What's up with the recent "too perfect" series finales?

[TMC]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...n-a-vague-one/

Glee, Parks and Recreation and The Mentalist all ended with everybody in a happy position. Perhaps the better option is a not-so-perfect finale hated by viewers.

[Yong Fang]

Like The Sopranos? That's one was awful, and I am not a huge fan of that show.

Love Parks and Recreation, and why not have a nice send off for all the characters. I liked the characters, except for CRAIG who screamed his lines and was horribly annoying. He could have died in a plane crash and I would have applauded. Show was getting pretentious anyway.

Breaking Bad ended perfectly. Had us guessing to the very end.

[robyrob]

the idea that a show's finale can only be good if it ends terribly for all the main characters and betrays everything that the viewers watched the entire series for is idiotic - just because an ending is terrible does not make it "more artistic" or "staying true to the artist's vision" - it just makes it bad.

Thanks How I Met Your Mother.

- and I didn't mind the ending of The Sopranos - it let the viewers believe what they wanted to about what happened to Tony.

...and for what it is worth I still think Lost had one of the worst endings of all time - they tried to make it a "perfect ending", but they literally answered none of the questions/plot lines they built up in the beginning and completely betrayed everything they had said/implied right from the beginning of the show.

I don't think a show has to have everything be a completely happy ending, but it stinks to betray the viewers just to try and make the ending more "artistic".