WARNING: This article contains spoilers from season 1 of The End of the F***ing World
What happened at the end of The End of the F***ing World?
The closing scenes from the Channel 4 and Netflix comedy saw James (played by Alex Lawther) getting chased by the police across a beach.
They were in hot pursuit of the teenager after locating the schoolboy and his girlfriend Alyssa (Jessica Barden) to a remote mobile home on the South coast of England.
The chase came after a tense confrontation with DC Eunice Noone (Gemma Whelan), Alex admitted to killing Dr Clive Koch (Jonathan Aris).
Alex then knocked out the detective and has an armed response team hot on his heels as they shot at him as he sprinted across the sand.
The final shot ended with another bullet being fired as the screen cut to black, leaving it uncertain as to whether or not James had been killed.
The End of the F***ing World has been adapted by writer and actress Charlie Covell from the comics of the same name by Charles Forsman.
In the original 2013 graphic novel there’s a much more definitive ending with James getting killed and Alyssa mourning the death of her boyfriend.
Sticking to the nihilistic tone, Alyssa is pictured carving James’ name into her wrist with a blade as she gazes tearfully at a photo of him.
Speaking about the open-ended conclusion to the TV series, producer Jonathan Entwistle said: “We didn’t have any alternate endings – we just took it as far as we felt we could.
“The ending is really interesting because the comic is definitive, and we wanted to be definitive without being definitive, right?”
He went to tell entertainment publication Thrillist: “[Writer Covell] was very adamant that we stick closely to the comics, and I think we worked a way out.
“But it’s kind of nice that people are annoyed by the ending. I feel like it ends the way it started, where people are like, ‘Who are these really insane people?’
“And at the end, they’re like, ‘I can’t believe what’s happened!’ It’s kind of us having a bit of a joke in a way. I hope that it leaves the show open for expanding the world.”
Will there be another season of The End of the F***ing World?
It’s the question on all fans’ minds but there’s been no word just yet.
A spokesperson for Channel 4 told Express.co.uk that “no decision” has yet been made on the future of the show.
While Entwistle has said that the programme makers are looking at the fan response and considering whether or not to do a second run.
The End of the F***ing World season 1 is available to watch on Netflix now
