My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2’s Finale Fumbled Its Best Idea for an Unnecessary Cliffhanger
The final scene of My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 was as unnecessary as it was exciting.
One of my pet peeves is cliffhangers that are created for the sole purpose of shocking the audience into tuning in next season.
It’s worse when it’s a show on Netflix that may not be back for a couple of years. In this case, My Life With The Walter Boys had a much stronger idea that they didn’t use.
My Life With The Walter Boys Earned Its First Cliffhanger, But The New One? Not So Much
The first season cliffhanger was perfect.
After kissing Cole and learning that Alex loved her, Jackie decided the best solution was to run away and hopped a plane back to New York.
It was a logical next step in the story, and it COULD have been an ending if necessary (which, fortunately, it wasn’t. Who wanted that to be the final scene ever?)
Sadly, My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 didn’t follow suit. Instead, it went for shock value by having something be wrong with George at the last minute.
All season long, George had been fighting with Will and Richard about how to save the ranch before finally deciding he was doing it his way, even if it didn’t seem pragmatic.
That made his health crisis ironic, but it certainly didn’t foreshadow it, which made the cliffhanger feel cheap. It was also an all-too-convenient way to disrupt the tension of Alex hearing Jackie say she loved Cole.
The triangle had moved too slowly for most of the season. Then it exploded at the end… only to get interrupted by a random serious problem.
Yes, Health Crises Can Sneak Up on People, But…
I’ll give the series the benefit of the doubt.
George was worried all season long about his legacy, which is why he wanted to hold onto the ranch, and was heartbroken when the barn burned down because so many family memories had been made inside it.
Perhaps George’s health crisis was meant to underscore his growing concern that he was losing his legacy. In real life, health crises can sometimes arise unexpectedly. Sudden heart attacks and strokes are a thing.
Still, on TV, there needs to be adequate foreshadowing — not so much that the audience gets hit over the head with what’s going to happen (I hope Days of Our Lives stops doing that), but enough that it makes sense.
When a health crisis appears on TV out of nowhere, it feels contrived and not true to life, which is a problem.
The Tragic Thing Is, There Was a Better Ending Available
Alex had started his rodeo training and was insisting to Blake that he and Jackie could survive his traveling all the time.
That made the right ending obvious, and it would have been a perfect mirror of the first season.
My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 could and should have ended with Alex deciding he was going to leave for a tournament and not come back for a long time because he’s upset with Jackie’s latest indecisiveness.
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That would have driven home the point of the scene with Cole, Alex, and Jackie. It would also have mirrored Jackie’s departure in the first season.
Sure, it might have felt slightly redundant, but it also would have been brilliant to reverse Jackie and Alex’s roles.
That would keep interest in the triangle alive and get people talking!
You Know What I Think. But What Do You Think?
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Whether you agree, disagree, or hard disagree, I want to know. Let’s get a strong conversation going!
My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 premiered on Netflix on August 28, 2025. The series has already been renewed for Season 3.
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