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31 Of The Most Insulting TV Twists, Turns, And Conclusions That Fans Could Barely Believe Were Real
Watching TV is probably one of the most common hobbies people have. There’s a good reason for it – since it’s said that we’re living in a golden age of television, there are so many shows that anyone can find something that interests them, even if the interest is kind of niche.
At the same time, while most of the time, people enjoy various shows, there are times when they are more upset by them than entertained. Whether it’s due to poor storytelling, errors, or premature cancellations, the ways TV series can quickly lose their fans’ unwavering loyalty are numerous, and some of them are mentioned in this list. So, don’t be shy, check it out and see if you agree with the opinions or not by using your powerful upvote and downvote buttons!
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#1
Playing Firefly episodes out of order intentionally was a pretty big d**k move.
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#2
Canceling Saturday Morning Cartoons completely on free broadcast TV in 2014. I feel so bad for kids without cable or streaming, they can no longer wake up to Saturday morning cartoons.
Technically, there are still free Saturday morning cartoons on PBS Kids and MeTV Toons. But these shows are either for young kids, or grown ups who want something nostalgic.
It has been proven that people’s love for TV shows comes from the hormones the brain releases. To be more specific, endorphins, dopamine and serotonin are the chemicals that make a person feel good.
Yet, the pleasure of TV cannot be linked only to hormones; it also has to do with a person's mental health. What we mean by this is that TV shows tend to become an escape from reality and help us relax, forgetting all the stress that we have to deal with in our lives.
Then, there are captivating storylines, and all the aforementioned things combined create an irresistible and entertaining (to most) force.
#4
Objectively GOT S8.
Surly Scot 4 days ago (edited)
Worst ending ever f*cking done. I think this is an HBO problem, i've watched numerous shows on their channel only for them to absolutely destroy the ending, like they're annoyed they won't be getting the ratings from it anymore so they toss in a cr*p demise for spite.
#5
Ted getting back with Robin after the Mother dies and his kids encouraging him.
Laura Lawson 4 days ago
That last episode pissed me off beyond what a TV show should have. The ENTIRE PREMISE of the years of this show was that the 2 of them were fated to meet each other & be together. Then the whole thing was shot to oblivion by him going to Robin at the end?? It's like they got new writers for that episode that had never watched the show before.
#6
The Witcher…. Letting Henry Cavill go is such a massive mistake.
Surly Scot 4 days ago
They should have stuck to the agreements made with him that they wouldn't change the story, he stated he'd leave if they did because it's his passion project. They changed the story, he left. Hope whomever had that happen got fired, Hemsworth cannot play Geralt, Caville IS Geralt, just like Ryan Reynolds IS Deadpool and no one else can play it.
Still, from time to time, even the most enjoyable TV series disappoint their viewers, leaving them with a bitter taste in their mouths. Probably every person has an example of it in their minds.
That’s why when a Reddit user asked “What has been the biggest middle finger to fans in the history of TV shows?” over 10K people had something to say. So, we compiled their responses into today’s list.
As you’ll see, it mentions the infamous season 8 of Game of Thrones, which ruined itself by devastating many storylines, misusing characters, and making quite a few small errors. Or the ending of How I Met Your Mother, which undid almost everything it worked towards for nine seasons.
#7
Pushing Daisies
I know it was affected by the Writers Strike, but that only cut the second season short. It could easily have been revived. Such a great premise and excellent cast.
At least give us a movie.
#8
Dallas: Bobby Ewing waking up in the shower and them writing off a whole season as just a dream.
Broadredpanda 4 days ago
People were so outraged that Bobby was killed and were inundated with calls and letters that they felt they had to bring him back from the dead 💀
#9
Bringing Palpatine back. One of the most famous stories of a heros journey, and the tragedy of his father was basically made irrelevant because their epic success, turned out to do absolutely nothing.
Luke saved his father and together, they defeated this evil that had been infamous for like 50 years, and within 30 seconds of turning on The Rise of Skywalker you realize Luke and Anakin actually failed and everything they did was for absolutely nothing. Not to mention Han, Leia, and Luke werent in a scene together..... This isnt even creative choice it was pure stupidity.
Without mentioning anything more specific, we also have to point out that there were also people mentioning shows being canceled prematurely.
