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Sunday night is the series finale of Revenge after four years.  That got me thinking about the most satisfying/disappointing series finales of all time.  All-time favorites range from Roseanne(even though it had the bizarre ending of Roseanne being a writer and killing the Dan character) to Lost(best show until the finale).  X-Files and House were listed as disappointing.  Sopranos and Seinfeld also made the list of disappointing.
I got one Desperate Housewives vote.  A favorite show ending can be hard on a fan.  That will be the case for many Sunday night I’m sure.  Scrubs was given the high sign until that extra season when they switched networks.  Cougar Town was the only show in recent memory to pull off the network switch, at least for a little bit. 
The Office, Scrubs, Home Improvement, Wonder Years, Sons of Anarchy, Parenthood and Raising Hope were some suggestions for favorable finales.  More least-liked finales: Gilmore Girls, Roseanne(turns out she wrote the whole show as a story ends up killing Dan-a very dark and weird final season), and the Sopranos.  I think fans are still angry about that one and Lost. 
Seinfeld was one of the worst for me.  The series ends(spoiler alert) with the gang in jail because of the Good Samaritan law.  Also a bad finale was St. Elsewhere.  The ’82-’88 show about doctors(introducing us to Howie Mandel, Ed Begely, Jr and Denzel Washington) was just a figment of an autistic boy’s imagination.  Clever; yes.  Frustrating, definitely! Remember the show Dinosaurs? It was more or less a kids show of a cuddly family of talking dinosaurs.  That made it even more disturbing when patriarch Earl unwittingly wiped out the entire population. 
Dallas(the original) also had a head-scratching ending.  They gave the finale the It’s a Wonderful Life treatment.  JR was being shown what life without him would be like: Cliff Barnes President of the United States, etc.  The devil then convinces JR to pull the trigger.  This coming from a show that actually had an entire season be a dream.  I’d say that would qualify as anger as well as disappointment. 
How will Revenge end Sunday? Will it be disappointing like so many finales? Let’s face it, it’s hard to wrap up a show in a way that everyone will be happy.  You can bet I’ll be watching however the show turns out.