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"cliffhanger" Definitions
  1. a situation in a story, film, competition, etc. that is very exciting because you cannot guess what will happen next, or you do not find out immediately what happens next
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The game ended on a narrative cliffhanger which turned into a real-life cliffhanger.
In the series' first 10 episodes, viewers enjoy cliffhanger after cliffhanger with each "Next episode?" more tempting than the last.
Most superhero shows end with a cliffhanger to set up next season, but I love that you leave us on a more emotional cliffhanger instead.
So we do get to do the cliffhanger we wanted, rather than do a two parter — a cliffhanger and then a resolution — [which] would have felt very hustled together.
" The cliffhanger had many viewers asking: "Who is her?!
A cliffhanger that's now — hopefully — going to be resolved.
I also left The Collapsing Empire on a bit of a cliffhanger, and if I don't resolve that particular cliffhanger fairly quickly, I believe I will be stabbed to death by former fans.
He's thankful and optimistic, but it ends with a cliffhanger.
It sounds like you do want closure over cliffhanger, though.
There's a literal cliffhanger at the end of episode one.
Big Little Lies almost ended with a completely different cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger: Did Jessica (Gina Torres) leave the firm for good?
But a cliffhanger does not necessarily a satisfying ending make.
Man, I can't wait to see how this cliffhanger ends!
But he always delivered, and it was always a cliffhanger.
The season 1 finale left fans with a serious cliffhanger.
This show certainly knows how to end on a cliffhanger.
I've been part of "Sherlock," with a very famous cliffhanger.
The FBI showing up in town would be the cliffhanger.
Last season's cliffhanger finale sets the stage for more drama.
That Stranger Things season 3 cliffhanger has finally been resolved.
It's not just that the cliffhanger in general is cheap and lazy, but this cliffhanger in particular came after 90 minutes of complete and utter filler and ended up undermining the entire Negan reveal.
Cliffhanger: Did Dayanara (Dascha Polanco) shoot the guards during the riot?!
The Walking Dead's sixth season finished on one hell of cliffhanger.
Then, Netflix had the temerity to end it with a cliffhanger.
I'm just hoping the show has learned from its cliffhanger mistakes.
Oh, and last week's cliffhanger is resolved with a mild shrug.
One year after the cliffhanger episode, fans finally have some answers.
Is this a big cliffhanger for the start of Rob & Chyna?
This is shaping up to be one hell of a cliffhanger
The peaceful transfer of power is not a reality show cliffhanger.
The first season ends with more than just Tyler's cliffhanger, too.
"This just happens to be a very big cliffhanger," he said.
Like Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale ends on a cliffhanger.
You did leave them with a pretty significant cliffhanger to resolve.
Answer my question, too: What's the worst cliffhanger you've ever seen?
It's not quite a cliffhanger, but it's definitely not a resolution.
Rating: One cliffhanger I am fine to miss the ending of.
Netflix's On My Block has perfected the art of the cliffhanger.
Here are some of next week's highlights — and one cliffhanger withdrawal.
Somehow, this revelation comes down to a cliffhanger and a catfish.
After all, Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) had the big cliffhanger moment.
But, honestly, what would be a Grey's premiere without a cliffhanger?
Unfortunately, that is a cliffhanger that might last for a while.
The best-drama nominee "Stranger Things" showcased a great cliffhanger finale.
That said, I'm willing to concede that a good cliffhanger—a cliffhanger done right—leaves the theoretically upcoming events to the imagination, and that lack of fulfillment is precisely why it works in the first place.
It's easily the most breathtaking cliffhanger in the whole show so far.
"So talk," Richie replies, in what ends up as an unresolved cliffhanger.
Yes, that means there's no cliffhanger at the end of this one.
Or this thread asking What Reddit cliffhanger has still never been resolved?
Two years after the series ended with a cliffhanger, Serenity was released.
For one thing, "Time to Get Cereal" openly ends on a cliffhanger.
Although Jane's final romantic choice is the ultimate cliffhanger — Ben or Pinstripe?
But with such a cliffhanger ending – Lizzie and Gordo (Adam Lamberg) kissing?
Then the show leaves viewers hanging on that cliffhanger for an hour.
And, as fans can attest, the show ended on quite a cliffhanger.
If this were a Shonda Rhimes show, we'd call it a cliffhanger.
To be sure, not every contest in 2017 looms as a cliffhanger.
Read more:The opening episode of 'The Mandalorian' ends on a surprising cliffhanger.
Then he left with the tie as the cliffhanger, as you will.
Arya's status is the biggest cliffhanger this week on Game of Thrones.
Norm Coleman, who lost his seat to Franken in a 2008 cliffhanger.
Sidebar WASHINGTON — The last Supreme Court term ended with a constitutional cliffhanger.
Even worse, we're about to end on some surefire cliffhanger in Nov.
With a cliffhanger ending like that, will we be getting a sequel?
He couldn't help but ask about that famous cliffhanger of an ending.
Streaming media has taken the cliffhanger craze up a notch, or 500.
Each episode ended on a cliffhanger that compelled moviegoers to keep coming back.
Cliffhanger: Drug kingpin Ghost (Omari Hardwick) killed his rival Milan in season 3.
We bring you more updates of this heartbreaking and cliffhanger throughout the day.
Rogelio doesn't know if it's a dealbreaker yet, resulting in a mild cliffhanger.
What could be more of a cliffhanger than a fire at the hospital?
It wouldn't be Final Reckoning if we didn't leave you with a cliffhanger.
The Last Jedi, on the other hand, doesn't bother with that cliffhanger feel.
It's a hooky way to tell a story — one cliffhanger at a time.
This feminist move would be the expected cliffhanger to hang season 4 on.
Will's in a bad place, which you already knew from last season's cliffhanger.
It picks up right after Season 1's cliffhanger in which — spoiler alert!
Is there going to be a second part to this Players' Tribune cliffhanger?
Last night's episode of The Bachelorette picked right up on last week's cliffhanger.
But it's not exactly a cliffhanger for the show's next and final season.
Cliffhanger: the last scene of Episode VII is the first of Episode VIII.
The story's ends on a cliffhanger, too, suggesting there's more story to tell.
The second huge cliffhanger — who pushed poor Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday) down the stairs?
And more cliffhangers, even built into the scene designed to resolve the cliffhanger.
But the formal sections also keep interrupting the drama, as in a cliffhanger.
The sentences are spring-loaded and each section ends with a light cliffhanger.
But there's a more pressing issue here: This book ends with a cliffhanger.
If the cliffhanger ending seems irksome, never fear, this one's a series opener.
Season 1 of The End Of The Fucking World ended on a cliffhanger.
Then Raising Dion pulls the rug out from under you with a cliffhanger.
It's not a spoiler to say there's no cliffhanger ending on this one.
I'll go back to what I just said: We've always ended with a cliffhanger.
As fans well know, season 1 of On My Block ended with a cliffhanger.
In a midseason cliffhanger, the character collapsed from a heart attack on Christmas Eve.
Horowitz said the cliffhanger is meant to put Homecoming's larger themes in sharp relief.
Last week's season premiere of Insecure left us with a bit of a cliffhanger.
And there it ends, on the most promising Doctor Who cliffhanger in some time.
The end of season 2 left its viewers and fans with a cliffhanger ending.
Lies Within is technically a series, and a giant cliffhanger ends the first season.
So that's our cliffhanger this week, because next week is all about Jo's trip.
There's an amazing cliffhanger that will have everybody thinking, 'Wow, where is this going?!
Last week's season finale of USA Networks' Colony was an emotional, cliffhanger-filled adventure.
For one thing, the life-imperiling cliffhanger it foists upon Arya is patently ridiculous.
The mass school shooting plot once again returns as Season 2's final cliffhanger.
After Riverdale's intense season finale cliffhanger, we're still on the edge of our seats.
With that in mind, the sitcom's season 3 finale was its biggest cliffhanger yet.
That business with Hannah, Adam and Jessa closes the season with an unnerving cliffhanger.
A far-right candidate lost Austria's cliffhanger presidential election by the smallest of margins.
The novel's chapters originally appeared online as individual "episodes," each ending with a cliffhanger.
Now we're left with a cliffhanger that I PRAY Empire takes its time with.
"You also have this slow, daily cliffhanger element to the story," Professor Niederdeppe said.
The tone was one of desperate urgency, and every episode ended on a cliffhanger.
And there's an inspired cliffhanger ending that promises a lot more mayhem to come.
It's one hell of a cliffhanger, and we can't wait to see what's next.
To create suspense, Kelly is liberal with hints and predictions and cliffhanger chapter endings.
If that cliffhanger leaves you wanting more, the entire series is streaming on Netflix.
Which brings us to the cliffhanger that ends the season — and perhaps the series.
Fred's fate after being shot was even the subject of the Season 1 cliffhanger.
And the cliffhanger that the writers have been setting up, I tell you, mwah.
And conveniently, the section directly preceding "No Russian", called "Cliffhanger", provides one such occasion.
It also wrapped on a huge surprise cliffhanger, buried in the last episode's end credits.
To read what Sterling K. Brown had to say about that Toby cliffhanger, click here.
" The final seconds alone are, as star Emmy Raver-Lampman calls them, "the ultimate cliffhanger.
Or will this era of "Live!" end like a prime time drama -- on a cliffhanger?
A cliffhanger was resolved, and a beloved character may finally get back in the game.
We end on a cliffhanger, with Vic passed out on their bathroom floor at home.
It all ends with a staggering cliffhanger that turns the entire narrative on its head.
That's a cliffhanger that is sure to be resolved quickly in the season 6 premiere.
The last season of Veep ended on a cliffhanger, and the new season doesn't rescue
Cliffhanger: After being fired, Abby (Lisa Edelstein) tries being a romance novelist in season 3.
For every season break cliffhanger, there's a herd of Walkers ready to burst into frame.
Last Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians ended with a cliffhanger of sorts.
As you'll recall, we left season 4 with quite the cliffhanger emblazoned on our minds.
Suddenly, it had been ripped away from them—and on a cliffhanger ending, no less.
The pre-speech cliffhanger was whether he would declare a national emergency during his speech.
The big cliffhanger going into Scandal's fall finale is who kidnapped Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes).
Coming to Netflix on June 9, the 5th season picks up after a serious cliffhanger.
Worse still, it ends on a cliffhanger, teasing what's likely to come in the future.
"  "This has a different kind of cliffhanger than we've had in the previous two seasons.
The answers will surprise you almost as much as that gory "All In" finale cliffhanger.
" In The Washington Post, reviewer Frances A. Koestler called the tale a "crisply crafted cliffhanger.
The most recent episode of Season 6 aired in November, ending with an intense cliffhanger.
The series, which is in its second season, left viewers with a cliffhanger in November.
For a normally pleasant, low-stakes show, season 5 ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger.
In the meantime, the show will go on, and the ending will remain a cliffhanger.
SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — It was a cliffhanger ending out of silent film-era two-reeler.
I thought it was quite complete, but I love that you think it ends on a cliffhanger—the catharsis of her having that breakdown was a kind of ending, but the hope at the end and the idea of her future was a cliffhanger.
Was the cliffhanger at least partly a calculated way to get more episodes and sustain interest?
Why is this the most intense Bachelor franchise cliffhanger since Colton jumped that fence last season?
Because the Internet (including us) couldn't be left with that cliffhanger, they demanded to know more.
The This Is Us winter finale broke fans' hearts with its cliffhanger ending last Tuesday night.
This cliffhanger opens up a Pandora's Box of possibilities for season 2, should Chambers get renewed.
Sometimes the broader themes simply get overshadowed by an account of another round of cliffhanger meetings.
That would make sense considering the season 2 finale had a cliffhanger that involved both students.
Make that several secrets, to be delivered in attention-grabbing installments, as in a cliffhanger serial.
"If this is my way out...well, it's the huge cliffhanger of the season," he said.
With such an obvious cliffhanger, it seems the door is wide open for even more adventures.
When the show returns, we will have been living with this cliffhanger for almost a year.
Anything you can preview about next week's episode, since we ended on a pretty dramatic cliffhanger?
But before the viewers had to long to celebrate, they were hit with a major cliffhanger.
If that is a cliffhanger, so be it, because a cliff is exactly where we are.
In fact, "Verdict" ends on a cliffhanger right as the jury comes back with its decisions.
It doesn't set up a larger world with big questions to be answered in a cliffhanger.
The Walking Dead's sixth season ended with a mighty cliffhanger: Someone or someone got "Lucille'd," a.k.a.
The most important thing I will say is, we're not going to end on a cliffhanger.
The unprecedented cliffhanger would have changed everything in Season 4 – and then Netflix pulled the plug.
Another cliffhanger: When baby Mateo spins orange juice on Jane's laptop will the data be recoverable?
Indeed, proprietorial Franco-Italian tensions have made the organization of the show something of a cliffhanger.
The cliffhanger ending already has us coming up with ideas of how season 2 could go.
And its weekly installments have kept subscribers engaged, particularly after a cliffhanger in its seventh episode.
