Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Zap! Pow! Bang! Edition!


Episodic television is a tough proposition, especially with today’s expectation of arc-driven storytelling, something which I blame on the seminal and excellent long-ago crime drama ‘Wiseguy.’  Any more, it seems that every new show has to have a hook, a mystery, or a built-in mythology to get greenlit, which leads to unpleasantness when shows get cancelled.  ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ and ‘Tru Calling’ went out on unresolved cliffhangers, but even when a show enough notice to wrap things up, they still leave the occasional errant polar bear string untied, which in turn begs a query…

The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still, asking: What’s the most frustrating cliffhanger (resolved or unresolved) of all time?