Take this with a grain of salt and a whole lot of pepper: TV cliffhangers don’t work in the streaming era, writes Nina_Metz.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.A CBS Television advertisement that ran in the Nov. 15, 1980 issue of TV Guide magazine teasing a resolution to the previous season's cliffhanger:"Who shot J.R.?"
the ending of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” as an exception to the rule, and movie audiences can be fairly certain another installment will turn up in theaters.I happen to like a narrative that unfolds, beginning to end, with some economy. Wrap it up, I say! I want off this narrative treadmill! But Hollywood isn’t in the business of telling a satisfying story over the course of a single episode anymore.
A staple in fiction since at least the 19th century, when novels were serialized in magazines, cliffhangers were once primarily the hallmark of daytime soaps. But it was the nighttime soap “Dallas” that upped the ante with one of the most famous cliffhangers in TV history.In the spring of 1980, the show’s third season ended with Larry Hagman’s egocentric oil baron J.R. Ewing gunned down. But who pulled the trigger? To promote the upcoming season, CBS created the catchphrase “Who shot J.R.
Streaming has upended all of that. Maybe there’ll be another season. Maybe there won’t. Maybe a show will be renewed, only to be canceled before new episodes are filmed. Or maybe new episodes were filmed and ready to go, but the show was canceled anyway and then subsequently picked up by a different cable or streaming platform, and here’s hoping you subscribe to that one, too.
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