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Sometimes, as a television producer or writer, you want the viewer to wonder "What Happens Next?" when a season is over.
One way to do this is a [[Cliff Hanger]]; but Cliff Hangers are a [[Cyclic Trope]], or maybe your series, which is already cliffhanger-heavy, wouldn't stand up to another cliffhanger, or maybe you're worried that you won't last another season. That's where the [[What Now? Ending]] comes in.
Instead of leaving the protagonists in mortal danger, this ending leaves them broken, or gone, or what have you.
The [[What Now? Ending]] allows the three months to a year to pass between new episodes in "series" time as well, if the writers so desire. Also, a [[What Now? Ending]] allows a form of insurance against [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]; actors who die or are unavailable can be handled by having something happen to the character during the [[Time Skip]].
If the [[Five Man Band]] is broken up, or the hero leaves the [[City of Adventure]], or the wife of the protagonist leaves him, that's a [[What Now? Ending]].
Not to be confused with [[So What Do We Do Now]] or [[Now What]], a different kind of "what now? ending".
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