602: Best and Worst Finales

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Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden

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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, inspired by the season three finale of The White Lotus, we’re delving into the best and worst finales of all time. Listen as we discuss what paid off and what left us wanting closure in The White Lotus’s Amor Fati. Plus, we disclose which finales make our top-tier list and which are dumpster fires that should be banned from the canon.

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The White Lotus S3 Finale |
Top Finales: {J} The Americans | Succession | Fleabag {K} The Sopranos | Dinosaurs | The Resurrection
Worst Finales: {J} Sherlock | Will and Grace | Alias {K} Godfather 3 | Rise of Skywalker | Pitch Perfect 3
Red Light mentions: Jamie’s 601 corrections - Jodi Thomas not Piccault | History of Asbestos in J&J Baby Powder (aside: Retha Nichole’s YouTube) | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Trailer (aside: Tom Hanks’ daughter’s Tell All)

Green lights:

Jamie: book - Blood over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
Knox: book - The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

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0:00.0	What's the most famous finale that you have still not seen?
0:02.8	Madman.
0:04.0	I haven't watched.
0:05.1	I haven't watched Friday night lights.
0:07.9	What?
0:08.5	Yeah.
0:09.0	Yeah.
0:09.3	I don't know.
0:09.8	It goes to Philly.
0:10.2	Okay.
0:10.5	You know.
0:11.0	God.
0:11.4	Okay.
0:11.7	Well, let me give you a couple more that you don't.
0:13.2	Philadelphia?
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:14.4	Because Connie, Tammy, I'm sorry, gets a job like admissions up there. And he's like, I listen. We spent my whole career like chasing after my dream.
0:23.7	Next time, chase yours.
0:24.6	Her dream is to live in Philadelphia?
0:27.0	No, Aaron.
0:27.8	It's not about Philadelphia.
0:28.6	Don't get hung up on Philadelphia.
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