Not only did Lorelai and Luke get married there, but Rory also revealed the cliffhangers to end all cliffhangers when she shared the final four words that she is pregnant.
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Emily: Succession is not a show that really does cliffhangers.
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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is through with cliffhangers.
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Which had better cliffhangers, clothing, guest stars, even social relevance?
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After all, season 1 left off with cliffhangers that need answers.
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Texts are forwarded, screenshotted, or typed slowly and deliberately as cliffhangers.
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There can be no half-measures or cliffhangers with Negan's fate.
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And neither party's primary, he noted, are going to be cliffhangers.
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May's season 15 finale surprised viewers with quite a few cliffhangers.
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Streaming sites are our delivery systems, and cliffhangers are the carrot.
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Better Call Saul Say this for Monday's episode: It ends with cliffhangers.
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It is a classic ripping yarn, packed with excitement, violence and cliffhangers.
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President Trump is very good at building expectations and creating these cliffhangers.
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" Other surprises: Maureen Dowd: "I marvel at Donald Trump's talent for cliffhangers.
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Cliffhangers, like Glenn's supposed death, generate a lot of social media buzz.
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There were cliffhangers in the season finale that I still think about.
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Netflix's On My Block has always ended its seasons on crazy cliffhangers.
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A Grey's Anatomy midseason finale is engineered to be made of cliffhangers.
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CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM THE HANDEL PROJECT, MARCH 8 Talk about cliffhangers.
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The Suicide Squad sequel may have just spoiled one of its only cliffhangers.
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Will Has A Scary Vision, whoops, I just spoiled the first few cliffhangers.
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The play ends with a slamming door, one of dramatic literature's greatest cliffhangers.
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And more cliffhangers, even built into the scene designed to resolve the cliffhanger.
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In that context, The Good Place's ongoing story and constant cliffhangers make perfect sense.
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Soon all our Season 4 Orange is The New Black cliffhangers will be answered.
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That's been always the best part about – you can call them cliffhangers — with our show.
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The show has 39 total episodes, and certain arcs have cliffhangers that get pretty addictive.
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The shows debuted last year, and both ended their first seasons with attention-grabbing cliffhangers.
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But streaming as a medium and cliffhangers as a tool haven't turned us into fanatics.
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Can we expect answers when it comes to the many cliffhangers of the season 1 finale?
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And that we the people need daily plot twists and weekly cliffhangers in order to care?
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He didn't just learn the lessons of what makes good reality TV -- he mainlined them. Cliffhangers.
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We're about to be inundated with character deaths, cliffhangers, weddings and probably a baby or two.
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It uses preacherly rhythms and even cliffhangers ("a young worker by the name of … Rosa Parks").
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All we know for sure is that we'll get more shocks and cliffhangers before a conclusion.
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Other than hilarious antics, a holiday special could clear up some cliffhangers the series left us with.
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But with the rise of binge-watching, TV networks see a chance to hook viewers through cliffhangers.
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They're not meant to addict kids through the use of cliffhangers and timeouts, nor are they scary.
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Maybe artistry has gone down and cliffhangers have skyrocketed because art gets us out of the house.
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Bingeing, aided by cliffhangers, sells engagement by way of disengaging; together they make a sport of spectatorship.
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There will be cliffhangers, and you'll get to follow me around and see how I pull them off.
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Once again, Florida has grabbed the nation's attention as the state with a knack for presidential election cliffhangers.
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SAN DIEGO — Ok, so fans didn't exactly get any of their big television cliffhangers answered at Comic-Con.
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The uncertainty of cliffhangers, of the ending, and any possible second series is good for fans, Graham said.
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For the New York City schools and their governance structure, annual cliffhangers seem to be here to stay.
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If you love the cliffhangers on "Grey's," you might get a kick out of the legal drama "Suits."
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There are no serious cliffhangers, no jaw-dropping reveals, nothing that'll blow your mind or punch your gut.
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There are villains, a few lines of action, the usual cliffhangers, some getaways and dashes of family melodrama.
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But cliffhangers in each of the previous seasons' finales don't always figure heavily in the next seasons' premieres.
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It seems likely that that might be the case, as the episode ended with the mother of all cliffhangers.
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Overall this episode felt mostly like a segue into whatever lies on the other side of those two cliffhangers.
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This season of The Walking Dead has had its own meta storyline, complete with ups, downs, and breathtaking cliffhangers.
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All of this has us thinking: KUWTK is known for killer cliffhangers in their mid-season and season finales.
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It's filled with cliffhangers — when the journalist is murdered, Enrique is the prime suspect — and over-the-top incident.
