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Chungchungirok (2020)
unexpectedly bleak
The buildup was phenomenal but the finale was too anticlimactic and boring. A waste of time getting past all that honestly.
Lucifer (2016)
The Fatal Aftereffects of A Cliffhanger Addiction.
Speaking as an avid fanatic of the initial 2016 plot pitched for Lucifer, which is undoubtedly deserving of much praise for crafting an admirable balance between utterly grave matters and the comic relief which comes with bursts of cleverly applied humour in the protagonist's character, it was rather baffling to watch the show go downhill as a consequence of being stuck in an anti-climatic limbo every time a season meets its decline.
It is a common folly amongst writers, or rather, creators of all forms to constantly chase that spark of keeping their audience at the edge of their seats with an element of surprise, really, cliffhangers are...a phenomenal device in that pursuit, when you think about it, you get right into your viewers' heads and decide to stay there until the next season comes along.
It's addictive - i get it.
Really, who doesn't like it when fish take the bait?
Albeit, there comes a time when creators pour on the same milk into the same bowl and lure the same curious cat into their little surprise!-bet-you-didn't-see-that-one-coming-now-you'll-be-waiting-for-more booby trap and the cat learns its tricks, the cat finds itself growing weary of a repetitive method in various disguises. If anything, this sort of decaying curiosity doesn't kill the cat at all.
Reverting back from going off on a tangent, the writers of 'Lucifer' fail to recognise the most essential quality of cliffhangers, the very one that makes them so effective - they are not to be overused.
Otherwise the very essence of unpredictability is lost.
'Lucifer', throughout its successive seasons, loses its appeal in stripping the audience down from almost ALL the layers of interest that had been rendered in the earlier seasons in making the show an absolute mess of almosts, could bes, half developed characters, disconnected relationships in adding too many characters and a shocking loss of humour and compassion with time. It was not a surprise to know the Fox-reject-has been phenomenon to paw for its last straw in employing so many rubbish multitudes it itself cannot keep up with, let alone the viewers. The writers completely avoid the protagonists for the sake of making a slow burn romance but instead the dynamic only progresses to become a frustrating waste of time which stretches on for 5 lengthy seasons. Just. Stop. With. The. Jumpscares. (Also the sudden plummeting from the boom of their love life, just no. We're tired. You're tired. They're tired. )
Every episode is an embarrassing attempt to revive the initial thrill that's simply lost overtime. I'm all for the save lucifer agenda, but like - do it properly, will you?