Netflix has a cliffhanger problem

Another show cancelled without a proper en

As long as it’s early enough in the new year to add resolutions to the list, here’s a new one: do not watch any new TV show until it’s actually ended, especially if it’s on Netflix.

It’s a lesson I should have learned with Santa Clarita Diet, the flesh-eating zombie comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, which showed tremendous promise but was axed without its season-three cliffhanger ever getting resolved. And the excellent serial-killer-hunters drama Mindhunter, which was cancelled despite teasing an eventual showdown with the BTK killer.¹

Netflix has only gotten worse about this kind of thing, with seven shows - most of which I’ve never heard of, admittedly - getting cancelled despite unresolved cliffhanger endings in 2022 alone.

This doesn’t just happen with Netflix - Flipped, a very funny orphaned Quibi series which wound up on the Ro…