It was a good ending that wrapped up everything kinda nicely, but the way we got there really muddled everything.

I clearly have lower standards than a lot of people so everything I watch provides me more enjoyment

A theory I have is that it is due to unmet expectations. I haven't kept up with any of the marketing or the source material, just watched the show. I thought that while the show could probably have stood to be a season or two shorter, that this final season was them sticking the landing pretty well.

Then, I went and saw the complaints. And then, I checked out how the season was marketed, and they absolutely were selling it as if this season was going to build to a no holds barred apocalyptic final battle. What we got was much more subdued and focused on character moments. If I'd been inundated with that marketing, I'd have been disappointed too. If I'd been invested in Gen V, i would have been disappointed.

Near perfect? I don't know about that, but it was alright.

Poking through the online fan communities, people seemed to resent:

• the desire to push a new spinoff show, Vaught Rising, starring a character that people didn’t really care about (Soldier Boy) who kept disappearing and coming back,
• visibly reduced production value,
• marketing that teased plot turns that never happened
• dragging the show past its expiration date by 2 additional seasons

I was always an arms-length viewer of the show, never really embracing it, acking it for the edgelord-chasing nihilism that it offered but never caring much about it. All that criticism sounds about right.

Respect to the on screen talent; they deserved better.

Yeah, I guess I'm dumb but I quite enjoyed it. Homelander/trump's ending is picture perfect. Butcher's story ended exactly as it needed to. And there's some lovely hope and optimism, which for a series like that in times like these, felt exactly right.

near perfect? fans already have been saying it went downhill around season 3. the show got lazier and lazier, especially they had issues with Marie supposdely being anti-homelander was never used. he did better with 5 seasons of SPNatural than this.

I don't think I've ever skipped through parts of an episode just to make it through before watching this season. The dialogue is so bad.

I had to quit watching this show when the man crawled into the other man's penis.

It was a bit underwhelming and cheesy at times, skipped a few of the "touching" scenes. Overall okay, but meh.

It was decent, the final season was pretty pointless unfortunately and the finale didn't live up to the hype. I will say the shows ending was a million times better than the comic. I laughed and despaired at how stupid the comic ending was but the show made sense at least and did better with several of the characters like Kimiko, Annie and Hughie.

Comic 5/10 overall ending 2/10. Show 7/10 including the ending, a quite watchable show.

The season was a disappointment. They just killed off characters, which had no effect after the third episode. We get it, Homelander is a metaphor for Trump, but cheap revenge justice plots are just lazy and uncreative.

Donald Trump will die a rich old man in a big house.