{"id":292360,"date":"2020-05-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1150732"},"modified":"2020-05-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:00:00","slug":"seinfeld-to-the-sopranos-the-10-most-controversial-series-finales-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/seinfeld-to-the-sopranos-the-10-most-controversial-series-finales-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld to The Sopranos: The 10 Most Controversial Series Finales Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201963\/rs_600x600-190703122235-600x600-cast-gj-7-3-19.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.322360953462\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.347332576617\">\n<p>For a show about nothing, reaction to <em>Seinfeld<\/em>&#8216;s series finale sure was something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 22 years since the beloved NBC sitcom signed off on May 14, 1998 with a two-part episode that put a pin in the story of Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer. And in all that time, there&#8217;s still a vocal contingent of the show&#8217;s fan base who haven&#8217;t gotten over the fact that the show, created by star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jerry_seinfeld\">Jerry Seinfeld<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/larry_david\">Larry David<\/a><\/strong>, refused to give us anything close to resembling a happy ending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rather, by the time the parade of guest stars had finished testifying against the core four for the various terrible things they&#8217;d done over the past TK seasons, the image we were left with was one of just desserts: Seinfeld and his co-stars <strong>Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Richards<\/strong> stuck behind bars, their iconic characters found guilty of caring about no one but themselves.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Of course, in the two decades since, there have been more than a few shows that have followed in their footsteps, leaving viewers scratching their heads and wondering whether they&#8217;d just wasted years of their lives. In honor of <em>Seinfeld<\/em>&#8216;s most ignoble anniversary, here are the 10 shows that most infamously failed to stick their landing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1150732\/seinfeld-to-the-sopranos-the-10-most-controversial-series-finales-ever?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a show about nothing, reaction to Seinfeld&#8216;s series finale sure was something. It&#8217;s been 22 years since the beloved NBC sitcom signed off on May 14, 1998 with a two-part episode that put a pin in the story of Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer. And in all that time, there&#8217;s still a vocal contingent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 03:14:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}