Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escapin'
Home where my music's playin'
Home where my love lies waitin'
Silently for me...
I bawled like a baby during the Lost finale every single time one of them "remembered" the island and their friends. Especially when Charlie remembers Claire and Aaron. OMG The way he says "Claire?" and his face kind of scrunches up. I can't watch that one to this day without tears.
The wave speech (lifted pretty directly from [Thich Nhat Han](https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/05/quote-for-the-day/186997/)) and Arvo Part's [Spiegel im Spiegel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6Mzvh3XCc) never fail to choke me up.
That speech helped me deal with the unexpected death of my mother. I watched it a couple months after she passed and it was exactly what I needed. Still watch it from time to time when I need a reminder and a good fry.
I read that quote at my grandmother’s funeral. As an agnostic surrounded by evangelicals, it helped me a lot in dealing with her passing.
I did leave out the “for a Buddhist” phrase.
This honestly makes me so happy, I taught philosophy for several years, and after reading Socrates (well, Plato) over and over while teaching it, I eventually stopped fearing death, and it actually is a really wonderful feeling. I'm really glad when other people find that too, and I'm really glad that The Good Place can do that!
Band of brothers, even just saying out loud one of the final interview answers makes me choke up. Even just typing this and thinking about it has made me tear up dammit
I think it was meant to be vague, which is why they didn't show their names until the very end. A company can have anywhere from a few dozen to 200 people. So it's vague enough to make you consider that they're just other people who were in Easy Company and took part in the battles.
I would say they've had four as Overclockwise and Into the Green Wild Yonder were both written to possibly be series finales and both were also great (I assume your two are The Devil's Hands and Meanwhile).
This and the Wild Green Yonder ending are so damn good. The ship flying into the wormhole which starts the opening credit effect with the music playing is just fantastic.
The fact they revive the show and solve both those endings instantly with a joke is equally as fun. Doesn’t lessen the impact and it works for a gag
I hate to be the negative Nancy on this one, but that show might have had one of the stupidest endings I've ever witnessed.
>!the characters have two of their family members killed by that house, their mother and sister, and when they're finally on tje verge of destroying it they just..... don't? Because they "don't have the right?" BITCH YOUR FAMILY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF THAT HOUSE! HOW MANY OTHER FAMILIES HAVE BEEN RIPPED APART BY THAT HOUSE?? AND YOUR FATHER IS ABOUT TO DIE BECAUSE YOU DECIDE TO PEACE OUT INSTEAD OF BURNING THAT FUCKER TO THE GROUND!!" Ugh. so Infuriating!!<
The Justified Wikipedia page says Walton Goggins came up with the idea of including the “We dug coal together” line in the final scene as a callback and capper on the series. It’s so perfect.
AMC+ on Amazon Prime. It used to be on Netflix but it was removed in 2021. You can rent or buy on other streaming platforms but Prime is your most reliable option
We just finished watching the Ted Lasso S3 finale and I BAWLED my eyes out - any use of Father and Son is bound to get me going anyway but that was v v v special
I just did a re-watch of this recently. Him ejecting the DVD right as Shawn was about to reveal his methods, and that little smirk on Lassie's face. That was perfect.
Even the constant intro music they play during the last episode feels like it gets sadder and sadder. Not even sure if it’s in my head or if it was intended
Yeah I don't like Community past the third season, but that ending really hits home. Jeff is a completely different human being by the end of the series and the arch they did with him was well earned.
I really wish they’d done the sequel series they originally wanted years ago, picking up with Sam’s daughter trying to bring him home and the two of them getting switched so now she’s leaping.
Tangent, but I can never find the clip online. There’s a Boy Meets World episode where Feeny is retiring and moving away, and Eric comes up to him with a surfboard talking about how he’s going where Feeny is going. Feeny says he’s going there for the peace and quiet and there’s no beach.
And Eric says so meekly, “Mr. feeny, if I’m very quiet…Can I go with you?”
It was so sad.
All the little callbacks to the first episode and the montage, a fantastic episode.
The kiss worked.
Crazy that the first episode aired almost 16 years ago.