Editorial Once again, Americans are being treated to a Capitol Hill cliffhanger over a government shutdown.
The medical drama resumes after a cliffhanger that saw the return of a malicious, estranged character.
Season two appears likely to deepen those ideas, thanks to the richness of the season one cliffhanger.
The company decided to make the most of the situation by turning the ad into a cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger: Cersei (Lena Headey) blew up King's Landing and ascended to the Iron Throne in season 6.
Their first (and supposedly last) wedding night, Scheherazade tells an entrancing story and stops on a cliffhanger.
The episode's cliffhanger is that the lead redneck kicks Brett's door open and sets off a mortar.
In the beautifully composed cliffhanger, we are left to resolve our own cultures and representation of them.
"It's another cliffhanger," said Larry Adam, chief investment officer at Raymond James, referring to Trump's tariff threat.
Each episode of Lorena ends on a cliffhanger, and I had to start the next one immediately.
And it ends on a cliffhanger, so if there's a Season 2, I'll be watching that too!
It was a cliffhanger, but it's hard to imagine a world where she's going to say no.
The opening episode picks up moments after the second season's cliffhanger, in which the latter was shot.
Last week ended on a pretty major cliffhanger: Could Luke actually have been alive all this time?
That's the cliffhanger "It's a Trap" leaves us dangling from like an icicle on a vodka bottle.
The fourth season ended on a major cliffhanger: Daya pointing a gun at CO Humphrey (Michael Torpey).
Her prose gallops along; her short, action-packed chapters often screech to a halt on a cliffhanger.
Season 7 starts on July 17th, and they will no doubt leave us on some shocking cliffhanger.
I thought the show ended on a kind of cliffhanger, though some people would disagree with that.
Season four has two episodes left, with the finale reportedly set to end on a major cliffhanger.
Otherwise, the stories will pause at a cliffhanger, making you wait to find out what happens next.
Patterson does what he does best: deliver cliffhanger endings to short chapters and make the story move.
We don't even know who's dead, a cliffhanger (or red herring?) presumably saved for the last episode.
For Valve, at least, that idea fell apart rather quickly, ending the story extension on a cliffhanger.
And on FX, "The Americans" concludes Season 5 after the most recent episode ended with a cliffhanger.
"Not a cliffhanger," then-director James Comey declared, since "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring such a case.
Secondly, you're probably wondering whether the next episode can live up to the promise of that cliffhanger.
The June 3 episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Hannah talking to both Lukes about their shared drama.
"We didn't want a cliffhanger and then, you know, here they are on the cliff again!" said Markus.
It ended on a cliffhanger, with producers approaching Olympios and Jackson, presumably to pull them away from filming.
Offred, taken by the authorities, is left at a crisis point and a cliffhanger for the new season.
Cliffhanger has exploding planes, avalanches, hungry wolves, panicked bats, frigid waters and lots of bodies falling, falling, falling.
It's super compelling, but the confounding cliffhanger, for lack of a better word, hangs over the whole episode.
In a show that is so cyclical, why not have instead of a cliffhanger just a permanent ending?
Season 1 of the Donald Trump presidency had a cliffhanger ending: The government shuts down on Day 365!
That'll certainly be welcome news for fans of the show who are still reeling from last fall's cliffhanger.
How to Get Away With Murder â€" the undisputed mayor of Cliffhanger City â€" has done it again.
Just what we need — another cliffhanger at the end of Stranger Things, as if we can handle it.
But it looks like we've got another cliffhanger coming our way when Season 2 drops on Halloween 2017.
In case you missed it, Keeping Up With The Kardashians ended on a Rocky Mountain cliffhanger last week.
The penultimate episode of Season 22014 ended with an excruciating cliffhanger — a car accident involving a main character.
Krissy from HHHS left us on a cliffhanger: I started my hike and came upon an apple tree.
There were two goals from set pieces and a cliffhanger of an intervention from a video assistant referee.
This week's "Leftovers" begins with a resolution to the semi-cliffhanger from the end of last week's episode.
"When you see someone walk into the bathroom, it's like a cliffhanger but in the beginning," he said.
We'll just have to wait and see — and in the meantime, no spoilers on that big finale cliffhanger.
So the question is, did they learn anything from the scorn viewers piled upon the Season 6 cliffhanger?
They used that rationale to justify last season's Glenn-anigans as well as the much derided culminating cliffhanger.
Although it is a sort of cliffhanger it is also a pretty tidy conclusion to our little story.
Although last night's cliffhanger reveals that Mickey, Ian's old flame and father of Svetlana's baby, has escaped from prison.
The stand-alone episodes were uninspired, but the mythology chapters were particularly bad, before closing on a ridiculous cliffhanger.
Even though Season 3 of OITNB was filled with drama, Suzanne left us on a fun and adorable cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger: Liza (Sutton Foster) came clean to Kelsey (Hilary Duff) about her age at the end of season 3.
When The Walking Dead hit its mid-season break during Season 6, it left viewers guessing with a cliffhanger.
Viewers of the HBO series have had to wait nearly a year for the resolution of this shocking cliffhanger.
The show's sixth season ended on a major cliffhanger after Negan bashed in the brains of an unknown character.
As soon as Rey takes off to find Luke, we're in new territory: Star Wars' first ever literal cliffhanger.
However, the show closed with a serious cliffhanger in the form of four tiny words between Lorelai and Rory.
During our most recent purge cliffhanger, Hunter destroyed the competition, winning his team an advantage for the next challenge.
The four-part series ended with a pregnancy announcement cliffhanger that had many viewers spluttering out their Luke's coffee.
The series ends on a cliffhanger, with a few students trying to talk Tyler out of shooting his peers.
Its family sitcom-like conclusion didn't make up for the intense cliffhanger we got in the season 2 finale.
" Trump used cliffhanger language when asked, as he left church, if he plans to attack North Korea: "We'll see.
Cliffhanger: Carrie (Claire Danes) put Quinn's (Rupert Friend) pulse monitor on her own finger in the season 5 finale.
This episode ended on a cliffhanger with Colton abruptly walking away from a heated conversation between the two contestants.
Season 4 ended on a serious cliffhanger, with the inmates revolting after the death of fan favorite, Poussey Washington.
And it sets the stage perfectly, with a shocking cliffhanger, for whatever Marvel has in store for us next.
The season even ends on a huge cliffhanger, despite the fact that a second season hasn't been announced yet.
" That film ended with a cliffhanger in which many heroes appeared to turn to dust, stoking anticipation for "Endgame.
Even at that, some subplots feel extraneous, and like the first season, the second ends on a dissonant cliffhanger.
With just over a week until the scheduled sitdown, few expect the cliffhanger aspect of the encounter will wane.
Rick Scott (R) is a cliffhanger, while the governor's race between Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) and former Rep.
Or worse, devote 15 hours of your life to a book that left thousands dissatisfied with a nonsensical cliffhanger?
She thinks she'll stay a while, she says, and the movie cuts to the credits on a gleeful cliffhanger.
By the time it reaches its own dark cliffhanger, it feels like a show with nothing left to say.
Can you tease where we're going to find Issa, Molly and Lawrence after that cliffhanger you left us with?
It's quite a cliffhanger: Is something terrible about to happen to Amma, or to her friends, or to Adora?
Part 1 of the play ends with a deep, dark cliffhanger, and Part 2 is all about resolving that.
The "Who Shot J. R.?" season finale of "Dallas" was, for me, the greatest TV cliffhanger of all time.
As the cliffhanger of the episode suggests, it's possible she'll even stay on to be a contestant yet again.
After a decidedly underwhelming climax, Raising Dion teases its next season by setting up an even more trite cliffhanger.
This is where we left season 1 of The End of the F***ing World, with an almighty cliffhanger.
Agonizing is not the same as being left in suspense, and a constant state of cliffhanger suspense gets boring.
But the final season on Fox season ended in a cliffhanger over whether their unflappable but lovable boss, Capt.
And this week's episode, with its time-travel shenanigans, rushed subplots and sweeping cliffhanger, was too busy to try.
I will say, you will get a payoff to 507's cliffhanger with respect to Evelyn big time in 509.
For more from Fogelman on that fiery cliffhanger and what to expect in the post-Super Bowl episode on Feb.
In this 1980s television series, season three ends with a serious cliffhanger: a murder attempt on main character J.R. Ewing.
The Walking Dead ended on a crazy cliffhanger last season when Negan beat…someone to death with a baseball bat.
He teases Cabinet appointments and policy decisions with cliffhanger suspense, as if he's about to throw to a commercial break.
We did it in order to try to protect the fans, because you can't end the series on a cliffhanger.
As Trump faces his impeachment cliffhanger, he's got his own crew of Washington heavies fighting to keep his presidency alive.
But it nonetheless feels cheap and unnecessary to use Morales as a cliffhanger, only to write him out moments later.
The mind-bending 2010 Christopher Nolan movie left audiences with one final cliffhanger: Was the happy ending dream or reality?
Whether it's a network TV show or original content from a streaming service, episodes often end with a mini-cliffhanger.
The entire purpose of a TV show cliffhanger is to leave you guessing and in anticipation for the next season.
The game ends on a cliffhanger, and gamers have been desperate to find out what happens next for two decades.
Unfortunately, the video ends on a massive cliffhanger after the squirrel dashes behind a building with the crow following suit.
So consider this a mid-season finale, and we just have to wait for a steamy cliffhanger to be resolved.
The first season ended on a cliffhanger, with the pilots defeated and scattered after a disastrous battle with their enemies.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger, with a shadowy figure knocking the gun from Daya's hand and rendering her unconscious.
Count me among those who felt deeply cheated by the cliffhanger, but that's all screen-blood under the bridge now.
The installment closed on a bit of a cliffhanger, as the newly-pregnant writer waits in a family planning clinic.
While the jackelope will surely play a role later in the series, this was left as something like a cliffhanger.
If it happens, they'll likely save the actual battle for next season, but the preparations might make a good cliffhanger.
I have to tune in next year … But we're not sitting there going, Okay, what's our cliffhanger for this year?
The one major event in the book that features the character — a cliffhanger that's been open since 2005, mind you!
Tom Cruise returns as the human cliffhanger and special operative Ethan Hunt to save the world (for the sixth time).
That might have been the end of it — just another show, cut short at a cliffhanger, good while it lasted.
NEWS ANALYSIS How a day that was supposed to bring clarity to the 2020 race turned into a cliffhanger caucus.
Given the themes of the episode, it's surprising that the cliffhanger isn't whether she destroys the egg or consumes it.
I guess we'll all have to stay tuned — now that's a cliffhanger worthy of my new bestie, Geralt of Rivia.
Fargo The third season of "Fargo" ends with the ultimate cliffhanger: Is there justice in this world or isn't there?
Viewers were set up to believe that Jack dies in the fire before the cliffhanger episode came to an end.
"The Time Ships," about 20 years ago, was a sequel to "The Time Machine," which ends on a huge cliffhanger.
It's tempting to call this a "cliffhanger" though I have no reason to believe the show intends to resolve it.
While Edgar's surprise appearance would be shocking enough to qualify for the classic Riverdale cliffhanger spot, the scene gets much creepier.
Of course, the fifth season is sure to open with the same cliffhanger it always does: Who's going to die next?
If anything, the biggest tease that Gilmore Girls could return was its cruel cliffhanger at the end of the "Fall" episode.
After each cliffhanger death and betrayal in Game of Thrones, viewers must wait seven days until the next episode delivers resolution.
Unfortunately, this case is left as a bit of a cliffhanger, so hopefully, we'll see that resolved in the coming weeks.
Nick: So I think the kindest takeaway we can have here is thank god this season didn't end on a cliffhanger.
As a bonus, the episode ends with a cliffhanger that will pique your curiosity for what's to come in Season 2.
It's a slow burn, but only eight episodes, and the mystery â€" the gaping cliffhanger â€" is part of the fun.
But the state still relies on paper ballots, which means Florida could provide the nation with another cliffhanger worthy of 2000.
Somehow, watching the nearly 2 minute video left us wanting more, especially with the cliffhanger of D.W. attempting to stab Arthur.
Dorfman, who made a surprise visit to her ex in the final moments of Monday's cliffhanger episode, shared the pic yesterday.
Precious little is known about the Homecoming sequel, probably due in large part to the cliffhanger ending in Avengers: Infinity War.
Season 4 of Samurai Jack ended on a cliffhanger in 2004, and rumors of a movie have run rampant ever since.
In fact, the episode is worth playing for its cliffhanger alone — though it makes the wait for episode four even harder.
Then, at the end of episode 5, a cliffhanger scene leaves viewers wondering if Ed may cheat on Madeline for revenge.
Sunday's runoff turned into a cliffhanger as the popular vote was counted and showed an ever-narrowing lead for Mr. Hofer.
His Twitter feed provides an almost daily political cliffhanger that most television series usually have at the end of a season.
The creators of AMC's "The Walking Dead" riled some fans in April by ending the show's sixth season with a cliffhanger.
