Top 10 Worst TV Show Finales

Dexter faking his death to become a lumberjack in Oregon was so universally reviled that Showtime greenlit a revival series eight years later specifically to give the character a proper ending.

Nine seasons building toward one love story, only to kill the Mother off-screen and circle back to Robin in the final minutes, undoing years of character development in a deeply unsatisfying twist.

The divisive finale revealed the flash-sideways as a purgatory afterlife, leaving countless mysteries unresolved and splitting the fanbase between those who found it emotionally satisfying and those who felt cheated.

The show about nothing ended with its four leads on trial for their own callousness, a meta-commentary that 76 million viewers found more depressing than funny.

Bill choosing to die rather than take a cure and Sookie ending up with an anonymous man felt like a slap in the face to fans who had invested seven seasons in the central vampire romance.

Chuck Lorre's mean-spirited finale dropped a piano on a Charlie Sheen stand-in and broke the fourth wall, turning the final episode into a petty score-settling exercise rather than a proper send-off.

Forced to write around Kevin Spacey's firing, the final season gave Claire Underwood the presidency but delivered a rushed, incoherent finale that satisfied almost no one.

After four seasons of electric cat-and-mouse tension, the show killed Villanelle seconds after she and Eve finally got together, an ending the lead actors themselves publicly criticized.

What should have been a spin-off was branded as a final season, replacing beloved characters with new med students in a move so poorly received that even creator Bill Lawrence considers season 8's finale the true ending.

Dexter faking his death to become a lumberjack in Oregon was so universally reviled that Showtime greenlit a revival series eight years later specifically to give the character a proper ending.

Nine seasons building toward one love story, only to kill the Mother off-screen and circle back to Robin in the final minutes, undoing years of character development in a deeply unsatisfying twist.

The divisive finale revealed the flash-sideways as a purgatory afterlife, leaving countless mysteries unresolved and splitting the fanbase between those who found it emotionally satisfying and those who felt cheated.

The show about nothing ended with its four leads on trial for their own callousness, a meta-commentary that 76 million viewers found more depressing than funny.

Bill choosing to die rather than take a cure and Sookie ending up with an anonymous man felt like a slap in the face to fans who had invested seven seasons in the central vampire romance.

Chuck Lorre's mean-spirited finale dropped a piano on a Charlie Sheen stand-in and broke the fourth wall, turning the final episode into a petty score-settling exercise rather than a proper send-off.

Forced to write around Kevin Spacey's firing, the final season gave Claire Underwood the presidency but delivered a rushed, incoherent finale that satisfied almost no one.

After four seasons of electric cat-and-mouse tension, the show killed Villanelle seconds after she and Eve finally got together, an ending the lead actors themselves publicly criticized.

What should have been a spin-off was branded as a final season, replacing beloved characters with new med students in a move so poorly received that even creator Bill Lawrence considers season 8's finale the true ending.