loose end

“There’s just too many loose ends and too many things that could go awry,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

“He didn’t like circumstantial evidence. He felt there were too many loose ends.”

When the goonies discover their hiding place, the Fratellis plot to snuff out this loose end, causing them to literally dig deeper into the house with the criminals hot on their trail.

“The River Is Waiting” is more than 400 pages long, yet the ending feels like an afterthought, wrapping up loose ends without satisfying the reader.

The obvious manipulations, the panoply of loose ends and the cheaply provocative happenings will keep me from a return visit to this season.