The Boys Joins Game Of Thrones For Terrible Finales

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]After five grueling seasons, The Boys has finally come to an end with the finale that was less than impressive, I think, for a lot of people. Some enjoyed it, some thought it was just what the Doctor Ordered, but I myself was looking for something a lot grander with even just a tiny bit of clever writing. This was just so paint by numbers by the books, though, it was it was sad. It was a bummer. But the season as a whole was pretty terrible. And I'm not here to relitigate that. Instead, I want to talk about TV shows in general and how often they completely drop the ball with the finale. For every one successful TV show finale, it seems like there's 10 others that [ __ ] the bed. Some of the great ones that come to mind are obviously Breaking Bad. Everybody brings that up with great endings. Some state it's overrated, but the only way to get overrated is to be overappreciated. And that means that most people like what's happening with your finale, regardless whether or not you agree. Scrubs I thought had a great run capping off with a really touching ending that fit with the overall flow of the show. There's a little gem called The Good Place, which I don't actually think is the funniest, but it is very entertaining and it always had the best cliffhers every season that got you hooked for more to come. A great cast, some very clever writing led to a brilliant finale that's a tearjerker, and it speaks to a deeper meaning in all of us. One that's often cited that I sadly have not seen is Six Feet Under. I heard that show is really good and the finale is one of the best in the industry. My personal favorite, setting Breaking Bad aside, would absolutely be Avatar the Last Airbender.

[00:01:38]Oh my god, three seasons of just perfection capping off in an epic conclusion. A several episode battle culminating into everything fans have wanted. It's okay to give the audience what they want. In fact, they happen to appreciate you for it. That doesn't mean you need to just pander. But if a show's trajectory is in one direction and then the writer decides in their infinite wisdom to segue into a different direction at the last moment as some sort of [ __ ] hailmary gotcha subversion of expectations. Yeah, people get mad. So why is the question do so many finales feel underwhelming? Well, I have a few reasons. I have a few explanations as to why that's such. And we'll put them into a couple different buckets. And the first bucket will be shows got too big for their own britches. That's that's an expression kids still say in 2026. Subscribe for youth. There are three shows that come to mind in this category. One of them is by the same dude that did The Boys, and that would be Supernatural, which ran 15 seasons, I think. I'm not going to lie, I've never watched a single episode. My wife just finished the finale last night. She said it was okay. And that seems to be the general consensus online. I don't think a lot of people loved it by any means. I don't think anyone outright hated or felt insulted.

[00:03:02]But Supernatural is a great example of a show that was pretty much done with its run after five seasons, but then it just kept throwing different [ __ ] at the wall because it was very popular with its huge fan base and everyone involved really enjoyed doing the show. So why let a good thing go to waste? So, Supernatural is kind of an exception to the rule where I don't think it was the finale that was disappointing. It was just the length the show has been on for kind of got worse as it went on over time. Again, this is just what I've been told from my it's anecdotal and and some of the stuff I saw online when researching this, but the two big for their britches category belongs absolutely to a few different shows.

[00:03:41]Stranger Things, Lost, and The X-Files.

[00:03:44]The X-Files kind of fits into the Supernatural category. I'm just talking about the initial nine season run. I adore The X-Files. I watched that show religiously. I have the DVD collection uh right over there somewhere. But there's no denying it turned into an absolute cluster [ __ ] by the time it was done. there wasn't just aliens going on or super soldiers or alien human hybrids or Dana Skully's baby that I think had supernatural powers at one point or the fact that the smokeman died and came back to life several times throughout the run. There was just so much going on and all of it promised this huge event that was going to take place where the aliens were going to come down. It was going to be some sort of an Independence Day scenario. the game over checkmate card was going to be played. But then instead the two leads just go on the run. They sweep everything under the rug and they can kick the can down the road later. Ironically, they will get multiple opportunities to salvage this plot and do nothing with it ever. Chris Carter is like, "Nah, nah, we'll just do more shows and we'll do a stupid movie." The first movie is excellent. Fight the future. The second one, holy [ __ ] is it bad. But yeah, XF Files turned into a convoluted mess where what used to be the fun episodes, the alien ones, became a chore to figure out what was going on. You'd be like a a junior detective with a tack board full of schematics and pictures and threads going to different characters. Well, Deepth Throat's dead now, but then this guy took over, but he was actually working for a secret agency. He was working for the deep state who was actually half an alien with the black goo that Moulder had injected at one point. LIKE WHAT WHAT IS GOING ON? SO THE FINALE WAS KIND OF [ __ ] But again, it was a slow roll to get there.

[00:05:33]Another one in the too big for the britches column goes to Lost. Oh my god.

