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In an age when surprise often ranks above substance, fictional media seems all but held hostage by\u00a0<\/span>cliched<\/span><\/a> plot twists. It’s nearly impossible to count how many times we’ve put up with unreliable narrators, secret identical twins, supposedly dead characters who were alive the whole time, and even supposedly alive characters who were dead the whole time, A.K.A. the\u00a0<\/span>Bruce Willis<\/span><\/a> Clause.<\/span><\/p>\n But one device annoys above all. \u201cI see plenty of complaints here about how TV shows overuse the twist of \u2018it was all just a dream\u2019 and they tend to be predictable and underwhelming,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>u\/trashcan_paradise told r\/television<\/span><\/a>. \u201cBut are there examples of dream sequences that were actually used well in a TV show?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They asked, \u201cWhat are examples of the TV trope of \u2018it was all a dream\u2019 twist that actually worked well?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n