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Songs ending an episode

posted 2 years ago by ccr1633 (1411)
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I've been re-watching SoA for the first time since it initially aired. It's mainly enjoyable like I remembered, but it seems like the last 3-4 minutes of every single episode ends with a song and various cutaways to the principal characters. I never used to notice this, but this tedious show-ending technique seemed ubiquitous in the decade of different shows that followed. Now I can't stand it. It's predictability makes it tedious and cheap to my eyes and ears, and it doesn't help SoA that half the time the songs were crappy covers of classics.

Did this show pioneer this?

[–] mtxmind (2956) 2 years ago

Not sure if this show started it, but I too found this approach tedious & pretentious. Especially like in the S04 finale, where they changed the lyrics of House of the Rising Sun to reflect the events of the episode........ Very badly at that!

[–] GoldenTemple (268) a year ago

The Sopranos did this first with almost every episode ending with a song. I forgot that they changed the lyrics for that episode.

[–] mtxmind (2956) a year ago

Yeah it was kind of a cringy way to end an otherwise solid episode, one of the best in the series.