Three Types of Series Finales

While I wanted to do a post on some of the new fall shows today, that will have to wait until later. For now, I will do a quick post on the three types of way a show can end each season. There is a good finale, a bad finale, or anything that’s in between.

The good finale may not be as rare as some people think. Some go over and beyond what they need to do in order to provide a good ending to the season. Others just wind up with a good way of ending the show or just fails at being bad or even average. Whatever the reason, good finales are what people want to aim for and they happen more often than you might think.

The bad finale is never what people aim for. Many think they are making a good finale, but fans of all sorts disagree and learn that the show’s ending is quite terrible. Typically, all shows that end on some sort of cliffhanger fall in this category. Some just needed to take out a last scene that shouldn’t have been there when the show ended. Other times, it isn’t a cliffhanger but is still a terrible way to end the whole series and makes old fans abandon their previous support of the show.

Average finales are the last one. They aren’t really good or bad. Things are resolved or there is not enough unresolved to bother people. But it wasn’t quite a stand out finale that people thought that they could make. People make think it is bad at first, only to realize that it is not as bad as it could be. But it still could have been better if not done poorly either.

That’s about it for this post. Monday’s post should hopefully have some of what I want to do with the reviews of new fall shows. I would do more reviews or hope to in the future, but I am running out of time in order to watch things and it could be a while before I do and get caught up as a result. I guess we will see what happens and I might not have time to watch any TV depending on what else is going on during my life at the time.