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There’s a popular argument against prequels that suggests our knowledge of what happens in the future kills any real suspense around what might have happened...

There has long been a cliché about rich people and buying immortality. Popular tropes involve cryogenic freezing, downloading consciousnesses into AIs, and so on, and...

Throughout its entire first season, Chief of War has been building to this. And I don’t just mean narratively, either, since that goes without saying. It’s...

To explain the ending of Maledictions is, given its length, to essentially explain the whole thing. Daniel Burman’s neat little political thriller is akin to...

Episode 8 of Beauty in Black Season 2 doesn’t feel like an ending, since it isn’t one, really. It’s the finale of “Part 1”, which...

I’ve been saying all throughout Beyond the Bar that Seok-hoon and Hyo-min work better as colleagues than as a potential couple, so you can imagine...

Anyone expecting any major surprises from the ending of Dexter: Resurrection is likely to leave “And Justice For All…” a little disappointed. But, based on that title...

Wednesday is pretty good at endings. It’s the done thing these days to never really end a show, but this one has always been good at...

There was never a doubt in my mind that The Winning Try would stick the landing and deliver a satisfying ending, but even I was surprised by the sheer quality of its finale.

The final round of the Twisted Metal tournament performs as advertised. Episodes 10, 11, and 12 are carnage from top to bottom, killing off the...

Stephen King is the most famous horror writer in the world, which is worth remembering sometimes, because The Institute isn’t really a horror story. It’s...

It’s hard for a show like Rivers of Fate, which largely traffics in outright misery, to have anything even resembling a happy ending. But these...

Hey, credit where it’s due. Fatal Seduction Season 2 isn’t just a significant improvement over its predecessor, but it also has a proper ending, which,...

You can tell that the ending of Smoke is going to be one of those that defines how people feel about the show overall. It might retroactively...

The first part of Miss Governor — previously titled She the People, which has been annoyingly changed without explanation — ended on a rather promising note, with Antoinette,...

We need to talk. Butterfly was already a sneaky show, a family drama masquerading as an espionage thriller, but its ending shifts it into different,...

As much as I despise Netflix’s new approach of releasing new seasons of key IP in several parts, Wednesday Season 2 is a good example of...

There are many words one might use to describe the ending of The Buccaneers Season 2, but the best one is “messy”. I know that’s part of...