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To feel genuine grief over a TV series ending?

173 replies

maytocay · 10/03/2023 21:51

I've lost my own DC before so I'm familiar with taking the term 'grief' too literally here

But it does feel like a genuine, sad loss.

I'm not even finished the final series yet... there are 6 series and I'm on the final one Sad

I feel so sad I won't get to carry on escaping to this TV series every time I watch it. I'll miss it all so much

AIBU? Has anyone else felt similar over a series?

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boltsandbars · 10/03/2023 22:43

I have watched Downton so often that I can almost recite the lines with them. Doesn't take away from the pleasure of watching again, and again.... It's a comfort thing for me now. A real respite from pressures of life. Just keep going back to the beginning!

StolenCookie · 10/03/2023 22:44

I knew you were talking about Downton! It’s perfect escapism.

XelaM · 10/03/2023 22:45

maytocay · 10/03/2023 21:58

Downtown Abbey Sad

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Yes!!! Absolutely loved Downtown Abbey although I thought the last season was the weakest.

Rebel2 · 10/03/2023 22:45

Buffy for me. I've watched it over and over so many times but the first time I saw the ending Sad
I miss rizzoli and isles too

CuriousMama · 10/03/2023 22:46

TinaYouFatLard · 10/03/2023 22:24

Game of Thrones. Not so much grief but the end of a long relationship. It was made worse by the feeling that at the end I was treated like dirt and the whole marriage was a farce.

Amen to that! Terrible ending.

Soproudoflionesses · 10/03/2023 22:47

MrsJackRackham · 10/03/2023 21:59

My bet it's Schitt's Creek. Felt the same. I loved everyone as if they were my own friends and actually missed them 😔

Me too!! Fabulous series!

HasAnybodySeenMyTambourine · 10/03/2023 22:47

We just finished watching The Sopranos for the first time and I feel this way. Partly because James Gandolfini really reminds me of my Dad. The fact the actor passed away in real life makes it doubly wrenching for me. But all the characters were so incredibly well drawn, it felt like losing friends.

margesimpson40 · 10/03/2023 22:47

mnahmnah · 10/03/2023 22:00

You felt like that with Gilmore Girls. I may just watch them from the start again because I can’t find anything else that sucks me in!

I absolutely adore GG, Ive watched it multiple times, same with The Sopranos, Roseanne (amy sherman palladino started there) Golden Girls.

Try Parenthood for your Lauren Graham fix :)

XelaM · 10/03/2023 22:48

Of those who did watch the Downtown Abbey ending - was anyone else disappointed with how everything ended? I absolutely loved the series but I didn't like how they ended it.

SpottyStripyDuvet · 10/03/2023 22:49

I always feel like this about Russell T Davies series, particularly Years and Years and It's a Sin.

Awrite · 10/03/2023 22:49

Like a previous poster, there's a few programmes I just haven't finished. I get to 3 episodes of the final season and then just stop watching.

A few times I've gone back and finished it. Sons of Anarchy is one.

I have also been known not to finish books.

Probably some deep routed existential fear. 😁

XelaM · 10/03/2023 22:49

Try Parenthood for your Lauren Graham fix :)

Omg I LOVED Parenthood!! It's one of the best series of all time for me

BabyMomma2021 · 10/03/2023 22:50

Binged Sopranos in lockdown and was actually bereft after the last episode 😅

2023Hope · 10/03/2023 22:50

Tilllly · 10/03/2023 22:31

Am still grieving

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Me too, I loved it!

Findyourneutralspace · 10/03/2023 22:51

I googled this week to find out if there is a word for the feeling you get when you finish a really good book. There isn’t, but it leaves a hole. Telly is the same. You become invested and then it’s over. It’s a funny feeling.

XelaM · 10/03/2023 22:51

My daughter and I just finished Outer Banks and we already feel like we have nothing to do 😢

Can anyone recommend anything similar to watch with a teen?

dunBle · 10/03/2023 22:51

TigerDroveAgain · 10/03/2023 22:24

Endeavour Sad

Yep, and I did not like the possible foreshadowing in the "show within a show" thing last week. If it pans out that way I'm going to be deeply unhappy, even if it'd make sense within the context of what comes after. I'm kind of hoping they'll use it as an excuse to show Morse again from the beginning on ITV3

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 10/03/2023 22:52

Another one saying Gilmore Girls. I did try and watch it again but couldn't really get into it the same way as before.
I would absolutely love to live there.

Sunshineandshowers42 · 10/03/2023 22:52

Felt like this with Breaking Bad, the Americans and Firefly 😭

BackToWhereItAllBegan · 10/03/2023 22:54

@Verbena17 Have you watched The Originals? Spin-off from Vampire Diaries and will fill the void for a few more days of binging!

PaigeMatthews · 10/03/2023 22:54

Schitts creek was this for me. Fantastic series. And gilmore girls.

me and my son watch a superstore episode every evening and every time we get to the final episode we start again. I have jo idea how many times we have now watched it through.

Peachy2005 · 10/03/2023 22:54

Have you tried Yellowstone? I had seen series 1 and 2 a few years ago but I just binged series 3-5 on a free 1-week trial of Paramount Plus - it reminds me most of Sons of Anarchy but with cowboys instead of bikers.

Itstoobig · 10/03/2023 22:55

Op, do you have Sky / Now Tv? There is one series (and a second soon to be released) of The Gilded Age, also by Julian Fellowes and basically DA but set in late 19th century New York. Might be a good fix.

SammyScrounge · 10/03/2023 22:55

Game of Thrones. How I missed the characters in that. The theme you gives.me shivers.

PaigeMatthews · 10/03/2023 22:55

orange is the new black. And ive recently restarted charmed. All series where ive missed the characters.

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