Over the last couple of months, I've started and finished a couple of series. For each of them, there are solid moments with a thud of an ending which colors my opinion on the whole. I'll do my darndest to keep finale spoilers out of the conversation.
-Sanctuary (the Canadian urban fantasy series). Boy, the ending. The final season just feels meandering, but the actual finale was just disappointing. There's sort of resolution for 2 of the cast, while we're left to wonder "What about X, Y and Z?" Sure, the show can pat itself on the back for finishing the way it started (They repeated the line that started everything! How clever!), but it just felt like they were told they got tired and wrapped things up. Great show with quirky and fun moments throughout, though; give it a try if you're looking for 2000's Canadian Sci fi content.
-Reboot (the YTV early CGI animated show). The final 4 episodes of season 2 and the entirety of season 3 are GOOD. The show got a strut in its step and decided to tell a more mature story. But the season 4 miniseries and cliffhanger ending was just annoying; moreso that I haven't heard of any attempts to properly resolve things. It's childhood stuff for me and it was fun to go back, whatever the case. But the "ending" is incredibly underwhelming.
-Letterkenny. This I'm annoyed with, because the early seasons stand out as some of the best and snappiest writing I've watched (When Wayne meets Marie Fred is my high water mark of acting and storytelling without anything being said) but everything slowly became unimpressive. The final season wasn't a finale, it was a show that just ended. The big kick in the knackers is that Shoresy proves that Keeso can still write a funny, smart and emotional show.
The consensus on season 7 is it wasn't up to standards. And I generally agree. I found the Crack N' Ag bit really tiresome and, of course, that ending made me scream (WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU, MARY-FRED. Okay, maybe just me.).
But man, I feel like Season 8 came roaring back. I like how they handled the aftermath of the Mary-Fred's cheating: Wayne's beatdown of the dude was glorious, Katy's kick on Mary-Fred's and her overall concern for Wayne, and Mary-Fred's own apology then seeing Rosie.
Almost everything else was gold: Reilly and Jonesy winning a 'ship and the consequences thereafter; Shoresy's chirping; Tanis, her intel, then appearance on TSN; STRT GETTING BUFF THEN BEING ABLE TO THROW DOWN after being trained by Ronny, Daxy, Joint Boy, and Tyson; the Dycks; Bonnie McMurray; McMurray himself is still a piece of shit (this is a good thing); Mrs. McMurray; Coach being depressed; Modean's being back; the final 2 minutes when the cavalry is informed and then arrives... And Wayne's big brother instincts.
Things I wasn't a fan of: The American Cousin and Dierk. I know I wasn't supposed to be and given Keeso's style of foreshadowing (fiveshadow as they say on the Letterkenny Reddit), we all knew how this was going to end. I think we could have gotten there without the scumbag American cousin but the ending there was amazing. Dierk was... Enough of a piece of shit (and not in the good(?) way McMurray is) that we really didn't need that POS cousin. This could be my own bias here, I've come across far too many people like him.
Overall: 9/10, a massive return to form.
shoresy leaning into nat for a kind of hug, saying the rink is the only place he could be him, him just Fucking Up that fckng dance floor FJEJCJWJFJDJC