That's a wrap on season 2, which, of course, ended on that cliffhanger reveal that Kimmy and the Reverend are married.
As a result, it's been fascinating to watch the show try to tease its seventh season in spite of the cliffhanger.
It's a chapter-ending cliffhanger … that is resolved two pages later when Manuel realizes that he actually memorized the phone numbers.
But for others, that edict is clearly not so cut-and-dried, as cliffhanger romances continue to be written and published.
" On the cliffhanger and fans being upset about waiting for the new season, Nicotero explains, "I still believe that the story that we're telling warranted that cliffhanger, and I think if we would have showed who Negan killed in the end of that episode, it wouldn't have had the same impact, because people were expecting it.
Tuesday's episode of This Is Us ended with a very fiery cliffhanger, indicating that the end for Jack Pearson was fast approaching.
The season doesn't quite end on a cliffhanger, but it does leave a whole lot of ongoing story up in the air.
Each episode left viewers on something of a cliffhanger, and quickly offered the option to keep watching the next in the series.
The vote in Congress was hardly a cliffhanger: the Senate backed the extension by 99-0 and the House by 419-1.
Now, nearly five years later, Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, titled "Home," has resolved this cliffhanger in dramatic and definitive fashion.
From the looks of the teasers, the next season seems like it'll be darker than the first, which ended on a cliffhanger.
Season 4 concluded on a murder mystery cliffhanger with the arrest of Buster (Hale) following the death of Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli).
After what's sure to be a cliffhanger of a season finale, Moore is set to have a recurring role in season 4.
Last week there was an awkward cliffhanger: Lee's (Chiké Okonkwo) ex-wife asked if he'd be the sperm donor for her child.
We could start with the old "baby left on the firehouse doorstep" move, or the classic, "What happened to Toby?!" midseason cliffhanger.
But he treated the weighty topic, as he does so much else, like a television cliffhanger, promising a major declaration on Friday.
A series of upsets turned it into a cliffhanger that was ultimately won by Vincenzo Nibali, the 2014 Tour de France winner.
The last game in the "Half-Life" series, "Half-Life 2: Episode Two," ended on a cliffhanger that&aposs never been resolved.
Following the cliffhanger vote on DeVos, the Senate promptly limited debate on Trump's choice of Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.
Marvel's "Runaways" is back for a third season on Hulu this winter, and it'll pick up right after the previous season's cliffhanger.
Kidman and Woodley's reunion comes after an epic season 2 finale of their popular HBO series left fans on quite the cliffhanger.
The episode ended on a cliffhanger as Jaime was pushed clear of a burst of dragonfire into the dark, murky Blackwater Rush.
The House voted to begin debate on the GOP's healthcare plan Friday, paving the way for a cliffhanger vote in the afternoon.
The first season of Euphoria wrapped in early August with an emotional cliffhanger, with all of its characters seriously going through it.
Season 1 may have been all about Beck, but it wrapped her story up tragically and left us on a Candace cliffhanger.
The Walking Dead took a baseball bat straight to our hearts when it closed Season 6 with its most brutal cliffhanger yet.
WASHINGTON — The last face-to-face meeting between Representative Robert C. Scott and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ended in an awkward cliffhanger.
In a cliffhanger ending, Kimmel said the bar charged his card for $500 and is disputing extortion claims on their Facebook page.
Return to the central plot, before finishing -- last season, anyway -- with some sort of giant cliffhanger, however irritating and manipulative that might be.
And the movie's somewhat frustrating cliffhanger ending is largely a function of its structure as an elaborate crossover comic event given film form.
That was a cliffhanger, and nobody freaked out when Luke was just on a hospital ship and nothing got resolved at the end.
The movie ended with a cliffhanger and a question: Who is going to save the day after so many Avengers bit the dust?
The cliffhanger in traditional television, especially in sitcoms, has somewhat disappeared, given the syndication cycle and the way they resell these shows afterwards.
In fact, season 2 ended with one hell of a cliffhanger, all but promising that a third season could be on its way.
The fact that Sarek, Spock's father, happened to be aboard Discovery at the time of the Enterprise cliffhanger raised a few more eyebrows.
The moment is hilarious, almost transgressive; Johnson's big booming laugh in the face of anyone who took a two-year cliffhanger too seriously.
Whether you're angry with it or whether you liked the cliffhanger or whether you're pissed off about it, the wait is worth it.
After one looming cliffhanger, the show finally answered whether he would stay dead or be resurrected in the second episode of this season.
Series fans have awaited a rebirth of the Half-Life series, which ended on an unbearable cliffhanger in Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
John Stamos posted a photo of himself with a monkey on his head to Instagram, Hello Giggles reports, along with a cliffhanger caption.
To encourage people to keep watching, writers developed a story line about thugs hunting down Dobbs, giving each episode a cliffhanger, Rosenblum said.
After having watched the finale several times over, I can only conclude that Wolfgang's absence is probably just meant to be a cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger: Who will be America's next President: ambitious former FLOTUS Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) or idealistic liberal dark horse Frankie Vargas (Ricardo Chavira)?
No senior Australian government members will attend the Warsaw summit, with a cliffhanger nation election a week ago still without a clear result.
The documentation contains quite the story arc, from a stalwart hero, to dark night of the soul, to a very modern cliffhanger ending.
The post-play feature is especially powerful because most episodes leave off at a cliffhanger (much like the chapters of many fiction books).
" Creator Chris Carter told The Hollywood Reporter, "The X-Files traditionally ended with a cliffhanger, and we didn't want to do anything different.
Making the best of the situation, it turned the ad into a cliffhanger with an ending to be posted online during the game.
The latest version adopts a slightly darker tone and employs a serialized format, with cliffhanger endings for most of the half-hour episodes.
If you'd only ever binge-watched "Breaking Bad," you missed the auxiliary experience of sitting with a cliffhanger for what felt like forever.
The movie's cliffhanger ending set up a sequel, but there were no guarantees about how any of the storylines would actually turn out.
Considering that "Far From Home" directly followed the events of "Endgame" and concluded with a cliffhanger, it's unclear how the franchise will proceed.
Unlike other series that can go an entire episode without much plot progression, it's rare that "Breaking Bad" doesn't end on a cliffhanger.
And then you meet Alan (Charlie Barnett) at the end of episode three, in a brilliantly deployed cliffhanger, and the whole series shifts.
Give us a nice cliffhanger ending and we'll be debating whether it means that all the humans actually died, Sopranos-style, for years.
Friday's episode, which brought all five characters together for the first time, felt like a gentle cliffhanger, or at least a pivot point.
It's a meta-cliffhanger with its own allure, leaving us only one way to find out: stay tuned for next week's episode. ♦
With cliffhanger negotiations for a Brexit deal still under way on Wednesday, Britain's exit from the EU is expected to dominate the summit.
Unfortunately, we know basically nothing about the story, including whether it will resolve Half-Life 25: Episode 24's painful decade-old cliffhanger.
For more than three full minutes, the camera wandered across a scene of utter destruction, a somber cliffhanger for a normally jaunty show.
His character was also a suspect in the 1980 series cliffhanger that left the world wondering who shot the oilman J. R. Ewing.
Just when fans thought Joe (Penn Badgley) had found lasting happiness with Love (Victoria Pedretti), "You" ended season two on a major cliffhanger.
Much has been made of how the cliffhanger was a poorly executed stalling tactic aimed at baiting fans rather than telling a story.
The news is so huge, it gets "Sheep's" end-of-episode cliffhanger spot, eclipsing any MerLuca drama and Amelia's genuinely sexy hookup with Link.
Episode three frustratingly ends with a blackout cliffhanger, and the suspense as to what happens in the next five minutes of Homeland looms large.
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When every subplot, surprise, and cliffhanger is in service of an event we all know is coming, all the tension and surprise is lost.
The season three finale of Orange Is the New Black had it all — big laughs, hugely moving moments, and even a cliffhanger or two.
But as their relationship progresses, Judy's secrets began to plunge the duo into some dark places, with the season ending on a major cliffhanger.
Over the course of the next 25 years, he cobbled together grants and scoured museums all over America and Peru, investigating the historical cliffhanger.
WASHINGTON — President Trump loves a cliffhanger, both on his old reality TV show, "The Apprentice," and apparently when conducting high-stakes global nuclear diplomacy.
Plus, the season concludes the ongoing story of Kinga's attempt to become world ruler of television ratings on what amounts to a cliffhanger ending.
Nick: It's shocking that one of the most-watched shows on television feels comfortable ending a season — especially one like this — on a cliffhanger.
The popular '90s sci-fi series returned for a brief run this year and ended its six-episode revival Monday night with a cliffhanger.
The Netflix black comedy, based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel, ran for eight episodes earlier this year and ended on something of a cliffhanger.
"They only know 'Who Shot J.R.'" she said, referring to the famous cliffhanger plotline from the 1980s TV show that bore the city's name.
The two directors said there won't be any sort of cliffhanger ending with the second movie which sets up the potential for a third. 
The season ended with an agonizing cliffhanger: The 10 women in the pool locked arms as the door to their bunker was blasted open.
Last week's episode ended, rather pointlessly it turns out, with a cliffhanger in which Connor waylaid and coldcocked Moore in a skid-row alleyway.
The episode doesn't seem particularly concerned about this — it's already racing to get Claire conscripted onto the British vessel in time for the cliffhanger.
"Avengers: Infinity War" is still going strong a month after it opened, even though its whopper of a cliffhanger ending continues to divide audiences.
The end of episode 3 left critics on a cliffhanger, and not hunting down the answer for myself has been a test of wills.
After the mini-series revival wrapped up with a cliffhanger, he said, "I can tell you, almost without a doubt, we will come back."
We have a cold open in each episode, and each episode ends in some kind of cliffhanger, like 'holy shit, did that just happen?
The series had been canceled by ABC, and the cliffhanger offered only the faintest hope of resuscitation for the show or its country superstar.
After seeing the amazing cliffhanger on last Sunday's season finale of Watchmen, it's hard to imagine HBO wouldn't want to make a second season.
The cliffhanger can even help us understand the best and worst of TV, as well as the tension between creative possibilities and commercial pleasures.
WASHINGTON — Every must-watch television show needs two ingredients to survive its first season: a believable villain and a nail-biter of a cliffhanger.
In the end, Chuck would win the election, Bobby would name his price at long last, and that would likely be the season's cliffhanger.
Beyond that, Glenn already almost died in The Walking Dead's sixth season, in another giant cliffhanger between the show's winter hiatus and midseason premiere.
The first season followed the storyline in the Big Little Lies bestselling novel by Liane Moriarty, yet also ended on a bit of a cliffhanger.
Once that approach grew thin, Trump's relationship to birtherism devolved into a constant cliffhanger, which is precisely where things stand now with the wiretapping claims.
The movie captures the astonishing beauty of the macrocosm and microcosm, and it provides the perfect cliffhanger endings for conveying the challenges of fundamental science.
Of course, there's also the fact that the Nicholas Scratch theory isn't technically busted — since the series leaves us with the cliffhanger of Nick's fate.
The ten-episode first season of Dead To Me moves quickly, and when it's over, it leaves us all with one heck of a cliffhanger.
In one internal cliffhanger, two characters vanish from the film right after one fires a gun, which turns out to be empty, at the other.
"There's a look in Turbo's eyes that I've only seen on the Discovery Channel," Zach Nichols said, just before the episode ended in a cliffhanger.
By the end of the season, Four essentially instigates a war, leaving the season on a cliffhanger when he abandons the Raza's crew to die.
With only the first part available, it's difficult to judge what the final piece might look like, especially because the prologue ends on a cliffhanger.
"Akane No Mai" dives into Shogun World moments after episode three's cliffhanger ending, with Maeve, Lee, and the other members of their party under attack.
But Donald Trump, perhaps trying to author a campaign cliffhanger, is determined to provide Americans with at least a measure of "suspense" on November 8.
The fifth season ended on an explosive cliffhanger: A SWAT team blew up the door of the abandoned bunker in which 10 women were hiding.
The expectations are sky-high for this premiere after last season's cliffhanger — did it feel different from other premieres in terms of breaking the story?
The issue shows us this "other" Rogers in an unidentified location, and ends with a cliffhanger where he says he just wants to get home.
And the best way to ensure as many eyeballs as possible was to always have a cliffhanger (or three) at the end of each episode.
But here's one simple measure of the film's success: Despite my reservations, that cliffhanger worked, and I really, really want to know what happens next.
With only one episode left this season, and the series' propensity to end on a cliffhanger, the finale could go in a zillion different directions.
Last week's Scandal left off with a pretty huge cliffhanger — Huck (Guillermo Diaz) and Jennifer Fields (Chelsea Kurtz) had been shot by Meg (Phoebe Neidhardt).
Nothing's ever been so well-timed as this episode's cliffhanger: If the ambassador's assistant hadn't offered help, we'd be facing something too bleak to bear.
Fans of "The Last of Us" will be especially curious to see how Ellie and Joel's relationship has changed after the first game's cliffhanger ending.
