RTE drama Amber was blasted by viewers for its “ridiculous ending” – as writers claimed they should have known the teenager died.
Bosses offered no resolution after four consecutive nights of the programme but claimed it was clear she drowned.
Instead the show’s final scene watched by 779,000 people showed Amber walking down the road until she vanished from view.
RTE confirmed it was the highest audience figure so far this year.
But that didn’t stop thousands of angry viewers lambasting the programme online – including some of RTE’s own presenters.
Furious Maia Dunphy said: “I get that families of missing people sometimes never get answers but this is TV drama. Very disappointing.”
Viewer Emma O’Farrell added: “What the hell ending was that?”
Keith McDarby said: “I can’t believe I spent four hours watching Amber for there to be no ending. I’ve been completely mugged off by RTE.”
And Danielle Redmond fumed: “Such a ridiculous ending! Complete waste of four evenings!”
But co-producer Paul Duane claimed people should have been smart enough to notice “lots of water imagery and a lot of reference to mermaids”.
The TV boss also bizarrely revealed after viewers watching the show for four hours, they would never have seen the killer.
He said: “There is, within the story, many clues about her fate. The story is filled with clues. Amber is dead.
“No one in the story killed her, it’s not a whodunnit.”
Yesterday Duane was even blasted by Ryan Tubridy on 2fm, who told him he wasn’t “a stupid man” but after four episodes didn’t understand how anyone should know Amber was dead.
But the producer who revealed there would be no second season to finally give viewers the ending they waited for said he expected ending would be “very divisive” but didn’t want to follow The Killing’s approach.
He added: “There is no closure because if you talk to anybody who has spent a lot of time dealing with the grief of disappearance, there is never any closure.”
And Paul revealed American audiences are now set to be just as angry as us, with US networks interested in their own version.
He said: “Nothing is done and dusted but we are talking to a lot of people about it, and they find the approach we took very exciting.
Source-Irish Mirror
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