Why The Walking Dead’s season finale cliffhanger was so infuriating

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...ng_ending.html

As Laura Bradley explains, "death is often the emotional core of The Walking Dead. But when deaths and almost-deaths get the cliffhanger treatment, they tend to lose their emotional immediacy, reading less like effective narrative storytelling and more like a cynical ratings-grab. Because of the season-ending cliffhanger, when viewers find out who died at the premiere of Season 7, the initial shock of watching that much-anticipated moment and all of its dreadful build-up on-screen for the first time will be months-old.”