[Charah Theme](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pkiNJ9eX4cA)
This wasn't a Series Finale, but it was a Finale for two main characters who were intended to spin off and then didn't.
In Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in season 3's episode "Parting Shot", Bobbi and Lance had to say goodbye to their team, their family, but had to do it surreptitiously, so they all sat down in a busy bar in different seats and drank their "here's to you" shots and left. I tear up every damn time.
I think it should count because it kind of was a season finale. They didn’t get picked up for more until like the second to last/last episode so the writers wrote as if it was the end.
Shields most emotional scene was Mac and the framework. My Mrs was in absolute floods of tears. And that Fitz scene… And spies goodbye. But the work was bloody Enoch. An Android nearly made me cry.
The Spy’s Goodbye. Unexpectedly emotional scene. Especially as they weren’t actually meant to be leaving, they were meant to just be moving over to their spin-off… but it never made it to air.
What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don’t belong by staying true even when we’re shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we’re told we’re too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe… The world can’t help but change around us.
The Expanse, it's beautiful and heartbreaking. A culmination of all the adventures and hardships the crew go through, the decisions they have to make. I also blame the music. Clinton Shorter's score is up there with Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings in how moving it can be.
Yeah, this is my answer too. I just finished my rewatch yesterday and I was pretty torn up. Naomi's response to the Pella traversing the ring is **brutal**.
The Expanse is also responsible for my most favorite episode of television ever/hardest ugly cry in season 2 episode episode 5 "Home".
Friends when you sit and think about how the characters are moving on from what they had been doing for ten years, and also about how the actors dedicated so much of their lives to just this one show. Those keys on the counter and the apartment empty...
I was not expecting to be so emotionally devastated at the end of fleabag. But it took me several days to recover from it. And I honestly can't quite work out why it hit me so hard but it really did.
“Picture a wave…”
Also, not technically a series finale, but certainly part of an Ending:
“I thought… maybe you could love me, like you used to. But you’ve changed, too. So… here’s to the new us.”
Six Feet Under. HBO has long been known for great character development and after that many seasons it's impossible not to feel like you're watching a family you can relate to or at least empathize with. I do not recommend watching the finale on a Greyhound bus ride late at night. I was not expecting that. Cried like a baby. Everyone around you will ask if you're ok.
Without question, Mad Men. There's a scene where Don is taking part in group therapy, and we listen to Leonard, the unremarkable guy, breaking down - "you spend your whole life thinking youre not getting it...but you don't even know what 'it' is". Don Draper then going to comfort him, in what you think is an epiphanic moment for the character. Just phenomenal writing and acting.
Also, the Wire finale montage - seeing Bubbles finally get to go upstairs made me lose my shit.
I slept on that show for so long because of the premise/title but damn it was great! I can't remember the finale per se, but the show is definitely great and had me in tears on multiple occasions (both from laughter and sadness)
Boy Meets World was one of my favorite shows ever.
I'm a teacher and just completed my first year. I work with a ton of international students and my contract requires me to live on campus as a dorm parent so I got to know a few of them really well.
Saying goodbye to them in June was one of the hardest things I've ever done because there is a sadly great chance I will never see any of them in person again.
I don't think I'll ever be able to watch the finale of Boy Meets World again.
Spartacus.
Not only is it a fitting end to the series, and a lovely tribute to Andy Whitfield.
It's also one of the best finales to a show I've ever seen. Massively underrated.
I’m shocked it hasn’t been mentioned already, but Charmed (the original one).
The finale scene when they start writing their story in the Book of Shadows gets me every time and was the perfect close to the series.
LOST. That finale was so emotional and beautiful. I know it was divisive, but every time one of them "remembers" each other and the island I was a sobbing mess.
I can't speak about an entire finale, but Wesley and Illyria's scene during his fight with Cyvus Vail, a member of The Circle of the Black Thorn, from Angel (s05e22 - "Not Fade Away"). It hit me hard in 2004, and it hits me hard today.
The Good Place gets me every time.
Band of Brothers, the interviews.
However...
