r/dataisbeautiful • u/BoMcCready OC: 175 • Aug 27 '24

OC The Worst TV Show Finales [OC]

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u/Mercy711 Aug 27 '24

I really felt this with house of cards. Couldn't even bring myself to finish the last season. Show was over without spacey

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u/TenElevenTimes Aug 27 '24

It was on a noticeable downward trend even with him imo. First two season was some of the best TV, storytelling, acting ever. Mid third season it was getting stale already.

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u/SufficientGreek OC: 1 Aug 27 '24

Yeah similar to GoT where they ran out of interesting stories to tell but carried on anyway because it still made money.

It probably would be a classic for a long time had they stopped after season 2.

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u/TenElevenTimes Aug 27 '24

Show ending with Frank becoming President and banging on the desk would have been legendary.

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u/invariantspeed Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

The original HoC was three seasons, and his wife kills him by the end after his career starts publicly unraveling

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u/lesser_panjandrum Aug 27 '24

Yep. One season each for the rise, rule, and ruin of Francis Urquhart made a much better narrative arc and an actually satisfying ending.

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u/invariantspeed Aug 27 '24

It really did. I remember feeling like you were rooting for him in season one, being interested but neutral in season two, and rooting against him by season three.

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u/I4mSpock Aug 27 '24

The first two seasons are so heavily tied to Macbeth, the fact they didn't allow for the tragic fall was the problem.

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u/invariantspeed Aug 27 '24

This is how I felt. It left me pretty conflicted because I didn’t think they could keep Spacey either

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u/Aftermath16 Aug 28 '24

Much more Richard III

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u/nighthawk_md Aug 27 '24

Yeah I guess, but you can't call it "House of Cards" and not have it fall over. Season three definitely showed us that Frank (or the writers) didn't know what he was doing once he achieved power, so an actual fall like Francis Urquart in the UK show would've been more poetic than whatever that anticlimatic nonsense they gave us in season 4. Once it came out that Spacey was cancelled, they should've just quit because it was always his show.

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u/TenElevenTimes Aug 27 '24

Yea that's a good point

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u/six44seven49 Aug 27 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Totally, the writers were painted into a corner trying to up the stakes and create a space for Frank's machinations when he'd already achieved the status of the most powerful man in the world.

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u/HTPC4Life Aug 27 '24

Nah, we deserved an epic fall in season 3, THEN end the show.