Stories That Can't Have a Good Ending

I've been watching some of the new series that have premiered in this last season, and I've noticed one significant thing about a number of them— there is no possible good ending. The creators put all of their inventive energy into the series' premise, and never thought ahead to how they were going to pull the various plot strands together for a satisfactory finale.Why bother?  The system doesn't reward such thinking.  You've got to dazzle the network brass with the brilliance of your...