How I met your mother ending is not sad, it's infuriating. Ted was never out of love with Robin, they made the mother to be just a tool for him to have children and for Robin to have enough time to finally accept him. He basically told his children how he met Roibin, how he was in love with her the whole time since the moment she saw her, and how she rejected him over and over again,
They set up how Ted met the mother for 9 years, only for him to be with her for 10 years total. Then they shoehorned him to go back to Robin, even though they had shown them for 9 years to be a train wreck as a couple. Plus she does not want kids (and has always been self-centered), so being with a widow with 2 stepkids wouldn't last long. Also, they spent an entire season on Barney and Robin's wedding, just to at the end of the same season be like psych, just kidding, they only spend 2 years together. The whole ending felt like a bait and switch, like I had wasted 9 years caring about the show and Ted and Traci.
I remember being a young boy and watching that MASH episode with my mom. When what really happened was revealed, my mom and I held each other and wept. It was absolutely heartbreaking.
The saddest part of Blackadder was before they go over the top. It was when Darling says, “I just want to go home to my wife”. He thought as the General’s aide he would survive but that in reality those at the top feel all soldiers are expendable. The look on Darling’s face as this realization hits is tearing.
The scene starts off funny as well, as General Melchet gives Darling a note, which is a 5 schilling Postal Order, which confuses Darling then Melchet says that the 5 schillings if for his nephew and gives him the real note which is a commission for the Front, Melchet is totally oblivious to the fact that Darling doesn't want to go and he's begging Melchet not to send him right up to the point that the door opens and you see the shadow of the driver who's going to take Darling to the Front. Comedy to tragedy in one 5 minute scene.
Yep, i can't think about it or talk about it without getting teary eyed and shaky voiced. I haven't been able to watch the episode in years as I end up bawling like a baby. So heartbreaking.
The end of "the good place" was the most emotionally satisfying ending I have ever seen. Better than breaking bad even. Crazy that the show was a passion project that NBC didn't want to green light
As a combat vet, that Mash episode got me thinking about all my comrades who never came back and that those who did, are trying to recover from the horror of war.
Merlin was heartbreaking. We all know how the story of Arthur ends but throughout the series you not only grow to love him but the amazing friendships that are formed. It makes his death more painful.
Yes, Six feet under. I love it. Makes med cry everytime I watch it, and I watch it alot. A truly beautiful and amazing ending. Just listening to Breath Me gets my eyes foggy.
Actually, yes. Building something so incredible and epic, developing the characters and stories so articulately, only to literally completely change them and trash all that development. Just because two braindead jackasses can't write without source material and wanted to rush the ending so they could get their Netflix payday. The audience was robbed.
I firmly believe the ending of six feet under was one of the best endings of a show. I don't believe it was sad exactly as it simply shows how everyone lived the rest of their lives. Death in general is sad but it's expected eventually. Lots of great shows on this list.
I'm so pleased you included Six Feet Under. The ending is not so much sad as it is soul stirring to the core. It is so well done! It won't have the deep impact if you haven't followed all the characters on their dysfunctional journeys, but it is well worth the ride.
The saddest part about Six Feet Under is that no one came for Claire and she died alone. Most everyone else either had someone come to guide them or had someone near them when they died. Makes me so sad every time I think about it.
Six Feet Under had the best final episode of ANY show. It neatly wrapped up what happened to all of the characters. You weren't left wondering what happened to them.
@@dennisclayton1225 : Same thing happend to me the first time i tried to watch the first episode, but then i watch it again and i finished in a week !! , one of the best tv shows that i've EVER watch !!! .
Six Feet Under, I remember just sobbing at the end. I thought it was such a wonderful ending because of how you saw them aging, then dying, where some went to the other side with their loved ones. I really hope it happens that way.
The show burn notice had a powerful ending where Michael's mother blows herself up to protect her new found family. And Michael and Fiona fake their deaths so they can have a simple existence and raise Charlie Michael's nephew as their own and the only 2 left standing is Sam and Jessie
Twin Peaks ended not with a corrupted Cooper in the original run; it ends with Cooper’s soul is trapped in the Black Lodge. HIS BODY was possessed by Bob.
It's sin was what got me. Hard. See, my youngest is gay. A healthy boy of 22. His mom died when he was 9, so I have raised him all by myself. While I was watching the show I couldn't stop thinking how much the lads remind me of him. When they die is heartbreaking. I needed to embrace my son and tell him how much I love him. Of course, he thinks his dad is a crybaby, but this show... Uf! Poor kids...
I watched Boston Legal from beginning to end... It was an odd happy cry though... Wonderful Television Program in my opinion... I never watched The West Wing, however, I was aware of the crossing of certain characters...
