Sons of Anarchy fans are still hashing out that show’s recent series finale, as are those viewers who stuck with The Newsroom to the (bitter?) end. But what about the other TV shows that ended their primetime runs in 2014?

Was the big reveal about the dude in the dog suit on Wilfred satisfying (or revealing)? Did those closing moments of The Killing justify that six-episode final season? Did the How I Met Your Mother finale ruin the whole series?

Read on for our reviews of the year’s biggest series enders. And be warned: spoilers ahead!

Sons of Anarchy — Grade: A

Our one nitpick: that Milo the driver (guest star Michael Chiklis) was forced into a part in Jax’s final ride; that was harsh. But series creator Kurt Sutter bringing his motorcycle club drama full-circle, with father and son setting up the people around them to carry on while taking the big out themselves? It was the Shakespearean story, tone, and ending he had been telegraphing throughout all seven seasons.

We might have hoped that Jax could redeem himself for the things he’d done; some of his worst decisions, ironically, were made in the name of trying to leave his life of crime and murder behind. But when his wife Tara was murdered in the Season 6 finale, it was clear that SoA's final season could only end for Jax in the same way his father’s attempts to call a do-over on SAMCRO ended two decades earlier.

And for all the claims that Sutter seemed to love torturing his characters, there were a few... maybe not happy endings, but hopeful open endings. We had been worried about Nero for the better part of two seasons, but he packed up his cardigans and took Wendy and Jax’s sons off to his uncle’s farm at Jax’s request, suggesting that all four of them had a chance at finding some peace. Of course, little Abel was playing with that SAMCRO ring his grandma had secretly given him...



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Psych — Grade: A

PSYCH -- The Break-Up Episode 810 -- Pictured: (l-r) Kirsten Nelson as Karen Vick, Dule Hill as Gus Guster, James Roday as Shawn Spencer, Maggie Lawson as Juliet O'Hara -- (Photo by: Alan Zenuk/USA Network) More

Shawn and Juliet (and Gus, kinda) are engaged! Lassie destroyed the truth-revealing DVD! And Shawn and Gus's adventures will continue, even if it meant Gus giving up his company car and fancy office kitchen to join his BFF in San Francisco! In other words, pretty much everything a Psych viewer could have wanted to happen in the series finale did, with the Peter Pan of the fake-psychic world (population: one?) taking some relatively big steps forward.

There was even a very special guest star when Officer Dobson, the oft-mentioned but never-seen officer, turned out to look an awful lot like Val Kilmer (because he was), the actor who had topped the Psych gang’s guest star wish list for years.

Some fans (or more likely, critics) might quibble that Shawn never really came clean about his fake psychic abilities, but we’d argue this wasn’t that kind of show, as we continue to miss the weekly doses of offbeat humor, loads of pop-culture references, and obsessions with foods from Red Robin restaurants to Snyder’s pretzels to, of course, pineapples.



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Wilfred — Grade: A