I don't know why anyone would downvote this. Obviously, the concept of cliffhangers predates Dallas, but if you're looking at a continuous practice in US primetime, serialization is anchored right here. They had "Who Shot JR?", Dynasty followed with several cliffhanger endings, and serialized programming became more and more common in both drama and comedy throughout the 1980s.

The Tories took over.

That got her a career

Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont in GoT

True I completely forgot about lost, I think that might actually the be the correct answer. I wasn’t necessarily saying that tv invented cliff hangers, I was just trying to figure out what popularized them. Lost is probably what did it do good intuition.

That’s really cool I’ll have to check some episodes out. That sounds way ahead of its time and I love stuff like that

>what was the first show to start this trend? Is it possible it was breaking bad?

No, not even remotely possible. By the 60s it was so much an established trope that Batman lampooned it.

Every. Single. Episode.

first like 8-12 episodes are great then it gets shit in season 2 and 3 is slightly better but still bad

There was a leak of the first episode some time ago.

From tvtropes.org

>Named for the old Saturday matinée film serials which would frequently leave a character literally hanging from the side of a cliff, revealing how the character escaped in the next episode.

I really liked Animals on hbo but that was so.e time ago

The storyteller in the frame narrative of one thousand and one nights kind of did the same thing too.

Season 2 was badass. Vince Vaughn beating up the bullies dad 🤌🏽.

Loved season 2.

Pretty sure it goes back to 1935's The Miracle Rider starring cowboy legend Tom Mix.

But that's what my dad, who was born in '28 told me. It may go back farther and he just wasn't aware.

Yes, but you need a license to watch ANY live TV in the UK, not just BBC.

You'll have the same problem with season 1 then. Ultimately it's about the journey and learning what happened in those periods as it goes on.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stick_the_landing

Let's go catch us a whore.

Season 3 brought back the vibe , didn't like the ending tho

He had some good moments, but yeah a lot of the time he was simply to transparently selfish, smarmy, out of touch or mean for it to stick.

It was a literary thing long ago

Agreed. Part of the issue is they ran out of ideas what to do with the character, so just doubled down on her being a jerk to everyone yet getting away with it.

I loved Flash Gordon (1936 serial) when I was a kid. Every episode -- every episode -- ended with a situation where you just knew that Flash (or one of the other principal characters) were dead, dead, dead.

And the next week would start with a slightly different camera angle so you could see how they escaped.

I thought second was awesome and the third was a dud.