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But the president tends to keep staffing decisions close to his chest, often announcing his choices after lengthy cliffhangers.
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So why not plow through Killing Eve in less than 12 hours, fueled by Sour Patch Kids and cliffhangers?
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AAS: Paper Girls has featured more dramatic cliffhangers that I'm completely, 100 percent invested in than any other comic book.
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Primetime TV shows have to be scripted with mid-episode cliffhangers to keep audiences glued in through the commercial breaks.
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Like many previous Netflix series, Daybreak strategically ends episodes on cliffhangers to encourage viewers to autoplay into the next one.
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Twists and cliffhangers are to be expected from any drama, but "Bodyguard" seemingly killed off Montague in the third episode.
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There was so much online frustration about Lost's cliffhangers and hiatuses, its repetition and teasing and stringing the audience along.
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One of the major cliffhangers from the 2014 Marvel space romp was the identity of Peter Quill's (Chris Pratt) father.
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For those with even a passing familiarity with the Star Wars universe, it's about as low stakes as cliffhangers get.
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We all know where Game of Thrones left off, but Veep and Silicon Valley both had cliffhangers of their own.
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Last season The Walking Dead left audiences hanging with one of the most infuriating cliffhangers the show has ever attempted.
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I mean, I usually feel cheated by cliffhangers that are so obviously going to be undone, but I didn't here.
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Cliffhangers, clues, and (at times) nonsensical and unexpected narrative twists and turns keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
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YA stood ready to supply them with plenty of action, cliffhangers, supernatural beings, mustache-twirling bad guys, and true love.
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Season 3 ends with a series of cliffhangers showing that some of the characters are more miserable and confused than ever.
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As far as season cliffhangers go, Game of Thrones left audiences plenty to worry about while waiting for the final season.
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For one, the plot holes and cliffhangers we still need answered: Why was Seth lurking outside of Monet's after Hannah's wake?
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Season 2 ends with a few minor, spooky cliffhangers for season 3, but it also ends with plenty of human mysteries.
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It ends with several cliffhangers, both good and bad, which makes me positive that a second season is on the cards.
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The Night Of has made a habit of ending on cliffhangers, so this is where the show leaves us this week.
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"Quantico" (ABC) - Like its cliffhangers, the fate of this Priyanka Chopra-led action/drama is going to be a nail-biter.
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Season 1 left the story fairly open-ended — Full House wasn't exactly known for its cliffhangers — and adaptable for future episodes.
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Season 1 left the story fairly open-ended — Full House wasn't exactly known for its cliffhangers — and adaptable for future episodes.
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Unlike so many other films with tacky cliffhangers, we know that the creators have a roadmap and a powerful final destination.
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Its 100 or so minutes just breeze by; although packed with conflicts and cliffhangers, there's no sense of strain about it.
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To read what This Is Us executive producer Elizabeth Berger had to say about the finale's three time-jumping cliffhangers, click here.
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When some of our favorite TV shows ended in the spring, they went out with deadly cliffhangers and shocking last-minute reveals.
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Since most of us binge-watched Stranger Things in a weekend, we've been dangling on season 1's cliffhangers since last summer.
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In comics, great scares often rely on alarming panel transitions or page break cliffhangers, and the book skillfully utilizes these as well.
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I wish Ward had not employed the tricks of lesser novelists, such as contrived cliffhangers and misdirection in order to engender suspense.
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It answers the finale cliffhangers, quickly sets up darker crimes, and increases the stakes for Annie, Beth, Ruby, and their loved ones.
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You build your structure, so you have to have these little built-in cliffhangers to bring people back after the commercial break.
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Some of the most cutting-edge true crime reporting has migrated to podcasts, where stories are unspooled in episodes that end in cliffhangers.
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Fall TV season is approaching, which means we'll finally get at least some of the answers to all of those season finale cliffhangers.
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As of right now we have the following races that are basically cliffhangers: Arizona, Nevada, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee and Florida.
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"We have just started shooting season 3, and it's obviously going to be a lot of drama, cliffhangers, music," says the native Venezuelan.
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When some of our favorite TV shows ended their most recent seasons, they went out with deadly cliffhangers and shocking last-minute reveals.
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Suffice to say that the way it is executed, it could stand as one of the better cliffhangers in any time travel tale.
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Cliffhangers are the best way to do that -- stoking speculation, reversing expectations and, above all, ensuring people feel compelled to just keep watching.
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That's all left up to the audience, and that's in the great tradition of the cliffhangers that inspired George in the first place.
