7 Shows You Have to Suffer Through Just For Their Perfect Last Seasons
They took a long run for their best episodes to come.
It’s a widespread opinion that the first seasons of the shows are usually the brightest and the most worth-watching ones. However, some titles are known for gaining strength to do their best in the final season, with seven of them being enlisted here.
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The Good Place ( 2016-2020)
The fourth season of this Kristen Bell’s series manages to perfectly end the arcs of Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason with their spiritual odyssey to reshape the afterlife, blending philosophical moments and witty jokes in such an artful way it hasn’t happened before in the show.
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Angel (1999 - 2004)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ’s spinoff, created by the MCU icon Joss Whedon, steps out of the shadow of its parent show with its fifth season. It presents a solid emotional roller coaster closing the Buffyverse the best way possible.
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The Americans (2013 - 2018)
The sixth season of this spy drama not only appears as the best one in the show, solving all its mysteries and storylines, but also as one of the most consistent and worth-watching dramas of the decade, added by the convincing leads’ performances.
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Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017)
Set in the timeline of the start of the Internet's development in the early 1990’s, the fourth show’s season says a very emotional, but at the same time well-built, logical goodbye to its believable characters, who receive their proper endings.
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Person of Interest (2011 - 2016)
This sci-fi procedural drama took some time to properly reveal what it’s about, with its culminating fifth season focusing mostly on the risks which artificial intelligence brings to the world. Such a finale raises the most sophisticated, yet the most relevant issue, representing the whole series at its best.
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Blackadder (1983-1989)
The World War I comedy’s fourth and final season, titled Blackadder Goes Forth, goes all-in in terms of the show’s social commentary. Besides, its iconic ending with the men marching into No Man's Land definitely inscribed this series in cinematic history.
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The Shield (2002 - 2008)
The bad decisions Vic Mackey and his squad of corrupt cops had made throughout the whole show eventually caught up to them in the seventh season. It presents the depiction of the most devastating karmic justice that TV history has ever seen.