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It’s hard for a show like Rivers of Fate, which largely traffics in outright misery, to have anything even resembling a happy ending. But these...

Hey, credit where it’s due. Fatal Seduction Season 2 isn’t just a significant improvement over its predecessor, but it also has a proper ending, which,...

You can tell that the ending of Smoke is going to be one of those that defines how people feel about the show overall. It might retroactively...

The first part of Miss Governor — previously titled She the People, which has been annoyingly changed without explanation — ended on a rather promising note, with Antoinette,...

We need to talk. Butterfly was already a sneaky show, a family drama masquerading as an espionage thriller, but its ending shifts it into different,...

As much as I despise Netflix’s new approach of releasing new seasons of key IP in several parts, Wednesday Season 2 is a good example of...

There are many words one might use to describe the ending of The Buccaneers Season 2, but the best one is “messy”. I know that’s part of...

When you really boil it down, the ending of Trigger, like the show itself, is a conflict over two competing ideologies. This theme is made...

Letters from the Past has a pretty predictable ending, but it is, in my view, the right one. This kind of coda, which essentially comes...

When Santi’s dad turned up in the penultimate episode, I think everyone knew that Stick was venturing into predictable territory just in time for its ending. And...

Nobody would argue that the ending of Red Eye Season 1 makes a great deal of sense. You can trace the plot particulars, obviously, but...

Where to even begin? It was obvious from the start that The Hunting Wives was going to take some crazy turns, but following a penultimate...

Netflix’s eight-episode Colombian drama Delirium is an ambitiously knotty exploration of generational trauma, secrets, and madness, and its ending is a twisty old thing that...

Credit where it’s due – Untamed hasn’t exactly been a remarkable crime thriller, featuring many of the overly familiar hallmarks of shows in the genre,...

I’ve had more problems with Murderbot than most, but you have to give credit where it’s due. I was right, at least, in my prediction that the...

It’s a great surprise that Leviathan ends as conclusively as it does. For one thing, it’s a Netflix series, and those are notorious for never...

And just like that, it’s over. Feels weird, doesn’t it? Ironheart debuted with the first three episodes, and the ending arrives just a week later....

Look, I’m a reasonable man, so there’s no way I was expecting the ending of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 to be any good. Too...