25 Biggest WTF TV Moments Of 2016
11. That Infuriating Cliffhanger - The X-Files
In fairness, The X-Files' abridged tenth season was a massively mixed bag, and its outrageously annoying cliffhanger ending really left a dampener on proceedings.
The finale introduced so many plot threads that were never even remotely resolved, the most bizarre of which was the arrival of a UFO just as Mulder (David Duchovny) begins to succumb to the Spartan Virus and Scully (Gillian Anderson) observes the carnage.
The cliffhanger was widely derided by fans, who felt that the show didn't have the right to put audiences through the wringer like this when there was no guarantee the show would return. Plus, it just felt lazily written with a straight-up tacked-on alien spaceship.
The X-Files has always been weird, but this was definitely the bad sort of weird.