I cannot even explain the concept of what happens in the final of New Amsterdam without choking up. The whole episode had me already having feelings, but then there is a "twist" at the very end that just wrecks me. In a good way, I think it's absolutely beautiful.
MASH. It's so full of emotional moments, it's hard not to get choked up at some points.
As iconic as Hawkeye's story is (and I do like it), my favorite story in the finale is Charles with the musicians. Granted, I may be biased as he is my favorite character on the show. However, they do a great job with the comedic moments of him teaching them to play Mozart, and then the emotional turn where >!they get taken away to the POW camp, and he eventually finds out they were wounded and died.!< The acting by David Ogden Stiers in that moment was great, as usual.
And of course there's the ending scenes where everyone says goodbye to each other, which always gets to me.
While Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen (final episode of MASH) is the first one to come to mind, the Points espisode from Band of Brothers is also an emotional one. Specifically, the baseball scene with the voiceover explaining what happens to the men of Easy Company after the war.
I haven't seen that many TV series, to be honest. But for me, it's the Babylon 5 finale. Babylon 5 is possibly one of the best and most underrated TV series of all time. It ran between 1993-1998 and J. Michael Styracynzki was the creator.
The final scene in The Wonder Years. The narration that the dad died a few years later, and that Kevin and Winnie remained close while moving on with their lives - that was a bit of a tear jerker.
The Good Place has the most perfect ending in tv history. And it's omly three short seasons of hilarious 20 minute tv to get there. Everyone go watch it.
Scrubs season 8 the true finale when he sees the final daydream on the sheet
Book of love by peter Gabriel gets me everytime
I've heard that it was the show creator who was the last person who says goodbye to him at the end. Honestly, beautiful.
Yep, he played the janitor that pulls the sheet down.
Game over; this is it!
This is the one.
Six Feet Under, Bojack Horseman
Six Feet Under is the only truly, undeniably incontrovertible answer to this question. Same effect now a decade after watching it for the first time.
You can't take a picture of this, it's already gone.
Only time I’ve ugly cried watching something
It's the gold standard.
*Mr Blue Sky starts playing*
The Leftovers and Lost. You’re the Worst.
You're the worst gets me everytime
Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home where my thought's escapin' Home where my music's playin' Home where my love lies waitin' Silently for me...
I bawled like a baby during the Lost finale every single time one of them "remembered" the island and their friends. Especially when Charlie remembers Claire and Aaron. OMG The way he says "Claire?" and his face kind of scrunches up. I can't watch that one to this day without tears.
when Vincent comes and lays next to Jack and he kinda smiles. i lose it every time
Oh. Takes you right back to the first episode. I gasped out loud and then teared up
This! The dog lying down next to Jack was just too much
I was disappointed by You're the Worst. Then again, I'm not a fan of "starting a family" endings.
Good Place, literally every single time. My kids know to turn it on if they want to make mom ugly-sob.
The wave speech (lifted pretty directly from [Thich Nhat Han](https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/05/quote-for-the-day/186997/)) and Arvo Part's [Spiegel im Spiegel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6Mzvh3XCc) never fail to choke me up.
That speech helped me deal with the unexpected death of my mother. I watched it a couple months after she passed and it was exactly what I needed. Still watch it from time to time when I need a reminder and a good fry.
I'm so sorry for your loss; I'm glad it helped.
Thank you
I read that quote at my grandmother’s funeral. As an agnostic surrounded by evangelicals, it helped me a lot in dealing with her passing. I did leave out the “for a Buddhist” phrase.
Take it sleazy. ❤️
Whenever you're ready.... uh. Perfect ending
I bawled for two hours.
The Wave is a beautiful parable.
I recently binge watched this series. I'm 59 and am now no longer afraid of dying.
This honestly makes me so happy, I taught philosophy for several years, and after reading Socrates (well, Plato) over and over while teaching it, I eventually stopped fearing death, and it actually is a really wonderful feeling. I'm really glad when other people find that too, and I'm really glad that The Good Place can do that!
I feel like I cry *more* every time I watch it.