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Some use fast-paced action to keep the story moving, others use cliffhangers or the dread leading up to a scare or surprise.
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Trump almost effortlessly introduces new plot twists, shocking developments, fresh characters to love or hate, gasp-inducing moments and tune-in-tomorrow cliffhangers.
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When the movie is not juggling these three flat characters, it's planting cliffhangers and false suspense in the form of two attractive, athletic husbands.
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Flipping between the perspective of police agent Aaron Falk and the actual events of the trip, Harper will keep readers taut from endless cliffhangers.
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His first, 2012's The Loom of Ruin, was an intricately plotted series of cliffhangers culminating (spoiler alert!) on the destruction of Los Angeles.
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It's anyone's guess exactly what awaits us as the show heads into Season 4, especially considering the previous season ended with a few cliffhangers.
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The show's writers delighted in giving fans plot twists and cliffhangers that no one would expect — but there was one Crane shut down immediately.
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Cliffhangers can serve storytelling or hijack it, can reward audiences or scam them, can put us off or suck us in and possess us.
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It is in the nature of big cliffhangers to be trapped in a state of irresolution, to be re-judged after their resolutions arrive.
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That's why audiences have had to deal with seasons full of teases before Negan finally arrived, and hyped-up cliffhangers instead of self-contained stories.
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Two big cliffhangers are also drawing attention in Berlin's political circles when Ursula quit Minister of Defence of Germany: first, will the cabinet re-shuffle?
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But as the house went up in flames the episode left viewers on perhaps one of the most painful cliffhangers in the history of television.
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The all-consuming nature of "Who shot JR?" on "Dallas" ensured that cliffhangers would become the most popular way to end a season of TV.
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Given some of the cliffhangers that were left dangling at the end of last season, we can't wait to see where the action picks up.
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The conveniences that birthed Netflix's current form shaped an audience unwilling to suffer cliffhangers, which proved somewhat disastrous to a model utterly dependent on them.
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As seasons advance, a fantastic series can get indefensibly artificial, running on fumes and cliffhangers, until "Who will die?" is the main reason to watch.
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Charles Dickens, as you might expect of a novelist who made his fortune writing serialized cliffhangers, would like a little more drama with his religion.
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"I've always been pushing for more cliffhangers on the show just because every single issue of the comic is a cliffhanger of some kind," Kirkman said.
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The finale of "Stranger Things 3" left several major cliffhangers, including the uncertain fate of one character and another batch of people moving away from Hawkins.
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Pretty soon you're eight hours deep into the next season and, when they return, pretending to be excited about cliffhangers that you figured out days ago.
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"Lost," created by J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber, features dizzying shifts between time periods, constantly changing alliances, shrewd Easter eggs and agonizing cliffhangers.
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As podcasts have become more elaborate, with complex stories complete with cliffhangers, narrative reversals and subplots, the main action in adaptations has shifted toward scripted series.
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Yet over the course of eight episodes, Living With Yourself becomes a beautiful, insular labyrinth, with twists and cliffhangers that would have Game of Thrones shaking.
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But each time it addressed one of several cliffhangers left dangling from "The Force Awakens" — what would happen when Rey returned Luke Skywalker's lightsaber to him?
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The first few chapters may have some tablesetting slowness, but they have strong cliffhangers pushing from one episode to the next, building to a breathless finale.
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But with that late January premiere date, ABC is apparently giving fans plenty of time to take in all of the impending cliffhangers and romantic shakeups.
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Designated Survivor Almost all television dramas juggle several plots at once, which serve to sharpen one another, create contrasts, switch up the scenery, or leave cliffhangers.
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Filmmakers Robert Kenner, Taki Oldham, and Melissa Robledo tactfully introduce each development and utilize gasp-inducing cliffhangers to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
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That's probably a too-simplistic read on the defections, since other factors -- including the show's age and a few too-cute cliffhangers -- no doubt played a part.
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" John Joseph Adams on cliffhangers: "I kind of feel like networks at least owe fans some kind of wrap-up, even if it's not on the air.
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For all these clues, there are still two characters noticeably absent from the trailer: Tyler (Devin Druid) and Alex (Miles Heizer), the primary cliffhangers from season 1.
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It's the perfect novel before bed — plenty of excitement, but most importantly, plenty of cliffhangers to keep him waiting for me to read it the next night.
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Rounding out the grim episode's cliffhangers, Baptiste finally finds Daniel Reed (Daniel Ezra), whose research into his father's suicide turned out to bring nothing but bad news.
