This Show’s Final Season Changed Everything In The Best Way

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The final season of a series is almost always a game-changer. How well it goes over with audiences and critics can make or break the entire show's legacy. More often than not, it seems that beloved TV shows tend to suffer from poor final seasons or episodes. Think Game of Thrones, How I Met Your Mother or Dexter. In many ways, the odds are stacked against showrunners and writers when it comes to crafting the perfect ending, so this outcome isn't entirely unexpected. It's hard to come up with something that will please everyone and do justice to a series everyone loves, especially if it's very long-running.

While it's not as common as fans would like, the final season and episode being wrapped up well can be incredibly satisfying and add to the entire experience. Series like Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under were both quite long-running and very popular, and are credited with having beautiful endings that they're still remembered for today. Both of those endings took everything that happened in the series and all the themes that were there and wrapped it up in a way that felt satisfying. But there's another way to end a series that may be a little riskier and divisive. If done right, like this recent series finale was, it can be so effective.

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It's the norm for shows to evolve and go through a transformation throughout their run. Of course, a series that stayed the same would be boring and likely not running for very long. It's important to keep up with the times and address relevant themes in society. What's not so common, is for a series to turn itself on its head so much to the point where it changes genres and becomes something completely different from what it started