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[chase_acow]

Tis the season for series finales! I hope y'all had some good ones. I didn't have a problem with Ted Lasso but I also didn't feel like it was anything to write home about. My Tumblr on the other hand, they had a bad time.

The 40 Best TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked


1. “Made in America,” The Sopranos
2. “Always,” Friday Night Lights
3. “Person to Person,” Mad Men
4. “Felina,” Breaking Bad
5. “The Book of Nora,” The Leftovers
6. “-30-,” The Wire
7. “Everyone’s Waiting,” Six Feet Under
8. “Part 18,” Twin Peaks: The Return
9. “START,” The Americans
10. “With Open Eyes,” Succession

I had to skip all the way to 18. “Whenever You’re Ready,” The Good Place before I had seen one. And I do love this finale and I still cry every time. I cry in anticipation and then I cry when it happens. Chidi had the best goodbye speech ever.

I have never been attracted to Ryan Gosling before. He looks super weird in Barbie and I hate it. But GQ has done the impossible because he is a fine looking grungy cowboy!

If you want to reminisce, here's what summer was like the year you were born. I also just liked looking at the pictures.

I wrote 29 days in May for 21,915 words and I'm pretty happy with that. And yet I have finished none of all the many things I have started. Very sad about that. : )

Comments

[summerstorm]

The most glaring thing about that list for me is how many shows I dropped long before the finale. I haven't seen the last season of Friday Night Lights! That one is probably the most egregious because I loved that show to death. I haven't seen the last season of Schitt's Creek either. I don't really care about having dropped Parks and Rec and 30 Rock several seasons before they ended but seriously, self, FNL?

[svgurl]

I knew I didn't watch much TV but I had to skip to 21 before it was one I had seen (Friends). I realize the popular take is more about how terrible Ross and Rachel were for each other (true) and how she shouldn't have gotten off the plane but it was pretty awesome in the moment.

Congrats on all the words! Hopefully you'll be able to get back to what you want to finish soon too. :D

[meridian_rose]

Same, but to the point that I don't think I can id Ryan Gosling, ever. I know the name but I still can never understand who he is, what he's in, or what he looks like! Some kind of mental block! The cowboy look is good though :) I have same thing for Jake Gyllenhall who was suddenly to me handsome in "Ambulance" and James Marsden who I found incredibly meh in X-men looking good in the Sonic movies 😂

29 days is great! I'm doing 180 for GYWO, and that's about what I can manage, outside of NaNo. Finishing is good, but words are words, finishing and editing come later :)

[turps]

I binge watched The Sopranos many years after it was first broadcast. Even now I remember watching the final scene and thinking, what the hell? WHAT THE HELL!? I know some people think it's a brilliant end scene, I still want to smite the writers and shake my fist at the universe.

But, I loved the end ep of Six Feet Under, even if it did break me.

Thanks for the excellent link.