Picking Up the Story

Picking Up the Story
EXODUS 1: 1-14

As I write in the month of May, the TV series are running down or working their way to the kind of cliffhanger I referred to in the introduction, hoping to keep us in suspense for the fall: “Get out of that problem/threat”! One or two long-running series are rumored to be nearing their end, and there is some speculation about how the next year will be able to tie up the loose ends. “Does anyone believe that the scriptwriters have any clue how to bring it to an end?” one reviewer asked about a particularly involved series. You can often guess the kind of thing that needs to happen; the question is how the story will get there. When the president got shot at the end of the first season of West Wing, did we think he might die? At the end of the season, did we not assume that Josh and Donna would end up together? In the meantime, however, the next season will need to answer questions raised by the previous one, and will begin by giving new, inattentive, or forgetful viewers flashbacks to what has previously happened...