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The renewal comes as no surprise considering the show's success, as well as the many cliffhangers left to resolve at the conclusion of the season 1 finale.
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Although the show's Peabody-award-winning journalism was still on display, season two provided none of the cliffhangers or exciting mysteries-within-mysteries that defined season one.
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"The Big Bang Theory" eschewed the usual sitcom gimmicks — cliffhangers, last-minute objections, crazy impediments — and married off two of its characters in the 11th-season finale.
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Preston has written this page-turner like a political thriller, with urgent dialogue, well-staged scenes, escalating tension and plenty of cliffhangers, especially once the trial begins.
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The vocal talent is variable, but the writing is savvy, the nods to genre are droll and the cliffhangers — don't go into the abandoned amusement park, Tig!
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Watch: The Centuries-Old History of Cliffhanger EndingsGraphic: GizmodoAre you dying to find out why most TV shows, comic books, novels, and even some movies end on cliffhangers?
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But part of this may simply be the president's instinct for drama and photos that make him look strong, love of cliffhangers, and joy in flummoxing the press.
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That means Madison's virginity is being treated as if it is as fraught and possibly destructive as the Alayah Benavidez fiasco, which birthed multiple cliffhangers over season 24.
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This year's instalment of "The Trump Show" churned out more plot twists, sudden departures and cliffhangers than most primetime-drama writers would dare attempt in a single season.
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The show picked up right where it left off after the fall finale, with many viewer questions being answered — though, in TIU fashion, several new season 3 cliffhangers arose.
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With "Downton Abbey," an addictive series about an upper-class British family and its household servants, Mr. Fellowes has already proven himself adept at fashioning soap opera-worthy cliffhangers.
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But alas, the fall finale has arrived right as things have started to pick up, and now fans are left with a multitude of cliffhangers and "what if" thoughts.
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While you'll be able to avoid the agony of cliffhangers and, in many cases, avoid commercial breaks, you'll miss out on some of the social benefits of watching live.
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Read on for the highlights … Perhaps the oral history's freshest revelation centered on one of The Hills' most unforgettable cliffhangers – and the fallout it held for Conrad, now 30.
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It wasn't until 2006 that lingering cliffhangers were finally resolved It wasn't until 2006 that the pair finally returned to Herbert's unfinished, seventh book, working off of his notes.
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"Look, message received; the modern audience isn't too happy with cliffhangers," Robert Kirkman, who writes the comics and is an executive producer for the show, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Considering Season 3 ended on one of the show's characteristic cliffhangers, fans won't want to miss a single episode as The Good Place very likely sticks its inevitable landing.
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The episode cuts to black with his fate still hanging in the balance, the latest in a long series of manipulative cliffhangers designed to goose easy, short-term suspense.
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The beloved teen detective, who has survived countless scrapes, cliffhangers and close calls, is dead — or so it seems — killed while pursuing a high-stakes investigation of organized crime.
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One of the all-time greatest video game cliffhangers, it literally stopped time in the middle of an explosion, praised you for your work, then let the credits roll.
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While one of the cliffhangers is who the police are after at the end of the episode, the audience also doesn't know how much information Brady possibly gave the police.
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But even though it's a comedy and a frequently savage satire of millennial-targeted entitlement, it's also an effective thriller, with perfect cliffhangers, great pacing, and moody cinematography to match.
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As the third season began, the audience was also stuck back in 19903, waiting to see whether we were going to move on from the show's many long-gestating cliffhangers.
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From the first clip, Luke Cage looks like it's going to be full of action, cliffhangers, and perhaps even a love story or two (and, yes, plenty of eye candy).
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Season 1 ended on a few supernatural cliffhangers: Eleven disappeared, and Will Byers coughed up a slug that seemed to be a remnant from his time in The Upside Down.
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Now, nearly two seasons later, the cheap character deaths and gimmicky cliffhangers have all but disappeared as more momentous world-building, narrative closure, and character explorations have taken center stage.
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No, we don't get any ludicrous limousine arrivals or ambulance light cliffhangers à la The Bachelor, but there are plenty of awkward moments designed to pull you into the drama.
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Stories with a stronger, more plot-driven thrust are better situated to the directly serialized approach, because they'll feature cliffhangers that will ostensibly keep us tuning in, week after week.
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But NBC's The Good Place managed all that and more, sending an unrepentant jerk (Kristen Bell) to heaven and serving up genuinely surprising cliffhangers in every one of its 13 episodes.
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Gimple's departure as showrunner comes after many — including our own Nick Statt — fans have been critical about the show's direction, which has included frustrating cliffhangers and unexpected deaths in recent seasons.
