2022 In Review: The 20 Most Agonizing Cliffhangers From Stranger Things, Grey's, House Of The Dragon And More

We spent a lot of the past year on our couches watching TV... and thanks to these shows, we spent a whole lot of that time perched on the very edges of our seats.

Cliffhangers are a time-honored TV tradition, and the past year provided plenty of shocking last-minute plot developments that left us gasping for breath and begging for the next episode to air. Right. Now. (Although we have to say: In this binge-watching era, sometimes it's kind of nice to wait to see what happens next.) In the latest entry in TVLine's Year in Review series, we're taking a look back at 2022's biggest and boldest cliffhangers from regular old weekly episodes, season finales, midseason finales and even series finales. (Yes, in some cases, we'll be left dangling on that cliff forever. Sigh.)

Read on to see which moments from Stranger Things, Better Call Saul, House of the Dragon, Peacemaker, Severance and many other shows had us yelling "Whaaaaaat?!?" at our TVs and counting down the days until our shows came back. Got your own favorite cliffhangers from the year in TV? Drop 'em in a comment below.

And still to come in TVLine's Year in Review: Performer of the Year, Series Finales Graded and much, much more!

Just as Jimmy and Kim were celebrating their Sandpiper windfall in the Season 6 midseason finale, Lalo barged in on them and Howard... and Lalo nonchalantly shot Howard in the head.

The reboot's Charmed Ones were transported to the sisters' manor from the original series. No one answered the door, but it was unlocked, so they walked in and discovered... that the show had been cancelled.

In the show's very final scene, Jen turned to beau/new baby daddy Ben and revealed that she had something to tell him... but the series finale ended right there, leaving us to forever wonder if Jen might come clean about her role in Ben's brother's death.

Putting the "fall" in fall finale, CBS' hit freshman drama sent Bode — its main character, who had been pinned inside a crashed car after rescuing the driver — plunging into a raging river down below. Surely SEAL Team vet Max Thieriot can't be killed off TWO shows in the span of a month, right?

When the Apple TV+ series flashed forward in its Season 3 finale, it left us with a doozy of a reveal: NASA's former director Margo Madison is living in Russia in 2003!

Season 18's finale left us wondering whether Grey Sloan's residency program was permanently kaput, whether Meredith and Nick's relationship was dunzo and whether Owen and Teddy would spend the rest of their days on the lam from the law.

Knowing that the industry was knocking on Ava's door, Deborah fired her mentee so the young writer could spread her wings and fly. But how will the show get these ladies back together in Season 3?

The freshman run wrapped up in grandly tragic fashion, with Aemond and his dragon accidentally killing Rhaenyra's son Luke, setting up the epic "Dance of the Dragons" war to come.

As they parted ways at the end of the baseball season, Carson and Greta shared a passionate goodbye kiss... which Carson's husband, Charlie, witnessed.

A creepy, cult-y tattoo and a bald head? We were left completely in the dark regarding Dr. Stanton's eerie past... and then the show was cancelled! Luckily for fans, creator Mike Flanagan took to Tumblr to give us all the answers we ever needed, plus a complete Season 2 outline! (Bless his heart.)

Midway through the fourth of six episodes, Marc Spector was shot dead by Harrow, as they both rummaged through Ammit's tomb. So... that's the end of the show? Nope, because Marc would soon after "wake up" inside an asylum populated by familiar faces such as Harrow's and Layla's. And when he found Steven Grant inside a nearby sarcophagus and the gents bumped into a hippopotamus-headed female, we were left to wonder for six days, "What the Duat is going on here?!"

Just when Murder Club thought they had finally put all the death and torment behind them, the Season 2 finale jumped ahead to graduation day and yet another bloody crime scene at school, with the "Stay" necklace Nate had gifted Bronwyn labeled as evidence.

After Season 2's murder mystery was solved in the finale, a one-year time jump found Charles starring in a play opposite Paul Rudd's Ben Glenroy — who promptly ended up dead himself!

Viewers already knew that team leader Murn was in fact one of the "Butterfly" aliens that ARGUS sought. But the first ally to get wind of his secret, by way of Chris' X-ray vision helmet, was Liota, whose fate we were left to fret about as Episode 5 came to a frightful conclusion.

Ben and Kate joined Patience's growing list of alien abductees, and the kicker: Their baby is alive and in alien custody!

Season 5 of the military drama ended with a very literal, and very massive, bang as Bravo realized they had been lured into an ambush in Mali. With Season 6 not yet ordered at that point, so devastating was the attack that we had to wonder if the series had just explosively ended.

After Leanne tried to prevent Dorothy from taking baby Jericho away from the house, a rotted top-floor railing gave way, causing Dorothy to take a terrifying plummet aaaaaall the way down to the ground floor.

The final moments of the Season 1 finale delivered the biggest jaw-dropper in years, with Helly ranting about the evils of Lumon and Mark learning his dead wife is alive after all — just as a switch was pulled, snapping them back to their "Outtie" selves. Ding!

It wasn't just our beloved Max whose fate hung in the balance in Season 4, Part 2's finale, it was Hawkins' and — gulp — the world's.

After finally getting a chance to act on their feelings for each other, Nathan rose from a slumbering Nora to discover he had a nosebleed, which doesn't bode well for his life as a download.