I suppose I'm more forgiving in some areas. In a Nolan film, I'm looking for it, and I know he's going to show it. It's also usually not something that a character will say or do, but rather something in the environment that is interacted with. In inception, it's the totem. In Tenet it's the backpack. In inception it works perfectly. In Tenet, it was a bit on the nose, but I understand why he did it. It had to be that intentional as the whole movie making some semblance of sense needed that moment to connect for the viewer. Again, that was an environmental thing, not a character line or action of showing/telling the viewer. Harry Potter has tons of nuggets, but they aren't winking at you as you see them. They recall to you when you realize that you saw it in plain sight earlier in the journey. In the Rings of Power, I can't help but think we're essentially watching the Star Wars prequels. We knew Anakin was Vader, we knew Palpatine was the Emperor. Here it's not as on the nose, but it's basically a one off of that if things are going the way most of us think they are with characters. I also can't stand cliff hangers for the sake of cliff hanging. These streaming series all do it and it's annoying as all get out. The formula seems to be, snail pace with tiring exposition, then a bit of action or movement with a dramatic moment that doesn't conclude itself in the hopes that you will come back for the next moment. Those are things that I would take out of the show in an edit, and things I just can't stand in modern storytelling. FOTR told an amazing story without it being a come back for more moment at the end. It wasn't the end of the story, but it at least felt like a conclusion without begging you to return.