I know, the Netflix curse strikes again! They cancel things so brutally!

is it a mean cliffhanger? Or a fanfic fodder cliffhanger?

Kind of both, really.

I don't want to overstate the case with Becoming Elizabeth. It's refreshing to see a Tudor drama set in a less well-trodden period of history, but it's still fairly soap-operatic. I liked it, but it is trying very hard to be Game of Thrones.