User blog comment:Dragonfly82/What's more worst? Bad ending or cliffhanger?/@comment-26247132-20150904060955

"what do you think is the worst thing about a show?"

Sorry, I answered this question earlier.

"Is it the bad ending or a cliffhanger?"

I say bad endings are the worst. Bad endings make me think of the How I Met Your Mother series finale. In those instances, I pretend like the last episode doesn't exist and write my own plot in my head. There's a fine line between servicing the fans, fulfilling your orginal vision, and writing a good story no matter where it takes you. HIMYM stuck with an ending that would have worked five years prior but the show and the characters outlived that original ending. Instead of being willing to let something go and growing with their show, they held onto it to the detriment of the show.

Cliffhangers make me think of Hannibal, especially the Season 2 ending where everyone was basically dead. It was so frustrating that it made me watch this season of Hannibal after it aired so I wouldn't be screaming at cliffhanger endings again...which I still failed at when the Season 3 finale ended on a literal cliff.