Basically, in the last couple of years or so, it has become a norm for shows to be canceled after one or two seasons, usually before the story can properly develop and find its fanbase. Sometimes it is even left on a cliffhanger, leading viewers to be even more upset about it.
Part of the reason for this spree of cancellations is the phenomenon called “shiny object syndrome”. Its technical definition is that it is a continual state of distraction caused by a belief that there is something new worth pursuing, which ends up hurting the ideas that were already planned or halfway executed.
#10
That time they wrote Dr Drake Ramoray out of Days of our Lives because the actor said something stupid about the writers and that pissed them off.
#11
"My name is Earl", I just wish the network didn't pull the plug.
Janelle Collard 4 days ago
One of my favorite moments is when Earl was trying to quit smoking + someone told him told use carrots. Earl said. "But they won't stay lit!" 😂
#12
I think the way the original Roseanne went off the rails with winning the lottery which actually was a dream because Dan died of a heart attack, etc.
Janissary35680 1 day ago
The lottery win was when the show jumped the shark for me too. I immediately sensed that the writers had had enough and were looking for an exit.
So, in terms of shows and streaming services, the companies cut off the projects that they deem to be relatively unsuccessful in order to relocate the budget to a new shiny idea. For instance, here’s a full-blown list of various shows that Netflix has canceled, some of them mentioned in our list too.
What you may notice in this list is that some of these shows weren’t that unsuccessful, and were pretty widely loved, like I Am Not Okay with This or Fate: The Winx Saga, but when you compare their numbers with Netflix’s giants like Squid Game or Stranger Things, the views of the former are lower and were deemed unsuccessful by the streaming company.
#13
Santa Clarita Diet. The show cancelled on a cliffhanger.
#15
The ending of True Blood, One of the best parts of the show was the back and forth of who Sookie would end up with, only to end the show randomly>!showing the back of the head of her new "true love" at a dinner table, a random guy nobody had ever seen in the show before until the last literal last second of the show. !
Even though fans of the shows tend to express their disappointment loudly online, for example, by creating petitions to get the shows back, sadly, all of this usually leads to nothing, just a new show that gets released and cut short, like a never-ending circle.
This dashes people's hopes that the situation will get better and they'll be able to watch a story reach a proper conclusion, leaving them feeling as though streaming services are giving them the middle finger.
What cancellation is your “Roman Empire”? Or maybe you have some other grievances about your beloved TV shows? Share with us in the comments!
#16
"Who has a better story, than Bran the Broken"
It was already dead by that point. But jeez, they really had to twist the knife with that line.
#17
An old one, but on the last episode of "Little House on the Prairie", they literally blew the entire town up with dynamite.
Leolynn Cauthron 3 days ago
I thought this was a good ending. Sad but satisfying it it’s way. The town was being taken over by a corporation I believe, inhabitants being forced out. Think Eminent Domain now. So the townees took control. Think - how satisfying would it be to flip off the government and whomever by destroying your property so the developers couldn't use it. Barring any other choice?
#18
Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy. I reupped my Netflix sub just to watch it and it was poopoo.
#19
Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch.
"Oh, you wanna try and piece together clues to solve the mystery of how Holmes survived? Literally f**k you specifically you nerd, look at all of you and your nerd friends trying to solve mysteries like a nerd. But keep watching because maybe Sherlock, Moriarty, and Watson will all have a big thr***ome. You'd like that wouldn't you, you f*****g pervert".
#20
The cancellation of Carnivale was the first. Travelers was also a big one for me.
#21
[Unaliving] Dexter multiple times, then being like JUST KIDDING.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 days ago
The last season was absolute garbage, although I think the show jumped the shark when Deb decided she loved him and shot the captain. What a pathetic plot "development". Ew.
#22
The ending, almost the whole last season, of Killing Eve was a big one.
#23
The first season of Our Flag Means Death was hugely successful. It had great ratings and was one of HBO Max's most popular shows at the time. Yet, the network decided to cut the budget and reduce the number of episodes for season 2.
The second season of Our Flag Means Death was even more successful than the first. 45 times more successful than the average HBO Max show, in fact. It elevated the series to the status of most popular Max Original. So naturally, the network decided to cancel the third season.
#24
Penny Dreadful.