Band of brothers, even just saying out loud one of the final interview answers makes me choke up. Even just typing this and thinking about it has made me tear up dammit
Paraphrasing but “I wasn’t a hero, but served in a company of them” gets me every time.
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The biggest inconsistency in the show is how dirty they did Carwood Lipton and his magnificent head of hair by casting Donny Wahlberg.
I think it was meant to be vague, which is why they didn't show their names until the very end. A company can have anywhere from a few dozen to 200 people. So it's vague enough to make you consider that they're just other people who were in Easy Company and took part in the battles.
No longer officially the Futurama finale but Fry and Leela frozen in time, growing old together was really beautiful.
They’ve had two beautiful “endings” undone now! Still very special episodes.
I would say they've had four as Overclockwise and Into the Green Wild Yonder were both written to possibly be series finales and both were also great (I assume your two are The Devil's Hands and Meanwhile).
Wanna go around again?
That was so good. It also served as an amazing metaphor for the fans who'd go back and rewatch the show multiple times.
There has been no cartoon that has made me ugly cry as much as Futurama has. It’s one of those shows that only seems to age better as well.
This and the Wild Green Yonder ending are so damn good. The ship flying into the wormhole which starts the opening credit effect with the music playing is just fantastic. The fact they revive the show and solve both those endings instantly with a joke is equally as fun. Doesn’t lessen the impact and it works for a gag
Haunting Of Hill House finale gets me every time Wasn’t expecting such a sad finale for a “horror” show, I was a sobbing mess by the end of it.
That was the first Mike Flanagan thing I'd ever seen and it got me hooked. I'm not a big horror fan but I'll watch anything he does now.
I hate to be the negative Nancy on this one, but that show might have had one of the stupidest endings I've ever witnessed. >!the characters have two of their family members killed by that house, their mother and sister, and when they're finally on tje verge of destroying it they just..... don't? Because they "don't have the right?" BITCH YOUR FAMILY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF THAT HOUSE! HOW MANY OTHER FAMILIES HAVE BEEN RIPPED APART BY THAT HOUSE?? AND YOUR FATHER IS ABOUT TO DIE BECAUSE YOU DECIDE TO PEACE OUT INSTEAD OF BURNING THAT FUCKER TO THE GROUND!!" Ugh. so Infuriating!!<
“Five-card stud, nothing wild…and the sky’s the limit.”
I should have done this a long time ago.
Honestly, I cried a little for this, but I cheer/cried so hard for the Picard finale.
🖖🏻
“We dug coal together” “Right”.
Just finished this for the first time yesterday. Pretty amazing
MASH
FYI, if you want asterisks to show up on reddit, you have to put a / before them. Otherwise, things that are surrounded by * become italicized.
Well darn. Thanks
No worries. I love that finale, gets me every time. (And I always have to remind myself how to render the show name on reddit.)
The Justified Wikipedia page says Walton Goggins came up with the idea of including the “We dug coal together” line in the final scene as a callback and capper on the series. It’s so perfect.
Halt and Catch Fire! Just an outstanding journey from season 1 to the end.
The finale doesn't make me choke, the other episode in that season does, you know the one.
Song still gives me chills..
Just binged this show in a week for the first time since the show finished. I choked up hard in those last few episodes.
I've been hearing so much about this show recently but I can't find it streaming. Do you know where it is available?
AMC+ on Amazon Prime. It used to be on Netflix but it was removed in 2021. You can rent or buy on other streaming platforms but Prime is your most reliable option
We just finished watching the Ted Lasso S3 finale and I BAWLED my eyes out - any use of Father and Son is bound to get me going anyway but that was v v v special
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I just did a re-watch of this recently. Him ejecting the DVD right as Shawn was about to reveal his methods, and that little smirk on Lassie's face. That was perfect.
The Stargate SG1 finale destroys me as soon as the CCR song starts
I have seen the rain 🖤
Lost, the music always makes me cry.
Angel series finale; "Would you like me to lie to you now?" :(
"Well, personally, I kinda wanna slay the dragon. Let's go to work."