But "Far From Home" has grossed over $1 billion and ended on a massive cliffhanger, so Sony will likely want to fast track a sequel. 
Resisting the urge to check your phone or shut down Netflix after another cliffhanger Stranger Things episode should be a simple matter of self-control.
The ball leaves Kamara like the cliff edge at the beginning of a mountain climbing free fall (sorry—I was just watching "Cliffhanger" last night).
But the movie — more than four hours long, split into two parts with a cliffhanger in the middle — also works, perhaps unexpectedly, as escapist entertainment.
The season six finale was terminally boring, and the cliffhanger was insulting; the premiere, with its litany of guess-who's-gonna-die moments, felt manipulative.
There was just enough for me to get to know everyone, but it felt like the first episode in a larger story, cliffhanger and all.
And thanks to that charming cliffhanger, this dramatic reunion still holds Claire's lingering worry: What does their love really look like, after all this time?
If you want to end your TV show's season on a cliffhanger, having the main character get abducted isn't a bad way to do it.
After ending Season 4 with a huge cliffhanger, the show will bow out as Hulu's longest-running series with this stand-alone one-hour finale.
Of course, it wouldn't be How to Get Away with Murder if there weren't a devastating cliffhanger revealed in the last few minutes of the episode.
Green Chyna started assembling this clever Twitter thread on Saturday night, and if you get far enough (as of Sunday morning) you'll reach an actual cliffhanger.
"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.
We see that Star City has become a dystopian wasteland — and then Mia offers us a final kiss-off as the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
The cliffhanger came about because, also on day one, we decided to play Julia's story simultaneously with Quentin's story, so this is the change that wrought.
Yost said they did make more of an effort to have that cliffhanger at the end of episodes, to make viewers want to continue to binge.
Trump was elected with a Republican sweep of Congress, in a cliffhanger election that ended in the wee hours of Wednesday, when Democrat Hillary Clinton conceded.
The first season ended on a cliffhanger — Sharon's water breaking months early — so it was natural to assume the second would pick up almost immediately afterward.
Part of this is due to the secrecy surrounding the production — Avengers 4 is following up on the massive, universe-altering cliffhanger that ended Infinity War.
When every episode ends with a cliffhanger, the show becomes the Show That Cried Drama — we're not going to believe you when the real drama happens.
The movie ended with an epic cliffhanger that will lure fans back to theaters in droves for "Endgame," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.
Cliffhanger: Will nurse Mary (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Dr. Foster (Josh Radnor) become romantic as they work to better their Civil Warera hospital in season 2?
After the last cliffhanger episode, fans of The Bachelorette are dying to know who will make the cut as one of JoJo Fletcher's final three suitors.
" The heroine was teased as the most powerful superhero and the only one who could take on villain Thanos during the cliffhanger ending of "Infinity War.
The first season of the comically harrowing, rudely melancholy British series "The End of the ____ing World" finished with what could be construed as a cliffhanger.
With the gunshot from last season's cliffhanger still ricocheting, the team chases after Alice Sands before she destroys Jane's life as the show's final season begins.
But just as there is always a last-minute hitch in cliffhanger movies, our new and at times temperamental content management system threw up some roadblocks.
When actually, it was on my iPad [and I was] scrolling down like, 'What happens?' because it was a cliffhanger at the end of season 4.
Now this feels a bit more like a cliffhanger gimmick, meant to get players to buy the registered episodes of Doom to see what happens next.
Lionsgate seemed confident enough in a fifth season that it ended the fourth on a cliffhanger, with Hayden Panettiere's character Juliette Barnes on a missing plane.
He picks straight up from the last game's cruel cliffhanger, describing the player's journey into the Arctic in search of a lost ship called the Borealis.
If you were on the fence about this show and its cop-out season six cliffhanger followed by a gory, indulgent season seven premiere, I understand.
"The cliffhanger to bring the viewers back the next week is important, something to be enjoyed and very different to making a normal film," he said.
"But what we realized is, it would feel more like a cliffhanger than we intended," he continued, and they had always meant to make distinct movies.
Many chapters end with a cliffhanger, which adds a cinematic quality but veers into pulpy true crime when it feels like there's more pathos at stake.
When the answers come in the last few episodes, in partial, cliffhanger form, you may not feel that they're sufficient return on your investment of time.
His two stars are naturally appealing, but neither seems at ease with Mr. McDonagh's writing, with its on-and-off rhythms, cliffhanger pauses and ugly slurs.
The possibility of Madison sharing her lack of sexual history with Peter is officially so dramatic in this series, it is worthy of a cliffhanger ending.
There's a meta quality to the phrase: "What happens next?" is also the mark of a cliffhanger, of all serialized TV drama, what keeps us watching.
It was a hit, especially among female viewers, so fans were shocked when it didn't get a second season, particularly because it ended with a cliffhanger.
Like all good season finales, this surreal cliffhanger tied up some plots but unleashed deeper, more consequential intrigues to tee up more compelling sequels to come.
On My Block's season 1 cliffhanger left us with questions about who survived Olivia's quinceanera, which was crashed by the Prophets, a gang looking to kill Cesar.
Fans of the series are already fiending for Netflix to follow "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" with another season, especially after the final episode's cliffhanger.
They are right in the middle of the massive car crash, and it leaves us with a stellar cliffhanger for the final Season 15 episode next week.
Created by comedy writer Liz Feldman, "Dead to Me" briskly unfolds over eight episodes, and concludes with the kind of sharp cliffhanger that virtually ensures its return.
We had been building toward it the whole year anyways, so instead of a cliffhanger, it will just be a closed-ended story that wraps it up.
While some may have thought the climax of the episode would be a classic TV-style disaster, cliffhanger or the aforementioned reveal, "This Is Us" subverted expectations.
"When you become the cliffhanger of a TV show, and a TV show probably at the height of its power, the focus on you is fucking terrifying."
Superman ends with the pointless cliffhanger of Superman's apparent death, even though it oftentimes seems focused on setting up up a far more interesting Justice League film.
And anybody who's watched this new set, I don't want to give away too much, but the very last episode has a pretty aggressive cliffhanger on it.
But this chapter-closing "Oh no, he's dead" cliffhanger is old hat on Game of Thrones, where characters frequently appear to be dead, and then resurface later.
The series ended Wednesday night after four seasons with a cliffhanger that has fans praying it will be picked up by another network or a streaming service.
While this season is disappointing on many levels, it at least doesn't end with a cliffhanger or by setting up stories that will never come to fruition.
A lot of TV nowadays is serialized so it's incomprehensible or too cliffhanger-y to watch a single episode, but sometimes you can't stay up to binge.
While there are some missteps along the way, season 2 sets the stage for an exciting new conflict, while avoiding the cheap cliffhanger of Daredevil season 2.
With its pickup, Netflix will be able to resolve the cliffhanger that season 3 ended on, which had been designed to stave off a cancelation from Fox.
Showrunner Krista Vernoff left us on a major cliffhanger when Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) has the confrontation with her ex that fans have been dreading for seasons.
And to top it all off, the episode ends on a cliffhanger with John entering some Carcosa-like place on the heels of the fleeing Dwayne Reed.
The series concluded on that gutting cliffhanger, but it was never meant to be the end of the story; the show was canceled after Lynch shot it.
" The ad ends on a cliffhanger—assuming you care about the guy on the bike—and with the slogan "Come as a clown, eat like a king.
In a move that's sure to excite fans who were disappointed with the season 2 finale's devastating cliffhanger, Netflix will air a two-hour Sense8 finale special.
O.K., so that was not a cliffhanger – a choice between an incumbent, Bill Clinton, and an aging, out of touch and, frankly, really boring Senator, Bob Dole.
"So the Democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger to which everyone actually knows the script and the ending," he wrote.
In the show's version of a cliffhanger, Philip and Elizabeth were left wondering whether it was time to pull up stakes and take the children to Moscow.
Season 4's shocking cliffhanger will throw a massive, Michael-shaped wrench in Jane and Rafael's comfort, which Urman says will complicate everything in a "delicious" way.
But don't lose all hope yet, as Entertainment Tonight points out, the episode ends on a cliffhanger, so it's unclear whether he will actually serve his time.
The seven-episode season was beautiful and terrifying and self-contained, and didn't beg to be picked up for another run with some shoehorned cliffhanger or whatever.
Next time they should help us enter a virtual world in which the show goes into its fifth season and is allowed to resolve without a cliffhanger.
There was the thing with Glenn and the dumpster, and the Negan cliffhanger — I can categorically say that I will not be returning to the TV show.
This cliffhanger sets up BoJack having to address not only the prom moment but his encounter with the then underage Penny, which ended his relationship with Charlotte.
Luckily, there are some helpful clues sprinkled throughout IANOWT's initial seven episodes to make sense of Sydney's big cliffhanger — and it all comes down to her father.
Barry Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger that could completely destroy everything hitman-turned-actor Barry Block worked for, so Season 3 really can't come fast enough.
"I mean of course, there's ... " he trailed off for a moment, at which point someone asked if it would end with a big cliffhanger, and everyone laughed.
Instead, the president's cliffhanger tactics appear to have made it even harder to bring complex trade talks to a close and exacerbated economic uncertainty across the globe.
The cyberpunk adaptation film from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez left off on a massive cliffhanger, begging the question: was this all just set-up for a sequel?
Another topic should be the ongoing Brexit cliffhanger and whether higher interest rates from the U.S. Federal Reserve will lead to an unwanted tightening in the euro zone.
Much has been written about why the AMC program's ratings have rather abruptly declined, especially after the initial tune-in to discover who died in last season's cliffhanger.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommends setting an episode limit each night before you start watching, and sticking to it, no matter how dramatic the cliffhanger.
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But The Keepers is a different beast from its predecessor, one that doesn't prompt its audience to don a tinfoil hat or leave them teetering on a cliffhanger.
"If it doesn't explode, this will be a worse cliffhanger then the 'Walking Dead' season finale" one user posted in the comments while anxiously waiting for the explosion.
In 2017, Flamanville faced a similar cliffhanger situation, when ASN had to rule on whether weak spots found in its steel cover made that component unfit for service.
But The Keepers is a different beast than its predecessor, one that doesn't prompt its audience to don a tinfoil hat or leave them teetering on a cliffhanger.
Season 2's cliffhanger — if you want to call it that — is pretty weak, but I don't think it's about being left on the edge of your seat.
There's a compelling conclusion, but things are also left on a bit of a cliffhanger — and sure enough, her story will continue with a DLC expansion in December.
The news of TGP's renewal is almost enough to ease the fiery torture of knowing we won't know the conclusion of the fall finale's cliffhanger until January 4.
"In Too Deep" ends with a bit of a thud, an attempt at a cliffhanger that's far too sudden, but it feels like it's setting up something great.
Last year, the show teased a game-changing main cast member death for months, then ended with a cliffhanger and revealed the death(s) six months later instead.
So it was OK. But we had to be careful with having that kind of cliffhanger, at the end of episode four, to make sure that it's believable.
When you become the cliffhanger of a TV show, and a TV show probably at the height of its power, the focus on you is f—ing terrifying.
The first half of the script ends on a staggering cliffhanger, the second deals with undoing the damage Albus s and Scorpius s well-meaning meddling has wrought.
Sure, we want answers to that cliffhanger, which left us wondering just who the father of Rory's baby is, but maybe it's better if it's not right now.
Mysteries swirl in storm clouds in Nick Payne's "Incognito," which opened on Tuesday night at City Center Stage I, enough to fill many seasons of cliffhanger soap operas.
Even the producers acknowledged a need to dial that back, or at least down, after the coy cliffhanger that ended season six and brutal start to season seven.
While his fate was rendered ambiguous by the finale cliffhanger, Lynch has promised that the revival will elaborate more on what happened to Cooper since the time jump.
The season ends in a horrible cliffhanger when the Reverend, Kimmy's kidnapper, calls her from prison letting both her and the audience know that he's not going anywhere.
But right now, because we can see so little — and because the cliffhanger mirrors season one's just a little bit — it's hard not to be a little frustrated.
"The One After 'I Do'" (Season 93, Episode 1) The Season 8 premiere picked up with the previous season finale cliffhanger and confirmed that Rachel was unexpectedly pregnant.
Peter Weber's Bachelor season opened with a dramatic look at what seems to be his finale and it ended on a major cliffhanger about his ex Hannah Brown.
That wasn't entirely true of Sunday's midseason finale, but it did feature a few arresting moments, before ending with the requisite cliffhanger to lure viewers back in 2020.
A relationship ensued, but Joe was frequently dealt wild setbacks, inflicting a whole lot of collateral damage before Beck's death, and a cliffhanger that implied more trouble ahead.
"By midafternoon in 100-degree heat we were strongly outnumbered, taking heavy casualties in a cliffhanger fight to the finish," the general wrote in a West Point yearbook.
While there is no shortage of heartless and cruel adults in Daniels' story, the ultimate cliffhanger is what impact this latest book will have on the Trump presidency.