[00:05:39]I There's still people that swear up and down that it was all planned out and it made perfect sense. Are you out of your [ __ ] mind? There is so much in that show that doesn't add up even remotely a little. My favorite has to be a point in season four or five. I I don't know, maybe six. I think it went six seasons where they get off the island and they have to figure out a way to get back to the island. So, they go to this weird clock tower place where this lady's like, "Well, you need to recreate the exact events of the plane crash the first time, which means the same passengers need to be in the same seats.

[00:06:16]It needs to leave at the right time, go over the right coordinates, and blah blah blah blah blah." They only have like some of the people and and they're like, "Well, that's probably close enough." What? There's just no logic to the show at all. And then people will go, "Well, look at the four-toed statue from season 1. It was brought back later on. That means they knew what they were doing." Well, when you throw everything in the kitchen sink at a show, like polar bears running around with the Dharma Initiative symbol that for some reason was important, but it wasn't. And Walt being the the the number one purpose for the others who are living on a secret island right across from the main island that the people didn't see even one [ __ ] time in the FIRST COUPLE SEASONS. WHAT? or everything with Charles Witmore and the the fake plane crash and the ocean and everything with the numbers and Hurley and it was just so much nonsense. There's ghost horse, there's ghost people, there was two good-looking characters they threw out of nowhere and then had to kill off because the fans hated them so much. It didn't help matters that while loss was going on, a writer strike was in full bloom. I mean, there might have been an actor strike at a point, too. It just was hindered by a lot of issues off camera. I mean, the the actors were a [ __ ] show. They were getting drunk all the time, going to the local jails for the night. And what we're left with is a final season where the writers are forced to have to once again pivot in a wildly different direction, introducing the man in black and the man in white, who are these I think they're brothers.

[00:07:48]I mean, it's been a while since I saw the finale, and I I can tell you I don't retain much knowledge from it because it was so stupid. And it turns out they were behind all of this all along. And and something about how they were trying to pick a successor. And I think the man in black is also actually the smoke monster, even though in season 1, the smoke monster is more of a mechanical machine, like an alien in the sky, and it always showed up when it was raining, but then in season two or three, it turned into some disgusting CGI abomination that runs around on the ground. And then we find out you can call upon the smoke monster by pulling out a [ __ ] drain in in the side of a cave. And then it turns out the smoke monster is actually a dude. WHAT? AND THEN THERE'S JACOB, the ghost in the mystery cabin. And I I could I could go on. It it it is crazy to me that anybody thinks this show made any sense at all.

[00:08:42]Regardless, some will say it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

[00:08:46]And I will give Lost credit for that. It was quite the ride. You didn't know what was going on. You You talked around the water cooler. That was a thing people used to do back in the day. You would discuss and get excited about the next season. Who's Penny? Is Charlie dead?

[00:09:02]What's up with Walt? We haven't seen him in like two seasons. So again, people will say the Lost finale sucked. I will say it was more than a finale to get us there. It was a season and a half. It was two seasons and it was a whole lot of unsolved answers that really could never add up to anything substantial.

[00:09:18]Stranger Things is the final one I would throw into that bucket where it started out as a very simple Steven Spielbergian show with a lot of nods to the 80s.

[00:09:27]There was this scary demogorgan creature that kidnaps Will. He's communicating with his mom through the lights. And we somehow get to a point years later where all the teenagers are on a different [ __ ] planet that they accessed by climbing a radio tower through a wormhole, bridging our world to that world known as the right side up. We also learn of a big bad character named Vecna that they spent over a season hyping up as this massive threat that was behind everything. And that's really where I think the show lost its way.

[00:10:03]When you make a central antagonist that is seemingly undefeable with unlimited power and then you easily defeat said villain, it kind of deflates the whole thing. The next bucket I would add for the finale is predetermined fate. That's a fancy way of saying they know where they want to end the show years down the road. The challenge is making everything get to that point. How I Met Your Mother is one such example. went for a good amount of seasons, had a really fun cast, some great chemistry between all of them, but when all was said and done, this was a story about how the main character, Ted, met his wife, how he met the mother of the kids that are being narrated, too. The writers knew where the show wanted to go. Unfortunately, they ended up writing a decoy mother for the final couple seasons that was so well-liked and so perfect for Ted when they finally had to kill her off in the last episode and make Ted go back to Robin, people were like, "Are you serious? Why?" They ended the show on such a tragic, sour note. Instead of going with the planned ending, they should have just gone with what the writing was doing and they should have listened to the audience and how they were responding. Now, I looked into this years ago, and I'm pretty positive there's an alternate ending that you can find on the Blu-ray or the DVD bonus features where he does end up with the original mom. She doesn't die. And I believe that is a far better ending. I haven't seen it. I've only heard.

