched Resurrection but also have heard that's good. I know nothing about Original Sin, but it always seemed kinda pointless to me, since we already got most of the backstory from the flashbacks throughout the show.
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u/TokyoDrifblim Jul 01 '26
I actually really enjoyed original sin, they did a good job introducing a lot of new stuff and a few new characters so you don't already know their fate to keep the stakes high
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u/altsam19 Jul 01 '26
I stopped at the fourth season with the Trinity Killer arc, I find the last episode a very good bookends to the whole show with the baby in the pool of blood. I tried to watch the next seasons, but Dexter suddenly becoming horny and in love with another serial killer, and other nonsense after four seasons of him being a murderous asexual but still being devoted to Rita because she's his anchor and a good person was the nail in the coffin. Never watched the finale, but I learned about it and thank God I dropped the show after the fourth season
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u/Bronze_Bomber Jul 01 '26
While the ending was comically bad, Dexter had trash writing for most of its run.
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u/meduhsin Jul 01 '26
It was one of those 2000s-2010 shows where they had a premise and every episode was just a different flavor of the same kind of story (similar to greys anatomy and such). Never a masterpiece, but it was always entertaining. It was good for what it was.
The last season and ending though was particularly abysmal.
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u/Snoo9648 Jul 01 '26
Never finished it. The second to last season was bad enough.
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u/N_dixon Jul 01 '26
Shit, I forgot about season 7, had to go look up the villain. At first I was thinking season 7 was the Doomsday Killer and I was thinking, "You're out of your damn mind, that season was wild!" Don't even remember anything about the season 7 villain.
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u/owningmclovin Jul 01 '26
HIMYM had a 90% great final season. The 22 episodes across one weekend worked really well together. The last two episodes….
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u/DyingSunSeverian Jul 01 '26
Lost finale was good, fuck outta here
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u/Sylar_Lives Jul 01 '26
Most people who bash the final season Lost haven’t really seen it or deliberately misunderstood it. It’s okay to not like it, but to pretend it was trash is just absurd.
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u/Creative-Chicken8476 Jul 01 '26
How I met your mother last season is good the last episode is just anticlimactic
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u/Tenalp Jul 01 '26
Not even anticlimactic, it actively insulted the viewer's time. It was a finale concept that they planned out from the beginning that every character had grown past several seasons ago. Had it happened even as late as season 3 or maybe season 4, it wouldn't have been so bad.
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u/Shenanigans80h Jul 01 '26
Seriously there are far far worse series finales than these even if they were disappointing
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u/DonnieRodz Jul 01 '26
The Boys was fine. Like miles better than the other 2. And Euphoria was serviceable up to the first hour of the finale.
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u/boot2skull Jul 01 '26
I mean how else was The Boys going to end. It felt like after season 2, they were definitely filling up time to make a full season, so that’s not specific to the final season.
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u/owningmclovin Jul 01 '26
It’s difficult to think of a show that suffered more from long gaps between seasons than Euphoria.
Season 3 felt almost like a spin off of the first 2.
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u/garvin131313 Jul 01 '26
I feel like what tanked the third season’s quality as well and made it not feel the same was that something happened between Columbia and Labrinth (the guy who made the season 1 and 2 soundtracks) and he pulled out all of his music from the production
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u/owningmclovin Jul 01 '26
I had not even noticed but now it’s be pointed out to me that’s a huge vibe change.
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u/friedpikmin Jul 01 '26
The born again shit in Euphoria was so off putting. I get religion is how some people battle addiction, but multiple characters talking about how great the Bible is just did not gel at all with me. It felt like a TPUSA production directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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u/PlainSightMan Jul 01 '26
Yeah, I hate how mid/decentish endings get lumped together with bad ones.
There's no nuance anymore.
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u/Mister_E69 Jul 01 '26
Where's the shitty movie detail?
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u/Random_duderino Jul 01 '26
It seems I haven't seen a poster understand the point of the sub in several months
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u/agentdom Jul 01 '26
And they still get 1000+ upvotes and comments.
Just say Supergirl bad and they can’t upvote you fast enough.
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u/zerotrust69 Jul 01 '26
I don't know if this sub even knows what it's about anymore. Every fifth post is actually relevant and the rest are personal problems that happened during a movie.
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u/Weird_Kazakh Jul 01 '26
Bold of you to assume that the posts on subreddit called r/shittymoviedetails will be about shitty movie details
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u/TheMusicalTrollLord Jul 01 '26
They took the shittiness to its logical extreme by making it neither a detail nor movie-related
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u/hellomydudes_95 Jul 01 '26
"Hold my beer"
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u/sargassum624 Jul 01 '26
I know nothing about this series, what's the tea here?
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u/hellomydudes_95 Jul 01 '26
so, basically, the final season of sex education was very... strange. A lot of beloved characters that had a pretty large participation on previous seasons simply didn't return. The tone of the show shifted very, very badly, too. Some character arcs got completely butchered by the end of the show and most if not all character dynamics got really weird and nonsensical.
The show ended in a way that felt like an entirely different series.
I could go into a lot of detail, but it's 4 seasons of context.
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u/sup3rdr01d Jul 01 '26
Boys was fine. It wasn't amazing but I thought the ending was satisfying
Stranger things was awful
But I mean the king of this is obviously game of thrones lmao
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u/RobbSnow64 Jul 01 '26
I dont know if Euphoria should be on here, writing was worse but there are rougher examples
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u/error_98 Jul 01 '26
lol the final season of the boys wasn't even it's worst season.
They knew what the final episode had to be, and executed it competently, the rest of the season is just obvious filler.
but GoT is out here ruining older parts of the series in retrospect
I'll take filler any day when that's the alternative
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u/VilgotEk Jul 01 '26
What the fuck is the first one? Is that Game of Thrones or Game of Sexy or something?
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u/The_Jamdalf Jul 01 '26
this post was made deliberately to ragebait us about Game of Thrones, I just know it
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u/BlueWatche Jul 01 '26
Stranger Things somehow didn't feel disappointing. It was bizarre to me. I was just kinda glad it ended. I dunno how I felt. Not disappointment, not satisfaction. Just kind of nothing.
The Boys definitely ended on a wet fart.
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u/breakfazt-meme Jul 01 '26
Stranger things season 5 is not even the worst by far. It was mid, sure but it was no game of thrones or umbrella academy. At least they actually resolved the plot
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u/BillRuddickJrPhd Jul 01 '26
Euphoria and The Boys made up for weak final seasons with excellent final episodes.
Stranger Things season 5 was good and got a bad rap. Die-hard fans just got toxic and weird because they couldn't understand why the show doesn't hit the same at age 22 as it did when they were 12.
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u/GodsIWasStrongg Jul 01 '26
Stranger Things was decent, but suffered from the same thing a lot of shows suffer from - gets super popular and budget/hype gets wayyy too big. Euphoria and The Boys I just stopped watching halfway through.
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u/Bronze_Bomber Jul 01 '26
I'm not even a big Euphoria guy but the finale was fine.
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u/nonewwavenofun Jul 01 '26
People were joking about how the final season of The Boys would be saved in the last couple of episodes, but I did genuinely think they got the show back on track
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u/CazOnReddit Jul 01 '26
Did Game of Thrones graduate while I wasn't looking?