Thirteen years after the most infamous cliffhanger in video game history, Half-Life is finally coming back in March 2020 — as a VR game called Half-Life: Alyx.
Then there's the possibility that Marvel is using this reveal as a cliffhanger of sorts, and that Captain America might not be a Nazi Hydra agent after all.
Season 1 ends on a cliffhanger that practically dared Sky not to renew the series — the channel didn't take the dare, renewing the show for two more seasons.
So it's essentially giving viewers the origin story of the conflict (and probably setting up several sequels, since the movie itself ends on a bit of a cliffhanger).
But original fans of Twin Peaks' compatriot The X-Files hardly raved about that show's return as a stale miniseries — especially after it wrapped with an ill-considered cliffhanger.
The ideal cliffhanger, the ideal churn for any show — and this can be a novel or a TV show or a movie — but you want it to feel inevitable.
Entertainment Weekly reported that CMT is nearing a deal to pick up the series, which would be a relief to viewers who were distraught over the fourth season cliffhanger.
Lionsgate Television, the production company behind "Nashville," very smartly used the cliffhanger and the reaction to it to further interest in #BringBackNashville, the online movement to revive the series.
As they recreated an iconic end in television from The Sopranos, which was really a cliffhanger masked as a finale, we are left with some questions of our own.
In its 15 seasons, the show has mastered the art of the cliffhanger: revealing major family news during the teasers that air after the mid-season or season finales.
It's the most pandering sort of cliffhanger, both unearned (where was the Enterprise during this entire Klingon war?) and a shameless attempt to lure viewers back for next season.
SpaceX was streaming the Falcon 9 first stage barge landing attempt when the stream lost signal, leaving everyone with a bit of a cliffhanger as to the rocket's fate.
After last week's cliffhanger, Betty (Lili Reinhart) is on the warpath trying to figure out just what is going on with her BFF and the high school music teacher.
Herbert planned on ending the series with Children of Dune, but fan pressure prompted him to write three more installments, ending on a cliffhanger in 1985's Chapterhouse: Dune.
The original Friday the 13th might get all the credit for being the origin of a famous series (and having a fantastic cliffhanger), but it's just an okay movie.
"The Mandalorian" certainly seems like it could be a binge-worthy show, especially after the first episode's exciting cliffhanger that opens intriguing new possibilities for the "Star Wars" franchise.
Something like Game of Thrones, also adapted from a book, functions well as a TV show because every 75 to 100 pages there's a natural stopping point or cliffhanger.
On "Dallas," he portrayed a doctor who treated the notorious Texas oilman J. R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) after he had been shot in a famous cliffhanger episode in 1980.
The Netflix series I Am Not Okay With This ends on a major cliffhanger, so fans are going to to want to know about its season 2 plans ASAP.
Sandra Purdy co-owns the Joshua Tree rock-climbing guide service Cliffhanger Guides with her husband, and both have been trying to help clean at Joshua Tree National Park.
Plus, with everyone dating each other and rose ceremonies happening in the middle of episodes, while bombastic drama assumes the cliffhanger spot, it's a bit tougher to keep track.
Tuesday's Democratic primary debate in South Carolina had something of an awkward ending — a cliffhanger that kept candidates at their podiums, uncertain about whether or not it was over.
Courtesy Michael Cravotta Just a few weeks into the tenure of the first reality-star President, the drama in the White House is already at mid-season-cliffhanger levels.
Comic book superhero stories on the big screen have made a tradition out of the post-credits scene, a cliffhanger that dramatically teases the next installment in the series.
Remember when Sherlock resolved its giant season 2 cliffhanger by presenting a montage of fan theories about what could have happened and then never actually telling us what happened?
For Mr. Trump, the former reality-show star, the suspense over Mr. Sessions is a season-ending cliffhanger: Stay tuned to see whether he gets voted off the island.
Somewhere around the shameless manipulation of Abraham's cliffhanger death at the close of the sixth season, however, sadness became a blunt-force weapon that the show has wielded carelessly.
Wheeling furiously along sandy paths, swerving around children, gripping the handlebars like Harrison Ford in Cliffhanger, I ride like a demon to try and reach the pier in time.
In a heartening sign of things to come, the writers moved away from the usual cliffhanger ending and concluded this week's episode with a slightly different brand of suspense.
The actor who plays Huck on "Scandal" has some words of hope for fans who were upset about last week's cliffhanger episode in which his character was shot multiple times.
The midseason finale of This Is Us left us with a huge cliffhanger when Kate's boyfriend Toby suddenly collapsed all over the snacks after Christmas Eve dinner at the Pearson's.
If only Baby Teeth (Connor Paton) survived… Baby Teeth Revisited This is a show with a minor — likely dead character, based off of that premiere-ish cliffhanger — named Baby Teeth.
While that cliffhanger hints there could be some drama over "Becca" and Jesus' fling, various other pieces of evidence confirm there is no end in sight for this new tension.
But if you thought the discord and heated conversations following the cliffhanger from Season 6 were bad, get ready for a whole new issue to fight about with other fans.
It ends with an ambiguous cliffhanger, but one where you totally know which direction the show is pointing and you're already horrified by whatever is to come in the finale.
The renewal wasn't entirely surprising in light of the season two finale, which featured a murderous whopper of a cliffhanger that, if left unresolved, would make for an untidy conclusion.
Now that most of us have recovered from Season 6's horrible, evil cliffhanger ending, we can get back to what really matters in The Walking Dead: zombie fiction fandom.
And the reason the First Doctor (originally played by William Hartnell, now David Bradley) is showing up at this exact moment, as revealed in the cliffhanger of "The Doctor Falls"?
I'd actually appreciate more razzle-dazzle, but there's just enough mystery going on here with Probably Veidt and the episode two cliffhanger to keep the suspense and my interest up.
I can question why you'd pad this fan service with such a halfhearted and blatantly nonsensical plot, which ends on an equally nonsensical cliffhanger that's spoiled by the film's trailer.
In addition to the superb acting and slow-paced-yet-cliffhanger-filled plot, Queen Sugar has three major elements that immediately made me realize I had a new fall addiction.
Last Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones ended on an epic cliffhanger as Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and his motley crew embarked on their next adventure north of the Wall.
That's because the movie represented an event beyond even its status as a sequel to the gargantuan hit "Avengers: Infinity War," which ended -- like a TV show -- on a cliffhanger.
When the first half of the season ended, it did so on a cliffhanger that deposited the USS Discovery in a corner of space no one had ever seen before.
The vote in North Carolina in 2016 could turn out to be a cliffhanger reminiscent of the the voting in Florida in 85033, which led to the Bush-Gore recount.
In fact, all you really need to know about how Zoo approached its storytelling is that this isn't even a season-ending cliffhanger; it was the beginning of the episode.
" He added: "When you become the cliffhanger of a TV show, and a TV show probably at the height of its power, the focus on you is f—ing terrifying.
Here's how newspapers across the United States depicted Donald Trump's presidential win: Even though Clinton conceded early Wednesday morning, there are some papers that depicted the race as a cliffhanger.
I guess the truth of it is we were looking toward our finale, and there was a question of whether we were going to get to end on a cliffhanger.
But not only is Stranger Things not a show built upon weekly cliffhanger reveals, it's one that fundamentally depends on the innocence — and ignorance — of its main characters to function.
Alexandria, Virginia (CNN)As prosecutors neared the end of presenting their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the federal court in Virginia gave its watchers a true cliffhanger.
"Truth or Consequences": Season 7, Episode 1A lot of eyes were on "NCIS" at this point, thanks both to a Season 6 cliffhanger and the show's increasing popularity in general.
"When you become the cliffhanger of a TV show, and a TV show probably at the height of its power, the focus on you is f—ing terrifying," Harington said.
Based on the big cliffhanger that took place at the end of "Spider-Man: Far From Home," it'll be interesting to see how things play out in the third installment. 
Rocky the flying squirrel) and his curvaceous adversary, Natasha Fatale, on the proudly two-dimensional cliffhanger chronicles of "Rocky and His Friends" (later "The Bullwinkle Show") from 22009 to 22004.
If the initial fund-raising hurdle of $8 million still seemed far-off as recently as last week with $6.6 million in the coffers and a cliffhanger deadline of Dec.
I guess this was technically a cliffhanger, but the good kind, where you don't wonder if they'll survive (because, c'mon, they will) but, rather, how their new circumstances will change them.
The series ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger, with it unclear if Spider-Man would ultimately find his beloved Mary Jane (Sara Ballantine), who was lost somewhere in an alternate dimension.
Season two of Stranger Things' biggest cliffhanger without a doubt is the unignorable sexual tension between season two addition Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery) and quintessential '80s mom Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono).
And so President Trump's first 100 days ended with a cliffhanger in the Trumpcare saga: Will they or won't they take health insurance away from Americans who need it the most?
While The Handmaid's Tale's first season ended on a cliffhanger, it wasn't out of the question to wonder if things were about to change for the better for Offred (Elisabeth Moss).
Josh was amazingly candid, showing his frustration that the show is so insanely popular, producers have to go to extreme lengths to protect plotlines ... specially, who was killed in the cliffhanger.
The same applies to batteries, which seem to cling on to dear life for ages like that woman in the movie Cliffhanger, until they die at the moment you need it.
The mention in the artist's bio that Monsters "is Emil's first, but not last, graphic novel" assure the reader that Karen Reyes's story will indeed continue after the volume's gripping cliffhanger.
The premiere of Season 7 was worth that painful cliffhanger, and faking Glenn's death back in Season 6 successfully gave us a glimpse into the uncertainty of living in this world.
The House Budget Committee is set to hold a final markup of the legislation on Thursday, setting the stage for a floor vote next week that could turn into a cliffhanger.
After diehard fans spent Thanksgiving day marathoning Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (apologies to all the family members we ignored), we were left with a bit of a cliffhanger.
The season seven premiere of The Walking Dead was the show's chance to redeem itself and make up for pulling an unnecessary and manipulative cliffhanger finale more than six months ago.
Let's start things off with last week's cliffhanger: Evan's daring attempt to separate Amanda and Josh from each other's mouths and replace Josh's mouth with his mouth, but without anyone noticing.
Rowan sipping red wine on the couch, watching the VP announcement drama unfold on live TV (and saying "that's my girl") is the ultimate cliffhanger until the season 213 premiere arrives.
Rafael's being blackmailed by Derek (the big cliffhanger this week: Derek's working with his mother) and Michael is finally excited about something again (his job as tech assistant on Rogelio's show).
A hanging story-chad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, S.H.I.E.L.D. has had ratings consistently low enough to make the prospect of its renewal every year a kind of comic-book cliffhanger.
And so President Trump's first 100 days ended with a cliffhanger in the Trumpcare saga: Will they or won't they take health insurance away from Americans who need it the most?
But the movie stuck to reality when it described how the Supreme Court sided with the press and not the Nixon administration in what was a cliffhanger of a legal battle.
For instance, if two characters kiss in a finale — a popular type of cliffhanger — jumping ahead by two years means skipping right over the early, most interesting parts of their relationship.
There's no denying the hype that erupted when the Netflix revival, A Year in the Life, made its debut in 2016, but fans want another season, especially with that agonizing cliffhanger.
Tonight on the show that airs between commercials for Stumptown, we got a rekindled relationship, a rose ceremony, Mike Johnson's final Bachelor audition, a big old cliffhanger, and so much more.
There's even a neat little button at the end that either closes the entire series on a note of ambiguity or opens the door for a second season on a cliffhanger.
By making room for both Sylvester Stallone ("Cliffhanger," Saturday) and a Czech medieval epic ("Marketa Lazarova," Sunday), the Quad's programmers have concocted one the strangest frozen blends since prosciutto ice cream.
All of these emotional moments that only half land contribute to the feeling that Infinity War's cliffhanger can't possibly hope to live up to the massive emotional weight of what happens.
"What I really wanted to do was find a really good cliffhanger," executive producer Steve Blackman told Entertainment Weekly about ending the Umbrella Academy's first season on such a massive question mark.
Though Chris Sullivan has known the fate of his This Is Us character Toby for weeks, the winter finale cliffhanger — on a show famous for twists — still left him a little nervous.
It's this video series where over the course of, at first, 12 videos, he tells this musical story about a guy cheating, and there's a cliffhanger at the end of each one.
Mann's film, in addition to having the classic Hollywood trifecta of good-looking actors, thrilling cliffhanger plotlines and a globe-trotting, costume-shifting script, is refreshingly accurate and hits close to home.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the show's executive producer, Greg Nicotero, continues to defend his decision to end last season with a cliffhanger, specifically his decision not to show those deaths.
"Concord's" cliffhanger of an ending packs even more of a punch than one would expect since most of the episode is a light and airy confection without a single whiff of doom.
Fans of the show were left with a cliffhanger at the end of Season 2, as Anika (Grace Gealey) and Rhonda (Kaitlyn Doubleday) tussled at the edge of a high-rise balcony.
