Series finale chart

[Frodoleader]

Noticed this story on Slate. The MPI series finale ranks pretty high. Looks like it ranks at #11 all time.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... aking.html

[ConchRepublican]

I'm glad to see How I Met Your Mother so low.

That finale really annoyed me and I think undermined the whole premise of the series.

[Turkey]

Nice to see Monk made gains - I would have dragged Buffy down a bit and I'm in agreement with Futurama, from memory.

Great to see Magnum has such a high episode average.

[Steve]

Sons of Anarchy was rated positive but everyone I know that watched the show hated the finale. St. Elsewhere isn't on the chart and in my opinion the best show endings of all time were Newhart followed by St. Elsewhere..............

[J.J. Walters]

What an odd chart. It took me a little bit to figure out how to interpret it. A ton more people tuned in to the Magnum finale relative to the other final season episodes, that's for sure. Man, Dexter's finale completely bombed! That's a bummer.

Depending on what list you look at, Magnum's series finale is still the sixth or seventh most watch series finale of all-time! 50.7 million viewers! 32% household share, 48% audience share! Staggering numbers!

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

What an odd chart. It took me a little bit to figure out how to interpret it. A ton more people tuned in to the Magnum finale relative to the other final season episodes, that's for sure. Man, Dexter's finale completely bombed! That's a bummer.
Depending on what list you look at, Magnum's series finale is still the sixth or seventh most watch series finale of all-time! 50.7 million viewers! 32% household share, 48% audience share! Staggering numbers!

I agree. It's much worse than odd, though.
My father edited/ran a magazine and he would have berated any supposed pro who presented such dreary looking, poorly designed graphics.
The information should leap off the page at a glance, with stark colors denoting the different threads of data.
Think about how many people thought this chart acceptable and then okayed it before being published.
Engineers and highly paid consultants all gave a thumbs up to the Edsel as well.
My father's point was that perceived wisdom ain't necessarily common sense.
Anyway, as J.J. noted, the Magnum finale scored amazing numbers, like MASH it was water cooler talk where I worked the next day and beyond.

[Pahonu]

What an odd chart. It took me a little bit to figure out how to interpret it. A ton more people tuned in to the Magnum finale relative to the other final season episodes, that's for sure. Man, Dexter's finale completely bombed! That's a bummer.
Depending on what list you look at, Magnum's series finale is still the sixth or seventh most watch series finale of all-time! 50.7 million viewers! 32% household share, 48% audience share! Staggering numbers!

I agree. It's much worse than odd, though.
My father edited/ran a magazine and he would have berated any supposed pro who presented such dreary looking, poorly designed graphics.
The information should leap off the page at a glance, with stark colors denoting the different threads of data.
Think about how many people thought this chart acceptable and then okayed it before being published.
Engineers and highly paid consultants all gave a thumbs up to the Edsel as well.
My father's point was that perceived wisdom ain't necessarily common sense.
Anyway, as J.J. noted, the Magnum finale scored amazing numbers, like MASH it was water cooler talk where I worked the next day and beyond.

I missed this six years ago somehow, but it’s very interesting.

It seems it’s just a compilation of data from IMDB done by a user with an app called GitHub. It’s not anything done by Slate. Do they even have a hard copy? One of their culture writers likely found the charts and wrote the quick piece with the link. Online content has very different standards than the magazine hard copies of the past. Many of those “slicks” were visually beautiful. Times change, I suppose. Of course, without the online content, we likely never would have seen such data.