Why breaking up with your favorite show is a good thing

Esquire

The return of The Walking Dead  this week reminded Justin Kirkland that he broke up with the AMC series five years ago. "I broke up with The Walking Dead when I needed to, and it was one of the best pop culture decisions of my life," he says. "That freedom has been found through a number of break-ups: Grey's Anatomy, The O.C., and Game of Thrones—I haven't finished any of them. As a society, we reward the completionism, but I think that's wrong. Sometimes, it's best to say goodbye on your own terms." He adds: "Choosing your own end point means that you can remember that feeling of a good TV show for all the things it was, as opposed to all the ways it eventually failed."