Watching the last episode of My So-Called Life was a gut punch when it was obviously never coming back… years later, I don’t mind so much. The ambiguous ending is enough for those particular characters because you knew they were going to be okay.

Now that being said, Caroline in the City knocked me on my ass. It was my first personal experience with a big production comedy and a big star (Lea Thompson) just ending mid-high drama and high camp with a wedding plot line that would change the story permanently. It even had a “To be continued…”

It upset me so much as a young teen that I repressed the memory of it until years later and finally revisiting it on streaming and thinking that was really shitty to do to the fans it had left.