There's not much to say, other than that you are certainly not alone in being frustrated, but also that it isn't really a first.

On the big screen, yearlong waits for movie sequels is the norm. The recent Hunger Games movies are a good example: they were also based on books and were released-one-a-year, around the same time each year.

"The Bridge" can be seen as part of a recent trend that "The Hunger Games" helped to popularize, where a single book is split into two movies. The final two Hunger Games movies were based on a single book, so that while the book series has three installments, there were four movies produced. This was a repeat of what was done with the Harry Potter series.

The most outrageous example of this is the recent film renditions of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which turned a single book into three movies (they, too, were released a year apart during the Christmas season).

"The Bridge," then, can just be seen as bringing this big-screen trend to TV.

That doesn't mean you have to like it, though. And many don't. Angry viewers have taken to the Internet, inundating the Facebook pages of Hallmark and author Karen Kingsbury with complaints.

It also raised the ire of Entertainment Weekly reviewer Samantha Swank, who humorously disapproved of bringing Hunger Games-style filmmaking to television. "This is a Hallmark movie, not the last installment in the movie adaptation of a best-selling YA trilogy. YOU DON’T NEED TO SPLIT IT INTO TWO PARTS ... This isn't a game, Hallmark!"

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