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The result was a pair of novels, Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, which helped to resolve the cliffhangers that Chapterhouse: Dune had left readers with for over two decades.
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The "Apricot Toddler," as he was dubbed in Britain, pounds the high chair, makes messes, pushes buttons, stage-manages cliffhangers and filigrees his "labyrinth of lies," as Jaron Lanier calls it.
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The short-entry diary format keeps things moving along, and Chaplin, a longtime journalist, has structured the book smartly, in six parts, with distinct emotional cliffhangers at the end of each.
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That's why big cliffhangers like watching Ross (David Schwimmer) call his bride "Rachel" (when her name was definitely Emily) at the end of 1998's Friends season 4 hit so hard.
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In a few instances, Mr. Heineman shows men being shot point blank in the head; elsewhere, he cuts way before the fatal moment, which turns these murders into appalling cinematic cliffhangers.
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Cliffhangers deny us resolution and closure so that we may never find peace, may not turn off the machine, may continually dissolve into some violent or exotic disaster involving a volcano.
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Though it is hard to be invested in a large cast of characters, and there are no cliffhangers or red herrings to urge the story on, "Serial" still makes for compelling listening.
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What will happen to someone who got caught cheating When some of our favorite TV shows ended their most recent seasons, they went out with deadly cliffhangers and shocking last-minute reveals.
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Bloys would not confirm whether there would be episodes airing in 2019, meaning fans shouldn't plan on returning to Sweetwater — and getting clarity on some tantalizing cliffhangers and timelines — until next year.
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So the real cliffhangers are actually what Cyrus is going to do this season to mess with B-613 and where the heck Lucy came from to help Jake carry out missions?
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Season 3's cliffhangers were so steep we're still feeling vertigo, with Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) dramatically leaving the White House, and perhaps her marriage to Spacey's frighteningly-executed modern Machiavellian, Frank.
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Unanswerable. Nothing could live up to the weight of expectations after Valve decided to walk away from one of gaming's biggest cliffhangers and let speculation irresponsibly fester for more than a decade.
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Given that the season ends with multiple cliffhangers, it's clear that the creators hope to continue the show with that knowledge in mind, further developing the characters and the film's wondrous world.
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The commercial break cliffhangers just as heads were about to butt, as well as Mr. Trump's encouragement of it (much like now in his White House), souped up the "stay tuned" allure.
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In true Vince Gilligan fashion, the Better Call Season 2 finale was full of revelations and cliffhangers, but some of the show's biggest buzz of late ties back to its Breaking Bad origins.
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It never feels like a movie pulled like taffy into a TV format: instead, the cliffhangers work as true emotional pauses, playing off the way that television itself is built on repeated formulas.
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But "Jane the Virgin" loves its compelling cliffhangers, and this week we get two of them: Rafael's half brother showing up, and Paola attacking Rogelio with an award statue in the last shot.
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Like Jaime sinking to his doom at the bottom of a river, we all waited with bated breath to know what would happen after Game of Thrones' biggest battle and cliffhangers of the season.
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But this week's episode proved that the cases on How To Get Away With Murder can be just as good as the guilty-pleasure cliffhangers, which is what makes it such a great show.
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When The Walking Dead shuffles back onto our TV screens October 23, it will bring with it the answer to one of the most intense cliffhangers in modern television history: Who did Negan kill?
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Art theft baffles Illinois museum With "Downton Abbey," an addictive series about an upper-class British family and its household servants, Mr. Fellowes has already proven himself adept at fashioning soap opera-worthy cliffhangers.
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Though his character has been central to some of the show's biggest cliffhangers and storylines — what with being brought back from the dead and all — Harington seemed pleasantly surprised by the frenzy surrounding GoT.
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At its best, Kong: Skull Island conjures up those adventure tales of old, the Indiana Jones–esque cliffhangers in which Westerners arrive in strange lands and take part in all sorts of derring-do.
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But this Batman cartoon villain with an uncanny gift for cliffhangers and lurid story lines is buoying journalism, giving us a reprieve while we figure out how to save ourselves in the digital age.
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Much of the credit for the success of "Line of Duty" must go to Jed Mercurio, the writer, who has mastered the knack of producing enough cliffhangers to keep viewers watching from week to week.
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To its credit, the show steadily builds in intensity, again cleverly uses its cliffhangers to pull viewers from one episode into the next and exhibits an underlying sweetness, especially vis-à-vis the younger kids.
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But the manner in which "Persona Non Grata" brings him in shows that the series, guaranteed two more seasons to end on its own terms, feels no more obligation to gin up excitement with cliffhangers.