The Missing follows a tried and true formula of TV storytelling, a whodunit in which eachepisode ends with such a compelling cliffhanger, it's impossible not to dig into the next one rightaway.
Look, we're not accustomed to New Zealand's TV scene, but the cliffhanger ending to an episode of the country's biggest (and possibly only) soap opera Shortland Street makes us wish we were.
Of course, it's not new for the reality TV host-turned-president to be critiqued for using cliffhanger TV production techniques to keep the American public craving new episodes in his presidency.
This isn't the most gripping cliffhanger that "Jane the Virgin" has ever had but it's one that puts Jane's education in jeopardy — perhaps the most important thing to her besides her family.
In a cliffhanger ending, we see signs that Sheriff Hopper is in contact with Eleven — or is trying to find her — and that Will might still have Demogorgon eggs in his gut.
On Tuesday, in a courtroom cliffhanger, Michael Flynn effectively eviscerated the President's claims that the former national security adviser was trapped into lies and flipping on his boss under unfair FBI intimidation.
"Half-Life: Alyx" won&apost offer an conclusion to the cliffhanger that has kept fans on edge for more than decade, but its exciting to see Valve return to the beloved franchise.
His slow autophagy is both comically relatable and also devastatingly tragic: we watch as his buoyant American confidence is slowly weathered down to a nub, until the season finale's heartbreaking, breathless cliffhanger.
It was long (90 minutes), featured a more complicated series of traps and moves than The Dark Knight or a Rube Goldberg machine, and ended on a cliffhanger that had fans howling.
The teen series' 2020 finale, "Chapter Twenty-Eight," ends with a cliffhanger time jump that signals On My Block's core four — or is it core five now, out of respect for Jasmine?
We clung to the cliffhanger ending of the penultimate episode: Arya Stark wanders a city of cinders, trying to save innocent women and children from being doused with dragon flame from above.
Mostly, it has to do with that hyper-human Tom Cruise, who runs, drives, dives, shoots, flies, falls and repeatedly teeters on the edge of disaster, clinging to one after another cliffhanger.
" Her introspective gender fluidity dovetailed with an "it" girl's practiced mystique: in a 2013 essay for the trans magazine Original Plumbing , she described her body as "a raincheck, a cliffhanger, an IOU.
There's so little at stake in "Alita: Battle Angel" that it blurs into uninvolving spasms of visual and aural noise as it lurches to the cliffhanger ending, a setup for promised sequels.
She shared her feelings on the cancellation, saying it "hollowed me out," and expressed gratitude for the fact that she'll get to address the season two cliffhanger and resolve the show for real.
"Captain Marvel" arrives nearly a year after the cliffhanger ending to "Avengers: Infinity War" teased that Captain Marvel is the most powerful superhero and the only one who could take on villain Thanos.
Last week's episode ended on a cliffhanger, with Nick Viall deciding to eliminate Liz — a contestant he'd previously had a one-night stand with months before — in the middle of a group date.
Though the series ended on a  bit of a cliffhanger, it's unclear whether this new iteration will pick up where the crew of the Bebop left off, or introduce them all over again.
Outlander episode 5 ended on the cruelest cliffhanger imaginable, with Claire and Jamie finally laying eyes on each other again after 20 years apart — before Jamie faints and the episode cuts to black.
Nick: The worst part, in my mind, is that most viewers will be comparing next week's finale with last season's, which was forever tainted by terrible creative choices and an insulting cliffhanger ending.
Of course, this all leads to a cliffhanger: Will Trump invite the Nationals, whom he's already congratulated on Twitter, to the White House -- and, more to the point, will the team show up?
Trump's presidency is coming to an important clarifying moment, Mackowiak said, before helpfully comparing the critical juncture the White House finds itself in as the climactic cliffhanger of a movie — or reality show.
After last night's episode ended on a heartbreaking, fiery cliffhanger teasing Pearson patriarch Jack's (Milo Ventimiglia) impending death, series creator Dan Fogelman took to Twitter to offer some much-needed comforting and consoling.
Nothing in Cliffhanger could possibly surpass that terrific opening jolt, but it's a smart, enjoyable summer action thriller nonetheless, directed by Renny Harlin with the focused energy of a Boy Scout earning badges.
And for those poor souls, perhaps you could take some pity on them, and avoid posting the juiciest, most cliffhanger-y plot twist from your favorite show on Instagram, or Snapchat, or Facebook.
The last show, Stargate Universe, ended on a cliffhanger in 2011, and while there's been talk about a new series of films nothing concrete has appeared until now other than comic book releases.
"Captain Marvel" arrives nearly a year after the cliffhanger ending to "Avengers: Infinity War" teased that the heroine is the most powerful superhero and the only one who could take on villain Thanos.
Well, on Tuesday night, this seemed to be solidified given the fact that the episode left us on a cliffhanger where half of the house is on fire thanks to a faulty crockpot.
After a cliffhanger that was either infuriating or brilliant, depending on how much patience you have left for the show, The Walking Dead's creators were giving nothing away with its season seven teaser.
We also get a closer look at Kylo Ren's scar and the resulting moral conflict of his actions in the previous film — as well as some intriguing cliffhanger interaction between Kylo and Rey.
The Togetherness actress — who is married to GoT showrunner David Benioff — was on the Today show promoting the return of her series this week, and got to talking about the Jon Snow cliffhanger.
Ezekiel was on Cloud Nine, ebulliently reminding his soldiers again and again that "we will lose not one in our ranks," and it worked out pretty well for him until the episode's cliffhanger.
Editorial Negotiations in Albany over the New York State budget are hurtling toward an April 1 deadline with a cliffhanger question unanswered: How much damage will the budget do to New York City?
RIO DE JANEIRO — The effort to impeach President Dilma Rousseff cleared a congressional panel on Monday, setting up a cliffhanger vote on her ouster in the coming days in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.
It ends on a classic first-book-in-a-series cliffhanger, one that expands the world of the story while posing new questions about the situation its characters (and readers) thought they understood.
Unfortunately, Chapter 6 of The Mandalorian didn't address the cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 5 and we still don't know for sure who appeared on Tatooine after Mando got out of there.
So just as our primal brain is wired to relish solving puzzles as an extension of more dire problems of survival, we must have a deep connection to the notion of the cliffhanger.
While cliffhanger negotiations for Britain's Brexit deal should dominate the summit, the crisis in Turkey and Syria and the EU's next seven-year-budget will also take up much of the leaders' time.
The number of Senate Republicans who say they're willing to block the president's emergency grip on appropriations foreshadows a presidential veto and a distracting cliffhanger, should Congress seek to override a Trump veto.
"Captain Marvel" arrives in March, nearly a year after the cliffhanger ending to "Avengers: Infinity War" teased that she was the most powerful superhero and the only one who could take on villain Thanos.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition will win enough seats to govern in its own right after a cliffhanger July 2 election, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) projections on Monday.
The episode ends with a cliffhanger — I'll avoid spilling the details for those that are eager to play the game themselves — but "Firehouse" is just the first episode in a planned multi-chapter story.
In the process, pop culture has reverted back into 1960s Batman, where nearly every episode implores viewers to turn in next week — "Same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel" — to resolve the previous week's cliffhanger.
I can appreciate a good cliffhanger, but that one left me skeptical that any answer at all could be satisfying without also tilting the show way too far into the fantasy zone for me.
While the first season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale ended back in June, we're still thinking about the finale — not just because of the serious cliffhanger, but because of the loss of Tom Petty.
Gimple's insistence (on Talking Dead) that this ending isn't meant to be a "who got killed" cliffhanger is pretty rich, because that's literally the only thing this specific filmmaking decision asks you to consider.
We pick up where the previous episode's cliffhanger left us, when former Bachelorette Andi Dorfman (she and Nick, you see — they did a sex to each other) shows up unannounced at Nick's hotel room.
That ambling build-up set the stage for an extended tension-filled finale Sunday that contained a little bit of everything, and at least avoided the irritating cliffhanger stunts that have characterized seasons past.
But he comes up again: In the fourth episode of The Return — the last of what we've seen so far — Jeffries plays heavily in the final scene, establishing an episode cliffhanger typical of Lynch.
Its highly anticipated season seven premiere, featuring the resolution to a big cliffhanger, could have easily tacked on an extra 10 minutes of story to its typical 42-minute runtime, and aired fewer commercials.
"Captain Marvel" arrives nearly a year after the cliffhanger ending to "Avengers: Infinity War," which teased that the heroine is the most powerful superhero and the only one who could take on villain Thanos.
Chris Carter has vowed the show will return to the small screen (and I'm going to hold him to his word after that cliffhanger finale), but fans are likely in for a long wait.
Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger that once again flipped the premise of the afterlife-with-assholes comedy and Season 3 continues to deliver exciting twists, bizarre gags, and the occasional heart-melting moment.
Trump digs a cliffhanger Asked about whether he had settled on a pick to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, Trump said he had one name in mind but wouldn't share it.
The Walking Dead fandom knows exactly what that feels like because we officially don't know anything about how the show will conclude the nail-biting cliffhanger that closed out Season 6, and it sucks.
But if the rest of this episode had been better — and if it weren't for that cliffhanger — I might be tempted to have muted hope for season seven, entirely because of Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Sometimes the show would have a brutal cliffhanger in the winter and make fans wait two months for a reveal, something that doesn't work too well on TV anymore in the age of spoilers.
Without it, the cliffhanger plays as more of a mystery, or a reminder of how much June loves Hannah and doesn't want her to be all alone in Gilead without either parent, or whatever.
This has become especially glaring as the cliffhanger ending the first half of this season set up the public exposure of a few of his worst moments, suggesting an imminent reckoning for the character.
After a cliffhanger vote on Monday that saw Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez chosen to form a new government, a steady trickle of announcements have sketched out one of Spain's largest cabinets in recent decades.
It stuck in my mind, again, that "The War of the Worlds" finishes as a kind of cliffhanger, because clearly the Martians are going to come again and follow up on their initial invasion.
"We're certainly not going to end Season 7 on a cliffhanger," a chuckling Kirkman told Mashable during a New York Comic Con-adjacent event hyping Stubborn Soda's new Skybound Entertainment-focused series of video shorts.
Setting that baggage aside, this felt like a near-perfect cliffhanger (although indeed, it actually would have made a terrific series finale) to capitalize on what the show had been building toward, on multiple fronts.
Along with the electronics, jewelry and photo IDs, LAX police found a still unclaimed script for the yet-to-air season premiere of a popular TV show that ended the previous season with a cliffhanger.
If that's not enough to get fans pumped for the show's second season, having some hope that Drake could be involved in the finale's cliffhanger could be just the thing to stir up major excitement.
The writers also seem to be struggling a bit to fit their ambition into the show's 25-minute run time, with some episodes just abruptly ending rather than resolving, or even finishing with a cliffhanger.
It was a cliffhanger on a literal cliff: Desert planet orphan Rey (Daisy Ridley) crosses the galaxy to track down Jedi Master Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), hidden like a hermit on a green, craggy island.
After the cliffhanger with the demo-dogs in episode 6, I was ready to jump right into the next moment of that story, but the show took viewers on a massive, frustrating plot detour instead.
"If it were up to me, I would pick that one," said the 50-year-old actor pointing his weapon of choice (though, like in TWD's most recent finale cliffhanger, his choice was not shown).
In fact, the singer even went so far as to reveal a somewhat dramatic cliffhanger: she said that Simmons had actually been texting her while they had all been at the club earlier that night.
Now creators might instead use the first 20 seconds of videos to build suspense to a cliffhanger, insert an ad break and then put the meat of the video after they've already earned their cut.
It was a cliffhanger that left us all dying for answers for a whole year, and the immediate resolution is that she did pull the trigger, but it wasn't fatal — at least not right away.
At the end of "Omega," The Walking Dead did what it does best and left us with a tense cliffhanger as the Whisperers and an unmasked Alpha arrive at the gates asking for her daughter.
The mother of all hacks serve as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit.
The mother of all hacks serves as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit.
Cliffhanger alert: The investigation into Corrections Officer Gary Munson (Brad Garrett) goes deeper in this season finale, prompting union actions that threaten the lives of Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba and the entire S.V.U. squad.
But what's even worse is that the answer to the cliffhanger will almost certainly be spoiled by on-set photos — which will immediately reveal which actor is no longer with the rest of the cast.
The endgame that's coming into view in the late stages of season one, as the conspiracy begins to take its most overt and irreversible steps yet, will leave the characters forever dangling on a cliffhanger.
The ruling and expected appeal sets up another cliffhanger in which the fate of the law, which Republicans have unsuccessfully tried to repeal for years, will likely once again ultimately lie with the Supreme Court.
It all seemingly culminates with the conclusion to the cliffhanger from last year's "Avengers: Infinity War," in which many of the titular crime-fighters disintegrated, and the survivors vowed to, yes, avenge their apparent deaths.
On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, "Sneaky Pete" showrunner Graham Yost talks about what makes writing for Amazon different — including how the online streaming service thinks about the all-important cliffhanger.
