Best Series Finales of All Time: ‘Breaking Bad,’ ’30 Rock’ and More – Variety
TV Director Noah Bambauch drew raves for this deeply emotional drama about a couple ( And he did…sort of. Both Phoenix and Hoffman were nominated for Academy Awards. — Director Spike Lee puts a spin on the heist film genre: Clive Owen is a bank robber who has a plan for getting out of a bank surrounded by cops, including hostage negotiator Denzel Washington. Updated: July 8, 2020. Buffy and her core Scoobies lived to fight another day — just somewhere else.
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Romance and regret intertwine in this lush period drama about a young woman (Carey Mulligan) who falls for a man with a murky past (Peter Sarsgaard) in 1960s London. This list of the best series finales in television is a somber reminder that no matter how much you love a TV character or a show, in time, they all will end.
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But on the screen, the combination is uniquely intoxicating—a fresh, lurid, melancholy neo-noir with a hint of existential crime thriller and, for some reason, an '80s-ish techno-pop soundtrack. To celebrate the history of great television, Stacker compiled this definitive list of the 100 best TV shows of all time, using data from IMDb.
Picard (Patrick Stewart) found himself skipping through time, visiting his loyal Enterprise crew at the beginning of their voyages together and, poignantly, joining them for one last old-age adventure.
—Marc BernardinIt only seemed fitting that the 11 seasons that Frasier and company spent analyzing their lives and loves to death would end in a veterinarian’s office as the setting for dad Martin’s wedding and the birth of Daphne and Niles’ baby.
And the fact that Frasier decided to head to Chicago following after his new love, Charlotte, was just the icing on the cake.
Weird science brings dinosaurs back to life in this classic monster film from Steven Spielberg. Michael Cera is perfectly cast in the title role as an awkward young man who is determined to win the heart of the woman he loves (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) by literally winning video game-style battles against her “Seven Evil Exes.” Wright throws every trick in his book at the screen, and the result is a film you can watch again and again. Ranking the Worst TV Finales of All Time in Comparison to Game of Thrones. Besides the season 6 finale, I think the final two seasons were just wasted opportunities that did nothing to advance the plot. The 25 best TV series finales ever ... As with all families, time marches on for TV families as the kids leave the nest and branch out on their own.
As Hawkeye (Alan Alda) takes off in a chopper, he spies a message from his old pal B.J.
—Tanner StranskyThe finale was watched by 72 percent of American TV households — a record that still stands. — Lee’s love letter to Brooklyn is still a standout in his filmography, which quickly grew to include 1989’s —Abby WestThere was never going to be any way to wrap up every last hanging story line from six seasons of serialized Island mayhem, but Lost’s two-and-a-half hour finale proved to be a high-energy epic romp, even with plenty of questions unanswered.
—Henry GoldblattSome questions were answered, while others were left up in the air, but as the survivors of the Cylon holocaust finally settled on the world they could call home — and the wounded Battlestar that carried them there flew into its cosmic funeral pyre — executive producer Ronald D. Moore’s sci-fi reinvention concluded with the same intelligence, grace, and kick-ass space battles that it started with.