Finale

This is so painful. I never thought I'd rate my favorite show 1 star but this finale felt like a stab in the back ..why just why?

I've been a major fan for this series since 2022 I made a lot of people watch it. And now I regret it.. I finished this season in one night And when a song by mitski started playing my exceptions reached the sky for this finale ..out of all endings. They somehow made it worse than the ending of New blood and I'm not saying I want Joe to win .. but this ending felt so forced they ran of ideas ..and not to talk about these girls having super powers and Joe getting fooled twice? TWICE? Like hello?? That isn't the Joe in season 3 and 4.. that's so disrespectful for the fans to end it like that ..let alone trying to make the ending so humiliating for joe just to make it funny..and it was so bad Good job writers ruining this masterpiece.

Such a dark series doesn't deserve a happy ending!

Why do we have to put a happy ending to almost every dark series or movies?! Why do we have to kid ourselves that Evil doesn't win almost all the time in the real world. Especially at the current time we live in. Who ever says it's to bring hope to people that bad people and bad deeds will be punished is just lying. We don't need a lie to cover the reality and it's not even helping.

Too many bad decisions happened in the finale that normally Joe wouldn't have done. They were just too convenient for the plot to bring it to that closure. I hate such bad endings to good series and I bet you do too. Well it's another series that didn't stick the landing.

I find the ending of season five incredibly disappointing for so many reasons. Rather than delivering a finale that pushed the plot into unsuspected realms of thought provoking complexity, especially given its former unpredictable narrative trajectory, it felt like the finale was finished more for the sake of wrapping things up nicely, eliminating any complexity, rather than to truly challenge the story and return true closure to characters initially depicted in thought provoking ways. Instead of Joe being his unpredictable self, with all its insanity and dark undertones, Joe reined it in to calm, boring Joe after this build-up. The story had enormous tension build-up and high hopes of character introspection, yet fell flat and fell back on tired tropes we've seen countless times before. There was no shocking or grand twist that deserves the weight of the season into a necessary powerful conclusion with emotional heft. The writers appeared to be taking a route of least resistance rather than risking the outcome of truly daring conclusion. Instead of finishing with whatever shocks fans to compliment to overwhelming viewers positively shock, it left me unsatisfied, uninspired, and forgetting its potential.

Collectively, I couldn't help but feel disappointed as the narrative and story did not have the final punch that contained promise built throughout the seasons. While its plot line was enormous and entertaining, the ending left me thinking it will not inform thought you would expect from the finale after seeing some promise with narrative development built into the writing. It didn't make you rethink and feel compelled that a story should really stand out, yet somehow this ending stripped any bite left from the plot, leaving useless void of an anticlimax with overwhelming disappointment, which is why I was truly dissatisfied.

The whole season 5 was excellent until the last episode. You can tell the writer is hesitated and afraid to stay true to the story till the end. The writer tried so hard to turn Bronte into a hero that nothing making sense. Her character becomes ridiculous, unbelievable, annoying.

Joe begging to shoot him after running around the wood like a monster, does not make sense.

Characters supposed to be dead were brought back to life which again cheapen the story. I feel that we could have an epic conclusion if the writer is not afraid to be bold. Unfortunately, what we got is a sloppy episodes that makes no sense.

Honestly, the final episode was a complete mess - absurd and downright disrespectful to the audience that stuck around all this time.

(Spoiler alert incoming!) Bronte gets shot and somehow - magically - manages to run away on a broken leg like she's auditioning for The Flash?! How exactly did she overpower Joe, a character who's been portrayed as physically dominant the entire series? Then Joe finds her, drowns her... but surprise! She just wakes up moments later, totally fine, tracks Joe down instantly, and takes him down like it's nothing. Oh, and the police arrive at the speed of light too, because why not?

Also, why did Joe completely lose his intelligence in this last season? He casually leaves incriminating writings lying around like he's begging to be caught. And Bronte's betrayal? It was painfully obvious from the start! Why would Joe - who has been paranoid and calculating for years - trust a random woman who popped out of nowhere?

And let's not even get started on Kate. Not only does she miraculously survive, but she faces zero consequences for her corrupt actions - from covering up child cancer scandals to casually ordering a hit via Joe. We're just supposed to root for her happy ending? Seriously?

There are so many ridiculous, recycled plot points too. Joe falls into yet another messy love triangle. His wife suddenly stops loving him just in time for a new woman to appear. Kate's brother, who literally pulled a knife on Joe, ends up being treated like a sweetheart. And Joe, who once planned every move meticulously, now clumsily locks the wrong twin sister in a basement without even masking up or knocking her out properly? Come on.

Joe, despite all his horrifying actions, was a complex and captivating character. He deserved a much more meaningful ending than this laughable, lazy spiral into prison. Honestly, a powerful, tragic death would have been a far more fitting closure - not this circus act.

Maybe - just maybe - if the writers had taken a scene from Breaking Bad's ending episode, they could have delivered something truly memorable instead of this disappointing mess.

This show was supposed to be about Joe's journey, not Bronte's, not Kate's, not random new characters crammed into the last minute.

Sad to see such a promising show go out like this.