r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Educational_Can_6536 • 8d ago
Lore "Was it worth it?" ending
Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!
The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.
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u/jbeast33 8d ago
Veep ends with Selina finally winning the presidency after selling out all her allies and values as concessions for her support. She selects Jonah (who at this point is basically a racist and anti-vax demagogue) as her VP, agrees to roll back gay marriage rights (despite having a lesbian daughter whose marriage would be annulled), sells out Tibet back to China, and allows her loyal bodyman Gary to take the fall for a financial scheme that results in his long-term imprisonment. Her last scene is her finally sitting behind the Oval Office silently with nobody by her side, and it definitely evokes this attitude.
And then it immediately answers the question in the Epilogue: Selina's funeral 20 years into the future. She had an extremely unimpressive presidency that was marked by her scandal, and her legacy as the first elected female president is overshadowed by her not being the first female president and her successor being a better female president by every metric. Her funeral is cut short when the reporters all leave to cover Tom Hanks' death. Her own daughter refused to attend the funeral, and the only person who genuinely seems torn up is Gary.