Who? 
Doesnāt look joy-ful or soulful there. 
Iāll have a listen once Iām home and safe.
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The Responder was a pleasantly compelling watch about a copper that gets mixed in with a sticky situation.
Trigger Point is very much a seen it all before in the last episode, too repetitive.
Looks dreadful 
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Am I the only person who has never watched the last two episodes of the Wire because of what happened in season 5, episode 8? (The best way I can be spoiler free)
probably
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I feel like I need closure, and that maybe shitty things that happen to me because Iāve left it hanging.
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I know lots of people hated the final season (specifically the sense McNulty ājumped the sharkā) but I still think it had really valuable things to say and did them well. The end (specifically the newspaper storyline) was a typical Wire kick in the pants
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That would depend.
Do you countthose who have never watched an episode? or are they excluded?
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Excluded! I stumbled onto it a while back and just got hooked after the Omar character was introduced (played by Michael Williams - RIP).
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Iāve seen it get suggested to me a load of times on Prime/Netflix or whatever service it was - canāt remember but have never got round to watching it.
Similar to GoT, which I avoided for a long time, then eventually cracked and gave up after 3rd episode.
Didnāt watch GoT until last month. Had put off doing so because so many people had slated the ending. Binged all 8 series. Thought it was brilliantly well done, including the ending
Final series of Peaky Blinders starts this Sunday and Killing Eve starts on Monday. OMG BBC, you are spoiling us!
Maybe binging is the problem (or solution depending how you look at it). When you watch week to week as a water cooler show, discussing and speculating over a course of eight years, building up in your mind what the ending might be and then get served up a rush job that undoes so much of what made the show great, then itās bound to disappoint, whereas binging over a few weeks/months maybe doesnāt lead to the same level of investment or expectation.
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How did viewers who were invested in it [think it was going/want it] to end?
A predictable ending could perhaps have similarly provoked feelings of disappointment/anti-climax?
The disappointment would come simply because it was over.
Maybe it was inevitably going to be a let down to the invested viewer?
Not sure at this point how much point there is in trying to avoid spoilers, but Iāll tryā¦
The issue is not so much the end per se, but path taken with the characters and story to get there. This was a series that had absolutely amazingly crafted story arcs that worked because they were understandable based on what weād seen happen to the characters. The dissatisfaction with the ending was not so much the decision taken on what it was (which is supposedly consistent with what martin had told them he wanted and was working towards in his books), but the half arsed way they got the character there.
They did pretty much the same thing with the other major plot that had run through the show.
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Binging is probably the safest way to avoid cancellation regret.
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just watched an interesting shortish doco on Gakirah Barnes
17 year old gang banger in chicago shot dead in 2014ā¦gang banging on the socials.
its on āstanā in australiaā¦well worth a watchā¦
āthe secret life of gang girlā
Iād agree with Limiescouse, itās not the outcome that was the problem it was how it was executed.
Journeys that previously took and entire series went by in half an episode, character arcs that had take unexpected twists and turns ended up going full circle so that ultimately it was time wasted.
There were also things such as Aryaās list and Cerseiās prophecy that seemed like they should have been part of the story but ultimately werenāt.
For me it was a testament to how good the show was for the most part, that the ending missed so badly.
Finished Money Heist, great ending to a great show. A bit cheesy but great fun to watch. Loved it.
Started The Witcher. Loved the first couple episodes, now I have no clue whatās going on. I donāt know who is who or who is where or what is what or why any of it is happening. Still enjoying it though.
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This may helpā¦
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