It’s a bitter sweet moment when a TV show comes to an end. Be it the much anticipated finale of a pre-planned swan-song of a loved show (Breaking Bad), the mercy killing of a high quality show that jumped the shark (take a bow Heroes) or the hastily rewritten endings of those shows cancelled mid-season (oh, so, so, many). Here, we take a look at two very different endings to two very different shows, Lost and Fringe. Fringe vs. Lost Who else sat through the final episode of Lost, after having invested endless hours of time immersed in the strange, and often wandering plotlines, only to rage and rail at the biggest dead end of all dead end plotlines which effectively relegated the entire six season run to a sequence of dreams experienced by the dying ? It is also perhaps worth noting that the final episodes were better received critically in the USA than they were in the UK. Are the British then the seekers of ultimate truths? Conversely, which people also sat through the final episodes of Fringe, and, despite feeling saddened at the ending of a great show, were satisfied that the plot had at least come ...