| Honest serials play fair with these cliffhangers, putting the hero into danger and giving the audience a week to sweat over how he will escape the peril. |
| States that were not competitive in the previous election might subsequently produce cliffhangers. |
| Generally consisting of a series of two-reel episodes distributed weekly, serials offered action-packed stories that ended in cliffhangers. |
| Now, there are no cliffhangers, just an expectation from the audience that the blood will flow. |
| This season was also notable for the excellent way it would end episodes with cliffhangers that dovetailed smoothly into next week's installment. |
| It forces the audience to wait and wait with cliffhangers during and at the end of each show. |
