The Greatest Ending Ever
The other night some friends and I were having drinks (as we often do), discussing bad pop culture (as we often do), when the subject of great TV series endings came up. Newhart was chatted about, as was the bizarre finale to the equally bizarre show Dinosaurs (which ended with the main characters gazing up at the sky watching as an asteroid descended upon them—scientifically accurate, sure, but very strange for a kid’s show). But it was one ending in particular that we obsessed over: The finale of the short-lived Melrose Place spin-off Models Inc., which ended its first, and only, season with an unfortunate cliffhanger: Carrie Anne Moss’s character Carrie Spencer wakes up in South America and discovers she’s been sold into white slavery.
What happened to Ms. Spencer? Was she eventually rescued? Did she spend the rest of her days languishing in a hut? Does anyone else even remember this show? And just how pathetic are we to be sitting around obsessing over such trash?
The world may never know…
"White slavery"? I've always been amused by that term--as if enslaving white people is categorically worse than enslaving other kinds of people; it's own special kind of evil.