The Endgame (TV Series) Happily Ever After (2022) User Reviews

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated!

[bosporan · 6/10 · 3 May 2022]

A mediocre ending riddled with more credibility-stretching plot holes than Swiss cheese, but overall satisfactorily tying the threads and simultaneously setting up a potential season 2.

I watched this to the end despite the turgid episodes mid-season, any second season needs to show more than simply putting Morena on-screen in a frock to get me interested.

Lousy end to a watchable season

[lotekguy-1 · 3/10 · 7 May 2022]

Granted, one must suspend a sh**load of disbelief to enjoy this series. Outrageously epic-scale set of villains and villainy; Morena's impossibly broad and complex plot to expose the baddies, foreseeing, if not creating, a zillion variables on multiple fronts, allowing her to occupy a prison cell as if it were her throne room as events unfold.

This program would have been too outlandish to stick with but for Morena's charisma. The same was true for her turn as the head alien in the V series, but even moreso here, despite the distraction of a weird and inconsistent accent. She does smug and inscrutable while keeping us in her corner better than anyone I can think of.

But... her meticulous planning that made the first nine hours compelling was completely abandoned in the finale. The ending can only be justified by knowing they'd be renewed before they shot it. If they didn't, the last 10 minutes with hanging plot threads are a betrayal of those who spent hours investing in the principals and the outcome. Very disappointing.

One and Done

[JosephFabeetz · 2/10 · 3 May 2022]

After executing complex capers featuring an army of ferocious confederates, Elena and Sergei make their escape from the FBI and their sworn enemy driving an SUV alone through the woods. Oh, let's let bodyguards go on vacation. What could go wrong? Then when her husband is killed and child kidnapped, who does the head of an international crime syndicate call for help? Why the FBI of course! A second season plot is more predictable than sun setting in the west. Good cast. Elegant production. Ridiculous story. NBC should let sun set on this franchise.

I'm such a mug

[doujyr · 1/10 · 3 May 2022]

Completely clickbaited by Morena's amazing cleavage show in the opening ep I decided to sit through the rest hoping for more. Nothing, not even something a bit extra for the final ep. What a mug. Thank goodness for FFWD.

The need to set up season two ruined all of season one, and the series has now become unwatchable.

[bearcatjb · 2/10 · 9 May 2022]

The producers "Game-of-Thronesed" this series within one season. This last episode was so bad, it ruined every episode before it.

Here we had a series about a criminal mastermind, Elena Federova, who orchestrates an intricate plan, whereby every nuance and variable was covered in sophisticated detail, ensuring that the corrupt individuals who destroyed her family where brought to light, exposed and punished. All that is, except Natalia the main instigator of the actions that destroyed her familiar and her main co-conspirator, the president (despite 3 full episodes being spent on this aspect of Elena's plan, when every other co-conspirator was brought down in just one.)

And even then, after all this flawless, meticulous planning, every contingency covered, the female villain was able to get the upper hand. I was actually waiting for Elena to reveal that this was all part of her plan to get Natalia showing herself and get her close, to finish her off once and for all.

This wasn't to be. And why was this so? Why did Elena's elaborate complex plan have this one and only blind spot? Why did Elena have such a great big unforgivable lapse in her indicate plan?

Answer: So she could call Val Turner in the last scenes and say, "I need your help," thereby setting up season two.

It was more important for the producers to rather than give us an organized, organic, satisfying conclusion to the season, giving us instead an unsatisfying, unreasonable, unfathomable ending of a cliff-hanger.

And the only thing that this served is that I, and other viewers like me who hate been taken for a ride by producers, will not be watching season two.