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But in 7763, a thread on the cult message board Something Awful, largely seen as the birthplace of the now-ubiquitous Let's Play format, translated the game's twisty storyline, full of surprises and shocking cliffhangers.
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"I said [to Netflix] I would appreciate it if I could have the forewarning to give the show a proper finale, and not set up some cliffhangers that will never pay off," Bob-Waksberg said.
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Lindsey: Here's one positive thing I have to say about this season: I was glad that they mostly returned to having rose ceremonies at the end of each episode rather than cliffhangers all the time.
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Trump was roundly mocked for turning his Supreme Court announcement into an episode of "The Bachelor," but it must be said that the president has more talent for devising cliffhangers than anyone since Charles Dickens.
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The latest theory, brought to us courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, regards Alex Standall (Miles Heizer) and Zach (played by Ross Butler.) Alex's outcome at the end of the series is one of the show's biggest cliffhangers.
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All the cliffhangers that we saw at the end of season 1 go back to the initial set of traumas that we're talking about — go back to bullying, go back to Jessica's rape, to Hannah's rape.
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I realize there's a rich history of season-ending cliffhangers on TV. But as with the Glenn thing, I think the story and in this case, Negan's otherwise enjoyably malicious debut, is overshadowed by the trickery.
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"He can definitely pardon people who haven't been charged yet," Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University and author of Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies, told me in July.
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It's not against the novel, which ends June's story on one of literature's most famous cliffhangers, since there, the future of Offred (we don't know her pre-Gilead name in the book) is so unknown to us.
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I was looking at how climax-building was used also in other images, like how television series are built in a relationship between excitation and frustration and do cliffhangers so you want to see the next episode.
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Yes, the biggest cliffhanger is the whole "Thanos wipes out half of the universe" thing, but there are a bunch of smaller, more character-based cliffhangers dangled in Infinity War that the next Avengers movie will presumably resolve.
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Whether he is seeking to bolster his relevance or distract from damaging press coverage, Trump's penchant for floating vague, empty promises that resemble reality TV cliffhangers is a pillar of his well-established brand of deceptive political communication.
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Sure, it was gratifying to watch the series without pause, but cliffhangers lose their effect when you can simply plow through the end of a season and into the next, and so then does the show as a whole.
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Yet leaving his actual death until the show returns after its customary winter break -- it's slated to return in February -- feels like another ploy to lure viewers back, if a less irritating one than some of the previous cliffhangers.
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One of the biggest cliffhangers from the first half of the season is actually addressed: What in God's name would Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious (Terrence Howard) do once they got their hands on their backstabbing son Hakeem.
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So it is impossible to tell whether the most recent collection of loose ends, like the homeless guy named Henry Bergen who steals Ramon's bike and Hailey's insistence that the treehouse fire was real, are cliffhangers or just oversights.
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And even with all the laughs (Zach Woods's facial expressions, any interaction between Kumail Nanjiani and Martin Starr), Silicon Valley manages to be a stealth thriller, with surprisingly intense cliffhangers that make it into a great weekend binge-watch.
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Few cliffhangers in video game history are as cruel as the end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, where Valve left the story of former theoretical physicist and crowbar aficionado Gordon Freeman for, as of this writing, nearly ten years.
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His talent for theatrical self-destruction and Dickensian cliffhangers was on vivid display Friday at a Rose Garden press conference when, with his best truculent bulldog face, he pronounced himself willing to testify under oath about his conversations with Comey.
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AUDREY HORNE (SHERILYN FENN) In one of the many cliffhangers from the original series, the impetuous Audrey chained herself to the bank vault to protest the bank's apparent ties to the Ghostwood development project — a project Audrey and her father oppose.
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In an era of political uncertainty, turmoil and real-life cliffhangers, who doesn't want to escape to an alternate universe where, with the right blend of shiplap and granite, you could achieve perfection in your home, and by extension, your life?
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Libby: As cliffhangers go, I'm glad we left the question of whether the Jenningses stay or go open, rather than putting them on a plane to Russia or heading on the run from the FBI, the Center, and the world.
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"If they did seek an indictment against the president, the president would almost certainly appeal right away," Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University and author of Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies, says.
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Season 2 leans into its murder mystery camp — it isn't just a single, isolated murder that needs to be solved; there is now an immediate threat: a masked villain we get to see at work, plucking off people and providing ample cliffhangers.
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I (in Chapter 1 of my book, "Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies") and many others have argued that presidents cannot be prosecuted while in office, but the argument is complicated and there are points on both sides.
