Major spoiler - if you haven't seen this program, don't read!
I too was hoping that in the end we would find out what really happened to Amber. The ending was a huge letdown, that's true, but I think that's the whole point of the series. In reality, so many of these missing children are never found, and I think the purpose of the ending was to make us feel just a little of that bitter, frustrated feeling that the parents must live with every day of their lives. We are so used to movies and TV shows that solve mysteries in tidy little half- hours or two hours, when in reality too many cases are like Amber's.
It kept me on the edge of my seat.
I too was hoping that in the end we would find out what really happened to Amber. The ending was a huge letdown, that's true, but I think that's the whole point of the series. In reality, so many of these missing children are never found, and I think the purpose of the ending was to make us feel just a little of that bitter, frustrated feeling that the parents must live with every day of their lives. We are so used to movies and TV shows that solve mysteries in tidy little half- hours or two hours, when in reality too many cases are like Amber's.
It kept me on the edge of my seat.