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Top 10 Greatest TV Cliffhangers


these left us gasping for air welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
television cliffhangers consider
yourself warned this video contains
major spoilers number 10 Battlestar
Galactica season 1 kicking off our list
is the cliffhanger that literally ended
with a bang
you knew that pilot Sharon boomer valeri
was a Cylon even if she didn’t I’m not a
Cylon but that doesn’t mean anybody saw
this one coming upon activation she
shoots Admiral Adama
while on the bridge of his ship wait
could Adama really be dead what will
happen to boomer number nine twenty four
season five agent Davis Jack Bauer’s
missing attention all units we have a
missing agent Jack Bauer I repeat we
have a missing agent Jack Bauer
technically every episode of 24 ends
with a cliffhanger but Season 5 Finale
leaves Jack Bauer’s future in question
the last we see of Jack he’s captured by
the Chinese government and transferred
aboard a cargo ship to Shanghai to
answer for the death of a Chinese consul
we’re left worrying that Jack will be
tortured for government secrets or even
worse killed number eight friends season
four in the season four finale of the
hit sitcom friends the gang travels to
London for Ross and Emily’s wedding
however Ross makes the worst Freudian
slip of his life
take the Emily take the Rachel
well at least Monica and Chandler got a
happy ending
number seven lost season three you know
you were aggravated every time you saw
the notorious lost logo at the end of
each episode but the season three ending
was just brutal
you think you know what’s going on but
the last scene is a game changer in the
first flash-forward we see Jack and Kate
back in LA which leaves us with
questions like how they got off the
island what happened to everybody else
and I’m sorry why would you want to go
back we have to go back
number six alias season two apparently
JJ Abrams likes to torture us slowly by
ending all his shows with killer
cliffhangers this spy series worst was
season two Sydney has a brutal fight
with her longtime nemesis Alison that
ends with Alison dead and Sydney
unconscious next thing we know
Sydney’s awake with no scars and no
memory of what happened and her
boyfriend is married to someone else
oh yeah and two years have past number
five
Twin Peaks season two this David Lynch
series only lasted 30 episodes but we’re
still trying to catch our breath after
this unplanned series finale with the
mystery of Laura Palmer’s murder salt
Special Agent Dale Cooper visits an
enigmatic realm filled with
doppelgangers ghosts and pure evil I
rely leave me Cooper saves himself and
his girlfriend but gets possessed by a
demon in the process I was an d lv 8
house Annie
at least we think he does we’ll never
know what happens next
number 4 dynasty Season 5 this nighttime
soap had its fair share of cat fights
and shocking moments but there’s no
contest for its most notorious
cliffhanger
just as Amanda and Michael are getting
married they are rudely interrupted by
Moldavia and terrorists who opened fire
on the wedding party as part of a
military coup on their country the
entire show’s cast is left lifeless in
the chapel riddled with bullets does
anyone survive the Moldavian massacre
number 3 Star Trek The Next Generation
season 3 the next generations first ever
cliffhanger was its best
the USS Enterprise is sent on a suicide
mission to prevent the unstoppable Borg
from reaching earth the crew rallies
behind Captain jean-luc Picard but when
he’s captured and assimilated they’re
left with little hope as their leader
has become their greatest enemy
I am Locutus of Borg
resistance is futile
number two The Simpsons season six hmm
I’ll kill that mr. burns Andy
wound that mr. Smithers coming in at
number two is the most talked-about
ending in animated TV history the
episode closes with mr. burns collapsing
after being shot and Simpsons fans are
left guessing whodunit well I couldn’t
possibly solve this mystery
can you to keep the secret the creator’s
produce many possible outcomes even
though there were clues in the episode
to alert the most attentive viewers you
know you had no idea who did it number
one
Dallas season two taking top honors on
our list is the grandfather of all TV
cliffhangers throughout the summer of
1980 everyone was asking who shot jr.
after the show’s famous oil baron was
gunned down by an unidentified attacker
an actor strike postpone the premiere
even longer and since junior spent the
entire season pissing off pretty much
the entire state of Texas you’ll regret
this we’ve had a threat bond a promise
you’re a drunk an unfit mother so we
have you put away in that sanitarium the
better off you’re gonna be everyone was
a suspect with so many television
cliffhangers we’re sure we missed a few
great ones which is your favorite
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