That heated discussion then fueled an entire new Kardashian argument and crying jag that became powerful enough to stand as a premiere episode cliffhanger and a lightening rod for more drama further into the season.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger of sorts too, as the F.B.I. agents Gordon Cole (David Lynch) and Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) hear about Mr. C's crash in South Dakota and wonder if Cooper's returned.
Browsing After two and a half decades, the fog over the town of Twin Peaks may finally be lifting: The cult series, which ended on a cliffhanger in 1991, is set to return on Sunday.
The game essentially ends on a cliffhanger, which I suppose is a power move given the quality of the preceding hours, but I'll just say I didn't expect the credits to roll when they did.
Following a Season 6 cliffhanger, this year's premiere of "The Walking Dead" drew a hefty 20.8 million viewers, which means the finale shed about 5.6 million viewers compared with the opener, according to Nielsen's data.
If you really look back at everything HBO has slipped fans ahead of Thrones' return, you'll realize the network may just be trying to tell us Tormund actually died in the season 7 finale's catastrophic cliffhanger.
The Glenn Headfake of 2015 was one of showrunner Scott Gimple and crew's worst and most manipulative creative decisions, if you can even call that, and comes second only to the cliffhanger ending of last season.
He was to appear in the cliffhanger scene when the Senate votes on the controversial nomination of the conciliatory Robert Leffingwell (Henry Fonda), accused of having once belonged to a Communist cell, as secretary of state.
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It might seem, at first, like another example of the show putting a character in danger for a cheap cliffhanger, something similar to how Glenn found himself nearly eaten up by zombies earlier in the season.
The end of Avengers: Infinity War left viewers with an incredible cliffhanger (spoiler warning for the two of you who haven't seen it yet), as Thanos snapped half of the universe's living beings out of existence.
Alas, many of the details surrounding Game of Thrones' eighth and final season are just as much a cliffhanger as the Night King knocking down the wall and Jon Snow having sex with his Aunt Dany.
Then there's "Identity," and its parallels with "Best of Both Worlds," starting with the way they share a startling cliffhanger that leaves the fate of not only a primary character, but an entire planet worrisomely uncertain.
Fans may be eagerly waiting for (or dreading) the Walking Dead conclusion of the cliffhanger with Negan and his bat, but that's clearly not all that's going to be happening in Season 7 of AMC's hit.
It's the assumption of many people around Trump, and perhaps the president himself, that these outbursts are cost-free: It gets the media in a tizzy, and diverts attention from current problems to a new cliffhanger.
Remember last episode when the final 10 minutes were given to searching for a suspect named Dwayne Reed and it ended on something of a cliffhanger with Stone trapping or trapped in a dungeon-like building?
Amid more explosions and near-death experiences than your average chaperoned school outing, Arnold tries to solve the mystery that's been driving him and fans crazy since the series cliffhanger finale: What happened to his parents?
The drama's second season ended on a cliffhanger that brought much of the cluster together in London, only to have them watch in terror as Whispers (Terrence Mann) and the nefarious BPO captured Wolfgang (Max Riemelt).
Indeed, the title track of their sorely underrated final album, The Rapture, plays out like an 11-and-a-half-minute miniseries complete with cliffhanger moments that leave you wondering where the band will go next.
That made for an arresting cliffhanger at the end of the episode, at the cost of providing a clear sense of what the show would be (or how it could possibly keep moving at that pace).
In "Chloramphenicol," Wednesday's episode of The Americans, the show doesn't waste any time following up on last week's cliffhanger, which found Philip and Elizabeth quarantined in Gabriel's apartment due to possible exposure to the Glanders virus.
Though it surely wasn't meant to be the series finale, given that a second season was pitched to MTV and then passed on, the end of Clone High retroactively became stronger by ending on this cliffhanger.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Victory in a cliffhanger Israeli election on Monday seemed to be within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's grasp, with exit polls showing him just one seat short of a governing right-wing bloc in parliament.
The government shutdown is not a political crisis in the president's eyes; it is a gripping cliffhanger, one that carries over from episode to episode, perhaps not to be resolved until the end of the season.
Even as journalists disagreed over the report's findings, debating Mr. Mueller's conclusions and whether Mr. Trump's actions amounted to anything criminal, they agreed that events on Thursday were more of a cliffhanger than a series finale.
In addition to leaving the audience on a cliffhanger — would the visiting American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and the French student Céline (Julie Delpy) meet again after one night of passionate conversation on the streets of Vienna?
And to give it even more of an investigation-room feeling, they flash a black-and-white cue card reading "The Confrontation" beforehand, amid perfectly timed, cliffhanger commercial breaks pulled straight from the aesthetic of Maury.
Maisel ended with a steamy cliffhanger when housewife-turned-comedian Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) hooked up with estranged husband Joel (Michael Zegen) — despite her engagement to a tall, dark and handsome doctor Benjamin (Zachary Levi).
The show's infuriating season six cliffhanger and subsequent season seven opener are constructed so that all of the tension, and all of the relief from that tension, stem from a baseball bat connecting with a skull.
On My Block season 1 ended in a heartbreaking cliffhanger and luckily, the streaming platform finally announced that the second season of the comedy drama drops on March 29, almost a year after the freshman season debuted.
At the very end of the episode, Sid and Kay are in bed when an armed stranger quietly breaks in — on the one night in 26 years that Sid forgot to turn on the burglar alarm. Cliffhanger!
What wasn't inevitable is the finale's "ultimate cliffhanger," as Raver-Lampman calls it, where Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) uses his time traveling powers to help the entire Umbrella Academy jump to any time but their present one.
"At the end of this movie, it's not a cliffhanger, but it's designed for people to want to know what's going to happen next, whereas the earlier Jurassic Park movies had pretty clear definitive endings," he explained.
The episode one cliffhanger is particularly goofy, and while I don't entirely understand why the vile T-Bag is still a character the others are willing to have around, at least he has a robot arm now.
There were two gorgeous dresses and three hot consummations, plus a cliffhanger, several heart-to-hearts, and Brooke Shields getting attacked by a wolf on live TV. As usual, the world took all this perfection for granted.
Showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg address the episode's cliffhanger with Insider, whether or not Ginny is part of Georgie's group from "The Walking Dead," how they'd grade a season filled with backlash and criticism, and more.
As frustrating as it is not to have solid answers to questions about the health of pregnancies, or to have to discuss guidelines that leave something of a cliffhanger, that is the situation we find ourselves in.
Alternately, maybe the season would end on a cliffhanger the way the first season did, with an arrest or accusation that would set up next year's fifth and final season as one last quest for the truth.
The biggest cliffhanger before the midseason break, however, didn't have to do with that confrontation, but rather with the plight of Rick's son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), who was bitten by a Walker and faces almost certain death.
The first half of Bojack Horseman Season 6 saw its equine protagonist poised to finally make the changes he needs to live with himself and his mistakes, only to (maybe) lose it all in a devastating cliffhanger.
That said, the series was clearly conceived with the idea of more episodes in mind, as it ends with a bit of a cliffhanger: The Skeksis have devised a new weapon to use against their Gelfling foes.
The back half of Season 6 was overshadowed by his looming appearance, his arrival brought the misguided finale cliffhanger, and the gory Season 7 premiere kicked off a string of wearying episodes mired in setup and grief.
After a season one cliffhanger with no sure plans of a season two, HBO's The Young Pope returned tonight in its second installment, The New Pope, aptly named because there is a new pope in our midst.
Washington (CNN)The immigration and government shutdown cliffhanger gripping Washington is a symptom of a broader reality: American politics is being held hostage to three nation-changing elections -- one past and two that are yet to come.
Mostly, it collapsed the timeline a little bit (at least so far as I can tell), and added a dramatic cliffhanger where Marie climbs over the railing on a bridge and dangles above a roaring river below.
At Alexandria, Dwight (Austin Amelio), who arrived in a cliffhanger last episode, reveals that Negan has learned of Rick's plans to resist, and that he's bringing a group of 20 or so saviors to fight the Alexandrians.
But if Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows its own pattern, that cliffhanger will last maybe 10 minutes into season five before the 99th Precinct family comes through and sets them loose for another season of ridiculous, joyous fun.
The episode's cliffhanger — involving Eleanor revisiting perhaps the series' most famous line, only this time, it's to confirm she's in the Good Place — is a good one, especially because the Good Place appears a little dusty and rundown.
From the same minds that brought you the Jagr Draft, Cup champs picking their banner night opponent on live TV, and using the Cliffhanger guy to announce player signings, please welcome the league's newest rule: The Nuclear Option.
The demand is understandable: Endgame is the culmination of 11 years' and 21 films' worth of Marvel moviemaking, as well as the bookend to 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, a $2 billion movie with a game-changing cliffhanger.
As "Week 5's" tense cliffhanger — which follows a loud battle of words between Onyeka Ehie and Nicole Lopez Alvar — proves, this is definitely a man with enough anxiety to go flying over a fence at any second.
While Archie's arrest is clearly the big jaw-dropper of "Brave New World," another possibly more insidious cliffhanger appears right before Sheriff Michael Minetta (Henderson Wade) shows up to cuff the teen in front of all of RHS.
While The Handmaid's Tale is already so bleak its star is tired of hearing about all the doom and gloom, the Hulu drama still managed to outdo itself in the devastatingly dark department with last week's cliffhanger ending.
And most of all, given that Blood Wars wraps on a pregnant moment — not exactly a cliffhanger, but on a clear teaser for the next episode in the franchise — how many more of these movies will there be?
The season's final episode feels the most like a standard episode finale: friendly relationships suddenly shift, the danger finally feels real, and the whole thing ends with a cliffhanger so steep you could ride a sled down it.
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.
The House is expected to hold a cliffhanger vote on a repeal bill Thursday as acrimony among GOP lawmakers threatens to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on an objective that has motivated conservative voters for years.
But if there's one thing we've learned so far on Game of Thrones it's that even an on-screen death isn't necessarily permanent — and a cliffhanger where someone looks like they might be dead is almost certainly not.
If you remember (and if you don't, here's a reminder), last season ended on a major cliffhanger: CO Dixon, on his knees, staring down the barrel of a gun held by Daya, as a riot erupts around them.
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives was set on Thursday for a cliffhanger vote to repeal Obamacare, as Republican leaders worked to deliver President Donald Trump a win for one of his top legislative priorities.
At the same time, it undercuts the season four cliffhanger, which was full of existential dread, and picks up a short while later, when most of that dread has dissipated in the face of day-to-day life.
The closing moments of the season feature a cliffhanger that may reflect a serious danger for deaf people (and that gains an extra dimension from Kate's obliviousness to what's happened) but is a head-smacker in dramatic terms.
And while these causes are to be taken seriously, this tidy, hopeful summing up has the feeling of a shoehorned resolution to a soap opera cliffhanger, à la the notorious "Bobby's dream" episode of the original "Dallas" series.
Then, we're taken to a flashback that reveals a little bit more of what happened directly after "Fun Rob's" cliffhanger, when Mac still returns to Rob's apartment after learning she cheated on him the night they got engaged.
After a season 7 cliffhanger that left literally every major character on Chicago Fire in peril, the mattress factory fire was finally extinguished in the season 8 premiere — but not without claiming one of 51's original players.
The movie picks up exactly where The Force Awakens left off with a cliffhanger on the cliffs of the planet Ahch-To, where Luke Skywalker had gone — and covered his tracks — in search of the first Jedi temple.
Because Infinity War ended with a cliffhanger built around several famous Marvel characters evaporating into dust, Marvel can only feature its non-dusted heroes in Endgame's marketing; otherwise, it risks spoiling the movie with even the smallest hints.
Subscription services (I'm up to four) compete for our undivided attention with their magnitude and features like autoplay, which can briskly carry us through hours of TV, from one seductive cliffhanger question to the next, and the next.
I know A Song of Ice and Fire fans think it's rough because it's taking George R.R. Martin some time to finish writing the books, but Half-Life 22: Episode 22 ended on a major cliffhanger in 2007.
Obviously, another season would be way more preferable, but it's good that the season ended with a cliffhanger that could be read either as a happy ending or a major game-changer, just in case the show isn't renewed.
The executive producer — who co-created "Fear with Walking Dead" mastermind Robert Kirkman — said it remains to be seen whether that cliffhanger would have anything to do with whether or not Jack and his group are friend or foe.
The show ended after four seasons with a cliffhanger featuring Juliette Barnes (played by actress Hayden Panettiere) rushing off to reunite with her beloved ex-husband Avery Barkley (actor Jonathan Jackson) and their daughter when her plane goes missing.
Last year's finale ended with some of the season's big mysteries and plotlines being resolved, then it tacked on a coda / cliffhanger, as the USS Discovery received a distress call from the Enterprise's pre-Kirk commander, Captain Christopher Pike.
LISBON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Portugal's minority government cannot accept a tax cut proposed by opposition parties in exchange for their support to the budget, the economy minister told Reuters, setting the stage for a potentially cliffhanger vote on Thursday.
