Worst Series Finale of a TV Show

[John1956PA]

66. "St. Elsewhere" ended with its entire story residing in the imagination of an autistic child. n/t

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere :

"The most common interpretation of this scene is that the entire series of events in the series St. Elsewhere had been a product of Tommy Westphall's imagination, with elements of the above scene used as its own evidence. Author Cynthia Burkhead explains that with this final shot, "St. Elsewhere managed to take the idea of a dream and alter it just enough, putting it in the imagination of an autistic boy," and surmises that an ending constructed in this manner 'reminds viewers that the fiction they have watched for six years is actually fiction within a fiction, occupying a second level of unreality, one level beyond the space of illusion filled by all narrative television.' A notable result of this ending has been the attempt by individuals to determine how many television shows are also products of Tommy Westphall's mind owing to its shared fictional characters (e.g., the 'Tommy Westphall Universe')."