It was like John Logan sat down to write a season finale and halfway through said "S***w it! I'm done!".
Surly Scot 4 days ago
This one was devastating. I spent my nights drooling over Timothy Dalton and being mesmerized by Eva Green. To this date she's done the best spirit/demonic possession i've ever seen.
#25
Carl's death in The Walking Dead.
#26
Adult Swim cancelled Metalocalypse, and when fans launched a letter-writing campaign to bring it back, they aired a segment where they were feeding all the fan letters into a paper shredder.
#27
Poochie left for his home planet in the second episode. And they never got to the fireworks factory.
Peter Parker 4 days ago
That was not a middle finger to Poochie's fans, because he didn't have fans. Well, except Homer..
#28
House of the Dragon takes the cake IMO
Season 1 : PREPARE FOR WAR NEXT SEASON!
Season 2 after 1 fight sequence : PREPARE FOR WAR NEXT SEASON!
#29
The last episode of *Star Trek Enterprise*.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 days ago
This incarnation of Star Trek absolutely SUCKED. Let me quote George Takei's head from Futurama: ''Way to ruin the franchise, Bakula!''
#30
Pretty Little liars fans spent years creating blogs and coming up with theories and basically doing the writer's jobs for them by coming up with all of these incredibly well written directions that the show could take. Well it seems like the the writers absolutely hated that, and decided to mesh a hundred of the worst theories together to create a final season so horrific I can't even re-watch it.
#31
South Park's revealing of Cartman's dad was an April's fools joke on the fans.
Surly Scot 4 days ago
This one is fine, the fans don't mind being fu*ked with. All part of the comedy.
What do you think ?
Joanne Earle 2 days ago
I still haven't gotten over the cancelation of Brisco County Jr after just 1 year in 93/94. Or CBC canceling This is Wonderland after 3 seasons and a major cliff hanger.
Miss Tinker 4 days ago
Beauty and the Beast (the original 80’s series). Linda Hamilton fell pregnant & wanted to leave the show so instead of ending it with Season 2 in a way that would have respected the fans & the characters they decided to make a ridiculous Season 3 that totally ruined it & devastated me. I’m still upset more than 30 years later 😭
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 days ago
I actually liked season 3 and the character of Diana, but I know I'm in the minority. I honestly think Linda Hamilton got pregnant on purpose so she'd have an excuse to leave. But that said, it was wrong of the powers that be to cliff-hang us in the vague hope that they would get renewed. Why didn't they just have Vincent get better and them have a baby and be happy? That's the point of fairy tales - happily ever after.
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Karina 1 day ago
Lost should be here... That sucked. I imagine it as a "french" ending, where the first scene of the last season is actually the end scene of the next to last. Booom. Finished. No more c**p.
Sophia Athene 22 hours ago (edited)
Came to the comments to make the same statement. I don't care how many people make fun of me but I cut cable as soon as my contract was up because of this show. I also don't start a new show anymore. I wait until it's over and trust fan reaction, esp. as a number of shows I would have liked (or came down off my high horse to try) are cancelled in 2-3 seasons.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 day ago
The X-Files after David Duchovny left. They brought in the friggin' T-1000 as an FBI agent. We kept watching - although we started calling it the Y-Files, as in "Why are we still watching this?"
Jane Doe 13 hours ago
First time I ever stopped watching a show. I was done. Watched the movies and that weird reboot thing, never the last season.
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Leoninus Fate 2 days ago
I im upset about it cause season 4 sucked plot wise but season1,2,3 and 5 were actually good. They left it on a cliffhanger was "Nation Z" It was a funnier, better version of The Walking Dead, They had Just got the Cure for the zombie virus literally 5 mins before ending and it was just canceled. Another I loved {but understand how it was seen} was "super drags" an animation that was 3 guys that turned into superhero drag queens, it was Brazilian. It was canceled after 5 ep/ first season, even tho it said it would be back for a second one, and the animation "DeadEnd" ended after 2 seasons, with the second season ending with one of the main chars {the pug} dieing... They let the DOG DIE AND NO FOLLOW-UP!
Jessica SpeLangm 4 days ago
Didn't I see this exact post, or something VERY similar in the past few months on here? Is it really that bad, BP, that you can't create brand new content>
Marnie 4 days ago
You might be remembering the one about shows being cancelled. But I don't read EVERY post here, so there might have been one even more similar.