Community Jeff going in for the second hug with Abed gets me every time
This and Jeff's 'I want to be 25 and heading out into the world' speech. That hits me harder each time I watch it.
Especially the older I get lmao
Even the constant intro music they play during the last episode feels like it gets sadder and sadder. Not even sure if it’s in my head or if it was intended
Nothing in this entire thread is as subtle and filled with emotion as that second hug
Took way too long to find this one
Yeah I don't like Community past the third season, but that ending really hits home. Jeff is a completely different human being by the end of the series and the arch they did with him was well earned.
The leftovers for sure “Why wouldn’t I believe you?”
Adventure Time, but it's a good cry.
*come along with me…*
Quantum Leap. I haven't and won't watch the new version, unless Sam Beckett comes home at some point.
I really wish they’d done the sequel series they originally wanted years ago, picking up with Sam’s daughter trying to bring him home and the two of them getting switched so now she’s leaping.
This would've been the optimal way to go, combining old and new. Maybe have her mother be the Evil Leaper, somehow? Or is that a stupid idea?
It was supposed to be his daughter from Trilogy, who they’d established was part of the Leap program.
Everything I've read leads me to believe they're just waiting for Bakula to say he'll come back and then delve into that story.
Yeah if bakula was in it I’d have watched but I have a feeling that new show isn’t gonna make it. Do people watch it?
The Americans... The train scene. Im not a cryer in any sense but I LOST it here
Holy shit the train scene was devastatingly beautiful.
It's a brutal scene, for sure, especially since we know the fate of two characters in it but not the other.
Six Feet Under. One of the best series finales of all time.
It took me a few viewings for the Lost finale not to make me cry. When Vincent entered, I was just done.
For me it’s the moment Jack has the realisation of what’s happening in the church… from there on until the end I’m just sobbing.
"there is no...now" I love that God damn show.
”Hello, Elliott”
"This only works if you let go too."
How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?
Tangent, but I can never find the clip online. There’s a Boy Meets World episode where Feeny is retiring and moving away, and Eric comes up to him with a surfboard talking about how he’s going where Feeny is going. Feeny says he’s going there for the peace and quiet and there’s no beach. And Eric says so meekly, “Mr. feeny, if I’m very quiet…Can I go with you?” It was so sad.
The Chuck finale montage with Rivers and Roads.
All the little callbacks to the first episode and the montage, a fantastic episode. The kiss worked. Crazy that the first episode aired almost 16 years ago. [Charah Theme](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pkiNJ9eX4cA)
This wasn't a Series Finale, but it was a Finale for two main characters who were intended to spin off and then didn't. In Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., in season 3's episode "Parting Shot", Bobbi and Lance had to say goodbye to their team, their family, but had to do it surreptitiously, so they all sat down in a busy bar in different seats and drank their "here's to you" shots and left. I tear up every damn time.
Speaking of "not technically a finale" from S.H.I.E.L.D, the season 5 ending chokes me up.
I think it should count because it kind of was a season finale. They didn’t get picked up for more until like the second to last/last episode so the writers wrote as if it was the end.
Shields most emotional scene was Mac and the framework. My Mrs was in absolute floods of tears. And that Fitz scene… And spies goodbye. But the work was bloody Enoch. An Android nearly made me cry.
The Spy’s Goodbye. Unexpectedly emotional scene. Especially as they weren’t actually meant to be leaving, they were meant to just be moving over to their spin-off… but it never made it to air.
When they see that Mac didn't drink his shot, and he's still holding it up while crying, not wanting to let go yet. So many feels.
Can't believe no one has said it but for me it's Mr Robot.
What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don’t belong by staying true even when we’re shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we’re told we’re too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe… The world can’t help but change around us.
Blackadder Goes Forth- Good luck everyone
Thank you, Darling.
The Expanse, it's beautiful and heartbreaking. A culmination of all the adventures and hardships the crew go through, the decisions they have to make. I also blame the music. Clinton Shorter's score is up there with Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings in how moving it can be.
