Denzel Washington – St. Elsewhere

The show that kickstarted Denzel Washington’s career, St. Elsewhere, is also guilty of creating a finale that was polarizing at best. In the end, the final episode and what happened in it is the stuff of dreams, and apparently, the showrunners agreed with that notion.

Everyone gets some form of closure. This includes the death of the veteran and respected Dr. Auschlander and the return of the famous Dr. Westphall. Suddenly it pans backward, all the way out of a snow globe and into an apartment, where it is revealed that the whole story came from the imagination of Dr. Westphall’s autistic son. Washington played the lead in 2021’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”