For me it was definitely Halt and Catch Fire. I LOVED this series - as a woman in tech especially. However I literally cried through the entire last 2 episodes. I loved the series so much I've considered rewatching it but I'm just not sure I can handle seeing it again when I know how it ends. I havent watched most of those. I hated the first season of fleabag but remembered hating season 2 less? I swear it didnt seem like there was a last season to merlin? I thought I'd missed something - if we're talking the british one on netflix? How I met your mother I was just so ready for it to end and it seemed lame. Mash I guess I dont quite remember, i watched it decades ago. I dont remember anything sad about The Good place? Seriously 2 full episodes of crying the entire time - you should watch Halt and Catch Fire.
Also in the MASH finale, the death of the Chinese prisoners that Winchester bonded with left him permanently scarred and Father Mulcahey lost his hearing...
Should definitely be mentioned, Desperate housewives ending was so ultimately sad Susan and Mike went through so much trouble until they got their happy ending and on the final moments he got shot and died 💔🥺
That's how Parenthood ended? I gave up on the show when they went the easy cliche route and had a character get cancer, which I had no interest in seeing. So it got even worse.
I watched only a few episodes of that show. I had to stop watching because it bothered me. I'm on the autism spectrum and didn't like the way the parents were treating their son with Aspergers like it was so much worse than it was. I mean it wasn't like he had a terminal illness or anything! I found it so annoying! I also didn't like the Lauren Graham character at all. She was pretty much the reason I was watching because I loved Gilmore Girls but absolutely hated her character on this show!! She was so spoiled!!
The ending of the Deuce was kinda haunting, given that it was packed with so many ghosts from Vince's past. There was a lot of survivor's guilt being implied I suppose.
@@alexmercer5414 It's a parody send-up of various segments of history; it's brutally hilarious. Season one rewrites the post-Richard III royal court of 1485, with Edmund (who nicknames himself the Black Adder), is the ignored second son of the successive king. Season two, literally titled _Blackadder II_ is set during the reign (the court) of Elizabeth I. _Blackadder the Third_ is set with Edmund as the main butler to a very dimwitted George III (played by Hugh Laurie, who plays Edmund's best friend in other seasons). In season one, Edmund is not very bright, and it's his main servant Baldrick who is clever with "a cunning plan." After that, from season two onwards, Baldrick is extremely dimwitted while successive incarnations of Edmund are intelligent (though his Cunning Plans generally go awry). The _Blackadder's Christmas Carol_ special, set in Victorian London, obviously parodies _A Christmas Carol,_ juxtaposing the previous seasons with "Ebenezer Blackadder" here being "the kindest man of England," who is visited by a Hagrid'esque pre-Hagrid-Robbie Coltrane Christmas ghost. In this one-off special, Queen Victoria is played by Miriam Margolyes, who would go on to play Professor Sprout in the _Harry Potter_ films.
Agreed...Take out the infuriating ending that is How I Met Your Mother and swap in Sons of Anarchy... The pain Jax goes through the last season leading up to the ultimate sacrifice by him for his blood and bike family is gut wrenching....
Life on Mars (the original British version not the American adaptation) was bitter-sweet. Sam killed himself but he found happiness in the afterlife. Same with Ashes to Ashes, when Alex discovers the truth about herself and D.C Hunt, kisses him and walks into the pub, accepting her fate.
How no one follows up with concurrent opinion on When They See Us is beyond me. That was the hardest show to get through in how it was so brutal. One good yhing was the fallout on one of the culprits behind putting the kids in prison was stripped of her fame/money making reputation as a result of the show.
If my memory of the '80s BBC documentary series SOE is correct then the MASH story is based on a real incident from WW2 when a French resistance woman smothered her baby to prevent its cries giving her group's position away to the German soldiers searching for them on the Vercors Massif.
There are many stories like this from different wars. In hiding you would kill anyone not being able to stay quiet: babies, mentally disabled people, hysterical ones. At least they got killed - in some scenarios you just need to leave them behind, like a whole hospital of mentally ill patients or preemies. 😔
I love the good place ending but it was also heavy and I cry a lot, the ending of six feet under was also amazing and sad. Now merlin ending was heartbreaking and super sad and how I met your mother ending was such a disappointment.
Of the four seasons of Blackadder, the entire cast were slaughtered three times. In the third season the Prince was killed ànd Blackadder became King. I guess that was the happy ending.
Merlin was not a sad ending. It was THE STUPIDEST ending in tv history. It made the entire series pointless. The whole series was supposed to be about Merlin doing everything he did to make sure Arthur became the great king he was destined to become. We were told this over and over again throughout the run. Then in the last 15 minutes they say oh yeah btw Arthur never does anything except die. Oh and all those other stories about King Arthur and the nights of the round table you love. They never happened either. It was like some 5 season long bad practical joke.
