I could give you a list of endings that I thought were great, but if you can’t think of a single ending that you found satisfying, that sounds more like a you problem than all of humanity simply stopped writing good endings.
Seems akin to complaints that there aren't enough good movies or TV shows these days.
That's so very not the case that the person complaining either isn't looking very hard, or else have such narrow taste that they're excluding most works without even considering them.
I recommend The Good Place throughout, particularly the ending.
Re:Stories We’ve Seen Too Often
by SantalBlush on Monday May 15, 2023 @03:56PM
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Breaking Bad had a very decent ending. It wasn't overblown, it didn't have contrived plot twists, and it was consistent with the the way the characters behaved in previous arcs.
Re:Stories We’ve Seen Too Often
by ManuelKiessling on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:15PM
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„Bodyguard“, the BBC miniseries, and „My Name“ from South Korea, both on Netflix, as well as „Your Name“, from 2016 (now THAT was one final act and ending!).
Re:Stories We’ve Seen Too Often
by iainmerrick on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:29AM
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I like slg's reply (most likely somewhere above mine!)
I just want to add: what's an example of something you think is a really good ending, from any book or show or movie from any time?
I disagree wholeheartedly.
The big problem with every single writer nowadays is a complete and total inability to stick the ending.
I'm really trying very hard to come up with a TV show, book or movie that I thought really stuck the ending in the last 10 years (I'm being generous--in reality I'd even say 30 years). A whole host of the fan theories are WAY better than what practically all current writers crap out.
If I'm being charitable, I'll describe the problem as writers lack varied life experience. If I'm being uncharitable, it's that most writers are just not very intelligent.