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Brian C. Kalt is a professor of law at Michigan State University and the author of a 2012 book entitled "Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies," told CNN that the presidential pardoning power is, in fact, very broad.
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As Mashable's Senior Entertainment Reporter Alexis Nedd explained, bingeworthy shows often provide juicy cliffhangers or twists at the end of each episode, developments that impose upon the viewer an immediate need to further uncover the series' plot by watching the next chapter.
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The twist was perhaps most compelling as an offscreen object lesson about how drastically viewers' relationships with beloved television shows have changed, to the point that any show runners considering old tricks like big, shocking deaths and cliffhangers might want to think twice.
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The episode ends on yet another one of its tiresome non-cliffhanger cliffhangers — of course Rick's not going to die, not now — but its disturbing suggestion that empathy constitutes a fatal weakness in a world turned savage leaves a more bruising impact.
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As if tax reform weren't hard enough on its own, the negotiators will be working against a backdrop of cliffhangers like raising the debt limit, funding the government, passing a budget and, potentially, attempting one more drive to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Yet Trump, who has a flair for cliffhangers and believes behaving unpredictably keeps everyone else off balance, has yet to give full public assurance he will sign the measure, which falls well short of his demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding.
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"If they did seek an indictment against the president, the president would almost certainly appeal right away," Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University and author of Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies, told me in 2017.
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Yet at Hakaya and Cliffhangers, another storytelling group, Lebanese of all backgrounds—foreigners and former fighters, Syrian and Palestinian refugees and people from the LGBT community (who are usually forced to keep a low profile as homosexuality is criminalised in Lebanon)—tell their stories.
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The chapters are short and taut and end with satisfying cliffhangers, and the book is packed with cinematic, you-are-there sounds: "Pa-tunk" (a bullet tearing through a plane), "sif-sif-sif-sif-sif" (bullets hitting sand), "tink-tink-tink" (a grenade rattling).
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If you've never watched The Walking Dead but hear so much about Negan and cliffhangers from friends and want to join in the brunch conversation, you're in luck: AMC will air a two-hour retrospective of the first six seasons on Sunday, Oct. 16.
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The show will definitely get people talking, if not about the cliffhangers, because it's such a disturbingly accurate portrayal of what it's like to be in an abusive relationship — or at least it will be if it sticks to how the book portrays it.
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And what propelled the show from just another soapy teen drama to smash success was the way she crafted the "A" mystery as dark, juicy episodes, each ending with irresistible cliffhangers that became fodder for real-time fan reaction videos and endless Twitter theorizing.
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"Engagement" is the key metric for the online industry—advertisers want to pay for how often you like, post, and click, rather than for how long you passively watch—and " SKAM ," with its cliffhangers and its multiple entry points, is designed to inspire passionate engagement.
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"The Trump Show," which has produced two seasons' worth of epic cliffhangers and plot twists, is getting a competitor: "The Comey Show," which is scheduled to run for at least five weeks, and will needle and gall President Trump amid global, legal and political crises.
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Another change would automatically raise the statutory limit on the national debt when the House approves a budget, avoiding politically difficult votes each time the ceiling is reached, which dogged Republicans and led to a series of fiscal cliffhangers during their years in the majority.
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The fact that the internet is littered with articles about the "unanswered questions" left by most of these shows speaks to how narrow the way we tend to talk about TV really is — as a collection of twists and cliffhangers and puzzles to be worked out.
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What Blazblue is ultimately "about" are characters trapped in a recursive loop of time, creating fictional solutions to fictional problems as an ad infinitum mirror of the creators of the games making shit up to explain other made up shit and solve cliffhangers and dangling plot threads.
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Rather than the familiar "monster of the week-"style serial of past Star Treks, the new series feels more like an HBO show, with slick, animated (lengthy) opening credits and a continuous plot line that, at least in the first two episodes, leaves viewers with consistent cliffhangers.
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Not only because it leaves you with cliffhangers each week, but like the '90s version, you can cut to commercial after a particularly tantalizing reveal, ramping up the anticipation and tension "What always stays the same no matter what is fear of the unknown," said Grabinski.
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It doesn't even matter if he is giving the people what they want — as unlikely as it is that the people who voted for Donald Trump for president did so because they love Thursday night cliffhangers about who will be the next secretary of housing and urban development.
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You may have spent this past summer wondering how Grey's Anatomy would resolve its multiple Grey Sloan cliffhangers or whether Eleanor (Kristen Bell) would be able to save mankind's eternal destiny on The Good Place, but these questions didn't take up permanent residence in your listless summertime brain.
