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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
And don't even get me started on Seinfeld finale. Those who hated it, never understood the show, and it blows my mind that so many deride it.
The entire show was about the quartet escaping comeuppance for their insularity and narcissism due to the nature of episodic television [ie, they did loathsome things, but never caught hell for it because they shrugged everything off at the end of the 1/2 hour], and the finale was every single despicable thing they ever did coming back to haunt them at once.
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I understand the intentions of the finale, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a glorified clip show that wasn't that funny. Also it was tonally strange, because the characters were never as loathsome as the finale wanted you to believe. As an idea, it makes more sense for a show like Always Sunny, where the characters actually have done so many horrible things it actually strains credulity that they're not already in prison.
Anyway, I liked the Fargo finale.. People get hung up on wanting finales to be big climaxes, but it's just as valid for them to be the denouement, especially for a TV novel-type show like Fargo.