TV's best season finales ever

shaggydan  05/15/08

Yeah, I'm a sucker for this finale

Liz  05/15/08

You forgot about "Through the Looking Glass"!!! It is such an amazing episode, finale or not. I still get chills up and down my arms when I watch the last 5 minutes. Watching Charlie die, Jack trying to kill himself was all good. But, when Jack meets Kate at the airport, I still gasp and scream, "Oh my gosh, its the future. They got off the island!!" One of the best finales ever!!!

jkcampbell  05/15/08

Hooray for "Die Me, Dichotomy" making the list!

double_agent  05/15/08

Blasphemy! "Through the Looking Glass" is probably the best finale EVER! How could they have forgotten that????

RobGrizzly  05/15/08

How does this list even exist without the current master of season finales: Lost? Even some of your own writers have proclaimed Through the Looking Glass may be one of the best in TV history. So what's the deal? This list is flawed. You're also missing Friends season 1: The One Where Rachel Finds Out

t3hdow  05/15/08

I agree. The omission of Lost's season 3 finale from that list is criminal. The most ingenious part about it is that "Through the Looking Glass" used Lost's most tried-and-true storytelling technique (the flashback) and go a basic 180 under our very noses, even with a few subtle clues pinching viewers before the big reveal in the final five minutes. After that, it transformed the episode from superb to legendary and reinvented Lost from that point forward.

Although I'm not as vexed with this exclusion, I also liked Jericho's season 1 finale, ending with a fade to black with guns going off in the background. Along with Jake and Eric's dad dying, the war with New Bern that led to the climactic firefight, and the first glimpse of the inverted US flag with a significant number of stars missing (which we later learn represents the Allied States of America), that episode gave me the chills that few season finales can pull off.

ABCSOAPS55  05/15/08

omg yes i love the "Felicity" finale from season 1!

a few of my favorite season finales:

Melrose Place Season 4: Kimberly is about to blow up the building!

Liz  05/16/08

To slightly diagree with you RobGrizzly, but I think Friends finale when Ross gets married in London and says Rachel's name is the better finale. This finale changed the show forever. Monica and Chandler became a couple! Just so many moments came to fruition because of London.

RobGrizzly  05/16/08

Yeah, Friends has had alot of great finales. It's a shame not one of them found their way onto this list (yet they included other sitcoms like Seinfeld)

alcm  05/16/08

What??? The "Lost" finale from last season (2006-2007) was not on the list?

It was by far one of the top 5 season finales ever. It single handedly brought back tons of fans who had abandoned the show and it had my jaw dropped to the floor for days afterwards.

Shame on you EW for not including it on the list.

Sdca4life  05/17/08

This list is seriously FLAWED!!!

i expected THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS and at least EXODUS!!!


but hey we'll see it on the ones they missed...

=]

oh yeah and there was none of THE WIRE!!!

or OZ!!

The Counteragent  05/18/08

Contrary to what many of you are saying, this list does already contain the best season finale ever. Packed with brilliant action and character advancement, nothing can touch the power of "The Telling" (Alias, season 2, of course). Seriously, as much as I love "Through the Looking Glass", it didn't come close to the shock of the end of "The Telling". Oh man. Just those six words.

"Why are you wearing that ring?"

My heart literally skipped a beat. Also notable is the awful but shocking season 4 finale, which actually made me fall off my couch I freaked out so bad, as well as the pitch-perfect series finale.

Ah, I love me some Alias.