Fuller House: 5 Things We Love About How It Ended (& 5 We Don’t)

After five seasons, Fuller House, the sequel to Full House, finally ended its run on Netflix.

The series ended with (spoiler alert) a triple wedding involving DJ and Steve, Stephanie and Jimmy, and Kimmy and Fernando. But a lot happened before they worked up to that point.

From the highs to the lows, here are 5 things viewers love about how it ended and 5 things that weren’t quite as satisfying about the finale.

10 They Were All Going to Move Away: Don’t Love

Isn’t the whole idea of Full House, and then Fuller House, that the whole “family” stays together to create, well, a literal full house?

But then, in the end, Stephanie and Kimmy dropped a bomb on DJ but revealing that they both planned to move out after the wedding. We didn’t love not only that this was happening but that they sprung it on DJ so suddenly. (Thankfully, it didn’t end up happening).

9 They All Were Going To Move On: Love

Yes, them all moving on was a sad thing, but it was also sort of a good thing as they were each going to focus on their own lives and building their own families.

It was awesome that they decided to remain one big, happy family, even if it meant little privacy and a very weird set-up with one family living in the basement and another in the attic. But it would have been good to see them each get their own homes and visit often instead of cramming into one house.

8 Family Members Were Missing: Don’t Love

We get that it’s tough to figure out how to handle the absence of the actors who played Aunt Becky and Michelle. But there were other family members noticeably missing from the big triple wedding as well that weren’t explained away, like Joey’s wife and kids and Jesse’s teenage twin sons. And surely they could have cast actors to play Kimmy’s parents, who show up unexpectedly at the last minute.

The fact that people like CJ, Vicky, and Gia were there yet close family members were not seemed odd.

7 Stephanie Was Pregnant: Love

After struggling with infertility and discovering that it was very unlikely she would ever get pregnant, Stephanie made the difficult decision to opt for in vitro and a surrogate. Luckily, she found a willing friend in Kimmy to carry her child.

It was amazing that the series ended by revealing that by an amazing miracle, Stephanie and Jimmy managed to get pregnant after all and she would now be the mother of two.

6 No Big Wedding Venue: Don’t Love

While it’s great that much of the series takes place in DJ’s house and sometimes the vet clinic and other small locations, it would have been great to see the family and friends celebrate a triple wedding in a huge venue.

Unfortunately, the way the story went is that the huge venue they booked was seized by the FBI the night before the wedding. Really? Ending off the series with a massive wedding with hundreds of people would have been a great send-off.

5 Joey McIntyre Officiating: Love

What better way to end the series than to have New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre, the first crush for both DJ and Kimmy, to officiate the wedding? Sure, it was a weird set of circumstances that led to him doing it. But who cares!

Viewers loved seeing that flashback memory of one of the biggest boy bands of the ’90s. And it made the ceremony all the more touching: the ladies must truly love their husbands-to-be if they are willing to marry them right in front of their celebrity crush!

4 Danny Didn’t Find Love: Don’t Love

It was a sweet moment when Vicky appeared at the wedding and she quickly caught up with Danny, who revealed that they had remained friends all this time. Was that supposed to imply that maybe they would get back together?

Danny seemed lonely and depressed for most of the sequel series so it would have been nice to see him find love as well. Perhaps that one scene was a way of leaving that possibility open for viewers to come up with their own ending for him.

3 Wrapped Up Storylines: Love

Lots of storylines were wrapped up nicely with the ending, including mentions of both DJ’s husband who passed on and her mother, as well as the future for all of the guy running Uncle Monty’s and Stephanie becoming a mom of two.

We learned that Joey was doing well-performing “Vegas-adjacent,” Jesse continued to be the stay-at-home parent while Becky worked, and the kids were all thinking of their futures. It was closure that also left the door open should another network want to pick up the show and keep it going.

2 It Was Too Soon: Don’t Love

As the characters mentioned in the opening scene, the series really could have gone on for at least another season to show more of Stephanie’s parenting, for example, and married life for all three ladies. It seemed to end far too soon and in a way that was rushed.

Imagine seeing all of them living together with Stephanie pregnant for the first time, Kimmy living without Ramona, who’s off to college, Tommy starting school, and Fernando and Jimmy working on building a business with Uncle Monty’s. It could have made for very interesting TV.

1 The Veiled Reference To Michelle: Love

Each season, the cast made sure to reference Michelle, the youngest Tanner daughter, at least once in a way that was a sort of subtle dig towards Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who chose not to return for the sequel series. In most cases, it was delivered while the character was breaking the fourth wall.

One such reference on this season was when Kimmy saw Michelle’s old bicycle in the attic and asked DJ how long she was going to keep it because “if she hasn’t come yet, she isn’t coming.”

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