Plot device in which dramatic tension is left unresolved at the end of an episode of serialized fiction to entice the audience to return.
1 He then cleared out of his fiancee's apartment in a cliffhanger ending .
2 The novel's bleak, cliffhanger ending shocked a generation of American teenagers.
3 After all, that cliffhanger ending dictates it so.
4 Nothing stuns an audience like a cliffhanger ending , but suspense is the last thing investors and the US treasury want from Washington.
5 JR Ewing (Larry Hagman), the brother everyone loved to hate on the soapie Dallas was shot in the cliffhanger ending .
6 And if, like me, they are surprised by the abrupt nature of the cliffhanger ending , at least they'll know there's another volume to come.
7 The unusual tactic framed the scope of Razor: The movie-length episode had to work on its own, and couldn't spoil season three's cliffhanger ending .
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