Channel 5’s latest drama, The Cuckoo, has frustrated viewers after the series finale aired on Thursday night. Fans of the show, which stars Jill Halfpenny, have taken to social media to express their disappointment after tuning in for the fourth episode.
The final instalment concluded on a cliffhanger after Alice (played by Freya Hannan-Mills), Sian (Jill Halfpenny), and Jessica (Claire Goose) ended up in a scuffle on the edge of a cliff. However, Alice ended up tricking Sian and in the end, Sian threw herself off the cliff and into the water below.
“I am here now,” Alice pleaded as she grabbed Sian. “I am here now and it is going to be alright.” “Do you forgive me?” Sian sobbed: “I am so sorry, do you forgive me? I just wanted you to stop crying. I just wanted you to be happy but I held you too close. You were crying and then you weren’t, I am so sorry.”
“It’s ok I forgive you,” Alice replied before she turned to Jessica and said: “I held her too close.” “It is ok,” Jessica added.
“But that’s ok, isn’t it?” Sian cried. “That’s ok because that is what birds do, if you love them enough then you never forget. They fly away and then they come back.”
As Jessica and Alice tried to reach out to Sian, she said: “I just want to be with my baby.”
However, as she did that, she leaned back and fell into the water below.
The episode wrapped up with the police officer telling Jessica that Sian’s body was never found meaning, “She can’t be declared as dead”.
Alice then received a knock at the door and when she opened it, Alice appeared to be standing there.
However, viewers were quick to voice their dissatisfaction as the final episode came to a close.
One disgruntled fan wrote: “That was a waste of 4 hours! #thecuckoo.”
One viewer critiqued: “So obvious how that was going to end. Pat Phelan all over again! #Corrie #TheCuckoo.”
“Well, it’s over, we made it through. Let’s never speak of it ever again. #thecuckoo,” a third viewer complained.
“Sorry?…What????#thecuckoo,” another chimed in, while someone else added: “I cannot believe Channel 5 are promoting #Coma after #thecuckoo That was so laughably bad I actually felt embarrassed watching it.” (sic)
Another exasperated fan confessed: “#TheCuckoo Surprise, Surprise another sh***y ending.”
Yet, amidst the backlash, there was applause for how the series wrapped up as one fan said: “What an ending. I want another series you can’t end like that!!”
The Cuckoo is available to watch on Channel 5.