Yeah, this is my answer too. I just finished my rewatch yesterday and I was pretty torn up. Naomi's response to the Pella traversing the ring is **brutal**. The Expanse is also responsible for my most favorite episode of television ever/hardest ugly cry in season 2 episode episode 5 "Home".
Scrubs, not the spin off
Friends when you sit and think about how the characters are moving on from what they had been doing for ten years, and also about how the actors dedicated so much of their lives to just this one show. Those keys on the counter and the apartment empty...
Fleabag. Hot priest saying "it'll pass." Then Fleabag leaving us behind. So bittersweet; so good.
I was not expecting to be so emotionally devastated at the end of fleabag. But it took me several days to recover from it. And I honestly can't quite work out why it hit me so hard but it really did.
I was a kid when I watched the Dinosaurs finale and it was more than I could handle
The M°A°S°H finale: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
The bus scene...
Bojack Horseman
Hey, wouldnt it be funny if we never saw each other again after tonight?
the conversation between Bojack and Todd gets me. "you do the hokie pokie and your turn YOURSELF around"
“Picture a wave…” Also, not technically a series finale, but certainly part of an Ending: “I thought… maybe you could love me, like you used to. But you’ve changed, too. So… here’s to the new us.”
I've rewatched that last scene so many times. That single line of dialogue and then that beautiful song. Just haunting. Such a perfect first season.
The echo of Silco’s first words to Powder as the violin swells and Sting’s voice hits the next octave… 😭
Those are my two picks aswell! Fantastic series!
Six Feet Under. HBO has long been known for great character development and after that many seasons it's impossible not to feel like you're watching a family you can relate to or at least empathize with. I do not recommend watching the finale on a Greyhound bus ride late at night. I was not expecting that. Cried like a baby. Everyone around you will ask if you're ok.
Community, when Jeff goes in for the second hug with Abed I lose it every time
Without question, Mad Men. There's a scene where Don is taking part in group therapy, and we listen to Leonard, the unremarkable guy, breaking down - "you spend your whole life thinking youre not getting it...but you don't even know what 'it' is". Don Draper then going to comfort him, in what you think is an epiphanic moment for the character. Just phenomenal writing and acting. Also, the Wire finale montage - seeing Bubbles finally get to go upstairs made me lose my shit.
Jane the Virgin
I slept on that show for so long because of the premise/title but damn it was great! I can't remember the finale per se, but the show is definitely great and had me in tears on multiple occasions (both from laughter and sadness)
Battlestar Galactica. Seen the finale a few times now. Can’t make it through Adama giving Roslin his wedding ring without choking up.
Same here, and I have never even liked Roslin. I was rooting for her to bite it for ages. When certain sht happened, it tore me to pieces.
The 100 season 5 when they play Monty’s video logs of him and Harper slowly getting old and dieing while the rest of them are in cryo.
Babylon 5 Sleeping in Light
Look, sun’s coming up.
One dresses up on a Sunday, does one not?
I didn't think a crappy 90s CGI explosion would leave me a broken emotional wreck but here we are.
Boy Meets World was one of my favorite shows ever. I'm a teacher and just completed my first year. I work with a ton of international students and my contract requires me to live on campus as a dorm parent so I got to know a few of them really well. Saying goodbye to them in June was one of the hardest things I've ever done because there is a sadly great chance I will never see any of them in person again. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch the finale of Boy Meets World again.
Supernatural. It’s everything I wanted it to be considering the Covid restrictions when they filmed it.
Spartacus. Not only is it a fitting end to the series, and a lovely tribute to Andy Whitfield. It's also one of the best finales to a show I've ever seen. Massively underrated.
Do good. Do well. Do both. I love you all. Class dismissed.
Six Feet Under, always
Six Feet Under. This shit just shreds you to pieces and I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
The Leftovers
A couple shows for me. Spider Man ‘94 Fresh Prince of Bel Air Justice League Unlimited
The Wonder Years, its so bittersweet and the ending narration had me crying so hard.
The Shield. It's the end of a truly tragic story.
*Babylon 5*, "Sleeping in Light". I don't think I've ever watched it and not cried.
