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That’s nice, but in the cliffhanging world of the AFPKP, the frothing public always needs reminding.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

This comic counterbalance to all those cliffhanging traumatic moments, all the lives brought to ruination by J.R.’s machinations, is part of an underlying cheekiness that runs throughout the series.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2020

What could have been a bloody encounter – the cliffhanging arrival of Jaime Lannister, notorious killer of Daenerys’s father and longstanding plotter against the Starks – was done and dusted in the opening five minutes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2019

To see photos of Quivira's cliffhanging fifth and sixth greens, one would expect this to be a mountainous golf course.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 11, 2018

The ending is slightly disturbing and a little sad, though one expects, or anyway hopes, it is merely a cliffhanging, probably a lengthy one, before the story continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2014