I am tired of doing detective work to understand all my favourite TV series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fair warning: this will contain spoilers and a fair bit of ranting.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 my best friend and I just stood in the middle of the office and screamed at the finale of ‘Tell Me Lies’. (Sorry to the people who had to witness and hear that.)<\/p>\n
There was a time, a simpler time, when a television show ended and you felt\u2026 satisfied (cue ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Sopranos’, and ‘The Good Place’). The mystery was solved, accountability was a thing, the villain was caught, and the lovers either ran into each other\u2019s arms or dramatically chose themselves.<\/p>\n
Roll credits. Go to bed.<\/p>\n
Now? Now I need a whiteboard, three Reddit threads, and a minor in interpretive dance just to understand what the f*** I just watched.<\/p>\n
We are living in the era of interpretation, and I hate it here. I\u2019m not watching these TV series because I want to use my imagination; this is meant to be my escape from reality, not cause me even more stress.<\/p>\n
Take the series finale of ‘Tell Me Lies’ (more like tell me what actually happened?). I tuned in for messy romance (tick), bad decisions (tick), and emotional chaos (tick), and I definitely signed up to have all major questions answered at the end\u2026<\/p>\n
What I did not sign up for was finishing the series and staring at my screen like I\u2019d just been handed an abstract painting and told to \u201cfeel what it means.\u201d I feel like I\u2019ve literally been Stephen DeMarco\u2019d.<\/p>\n
Are we missing the fact that the major storyline of Macy was just completely ignored? What happened to Chris? Why was Lucy going crazy? ‘Cosmopolitan’ even wrote a full article with 9 of the biggest plot holes that weren\u2019t answered.<\/p>\n
Who did what? Who knew what? Who is lying about lying about lying? By the finale, I\u2019m not even asking for happiness; I\u2019m asking for clarity. A flow chart. A PowerPoint. A legally binding confession. ANYTHING!<\/p>\n
The last 8 minutes left me absolutely kerfuffled, wondering how we\u2019re going to bring the last 3 seasons and 9 plot holes together. Instead, we had to watch the woman suffer, and the men took no accountability, and all the storylines mean absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n
Literally the only good thing about last night’s episode was the wedding crash-out while ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears plays in the background. Pure cinema.<\/p>\n
These TV shows are leaving their fans with lingering stares, symbolic silences and long pauses that scream, \u201cThis means something\u2026 probably.\u201d The camera zooms in, the music builds, and I\u2019m left screaming, \u201cMEANS WHAT, THOUGH!?\u201d<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s talk ‘Stranger Things’ as another example\u2026<\/p>\n
I adore the show. I would protect those kids with my life. But at this point, every season finale felt like the writers got in a room and said, \u201cWhat if\u2026 we answer nothing? And leave everything up for interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Excuse me?<\/p>\n
We spend hours in these TV shows, invest so much into the characters that are written for us, and ask for nothing but questions to be answered and for a great series to be wrapped up correctly. But no, they want you to ponder. To discuss. To theorise. To f**kin\u2019 write opinion pieces online about the symbolic placement of a flickering lightbulb in episode seven, or the burn on the leg that they showed us 4 times.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t major in symbolism studies. I just want to know what happened, bro. At this point, interpretation is just a fancy word for \u201cwe\u2019re not committing.\u201d Let’s be SO for real. I miss commitment.<\/p>\n
Instead, we\u2019re getting ambiguity as a personality trait. Cool, man.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, guys, I don\u2019t want every story spoon-fed to me; I love complexity, but I would like answers to the questions you\u2019ve been feeding us for years. Because here\u2019s the thing: when shows refuse to land the plane, they don\u2019t feel profound. They feel unfinished. And I am tired of doing homework after binge-watching eight emotionally devastating episodes per season.<\/p>\n
So please, writers of the world. We beg you. Give us closure. Give us a villain speech. Give us a clear \u201cthis is what that meant.\u201d I promise I\u2019ll still respect the artistry. I\u2019ll even rewatch it and pretend I caught the symbolism the first time.<\/p>\n
But if the next finale of a series ends with someone staring at the horizon while ominous music plays and no one explains anything? I\u2019m starting a support group.<\/p>\n
Interpretations Anonymous. First meeting agenda: Um, so.. what the f**k was that?! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am tired of doing detective work to understand all my favourite TV series.\u00a0 Fair warning: this will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-291118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}