I’ve watched shows, movies, read comics or listened to podcasts where there is a lot of build up around a mystery, only for the end to be lackluster. In these the journey itself was more riveting than where we ended up. What are some instances where the answer lived up to the hype?
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G. Tremblay comes to mind.
I don’t know that the payoff is necessarily better than the mystery, but the show Dark is a great mystery story as well.
This is one hard to say. Dark is one of my favorite shows, but I do think the journey is better, the journey is kind of the process for the acceptance of the finale, so it does make sense.