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Dirk Daring 18 hours ago
"Dr. Sam Becket never returned home" Yes, they even added the middle finger of spelling his name wrong.
Janissary35680 1 day ago (edited)
The last season of "Disenchantment" was incredibly disappointing because I really liked the show. It ended abruptly leaving so many paths unexplored. It was as if Groening had lost interest and just wanted to be rid of it.
Sherman 3 days ago
LAST SEASON OF UMBRELLA ACADEMY! Season 2 is by far the best. I loved it. It’s my comfort show. Season 3 was decent. But not the best. But the last one…. Taking their powers away? Making klaus a weird germophobe background character…. Changing everyone’s personalities n values. It was terrible. I didn’t even finish it. That was one of the best “superhero” shows/movies to ever exist. Next to “the boys” ofc. I loved the graphic novels. But it was so disappointing.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 days ago
Legends Of Tomorrow. I loved loved loved it; would honestly be gasping for breath in tears of laughter with many episodes; loved the charatcers and clever storylines, and then in the middle of everything it just...ended. I'm still really pi**ed off about it >.<
Jonathan Labelle 4 days ago
riverbale its was ok but they started pullind surnatural thing out of there a*s
Doctor Strange 4 days ago
Infinity Train. The first three seasons were incredible. Amazingly funny, yet at the same time incredibly powerful and moving. And with incredible attention to detail. So naturally they cancel it, ending it on Season 4 which had all the impact of an episode of peppa pig.
Mark Fergel 19 hours ago
I'm going to add in "The Pretender". Sorry, but I really enjoyed that show.
N Burnette 1 day ago
Canceling God Friended Me :( We enjoy watching it again on The 365, but wish there were more than 2 seasons.
The Darkest Timeline 1 day ago
A show I would like to have seen a conclusion to was “The 4400.”
Jane Doe 13 hours ago
I did like the ending where his dad's sociopathy came out full steam. But it could have gone another season, maybe without the crazy Catherine Zeta Jones story arc. Maybe with, don't know anymore
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Jon Parker 1 day ago
"Dead Boy Detectives" getting cancelled was infuriating, but it was a Netflix show, so I knew from the start it was never getting more than a single season.
Caia Calabrese 2 days ago
Only watched three of them. The rest are mostly only known by name, some not even that.
BrunoVI 3 days ago
Are we all going to ignore the practical joke Buffy the Vampire Slayer played on its audience? Everybody was wondering how the show was going to move forward after Buffy got killed off. (SPOILER ALERT?) The few episode offered an horrifically bad idea: Buffybot. Naw, that was just a feint; she's getting resurrected, something the show had already set a precedent for. ("Hey, I died twice," she sings.)
Reset Game 4 days ago
Drop dead gorgeous. The last season was really lazy writing and unimaginative
Joanne Earle 2 days ago
I still haven't gotten over the cancelation of Brisco County Jr after just 1 year in 93/94. Or CBC canceling This is Wonderland after 3 seasons and a major cliff hanger.
Miss Tinker 4 days ago
Beauty and the Beast (the original 80’s series). Linda Hamilton fell pregnant & wanted to leave the show so instead of ending it with Season 2 in a way that would have respected the fans & the characters they decided to make a ridiculous Season 3 that totally ruined it & devastated me. I’m still upset more than 30 years later 😭
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 days ago
I actually liked season 3 and the character of Diana, but I know I'm in the minority. I honestly think Linda Hamilton got pregnant on purpose so she'd have an excuse to leave. But that said, it was wrong of the powers that be to cliff-hang us in the vague hope that they would get renewed. Why didn't they just have Vincent get better and them have a baby and be happy? That's the point of fairy tales - happily ever after.
Load More Replies... Karina 1 day ago
Lost should be here... That sucked. I imagine it as a "french" ending, where the first scene of the last season is actually the end scene of the next to last. Booom. Finished. No more c**p.
Sophia Athene 22 hours ago (edited)
Came to the comments to make the same statement. I don't care how many people make fun of me but I cut cable as soon as my contract was up because of this show. I also don't start a new show anymore. I wait until it's over and trust fan reaction, esp. as a number of shows I would have liked (or came down off my high horse to try) are cancelled in 2-3 seasons.
