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'The Night Of' finale: A satisfyingly ambiguous end (for everyone but the cat)
[The following has spoilers for "The Night Of," including last night's finale. Do not read if you haven't seen the episode.]
It is testament to the skill behind "The Night Of" that the miniseries answered its most pressing concern in the last seconds of the finale: the cat. "The Night Of" was frequently a funny drama, and its closing shot -- which revealed with deliberately slow cheekiness that Stone (John Turturro) went back to the pound and re-re-adopted the cat -- went for a laugh that also felt like an affirmation of hope.
It was still hard to stomach "The Call Of The Wild"'s ambiguity, even though that was the promise that...
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