# TV series where the penultimate episode is better than the finale

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**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-where-the-penultimate-episode-is-better-than-the-finale/740708 "2015-12-17T17:05:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-where-the-penultimate-episode-is-better-than-the-finale/740708/41 "2015-12-18T18:34:22Z")

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> [@Infovore](#):
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> You’re one of the few, then. Nearly every review I’ve seen of it thought it was one of the best episodes ever (and I agree).

Like Erwin’s\* cat, I am simultaneously of both opinions. I enjoyed “Heaven Sent,” but plotwise one could go straight form “Face the Raven” to “Hell Bent” without losing much. But plot isn’t everything. And they didn’t kill Twelve as they should have.

- I do not know how to spell “Schrödinger.”

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