ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

After 12 hours of red herrings to desperately delay the climax of the case to the climax of the season, they’re deferring it to another next season? I was sticking with it to see whether a series-long murder investigation could work, even after it became clear it probably wouldn’t, but now I don’t even get to know that.

The only way I can make sense of the decision to dodge the closure the series has been building towards is that maybe they think we bought Mr Mayoral Candidate as the killer. That way, I guess, you’d half-feel you were getting the closure for the brief period between that conclusion being shoved in your face and the inevitable revelation that it was spurious.

To me, though, the more they piled on the evidence that MMC (I completely forget his name for some reason) was Orpheus, the more obvious it got that Orpheus would not be the killer. In fact, the more obvious it got that you were right about Gwen. By the time they show a shot of MMC shouting “You know I’m telling the truth!” to the police while Gwen looks worried in the foreground, it’s pretty hard to ignore. Which makes it painful that the cops don’t even suspect her before the series finishes.

Holder’s fake evidence has to be a political play, on behalf of the mayor, probably in exchange for something that helps his [young relative]. Holder has to know the evidence won’t hold up, so the only effect is for MMC to be publicly shamed before the election rather than after. I assume Holder minds less because he’s sure MMC is guilty. I don’t know how he plans to explain how he got the fake evidence after it’s discovered, maybe the reward is enough that he doesn’t care.

I guess I’ll watch the first episode of the next season to see how long they plan to drag it out, but they’ve left me with no reason to bear with any future plotlines they introduce.

Yeah, good point, and that’s why this feels somewhat like it’s a cheat and a disappointment. Blah.

So, mystery of the week season finale plot that ends up with the heroes in jeopardy and is resolved first episode back is fine. So is a season long arc that wraps up and then teases the next season by showing the crime that’s going to be the focus of that season happening. Or for those hybrid shows that have multi-season arcs as well as mystery of the weeks, you can leave your long arc on a cliffhanger as long as it’s primarily been B story to the mysteries of the week.

But if you spent a whole season leading up to the conclusion of some investigation and then you don’t conclude it I WILL WANT TO CUT YOU.