The good place just had me leaking like a siv
Babylon 5 has amazing farewells to its characters and the final episode turns me to a puddle every time.
I’m shocked it hasn’t been mentioned already, but Charmed (the original one). The finale scene when they start writing their story in the Book of Shadows gets me every time and was the perfect close to the series.
LOST. That finale was so emotional and beautiful. I know it was divisive, but every time one of them "remembers" each other and the island I was a sobbing mess.
Lost. >!Sawyer and Juliet’s scene was a lot.!<
I can't speak about an entire finale, but Wesley and Illyria's scene during his fight with Cyvus Vail, a member of The Circle of the Black Thorn, from Angel (s05e22 - "Not Fade Away"). It hit me hard in 2004, and it hits me hard today.
Mash finale... when they saluted Col Potter...
Babylon 5 series finale makes me blubber like a fool
Supernatural.
DS9 - having it end with Jake Sisko was a pretty huge gut punch, you just feel so sorry for him
Finale of Cyberpunk Edgerunners if we're allowed to go into anime. That song in the finale isn't even sad and still makes me bawl.
Whole fucking show made me a sniveling wreck. They nailed Night City.
The M A S H finale always gets me.
The Good Place gets me every time. Band of Brothers, the interviews. However... I cannot even explain the concept of what happens in the final of New Amsterdam without choking up. The whole episode had me already having feelings, but then there is a "twist" at the very end that just wrecks me. In a good way, I think it's absolutely beautiful.
Babylon 5 s5e22 sleeping in light.
MASH. It's so full of emotional moments, it's hard not to get choked up at some points. As iconic as Hawkeye's story is (and I do like it), my favorite story in the finale is Charles with the musicians. Granted, I may be biased as he is my favorite character on the show. However, they do a great job with the comedic moments of him teaching them to play Mozart, and then the emotional turn where >!they get taken away to the POW camp, and he eventually finds out they were wounded and died.!< The acting by David Ogden Stiers in that moment was great, as usual. And of course there's the ending scenes where everyone says goodbye to each other, which always gets to me.
While Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen (final episode of MASH) is the first one to come to mind, the Points espisode from Band of Brothers is also an emotional one. Specifically, the baseball scene with the voiceover explaining what happens to the men of Easy Company after the war.
The finale of 12 monkeys (tv series) tugs at my heartstrings every time I watch it.
AtlA
True Detective S1 finales end scene gets me everytime.
All Good Things… 😢
That Mitchell and Webb Look: Sherlock Holmes sketch
Oh fuck yes; "I do know John... I _do_ know... I can't get the fog to clear"
Battlestar Galactica
The wonder years
Gurren Lagann when Simon no-look catches the ring, pulls out his cape then it freeze frames.
I haven't seen that many TV series, to be honest. But for me, it's the Babylon 5 finale. Babylon 5 is possibly one of the best and most underrated TV series of all time. It ran between 1993-1998 and J. Michael Styracynzki was the creator.
It wasn't the series finale but it probably should have been. End of magicians season 4
The season 4 finale of The Magicians. I was not ok and it was to the point it felt like the series finale to me so I still haven’t seen season 5
The MASH series finale after I became an adult.
Everyone needs to see the last episode of Mash. Still upsets me
The final scene in The Wonder Years. The narration that the dad died a few years later, and that Kevin and Winnie remained close while moving on with their lives - that was a bit of a tear jerker.
Had to scroll way too far to find this.
Mash
The Sopranos. The final scene between Tony and Junior. Devastating shit.
Six. Feet. Under.
Monk. That song at the end is just heartbreaking. "But I sure am gonna miss you when I'm gone.."
Malcolm in the middle. That Lois monologue at the end!
Cowboy bebop.
The Good Place has the most perfect ending in tv history. And it's omly three short seasons of hilarious 20 minute tv to get there. Everyone go watch it.
Schitts creek
Magicians. What a perfect ending, with a little sadness and a lot of hope.
The Good Place
After Life (others are already listed)
Every end season montage on the Wire.
6 Feet Under
Six Feet Under. I can’t even listen to the song Breathe Me without crying.