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" The critic and author Michelle Orange points to the original seasons of "Twin Peaks" as "a master class in the difference between building an authentic, cumulative sense of suspense (Season 1) and the completely gratuitous, cheap use of cliffhangers to keep people tuning in next week (Season 2).
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The seasons tend to be short and self-contained, with cases that come together gradually but steadily, allowing for a lot of time and space between the big clues and cliffhangers, so the heroes can explore striking-looking locations and interact with locals who have their own stories to tell.
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Because Rick, Michonne and friends did live on Sunday, in surprising numbers, as the show seemed to atone for the cliffhangers and slogging misery surrounding the arrival of Negan with a well-paced thriller of an episode that, as the creators have promised, kicked off a new, more hopeful phase of the story.
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There were several mysteries that were introduced throughout the first season of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, but while many of them were left unanswered (damn those finale cliffhangers!), fans did get a little more insight into each of the siblings' backstories to help further demonstrate how they ultimately became the adults they are today.
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There's big drama in the world of Big Dramas: TV producers are abandoning the big networks for the freedom of the internet, where they can write series as long or as short as they like, with all the sex and profanity they desire, and without all those forced narrative cliffhangers to keep viewers hooked during commercial breaks.
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What I will say is that it's probably a lot easier to pull it off, year after year, with a genre drama — one of the crime or superhero or legal or political shows that make up the great majority of hourlong series — where the artificial conventions already in place provide ready-made catalogs of cliffhangers and new plots.
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Luke's journey toward becoming a Jedi wouldn't be complete without the events of Empire, just as Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame was marked for the rest of the series by his short time among the Borg Collective (to name one of the most famous TV cliffhangers of the past 30 years).
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Season 1 ends with a few major cliffhangers: Lexie and Harry (Grace Victoria Fox and Alex Fitzalan) are now running the show, with Campbell (Toby Wallace) now pulling the strings; Allie and Will are in custody; elsewhere Grizz (Jack Mulhern) and his group have found new land to farm on; and, somewhere, everyone else is still alive and living on Earth.
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Sure, there's a lot of waffle about how you need to see the undead to truly understand – but where every other big penultimate battle has risen organically out of the series' events, this felt like a contrivance created solely so everyone could converge on King's Landing next week for what looks increasingly like it'll be the mother of all cliffhangers.
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Returns Tuesday, October 11, at 9:30 pm Eastern on ABC This charming dramedy's second season ended with the mother of all cliffhangers: After finally marrying her longtime love Michael (Brett Dier), Jane Villanueva (the fantastic Gina Rodriguez) was about to divest herself of her titular virginity — until Michael was shot by his partner, who actually turned out to be the villainous Sin Rostro (a.k.a.
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It's like there's some sort of siren when our collective culture hasn't talked about Game Of Thrones in a while, and just like that, Deadline dropped an interview with HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys about the many cliffhangers we were given after the original prequel starring Naomi Watts was shelved and a new project, House Of The Dragon, was given the green light.
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DM: "We're now binging," I think we'd probably ... Ours has sort of a narrative, obviously, across the 10 episodes, but I do think if I was writing Veep for binge watching, there'd be a lot more ... not cliffhangers, but sort of a little more of a throw from the end of any given episode to the next episode where often in a season of "Veep," there's a through line and these things are happening.
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But then, Radish co-founder and CEO Seung-yoon Lee isn't claiming he invented the concept — he told me he was actually inspired by the popularity of serialized fiction on mobile devices in Asia, and he predicted that novels will see the same shift to cliffhangers and serialization that we're already seeing in TV. (Meanwhile, in the publishing world, e-book sales are declining, while print seems to be rebounding.) The model hasn't taken off yet in the United States.
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After Nick Ayers, the Georgia political operative who was the president's top pick, declined the job — something of a plot twist in a presidency notorious for its episodic cliffhangers — Mr. Trump is without a Plan B. Several of his aides expressed frustration that months of intense campaigning to replace John F. Kelly — an effort led by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president's elder daughter and son-in-law — resulted in yet another chaotic staffing scramble in a White House splintered by factions and rife with turnover.
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O.J. Simpson came at the Simpson story by casting actors in the roles of the "characters" people remember from watching the trial on TV. (As some critics have written, it's not a stretch to say that the wall-to-wall trial coverage, with its twists and cliffhangers, invented the way we watch TV today.) The show even brilliantly cast actors we tend to associate with the 21989s on O.J's side of the courtroom: John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, and David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, with Cuba Gooding Jr. as the Juice himself.
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