Season finale - Definition and Overview

A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program.

Frequently a season finale will contain cliffhangers to be resolved in the next season (Star Trek: The Next Generation usually did this, and the finale of the first season of Twin Peaks is an extreme example). Other times a season finale will wrap up the season's open-ended storylines and bring them to a close.

The final season finale of a television series is known as the "series finale" and often concludes the entire premise of the show.

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