The first trailer for The X-Files Season 11 debuted at New York Comic Con and, as fans might've hoped after last season's cliffhanger, the first footage from the revival's revival focused heavily on Mulder and Scully's son, William.
So next week will almost definitely pick up where this cliffhanger left off — with Rick smiling, a giant gun pointed at his face — and we'll get to meet this new clan of disposable bodies in the war against Negan.
We also have "Dallas" to thank for making the cliffhanger something that almost every TV show now employs during the season finale to ensure people keep talking about it over the summer and tune in to the season premiere.
This year's "Spider-Man: Far From Home" was the first Spider-Man movie to reach $1 billion at the global box office and with the major cliffhanger it ended on, its sequel should be a huge hit, as well.
The 210-year-old defending champion was a point away from a 12th consecutive straight-sets victory at the All England Club but ended up losing a cliffhanger 2-6 6-7(5) 303-5 6-4 13-11.
VICE: Without spoiling what happens in the season three premiere, let's just say that it's clever how you fill in the gaps left by the cliffhanger, during the regular process of Forrest going back to doing his life-reviews.
Love Is Blind had viewers hooked from the minute people started professing their love for each other through walls, but the Netflix series really had us on the edge of our seats when episode nine ended on a cliffhanger.
A psychological thriller set largely inside a mysterious corporate facility somewhere in Florida, the podcast's story is relayed strictly through sound, even more so than other fictional podcasts of late, or the cliffhanger-loving radio dramas that preceded them.
After a two-month hiatus, the series returns with a double-episode trip down the rabbit hole that will presumably answer the looming question: Did Dembe (Hisham Tawfiq) really try to kill Reddington (James Spader) in the February cliffhanger?
The dance coda, while sweet, doesn't really suggest open lanes for the characters going forward, and the cliffhanger featuring the Shadow Monster makes it feel like season three is simply going to be more of what we've just seen.
If he were to actually die this time around, it would cheapen that previous cliffhanger while also making the show seem a bit overindulgent and perhaps annoying in what it's done to Glenn over the span of a season.
When the show did kill off the character, it did so in a teasing season cliffhanger, which culminated in an act of such remarkably gratuitous, unnecessary violence that it made headlines — and drove viewers away from the show in significant numbers.
Season 6 of The Walking Dead brought pulse-pounding twists and turns – not to mention one heck of a hard-hitting cliffhanger … but none of the surprises seems to have polarized fans as much as the romance between Rick and Michonne.
If you recall, the end of the third episode revealed a villainous individual in soiled briefs and a gas mask, wielding a machete—the potential arch-nemesis to Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson's detectives—as a scary, yet satisfying cliffhanger.
Season 1 ended with a cliffhanger suggesting a school shooting, but the preview focuses on a mysterious set of Polaroids that protagonist Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) finds in his locker, just as he discovered Hannah's cassette tapes on his porch.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Independent candidates who will likely determine a cliffhanger Australian election shot to prominence on Monday, one of them renewing anti-Asian rhetoric first heard 20 years ago, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull under fire for a failed political gamble.
The university corrected the error three to four hours after noticing the mistake, but it still left the applicants with a cliffhanger: In emailing its "sincerest apologies" to the group, SUNY Buffalo also informed them their applications were still under review.
That's a question for Daredevil Season 3, which was announced more than a year ago — and might explain why the Defenders showrunners (who are also the bosses on Daredevil) didn't bother trying to trick us with a fake death cliffhanger.
The previous episode had ended on a major cliffhanger — and marked a midseason hiatus for the series, which streams in the US on CBS All Access — and Cruz was eager to learn what was next in store for his character.
It's a thought-provoking hour, and one that ends on a cliffhanger: After finding a way to outrun the tyrannical captain of the USS Callister through a wormhole, the crew heads for new adventures in faux-space, free from their captor.
As the seconds ticked down on the season 2 winter finale "Silent Night, Deadly Night," it was easy to assume the murdery CW soap would leave that mystery as an unresolved cliffhanger, to be picked up once again in 2018.
That is, until everything is upended again by DeMario's ominous return to the gates of The Bachelorette mansion… The episode may end on a cliffhanger, but we all know that DeMario has been eternally banished from this televised quest for love.
The only way out here for TWD is to not kill Glenn, because asking people to wait six months to confirm something that was heavily foreshadowed for 16 episodes will prove the cliffhanger to be as shallow as it seems.
Seymour co-starred in both the "Don't Cry" and "November Rain" videos, the latter of which climaxes with her character's sudden and mysterious death, a cliffhanger that helped rocket the song to becoming MTV's most requested video of all time.
VIENNA — Alexander Van der Bellen, a 29-year-old economics professor and former Green Party leader, won Austria's cliffhanger presidential election on Monday, defeating his far-right rival by the slimmest of margins and pledging to unite the divided country.
Christina and James were spotted Tuesday in Hermosa Beach, CA filming season 2 of the Netflix hit series, "Dead to Me" ... which ended with a HUGE cliffhanger after Christina's character, Jen Harding, shoots and apparently kills James' character, Steve Wood.
Two episodes of Search Party will air each night this week, but TBS has already released the full season online and on demand, the better to marathon a show that deliberately ends every episode on a Nancy Drew–esque cliffhanger.
It wasn't until the episode ended on a cliffhanger—as the producers were frantically rounding up DeMario and Corinne, to presumably talk about what happened on the first day—that I realized this scene was the start of the alleged incident.
There was a time — before on-demand viewing and internet streaming — when fans of a television show felt the crushing disappointment of having to wait a whole week to find out what happened to their favorite characters after a cliffhanger.
Monday night's episode certainly didn't help, ending on a cliffhanger as Madison Prewett decides if she wants to keep fighting for Bachelor Peter Weber's heart despite the fact that he's been "intimate" with the other women — or stick to her standards.
The creators of "The Walking Dead" often talk about wanting to put the audience inside the show — they used it to defend the Glenn Dumpster shenanigans, the victim-vision gimmickry of the Negan cliffhanger, the appalling violence in the season premiere.
If has only been a few months since The Good Doctor season 2 ended, but it is always difficult (like with any other show) to remember everything that went down in the previous season and where the cliffhanger left us.
In essence, the series begins with what theoretically might have provided fodder for a provocative "Black Mirror" episode, then needlessly prolongs that through 10 half-hour installments, with the added warning that the first season ends with a fairly maddening cliffhanger.
Look, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news here, but her husband Ben (Jason Winston George) is sprinting down the hallway with a look of terror on his face, while the ominous voiceover guy promises a cliffhanger ending.
SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) - Valtteri Bottas won a cliffhanger Austrian Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finishing a mere 0.6 of a second behind to increase his lead over Lewis Hamilton to 20 points after nine races.
Ross and Rachel kiss, and the season ended on a cliffhanger: a shot of Ross being left to choose between Rachel and Bonnie, represented by the doors to both rooms in which each women was staying at the beach house.
TC Sottek, Level 3 Research Assistant, Black Mesa Science Team: About five years after I watched the credits roll on the cliffhanger of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, I gave up hope that we'd see more of Valve's iconic story.
Granted, Michael only has a few moments to explain his long-held unease with the whole points system before a bunch more demons arrive and the show dives into a cliffhanger that seems to officially cap off its Earthbound chapter.
Orange is the New Black, Season Six — July 25 (Netflix) After a three-day riot erupted at Litchfield Prison last season—a riot fortified by commissary drugs, white supremacists, and an inferno of prison records—we were left with a massive cliffhanger.
Jane the Virgin ended its penultimate season last April with a cliffhanger so shocking that I feel compelled to protect it with a spoiler warning still, even though you have by now had a full 11 months to catch up to it.
In a cliffhanger, Roberts wrote an opinion agreeing that the law violated the Commerce Clause but famously sided with the court's four liberals to uphold it under a secondary argument put forward by the government: that it was in essence a tax.
And then there's the resistance among the handmaids themselves, who find levers to be defiant in large (June's departure in the season finale's cliffhanger) and small ways (their silent, collective refusal to stone to death one of their own, also in the finale).
And while the Season 1 cliffhanger is resolved quickly — June (Moss) had been taken away as part of Aunt Lydia's (Dowd) sadistic retribution for the handmaids' revolt — the Season 2 premiere actually does see June break free from her life as Offred.
LONDON — Game of Thrones Season 6 didn't end on quite the same horrendous cliffhanger that the last season did, but there were still a lot of huge questions left unanswered and big hints about what Season 7 might have in store for us.
There were signs that the political instability after Saturday's cliffhanger election was beginning to take its toll on the Australian economy, with Standard and Poor's cutting Australia's credit rating outlook to negative from stable, threatening a downgrade of its coveted triple A status.
VIENNA — The election for president of Austria turned into a cliffhanger on Sunday, with a former Green Party leader battling a populist who is seeking to become the first far-right politician to be elected head of state in Europe since 1945.
When Musk missed out on what he believed was his rightful opportunity to be portrayed as the worldwide protagonist in the cliffhanger drama, he pouted like a preschooler, and searched for the worst accusation he could imagine to call the rescuer: pedophile.
Creator Sam Levinson failed to indulge on that ripe-for-the-taking dramatic twist, instead offering up an emotional cliffhanger — one that gives greater meaning to Season 1 as a whole and cements the HBO newcomer as some of 2019's top viewing.
Nyet. "The X-Files": The previous season ended on an awkward cliffhanger, but the latest engagement went downhill from there -- providing a signal that the key truth that's out there is that this once-great franchise is well past its expiration date.
In 33, the mega-hit first-person shooter "Half-Life 2: Episode 2" ended on a massive cliffhanger, with the evil alien Combine having achieved a massive victory that left the heroic Gordon Freeman and his sidekick Alyx in an impossibly sticky situation.
Season two ended on the befuddling cliffhanger of Rick in a full-body lock, filed away in prison like forgotten paperwork, and creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland spent the rest of season three systematically tearing apart the anti-hero's all-powerful status.
Season 2 ended in a good old-fashioned cliffhanger that came out of nowhere (in a good way) as Monse, Jamal (Brett Gray), Ruby (Jason Genao), and Cesar (Diego Tinoco) were all kidnapped by unseen assailants in the final moments of Chapter 20.
Starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as F.B.I. agents investigating the supernatural, the series first aired in 1993; returned for a six-episode 10th season in 2016; and resolved a major cliffhanger in its 11th season, which wrapped up on March 21.
The painfully funny, eminently filthy series will tread some serious ground in season three, as central couple Sharon and Rob try to keep it together and manage their family of four in the aftermath of a drunken and devastating season two cliffhanger.
By the time you reach the cliffhanger — which did not leave me excited to check out season two, even though I generally liked season one — you'll probably have recognized Sneaky Pete for the largely fun, largely inoffensive, largely unnecessary trifle it is.
The on-again, off-again summit meeting scheduling had all the earmarks of a television cliffhanger from a president who made a name for himself hosting a reality show on NBC for 14 years, only this time there were deadly serious consequences.
Scenes like these have become the Champions League's calling card, every spring: intense, engrossing games, games that seem to twist and turn and defy prediction, hour upon hour of live-action, cliffhanger drama, denouements that quicken the pulse and draw the breath.
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.
The first season of this comedy, about a family's self-discovery after being upended by divorce and a son's coming out, ends with VP Murray talking to Pat about his plans to propose and — cliffhanger — Shannon and Jimmy finding a pregnancy test.
As Ventimiglia pointed out, change is definitely afoot in the Pearson home: The stars spoke about the cliffhanger at the end of the first season, which was bittersweet for a number of reasons, particularly because we know Jack and Rebecca aren't in the best place.
Almost every episode ends on a cliffhanger, and much of the series' drama involves rewinding a sequence involving one Miles to show what the other version was up to at the time, and how it led to events playing out the way they did.
One giant robot, two books, and a generous helping of sci-fi action later, and Neuvel is bringing the trilogy to a close with Only Human, which picks up after a cliffhanger that left many of the story's main characters stranded somewhere that isn't Earth.
WATCH: This Is Us Creator Drops Hints About Final Three Episodes of the Season Near the end of "This Big, Amazing, Beautiful Life," we returned to the cliffhanger of "Vegas, Baby," as Randall and Beth decided to take Deja and Shauna to their house.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood's awards season reaches a climax at Sunday's Oscars with a cliffhanger over the top prize after a topsy-turvy best picture race marked by the fading of early favorites and the tantalizing question of whether Netflix can trump traditional movie studios.
After the slow-motion intros, the real surprise was that the show feels so modestly produced, in the sense that it lets the participants just sit around talking, without stunts, contests or fabricated drama, other than the "Recoupling" ceremony used (predictably) as a cliffhanger.
But I also think that we had in mind that this would be a fun, cliffhanger-y way to end the season that would perhaps get people clamoring for more, to at least answer the question of what happened when they went off that bridge.
While we can rest assured that these questions will likely not be as divisive as last season's Jon Snow cliffhanger, it's got us thinking that there are some things we really, really would like to know before we head into the seventh, penultimate season.

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