Look, I love a bleak television ending as much as the next jaded critic, but the ending of "Xena: Warrior Princess" is exceptionally dismal. The series, which starred Lucy Lawless as the titular warrior princess, followed Xena as she tried to find redemption for her past as a ruthless killer. The character had originally started as a villain on the series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys," but she ended up being an interesting enough character to carry a spin-off all of her own. Xena, as an anti-hero before we were even really calling them that, was a deeply conflicted character who had some awfulness to answer for, but that doesn't mean she deserved an ending as brutal as those we later got for serious real-world dramas like "Breaking Bad" and "The Sopranos."

"Xena: Warrior Princess"

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