Film Language Tag: act 4 (four-act structure)

Act 4 of a television episode, especially dramas, resolves the problems, sometimes leaving the narrative open and sometimes leaving it closed depending on the series's relationship to episodic form. Adapted from Newman, Michael Z."From Beats to Arcs: Toward a Poetics of Television Narrative." The Velvet Light Trap. Number 58. Fall 2006. Pp. 16-28.