Ending!? explantations!?

Are you watching the same show as us? He met the guy when he was a kid.

After realizing Ryan killed Wilfred (from giving him lung cancer by constantly smoking pot with him in a tiny closet), and realizing that Wilfred was just a dog all along, and the realization that he himself is *beep* crazy (taking after both of his parents), Ryan dies after taking all those pills in the finale. Everything else that happens after that is his own way of making peace with himself, finding happiness, tying things together, living in his "heaven", or however you want to put it.

Another theory is that Ryan's biological dad really did die in prison and the man he met was actually Krungel/Bruce tricking Ryan into living a life of misery with his lies. Remember: the man's dog is named Krunny and both dogs Mataman and Krungel ruined the life of the man.

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Ryan was in the cult up to age 3 and watched everyone act out their roles again and again; he suppressed the memory but subconsciously projected the people and their characters throughout his adult life.

And I do believe Ryan holed up in the closet, smoking with the dog in the vicinity, which is why it had lung cancer (lung cancer is rare in dogs). He was the cause of it.

I never got a chance to watch the show when it was on but finally got to binge watch the full series a few weeks ago (and my opinion might be a little warped by watching Wilfred after American Horror Story and Dirk Gently) but here's my theory. There are points in the series where Ryan sees things before they happen or Wilfred will say something about someone before Ryan has a chance to see it for himself, so simple mental illness is less likely and this brings up the possibility of ESP (which would cover precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, etc), which is also supposed to be hereditary. Ryan was taken from the cult before he was even a toddler, he wouldn't have had any memory of it anyway but his mother also said that his biological father had become extremely over-protective of him, restricting even her access to him, which would imply that he was kept away from most members of the cult so he probably didn't see either Richard (Wilfred) or Shane (Bruce) during his time there. I don't think that the beliefs of the cult were legitimate BUT let's say that these two cult members died while they were still fanatic followers and consider the possibility of reincarnation. It would explain why Wilfred had many of the personality traits of Richard, described by Ryan's biological father. So Wilfred was not Mataman, but the reincarnation of Richard and Ryan, being more perceptive and open after his failed suicide attempt, was able to see what was inside of the dog rather than the dog itself. The show ended with Ryan being haunted... Weird theory, but I like it a hell of a lot more than mental illness.