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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2211 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 17, 2026

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So, is there a series that has the final season that doesn't feel either rushed or drawn out

(sobs in Firefly)

that finishes exactly how and when it should?

Okay, never mind.

It's a kids' show, but: Gravity Falls.

Andor's second season started slow (like its first) but more than made up for that by the end.

Bojack Horseman.

Wow, you'd think it would be easy to come up with more examples, wouldn't you? But even if I consider very episodic shows, where there's no arc-plot to be rushed or drawn out, it feels like most of the great long-running shows were only ended a year or more after they'd started running low on ideas, and most of the great short-running shows were killed too soon, and there are even some shows that somehow managed to do both, being first killed in their prime and then resurrected in inferior form. There are still a lot in each of those categories that are great overall despite pacing flaws, but they're not what you asked for.

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