Cliffhanger season endings make me want to bomb a writers room.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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That seems like it is worded a bit extreme, but I get the sentiment. It is certainly an issue that has gotten worse with seasons becoming shorter and the average time between them increasing substantially.
Oh I enjoy hyperbolic overreactions. I tell my wife I’m going to mail an envelope of anthrax to some corporate building at least once a week. I would obviously never do such a thing.
Cliffhangers are fine, but you also need resolution.
I think Severance season 2 handled it well.
Severance season 2 spoilers
Season 1 ended with Mark shouting "She's alive!" in reference to his thought to be dead wife. Season 2 gave us a solid resolution to that story. He found his wife, they reunited, and she got to safety.
Yes, there are plenty of more open questions, the new season asked new questions, but we're moving forward.
I think a show like Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 did not handle it well.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 spoilers
They went with the two parter cliffhanger. They prepare a two part episode, one part as a finale, and the second as a season opener. The finale is just "a big battle". I know they'll survive the big battle.
Interviews with the show runner mention that they we're going for a Wolf/Locutus two parter from TNG. That was also a battle, but that wasn't the interesting thing. Picard becoming Borg was the interesting thing. That has me asking questions.
And then we have the cliffhangers that I think really are quite terrible, Silo season 2.
Spoilers for Silo season 2
Our hero leaves the Silo at the end of season 1 and survives. Our hero starts season 2 by entering another Silo. We spend the season learning little about the outside world, but we do at least learn about the new Silo and how the different Silos are connected. Our bad guy learns a horrible truth right at the end of the episode, so horrible he leaves the Silo, but we the audience don't know what. There is an explosion that "kills" our hero and villain.
After everything that happened in season 2 were asking the exact same question we had at the end of season 1. "Why do these Silo's exist?" Now they do give us a little tease of the past, that they might answer the question. But we already have that question. You don't have to reveal everything, but you do have to reveal some things.
Yeah exactly. Dirk Gently did a good one in season one. But then the season two one happened and it got cancelled. I almost shit myself in half over it.
I solved this by just completely losing interest in this show
I heard that there was supposed to be a massive cliffhanger at the end of this season. For this very reason, I still haven't finished the last three episodes.
Oh, you're in for a wild ride.
She's in showbusiness, she already knows the answer