[00:11:32]Kristen Milli is the character that he falls for and inevitably dies. And it does not help that they cast her cuz she is just a delight on both the eyes and the ears. She's a great actress. Loved her in The Penguin. Loved her in a couple episodes of Black Mirror. She's she's fantastic in this and so yeah, audiences really enjoyed her character.

[00:11:50]Now, one of the most fondly remembered endings, still very fresh with a lot of folks, is Game of Thrones. And by fondly remembered, I mean hatefully despised. I think this goes into the bucket of predetermined destiny thanks to George RR Martin. However, I'm not entirely sure because the showrunners of Game of Thrones speed ran through the last two seasons because they were supposed to be doing a Star Wars trilogy that never happened. So, we got screwed on both ends. George R. Martin, who I don't think has still finished the Game of Thrones series. I'm not sure he's even alive anymore to do it. The dudes blew past his writing seasons back. So, they're just freewheeling, freewheeling and dealing, coming up with ideas and concepts and then half fulfilling them or halfassing them outright. And what we're left with is a final season that is just ripping through plot threads.

[00:12:43]The massive army that was built up for several seasons, finally comes to fruition. Winter's coming. Winter came and is done in a [ __ ] episode.

[00:12:53]Instead of being this grandiose full season arc where they're constantly battling the White Walkers, they take him down. Dude, sweet cup of coffee and they're done. I could spend multiple hours bitching about Game of Thrones and how it dropped the ball with pretty much every character in it. But for those of us that know, we know. We know. I think The Boys fits into this camp, too.

[00:13:16]Obviously, it changed some of the stuff, but the ending still basically got to the same place. From what I looked up about the comic book though, it did it so much better there. The fact that they didn't do the clone Homelander with Black Noir is mindboggling to me. That is such a cool twist that he's a clone and then he's got the same powers and he's [ __ ] with him and making him lose his mind. That's awesome. Where was that? And then how Butcher ends up killing off his entire crew except for Huie who ends up having to kill Butcher.

[00:13:47]I mean, they they got the last part right, but how they got there was so messy and there was just nothing to it.

[00:13:53]But I have a full [ __ ] on the boy season finale. I don't need to tread that ground again. The last bucket that I will bring up is just it sucked.

[00:14:02]Nothing more to it. It was just poorly constructed. Dexter is a great example of a show that just was progressively getting worse from season to season with the final season spinning its wheels, focusing on other characters. no one cares about and having the nerve to let Dexter get away basically scot-free from all of it. Going into hiding into the woods as a [ __ ] lumberjack. Are you insane? They stripped away the build for so many years of just getting those reactions from his fellow cops and friends that that he was the killer the whole time, having them go on this countrywide manhunt or whatever they wanted to do with it. instead. Nah, he just gets on a boat and leaves during a a hurricane. And the last one it pains me to bring up is Seinfeld. Again, just goes into the bucket of it sucked. I know there's people that like it. I I don't know why. What's insane to me is this has always been the show about nothing. That's how it prided itself.

[00:15:02]But then in the finale, it made it all about something. It said to its audience, "Hey, these are all bad individuals. Look how awful they are.

[00:15:11]They belong in prison. And now we're going to spend an hour marching along all the people whose lives they've ruined, putting them on literal trial and then throwing them in jail. There's nothing metaphorical going on, they actually go to jail at the end. It's odd. And for half of the episode, it's a clip show, which was also odd because right before the finale aired, they had a one-hour clip show. Seinfeld will probably always be my favorite comedy of all time. It's just insanely quotable. I think the characters are all brilliantly acted. Every time I rewatch the series, a new character kind of becomes my favorite. Like I'm on I'm on George now.

[00:15:50]George is the best. Or I'm with Elaine this time or Kramer or even Jerry. I find his kind of like halfass acting to be somehow charming. So there you have it. Some of the many explanations as to why these shows fall on their face.

[00:16:04]Whether it's time constraints, whether it's just rushing the product out because the showrunners don't give a [ __ ] about it anymore. Game of Thrones and they're trying to move on to the next thing. Or it's just the show becoming so massive, so up its own ass with too much stuff thrown at the wall that they somehow have to make sense of it and bring it all together at the end.

[00:16:25]And it never really works out when you do all that because not only do you have to write something that makes sense in that time frame, you also have to make sure your actors are available. But yeah, I just wanted to open the door for conversation, rant a little bit about some of these finales and how badly they dropped the ball, and hear from you in the comments below. So, let me know what you thought, what your favorite finale is, what your least favorite one is. I want to hear from you. Please think of subbing to the show. Adam does movies. I talk movies, TV, entertainment all the time. Would love to have you stick around and hopefully I see you next time.

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