cliffhanger

To sustain attention, every episode ends on a cliffhanger.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

The police body cam footage of her arrest serves as the “Mormon Wives” premiere’s cliffhanger.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Microdramas hew to an established formula, with each installment ending on a cliffhanger that pushes its often preposterous story line toward a final, usually shocking reveal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

There are some threads left loose along the way, to be tied up, or not, and a mysterious cliffhanger to be climbed back from, in the already scheduled second season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Meeting Mamou—really meeting her, I mean—but not Babou felt wrong, like ending an episode on a cliffhanger.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Fun at times, ridiculous at others, the show ended with multiple cliffhangers, so pulling the plug seems especially painful.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Frankly, that’s as edgy as it gets, especially in streaming, which increasingly uses episodic cliffhangers to speed up a series’ completion rate — nothing fuels a binge watch like a jacked up heart rate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

“There was a strong emphasis on cliffhangers in manga before One Piece,” he continues.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

"TNG" and "Deep Space Nine" were syndicated series, and in the age of scripted syndication, cliffhangers were insurance beckoning a wandering audience to return.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023