TV FINALES - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

It's a really hard thing to get right, it's the way fans will remember the show forever.  As I write this I am currently watching the final ever episode of Weeds.  Finishing in it's 8th season Weed's has definitely had it's ups and downs.

For the farewell show they opted to do a flash forward.  An average way to go and as I am about halfway through I am finding the show very average and for the series which appears to have failed to find viewers.  It's finale attracted over a million which was still not great, showing Weeds it was defiantly time to go.

I recently sat down to the last ever Damages episode leaving us after 5 seasons and 5 years of Rose Byrne and Glenn Close fighting, which was great and after a network swap, lot's of amazing guest stars, the only bearable legal drama on TV.  Damages left our screens in a very dramatic manner but in a good way that only an actress on Glenn Close's level could achieve.

I look to when I watch the last ever episode of Six Feet Under and the amazing finale they dished up, I am just beside myself to think what the Dexter crew will do (next year - after season 8) and see if Michael C. Hall can make it two from two perfect finales.

The ugly last EVER episodes, well "Everybody Dance Now" ended only after a handful of shows with no winner, no prize money handed out and no closure, it was just dumped.  The final episode of the recent Melrose Place season was disappointing, the CW also cancelled two little shows the Secret Circle and the amazing Ringer (Sarah Michelle Gellars return to TV) both had extremely lacklustre farewells.

I can only imagine how boring the season finale or last ever episode for "House Husbands" will be, talk about a fifty shades of grey alternative. BORING Channel 9, a show about men raising boring children, what a load of horse shit.

So there you go, TV shows out there if your planning your last ever cut, make it a good one cause if it's as bad as Nip/Tuck's final shot then all the great over the top moments go out the door.  Yes Ryan Murphy I am watching you, make sure you don't butcher Glee & American Horror Story's finales.

PS - New Glee, SO GOOD!  Go Dean Geyer!