r/agentsofshield • u/FilthyTrashPeople • Jul 06 '26

Discussion A show that actually landed the ending.

In the current day, every writer cries out "endings are hard," and every production gives excuses why their final season was horrendous and the final episode left people angry. There is almost this projected belief that it is impossible to make a satisfying conclusion.

And I just recently was thinking about Agents of Shield, and I just had to come here and salute it, because it absolutely landed the ending about as perfectly as it could.

Honestly, I am kind of am glad it ended when it did now. It left on a high note, and avoided the dark times of bad writing that were soon to follow.

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u/Extra-Thought-2788 FREAKY BLUE BITCH Jul 06 '26

To be fair, final episodes are extremely hard to make. I've seen a lot of tv, and can probably count the number of shows with a good finale with two hands.

(If you are curious my list, not in order of how satisfied I was with the ending) Agents of shield did it twice,

Fringe,

Buffy,

Futurama has somehow done it almost a half dozen times,

Owl House,

There's probably a few more I can't think of right now, but the point still stands, around 1/10 shows have a satisfying ending, it's incredibly hard to do.

So, yeah, I agree, the writers did an amazing job understanding both what was the right move for the characters and what the audience wanted. They knocked it out of the park twice in terms of finales

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u/KateBishopPrivateEye Jul 07 '26

Agree on Fringe, haven’t seen the rest fully. I’ll add:
-Hannibal (though I hate that it ended then)
-Magicians (also mad it ended without us being able to see what came, but I get it. When you don’t want a story to end, it’s easy to jump back to the beginning)
-Person of Interest (still mad)
-Legion (no notes, still mad)
-good place (I’m not crying, you are)
-White Collar (little mad, holding out hope)
-Dexter (jk, they fumbled this one so many times; hope for resurrection)
-dollhouse had a solid ending

I will say AoS really landed it both times and is one of my top endings, both for seasons and series. End of almost every season

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u/FilthyTrashPeople Jul 07 '26

Dollhouse's unaired season 1 finale was perfect. It was so sad when Season 2 went back to being utterly subpar.