Should bubble shows end the season with a cliffhanger?

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In reaction to Lucifer's cancelation, co-showrunner Joe Henderson tweeted, "we created a season finale with a huge cliffhanger so that there was no way Fox could cancel us." But as Alan Sepinwall points out, showrunners have been doing this for the past two decades, mostly to no avail. "When showrunners assume a cliffhanger will save them, they’re ignoring decades of evidence to the contrary, and often leaving a bad taste in the mouths of their fans, all for a futile gesture that will have no impact on survival," says Sepinwall, adding: "It’s naive at best, and self-destructive to the work they’ve been doing for months or years."