Grey's Anatomy especially and Law & Order SVU season finales have generated a lot of anger, hatred and promises to stop watching. These seem to be typical, sanity-preserving reactions to episodes or shows that become nihilistic, depressing, hopeless, joyless messes. Yeah, I know that's redundant, but that's for much needed emphasis of the point that misery is a turnoff.

As a point of discussion, what other things about a finale led people here to not want to return to a show? Favorite character death? Plots not given enough setup to be believable in the context of the show? Unwanted character turns? Just plain dumb? Wonder if any patterns will emerge from your experiences that can serve as a lesson to studios or networks, so that all us viewers don't get subjected to more of those problems (yeah, right).

Bad: Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break, Heroes (lame!), 24
Good: Desperate Housewives, Brother and Sisters, CSI, Shark
Excellent: LOST (by far)

just on the shows i watch that are returning...

Amazing: Lost
Good: Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Ugly Betty
Mediocre/Disappointing but not bad: Heroes, Supernatural
Bad: Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break
Terrible: 24

Unknown: House

Excellent: Lost (although I'm not quite sure what the hell is going on )
Very Good: Desperate Housewives, CSI, Shark
Average: Criminal Minds, Without a Trace
Disappointing: American Idol (the whole season was), 24

TBD: Boston Legal

I just love how grown men are saying: "That Heroes finale was so lame! There was no totally rad CGI showdown between the good guy and the bad guy! Why did I watch something without a super rad CGI showdown when I could have been watching something totally rad instead? "

Mediocre: 30 Rock (hilarious as usual, but lacking as a finale)

Good: HIMYM (legen, wait for it...), Heroes (obvious, but still insanely cute), My Name Is Earl (shame they can't keep him in the prison for half a season, just doing good things and changing criminals into... softer criminals)

Bad: Supernatural (hilariously bad, though, so I liked it), Veronica Mars (would've been pretty silly for a season finale, inexcusable as a series one)

Ugly: Lost (what the hell L&C, that's really the best game changing twist you can come up with?)

And that's all I watched at this point of time. TV pretty much sucked this year.

Brillant: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, LOST

Great: Brothers & Sisters, Jericho, Smallville,

Sort of Silly or Disappointing but still good: Heroes, Law & Order: SVU, 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Supernatural

Bad: Crossing Jordan

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: Lost

Good, as expected, but not above average: Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal

Ok, Ill still come back next season but I was a but letdown: Grey's Anatomy

Not bad, I just donn't really see a reason to stick around with the show: 24

Zzzzzzzzzzz, Heroes

Amazing: Lost
Good: Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Prison Break, Heroes, Boston Legal, The Office
Mediocre: 30 Rock
Bad: 24, American Idol, The Amazing Race (Still love the show though!)

TBD - The Shield

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Mediocre: 30 Rock

WOW!
Is the shine rubbing off the All Mighty 30 Rock????

Uh no.... I still love the show, it just wasn't a great finale. I hold 30 Rock to much higher standards than most shows.

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Mediocre: 30 Rock

WOW!
Is the shine rubbing off the All Mighty 30 Rock????