Warning: spoilers for various TV shows.
Many TV shows build mysteries or save big twists and reveals to hook the audience, and there have been some great reveals in the last decade, but also some disappointing ones. Many of the best TV shows of all time had memorable reveals, both for good and bad, and either way, they were key to their legacies.
The last decade saw many great TV shows from all genres, and with them came some huge reveals, too. As anticipated as many of these moments were, not all of them succeeded and were well-received. Some of them were disappointing, pointless, or underwhelming, and, in some cases, they were so bad that they ruined the entire season.
The Identity Of The White Flame
The Witcher
For fans of the Witcher books, this wasn’t a big reveal, but it definitely was for those unfamiliar with the story. There are many threats in Netflix’s The Witcher that Geralt (Henry Cavill and Liam Hemsworth), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and Ciri (Freya Allan) have to face, and one that was mentioned since season 1 was the White Flame, the Emperor of Nilfgaard.
The identity of the White Flame was revealed at the end of The Witcher season 2, and it’s none other than Ciri’s supposedly dead father, Emhyr var Emreis (Bart Edwards). Even worse, season 4 of The Witcher confirmed that, just like in the books, the White Flame wants to capture Ciri to have a kid with her and thus fulfill a prophecy.
Grunkle Stan’s Identity
Gravity Falls
Gravity Falls is an animated mystery comedy TV series created by Alex Hirsch, and it follows young twins Dipper (voiced by Jason Ritter) and Mabel (Kristen Schaal), who spend the summer in the title town with their Grunkle Stan (Hirsch). However, the town is plagued by supernatural incidents and creatures, and it has many secrets.
What Mabel and Dipper would never have imagined, however, was that Stan was keeping lots of those secrets. Grunkle Stan had actually assumed the identity of his twin brother, Stanford, whom he knocked into a portal. As a result, Stan(ley) took his brother’s identity and continued to work to bring his brother back. It’s a huge reveal, and one that makes Gravity Falls more intriguing.
Tom’s Betrayal
Succession
Succession follows the Roy family, owners of Waystar RoyCo, a media and entertainment conglomerate. When the patriarch, Logan (Brian Cox), begins to struggle with his health, his children fight for control of the company. With lots of power and ambition involved, Succession had to have some shocking moments of betrayal.
However, the biggest betrayal came from someone very close to the Roys – Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), husband of Logan’s daughter. Tom sabotaged the Roy children, including his own wife, to secure his own place in the company, and in a way that his wife would now have to answer to him.
Why Alex Karev Left
Grey’s Anatomy
Grey’s Anatomy is one of the best medical dramas of all time, but it has become infamous for how badly it handles the departure of its main characters. Grey’s Anatomy has become known for killing some of its most popular characters, but what it did to Alex Karev when Justin Chambers left the show was even worse.
Grey’s Anatomy decided to have Karev leave his wife and the hospital so he could reconnect with Izzie after learning that she had gone on to use the embryos they had frozen. It was a disrespectful decision to both the audience and Karev’s development, and it’s one of Grey’s Anatomy‘s most controversial reveals.
Eleanor Is In The Bad Place
The Good Place
The Good Place is a perfect show with no bad episodes, and on top of that, it had a great and unexpected plot twist in its first season. The Good Place sees Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) arriving at the title place after her death, but she’s well aware that she doesn’t deserve to be there because she wasn’t a good person.
However, Eleanor decides to earn her place, with the help of her assigned soulmate, Chidi (William Jackson Harper), but she eventually realizes that they, along with Jason and Tahani, have been in the Bad Place the entire time. It’s an unexpected twist that changes everything and dictates the rest of the show, and it’s still great on a rewatch.
The Third Holmes Sibling
Sherlock
Sherlock peaked in its second season, and it crashed and burned in its third and fourth seasons, and the latter had a huge but disappointing reveal. The series finale made a huge reveal that isn’t in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books, and which was never hinted at in the show until the previous episode: the existence of a Holmes sister.
Eurus Holmes turned out to be a criminal mastermind, which is why she had been imprisoned in a high-security prison… where she was in control of everything because she was a criminal mastermind. Eurus then came up with an elaborate and nonsensical plan to bring her brothers and Watson down, and her introduction further made season 4 a disappointment and a mess.
Rory’s Pregnancy
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Throughout seven seasons, viewers saw Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) go through many ups and downs as a family and in their personal lives, but none of it could have prepared them for the huge reveal at the end of the revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
The miniseries sees Rory traveling to Stars Hollow and London and meeting with well-known characters like Logan (Matt Czuchry), Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), and Paris (Liza Weil). The Gilmore Girls revival ends with Luke and Lorelai’s wedding, and with Rory dropping a huge bomb on Lorelai: she’s pregnant.
However, it’s unknown who the father of Rory’s baby is and what she will do next, and even though she’s not young like Lorelai was when she had her, it was still a shocking reveal. This reveal was seen as out of character for Rory, and it divided the show’s audience.
Who Takes The Iron Throne
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones had many storylines throughout its run, but they all led to the answer to the show’s biggest question: who would take the Iron Throne. The show led the audience to believe different characters would take the throne, but the final reveal only made the controversial final season even worse.
The character who ended up on the Iron Throne was Bran Stark, a decision that fans of Game of Thrones felt was disappointing, undeserving, strange, and enraging. The finale of Game of Thrones was one of the most awaited ones in recent years, and it was ruined by this decision.
Everyone Is Connected
Dark
Dark is Netflix’s best sci-fi TV show to date, as well as one of the cleverest, most complex, and interesting sci-fi shows in recent years. Dark involves time travel, and throughout its three seasons, it has many huge reveals, but the first one, which is the one that unleashes everything, is the most shocking and important one.
As it turns out, all the characters in Dark are connected in some way, and that’s thanks to the show’s clever use of time travel. Dark can be hard to follow at some points, but putting all the pieces together is a big part of what makes it one of the best sci-fi shows of all time.
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