Lost

I'm not a rabid Lost fan, but I always found the show at least semi-entertaining. I basically joined the viewing public about two years ago via Netflix/Hulu/ABC News and managed to get up to speed by the series finale this past Sunday. My overall take: thumbs up! I guess if I was obsessed with the show and cared for a plot-driven, zero-mystery show, then I might have been disappointed with the show's ending. Spoiler alert: apparently if you have all your characters die at the end, that's a writer "cop-out". However, I'm more of your mild-mannered fan and the ending hit all the right notes for me: heart-tugging emotional re-connections between the characters, tightly-paced plot with suspenseful moments for most of the show, and final ending moment to clarify the moral of the series.

Here's a critic more well-spoken analysis of the end:

Lost is not a story about an island or a plane crash or a Smoke Monster or some hippie-dippie 70s-era research crew. It's not just a story about a doctor with a God complex and daddy issues or a well-meaning fugitive or a paraplegic with conviction or a conman with great one-liners or an obese lottery winner. It's all that, but it's a also a story about a group of flawed yet lovable people experiencing life and death, pain and suffering, healing and joy in order to experience that moment of Oneness. 

Read the whole thing here.