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- There are oodles of ways to end a TV series. Marriage! Death! Birth! Flashforward! It was all a dream! Ambiguous cut to black! In 1988, though, St. Elsewhere truly shook things up and gave us one of the most talked-about series finales in history with "the snow globe."
Mar 18, 2021 · St. Elsewhere fielded one of the most confoundingly weird finales in television history, with an age-old "it was all a dream" trope that confused viewers.
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It was all a dream! Ambiguous cut to black! In 1988, though, St. Elsewhere truly shook things up and gave us one of the most talked-about series finales in history with "the snow globe."
Mar 20, 2023 · The celebrated hospital drama St. Elsewhere's series finale featured a strange and iconic snow globe reveal, and dragged much of TV with it.
Apr 13, 2013 · Yes, they did the it-was-all-a-dream ending...sort of. During the finale, we get some emotional closure for most of the show's characters, including Dr. Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel), who has completed his residency, Dr. John Gideon , who has quit after a disastrous run as the CEO of St. Eligius, and Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders), who has ...
Jan 21, 2024 · There were a lot of main characters that the creators had to find satisfying endings for, but the way St. Elsewhere did it caused a huge controversy. NBC Nearly 30 years after the show ended, people are still left wondering what the finale meant.
Jan 16, 2024 · There had been countless “and it was all a dream” endings or revelations in television before, of which the most notorious is the moment in Dallas when it is casually revealed that...
May 25, 2018 · David Bushman, a TV curator at the Paley Center in New York City, recently described the final shot of the snow globe as “a reaffirmation that St. Elsewhere was ‘merely’ a work of fiction. In...
