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6 Feels We All Get When Our Favourite TV Show Ends
by SOPHIE NICOLAS 18 SEPTEMBER 2017
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We’ve all been there. Finishing a TV show is like losing some good friends. You
laughed together, you cried together, you got emotionally invested in their
love lives (maybe a little too invested).
Saying goodbye to a TV show is like watching your own child leave the nest.
You don’t want them to leave, but you have to let go. Here is the devastating,
heart wrenching feels we go through when the final credits start to roll.
#1 You Find It Difficult To Adjust To The Real World
The TV show you’ve been binge watching the past few weeks has just ended.
As the screen fades to black you see your bleary-eyed reflection. You shudder
and look away from your laptop in a daze.
There’s no “next episode” button to click on and nothing to distract you from
your studies. You emerge from your bedroom wrapped in a blanket and shuffle
down to the living room to talk to your family for the first time in weeks. They
seem like nice people.
#2 You Can’t Accept That It’s Over
It’s a rude awakening when the final episode comes to an end. There’s no
denying it. It’s over. It’s done. But it doesn’t really feel that way.
So, you research the bloopers on YouTube, and then you find fan videos and
cast interviews, so you watch all of those. You feel a sense of dread when
those finish so you desperately find some fan fic to read. It’s terrible and you
hate it, but it’s better than living in the real world.
#3 You Desperately Try To Talk To Others About It
After it ends you need to talk about it to someone – anyone – you don’t care
who. The bored expressions and robotic head nodding from your family and
friends doesn’t perturb you, and you’ll happily go over the smallest of details
of the show until they tell you to shut up.
When you’re not talking about your show, you’re trying to get people to watch
it so you can drag them in to the dark pit of despair with you.
#4 You Attempt To Fill The Empty Void
When we finish a series we suddenly have a lot of free time. You can’t fill this
time with a new series because you’re still mentally living in the old one, so
you’re just kind of floating around, not really existing, not knowing what to do
with your life.
What did you do before this show? Did you work? Have a hobby? Did you have
friends? You can’t remember any more.
#5 You Remember All The Responsibilities You Neglected
Remember when TV was distracting you from your adult responsibilities? Well
this is the stage when all those problems you’ve repressed come bubbling up
to the surface for you to deal with. You realise you have 3 assignments due this
week, your tutors have been trying to contact you because they thought you
were dead, and you’re way behind in your bill payments.
As you pull all-nighters to finish your assignments, you vow to yourself you’ll
never get this invested in a TV show again. You’re sworn off Netflix for life, and
you’re going to be a real adult as of now.
#6 You Start All Over Again
You’ve finally got your life under control, you’re healthy, you go to the gym,
you’re an active student and your finances are under control. You log into
Netflix because why not? You’ve got some spare time.
You see the new season of Outlander has just aired. You cancel your plans to
have brunch with your friends and settle in for the emotional ride. You’re
ready to get hurt again.