Some shows don’t just end; they betray you, and suddenly the whole series becomes impossible to rewatch.

This episode started with Will’s Substack piece on “unrewatchable TV,” and we take it from there: why How I Met Your Mother feels like a trust fall that never got caught, why Game of Thrones is still rewatchable for some people even after a rushed finale, and the three big ways a show becomes unrewatchable:

1. The ending breaks trust,
2. The show crosses a “trauma threshold,” or
3. It ages so poorly you can’t unsee it.

We also get into the peak-end rule (your brain remembers the emotion ...