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On television, not always what starts well (or well, as is the case of some of the following series) it ends up well – or rather, the viewers.
Whether for wrong creative decisions or just free and spontaneously, several highly famous series have closed their journeys with such controversial endings that not even fans of these productions can defend. The controversy is such that, even if the series has been over a few years ago, the public still feels resentful for the disastrous end of a story he loved so much.
Thinking about the most debated and controversial finals, he selected him 5 series that deceived longtime fans.
How I Met Your Mother (that’s how it happened)
How I Met Your Mother managed to share fans with its extremely controversial ending. A success with the public in the 2000s, Sitcom follows architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) in his adventures with friends in search of great love over nine seasons.
Winning a legion of fans, the series kept the audience attached to the screen with the mystery around the identity of Ted’s mother. But with the end of the secret, the series began to lose towards some, delivering a ninth and last season full of questionable decisions. Among them, the controversial final episode, which continues to generate discussions among fans to this day – even a alternative finalincluded in the famous series DVDs.
How I Met Your Mother is available at Disney+.
Lost (lost)
No need to have seen Lost to know that the end of production is one of the most controversial ever. Great television success of the 2000s, the series changed the way the public related to television programs, making room for the creation of online forums where theories about the mysterious plot were discussed.
Transmitted between 2004 and 2010, lost left a lot of people obsessed with the mysteries that involved the lives of survivors of a plane crash on an island where many strange things happened. It was that kind of story that always kept the viewers wanting more – until the last episode, which eventually filed a fan date.
Lost is also available in Disney+.
Dexter
With the Dexter derivative series: resurrection to be successful among the public today, the original, Dexter, is another example of a production that, despite having started in great and won fans, has followed less desirable paths as it approached the end. The result was one of the most controversial finals on television.
Started by Michael C. Hall (from Seven Sly of Earth), Dexter tells the story of a man who leads a double life: during the day he works to resolve crimes, at night is a serial killer, avenger of the innocent.
Paddling against the tide of public expectations, the end of the series was so disappointing that it eventually touched the reputation of the program for many. Without a satisfactory narrative arch to complete the protagonist’s journey, the conclusion was strongly criticized by the viewers when it was transmitted in 2013.
Dexter is available at Netflixno Paramount+ and no Prime Video.
Gossip Girl
Not even the blog’s girl has been able to maintain the level of enthusiasm of the first seasons. Success among teenage audiences in the late 2000s, the program marked the careers of Leighton Meester and Blake Lively. He accompanied rich young people from an elite school in Manhattan (USA), while an anonymous figure gained notoriety by spreading rumors over them through SMS.
Known for the iconic wardrobe that characterized friends Serena Van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl arrested the audience with teen intrigues, family conflicts and the mystery about the identity of the blog’s girl-a revelation that eventually filed many fans.
In addition, the outcome only aggravated the criticism, with a controversial and unattended ending in relation to the route of the series.
Gossip Girl is available at HBO Max, Netflix e Prime Video.
Game of Thrones (A War Dos Tronos)
It is impossible to talk about controversial television series endings without starting with the one that traumatized fans with one of the most controversial conclusions of recent times: Game of Thrones (The Game of Thrones).
Those who accompanied the fictional universe at HBO most likely even remember where he was when he saw the last episode, on that fateful Sunday night.
If you follow the HBO program, you are likely to remember where you were-and even the clothes you dressed-when you saw the last episode, on a unfortunate night of Monday (the day you left in Portugal).
Inspired by George RR Martin’s Ice and Fire Chronicles, Game of Thrones was a gigantic television phenomenon between 2011 and 2019. With eight seasons, the series maintained the quality standard for several years, but the last season was severely criticized by fans and press, the final episode being the final universe of “hallucinating” by the universe.
Still, the controversial conclusion does not erase the fact that Game of Thrones was one of today’s last great television series.
Game of Thrones is available at HBO Max.
