Why a Bad Series Finale Ruins the Whole Show

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: https://biglink.to/music-for-scientists. Check out the “For Your Love" music video here: https://youtu.be/YGjjvd34Cvc. Objectively, some shows end with rough final acts, but we are finding that this isn’t the only factor in our discontent. Unsatisfactory finales also reflect common types of relationships we build with fictional characters. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Giles4/publication/247503642_Parasocial_Interaction_A_Review_of_the_Literature_and_a_Model_for_Future_Research/links/5565c37308ae06101abeaa18.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103108002412 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08824096.2017.1285757 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0030222815600450 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15506878jobem5003_9 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/673959.pdf? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0265407504041374 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407504041374 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00589.x https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/PBR.15.1.96.pdf https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191479 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/40/46/8938.abstract https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858419 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627303006792 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wtf-wheres-my-show-irritated-young-woman-points-remote-control-gm520220499-50068430 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/concentrated-man-watching-football-game-on-tv-in-open-kitchen-upset-man-sharply-turning-off-tv-by-tv-remote-angry-guy-going-out-in-darkness-after-bad-game-synxzv9mrjym6nc5e https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/relationship-difficulties-gm478896468-67592639 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/senior-man-comforting-woman-with-depression-in-bedroom-at-home-honjtc09mjn6klexg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/woman-holding-remote-control-and-eating-popcorn-relaxing-on-couch-in-living-room-lonely-happy-late-at-night-lady-in-pijamas-resting-watching-tv-lying-on-comfortable-couch-changing-tv-channels-bwuhjhsrvkfi4klhj https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/raven-with-blue-eye-sitting-on-a-skull-on-the-snow-stylized-photography-gm1143084531-306850655 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/texture-of-ice-xxxl-gm170045025-23335250 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/distraught-man-sitting-with-a-cup-of-coffee-and-seen-lost-deep-in-his-thoughts-gm1218133348-355837624 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/old-woman-failing-to-master-tv-remote-is-frustrated-gm1040303824-278499297 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/person-looking-through-picture-window-out-at-stormy-sea-s6ohf5gymjmc6gfz3 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/frustrated-man-driving-car-at-traffic-jam-bzsstrjdwj6cclbwo https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/boring-woman-checking-tv-channels-at-open-kitchen-portrait-of-sad-lady-using-tv-remote-at-living-room-sleepy-girl-turning-off-television-bkfoau06zhjypxhip2 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/brainstorm-109-3d-animation-of-a-male-head-and-brain-rotating-with-light-effects-loop-b0ddhhdzyxjmaz0nd0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Insular_cortex.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/eating-seafood-gm496411414-78456325 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/swollen-lip-gm497010546-78889823 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/jumbo-shrimp-scampi-sauteeing-in-butter-and-olive-oil-gm469311080-62330558 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/blond-bimbo-stereotype-vector-illustration-gm165034461-1251927 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neuron-tem-view-gm1204279188-346454620 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hi-res-antique-parchment-with-medieval-gilded-arabesque-linear-decorative-motif-gm171160129-18851125


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