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The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Ep. 181: Unsatisfactory Endings and Closing The Story Loop

The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

Natalie Lue

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Humans don't like unsatisfactory endings, hence why we feel as if we're left hanging by the sudden cancellation of a TV series or a dodgy ending. Natalie talks about how our desire to close loops can cause us to do things like seek validation, wait for a call we didn't want or to feel as if the 'bad guy' won. 

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0:00.0

I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

0:08.0

Hello hello.

0:11.0

How are you doing?

0:20.0

Earlier this week I finished another series on Netflix called Too Hot to Handle. It's one of these dating shows. I don't normally watch dating shows actually, but after watching Love is Blind.

0:26.6

A Fantastic series by the way. I became curious about too hot to handle. So anyway I finished that quite enjoyed it not anywhere

0:36.0

near as good as love is blind and then I just remembered oh friends from

0:41.8

college when is that series coming back on to Netflix?

0:46.6

And even though I wasn't like wild about Friends for College, season two was better and I, you know,

0:51.4

had actually quite invested in the story lines. And the end of season to was quite

0:55.0

quite invested in the storylines and the end of season two was quite a cliffhanger.

0:58.0

So I wanted to know what was going to happen.

1:00.0

I was like, oh, I must be around about that time now.

1:03.0

Clearly, I'm late to the party, but it turns out

1:05.7

that there is no season three of friends from college.

1:10.9

And I've experienced that frustration, that disappointment that so many of us have when

1:17.5

shows that we've invested in get cancelled. You know, we don't know what the ending is. There isn't satisfactory resolution.

1:26.0

Because of course, when a show is notified that they're going to finish, then they can wrap it up

1:30.4

hopefully in the last few episodes, even if it's somewhat hurriedly but when

1:34.8

it's cancelled when the the series has already been finished then that doesn't happen

1:41.1

now the funny thing is that we experience the same thing

1:48.1

all throughout life in terms of opening and closing loops. So friends from college, I got invested in that

1:57.0

show, the cliffhanger in the final episode of season 2 opened up a loop. A loop that now I wanted

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