7 Near-Perfect Netflix Shows That Actually Have An Ending

Published Oct 14, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT Zach Moser has been writing for ScreenRant since 2022, covering movies, classic TV, and streaming TV. His areas of expertise cover a wide range of genres with a particular interest in horror and drama, and the conversations around the TV and film industry. When he's not covering the latest film releases or chronicling the latest season of a new show, he's writing humor pieces for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Slackjaw, and Points In Case or working on short stories and his second novel. Many spoilers ahead!These seven Netflix shows have the distinction of not just being fantastic series, but fantastic series with actual endings. For a long time, Netflix was tarred with the brush of ending its shows before they were ready. The streamer is littered with numerous shows that were suddenly canceled before they had a chance to get off the ground. In more recent years, Netflix has been shaking off that stereotype, but it means that there are only a handful of Netflix originals that can be said to have a good, satisfying ending. To make this list, a show has to be more than one season, so limited series and miniseries do not count. BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) Everett BoJack Horseman was one of the first Netflix original series and was a watershed moment in adult animated TV shows. Though there were many animated series geared to adults before BoJack, none struck quite the same tragic tone and found quite the same large audience. The series is set in a fictional version of Hollywood where anthropomorphic animals live alongside humans. One of these animals is a horse named BoJack Horseman, a former '90s sitcom star whose life has slid into obscurity thanks to drugs, alcohol, depression, and a lack of opportunities. It's a very funny, goofy, sometimes immature series, but it's also filled with terrible moments of humanity, where we are asked to go along with BoJack even as he does reprehensible thing after reprehensible thing. The final episode of the series is a fitting, quiet epilogue, as BoJack finds not quite forgiveness, but contentment. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015-2020) Tina Fey's follow-up to 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was never as lauded as the NBC workplace comedy, but deserves far more recognition than it ever received. The series stars Ellie Kemper as the titular unbreakable heroine, who has just escaped a doomsday cult and the "end of the world". With a new lease on life and a naïveté only available to those who have been held captive underground for 15 years, Kimmy makes her way to NYC to absorb everything life can throw at her. It's a wonderfully cheery series, with laugh-out-loud funny lines, and Fey's wry sense of humor that keeps things from getting too treacly. The finale of the series is the perfect capstone to the show. It's heartfelt and gives the characters the endings they deserve, even if it's not the ones the audience hoped for. It's hilarious, making great jokes up until the very last moment, and it brings together four seasons of storytelling, which contained a conspicuously grim through line, that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt handles with care. Stranger Things (2016-2025) After nearly nine years, Stranger Things came to an end in 2025 with the long-awaited season 5, frustratingly broken up into three parts as if the showrunners couldn't help but drag their audience to their very limits. Despite the repeated storylines, despite the expositional solutions, despite the actors aging much more than their characters, Stranger Things sticks the landing. The end of Stranger Things will never go down as one of the greatest TV show endings ever, but its degree of difficulty was so high, you have to give it up for the show. The fact that it wasn't a disaster is a triumph, and even though it isn't perfect, there is a lot to like. Stranger Things had been building toward its ending since the Duffer Brothers decided to turn their anthology series into a multi-season franchise. There were always going to be loose ends by the finale, but Stranger Things makes the wise choice to tidy up the important plots first and foremost, even if it means some side stories got left behind. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017-2019) Credit: MovieStillsDB A Series of Unfortunate Events brought Lemony Snicket's (Daniel Handler's) 13-book children's series to brilliant and faithful life in Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The show, like the book, follows the tragic adventures of the Baudelaire children who are orphaned after their parents die in a mysterious fire. They are placed in the care of Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), a sinister showman who wants the Baudelaire's fortune for himself. They escape Olaf's custody, only to be sentenced to live with a successive series of poor, inept, and evil guardians, all with designs on the Baudelaires in one way or another. A Series of Unfortunate Events has Snicket's wonderfully ambiguous ending to lean upon, but the show should be celebrated for reaching that conclusion. Jim Carrey's 2004 film adaptation only got as far as the third book. It's as complete an adaptation as you're going to find anywhere, and it brings to life the wonder and sadness of the novels. Dark (2017-2020) Dark is a German language time travel series and maybe the best in the time travel genre. One day in the German town of Winden, children begin vanishing in the woods near an abandoned cave. Stranger still, the bodies of children, thought lost though now dead, start turning up. In the middle of this, are four families, connected across the decades in shocking and surprising ways, and their journey through Winden at different periods results in jaw-dropping revelations and unexpected twists of fate. It's a mind-bending show that goes right to the edge of what an invested viewer can handle. Time travel is a notoriously difficult conceit to tie up, but Dark nails it. The final episode of Dark is not only heartbreaking and triumphant, it also brings together everything we've learned over the course of three seasons. It's an ending that rewards the viewer for sticking with the show and insists they go back and start it over. Atypical (2017-2021) Credit: MoiveStillsDB Atypical is a comedy-drama series starring Keir Gilchrist as Sam Gardner, an 18-year-old in Connecticut who is autistic, has a fascination with Antarctica, and adores penguins. Sam's family does their best to get along, while also worrying over their son, who they are not always perfectly equipped to help. The jump in quality from season 1 to the rest of the show comes in large part from Atypical making a concerted effort to hire autistic actors and writers. Their involvement is noticeable, and each season of the show is an improvement as Atypical takes a nuanced and honest dive into what it's like to be a part of a family with a neurotypical member in it. Atypical season 4 is a prudent look into what it's like to watch an autistic son or daughter move on from adolescence into maturity. The series finale takes the themes and relationships of the series, and brings them to their natural conclusions, never flinching from reality, just as the show has always avoided doing. Sweet Tooth (2021-2024) Image via MovieStillsDB Sweet Tooth is a three-season fantasy adventure series based on Jeff Lemire comic book series of the same name from DC Comics. The show is set ten years after a viral pandemic wiped out most of humanity and ended civilization. It also led to an increase in the births of hybrid babies, with animal body parts and characteristics. Gus (Christian Convery) is a part-deer hybrid who lives with his father, hiding away from the surviving humans who are prejudiced against hybrids. After his father dies, Gus teams up with a lonesome human wanderer, Tommy (Nonso Anozie), to find his birth mother who Gus believes is in Colorado. The series comes to its natural conclusion, and wisely ends before the story gets too dragged out, an example fo the show's restraint which serves it well throughout its run. Netflix often put fantasy shows on the chopping block too early, but Sweet Tooth is the rare one that got its satisfying ending.