Ending a show is harder than starting one. A few of these landed perfectly, and one of them still has people arguing about a diner.
1Breaking Bad"Felina" sends Walter White back to New Mexico to settle every debt he left open.
2The Sopranos"Made in America" ends mid-scene in a diner and has been argued over ever since.
3M*A*S*H"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" drew one of the largest US television audiences ever recorded.
4Six Feet Under"Everyone's Waiting" closes with a drive into the future and every character's death.
5The Wire"-30-" resets Baltimore and hands every role to a new face doing the same thing.
6Better Call Saul"Saul Gone" lets Jimmy McGill choose the truth after six seasons of avoiding it.
7The Leftovers"The Book of Nora" answers the mystery with a story you can choose to believe.
8NewhartThe 1990 finale reveals the whole series was a dream in an earlier Bob Newhart sitcom.
9Friends"The Last One" empties the apartment and leaves the keys on the counter.
10Succession"With Open Eyes" hands the company to the one person nobody was watching.
11FleabagThe second-series ending walks away from the camera it had been confiding in.
12Mad Men"Person to Person" puts Don Draper on a clifftop and then sells a Coke.
13Cheers"One for the Road" closes the bar with a last line through a locked door.
14The Shield"Family Meeting" traps Vic Mackey behind a desk for the rest of his working life.
15Halt and Catch Fire"Ten of Swords" ends a show about technology on a conversation about starting over.
16Bojack Horseman"Nice While It Lasted" sits two people on a roof and refuses a happy ending.
17Star Trek: The Next Generation"All Good Things..." ends with the captain finally sitting down at the poker table.
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Made in America drew 11.9 million viewers on 10 June 2007 and stopped mid-scene; Felina closed every open debt in order six years later: https://youpick.best/articles/breaking-bad-vs-the-sopranos-ranked
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