Load More Replies... Trisec Tebeakesse 1 day ago
The X-Files after David Duchovny left. They brought in the friggin' T-1000 as an FBI agent. We kept watching - although we started calling it the Y-Files, as in "Why are we still watching this?"
Jane Doe 13 hours ago
First time I ever stopped watching a show. I was done. Watched the movies and that weird reboot thing, never the last season.
Load More Replies... Leoninus Fate 2 days ago
I im upset about it cause season 4 sucked plot wise but season1,2,3 and 5 were actually good. They left it on a cliffhanger was "Nation Z" It was a funnier, better version of The Walking Dead, They had Just got the Cure for the zombie virus literally 5 mins before ending and it was just canceled. Another I loved {but understand how it was seen} was "super drags" an animation that was 3 guys that turned into superhero drag queens, it was Brazilian. It was canceled after 5 ep/ first season, even tho it said it would be back for a second one, and the animation "DeadEnd" ended after 2 seasons, with the second season ending with one of the main chars {the pug} dieing... They let the DOG DIE AND NO FOLLOW-UP!
Jessica SpeLangm 4 days ago
Didn't I see this exact post, or something VERY similar in the past few months on here? Is it really that bad, BP, that you can't create brand new content>
Marnie 4 days ago
You might be remembering the one about shows being cancelled. But I don't read EVERY post here, so there might have been one even more similar.
Load More Replies... Dirk Daring 18 hours ago
"Dr. Sam Becket never returned home" Yes, they even added the middle finger of spelling his name wrong.
Janissary35680 1 day ago (edited)
The last season of "Disenchantment" was incredibly disappointing because I really liked the show. It ended abruptly leaving so many paths unexplored. It was as if Groening had lost interest and just wanted to be rid of it.
Sherman 3 days ago
LAST SEASON OF UMBRELLA ACADEMY! Season 2 is by far the best. I loved it. It’s my comfort show. Season 3 was decent. But not the best. But the last one…. Taking their powers away? Making klaus a weird germophobe background character…. Changing everyone’s personalities n values. It was terrible. I didn’t even finish it. That was one of the best “superhero” shows/movies to ever exist. Next to “the boys” ofc. I loved the graphic novels. But it was so disappointing.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 days ago
Legends Of Tomorrow. I loved loved loved it; would honestly be gasping for breath in tears of laughter with many episodes; loved the charatcers and clever storylines, and then in the middle of everything it just...ended. I'm still really pi**ed off about it >.<
Jonathan Labelle 4 days ago
riverbale its was ok but they started pullind surnatural thing out of there a*s
Doctor Strange 4 days ago
Infinity Train. The first three seasons were incredible. Amazingly funny, yet at the same time incredibly powerful and moving. And with incredible attention to detail. So naturally they cancel it, ending it on Season 4 which had all the impact of an episode of peppa pig.
Mark Fergel 19 hours ago
I'm going to add in "The Pretender". Sorry, but I really enjoyed that show.
N Burnette 1 day ago
Canceling God Friended Me :( We enjoy watching it again on The 365, but wish there were more than 2 seasons.
The Darkest Timeline 1 day ago
A show I would like to have seen a conclusion to was “The 4400.”
Jane Doe 13 hours ago
I did like the ending where his dad's sociopathy came out full steam. But it could have gone another season, maybe without the crazy Catherine Zeta Jones story arc. Maybe with, don't know anymore
Load More Replies... Jon Parker 1 day ago
"Dead Boy Detectives" getting cancelled was infuriating, but it was a Netflix show, so I knew from the start it was never getting more than a single season.
Caia Calabrese 2 days ago
Only watched three of them. The rest are mostly only known by name, some not even that.
BrunoVI 3 days ago
Are we all going to ignore the practical joke Buffy the Vampire Slayer played on its audience? Everybody was wondering how the show was going to move forward after Buffy got killed off. (SPOILER ALERT?) The few episode offered an horrifically bad idea: Buffybot. Naw, that was just a feint; she's getting resurrected, something the show had already set a precedent for. ("Hey, I died twice," she sings.)
Reset Game 4 days ago
Drop dead gorgeous. The last season was really lazy writing and unimaginative
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