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As long as we’re quoting apocalyptic poetry here, what’s the one about ending not with a bang, but a whimper? I’d Bing it, but I just watched the series finale of

and I’m too drowsy. Just between you and me, the series finale of

was not great. After two previous episodes that bordered on wonderful, this thing swerved right back into the Not Worth Your Time zone and concluded not with the kind of definitive ending you’d expect from an “event series,” but with more of a wishy-washy setup for a second season that will never come. Oh well.

For those wondering: No cure was found, nobody escaped the cordon, and the government still doesn’t have a plan to evacuate non-infected persons. On the other hand, Dr. Sabine is now

in trouble for corruption; Lex is now trapped inside the cordon as well; the elderly couple committed suicide (romantically); and several citizens are now covered in Katie’s cremains after Jake scattered them off the hospital roof. The word “finale” should be used loosely here.

might be over, but the story will forever feel as frustratingly anticlimactic and incomplete as ever.

You’d be forgiven if you assumed last week’s thrilling penultimate episode might lead to a finale centered around our heroes’ exciting escape, but no. Instead, this episode picked up two days later and found Jana, Suzy, Teresa, Xander, and Quentin bickering in the sewers as the National Guard imploded every tunnel they entered. Exactly how was the destruction of important Atlanta infrastructure a great idea on the government’s part? Unexplained. But there our heroes were, wiping dust from their eyes and openly critiquing the corrupt cop attempting to lead them to freedom.

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correct to assume Lex would be their final obstacle, and before we knew it, he was in also in the tunnel, fretting over whether to let Jana and her friends escape. And despite Jana’s poignant jangling of his apartment keys and a promise to finally shack up with him, Lex ultimately decided to lead the disappointed crew back into the cordon and live there with them! This series was obviously meant to continue for many more seasons, but unfortunately, one can now only fantasize about all the riveting Lex plotlines he’d have sleepwalked through!

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