In “Baby Reindeer,” Gadd’s character achieves a measure of fame, only to find it hollow and unsatisfying.

While Cary was earning degrees at UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota and then embarked on what would be an unsatisfying law career, Brooks and Luis were “struggling” to keep Aardvark afloat.

While some mocked Mr. Trumpov for the potential loss of his right to vote in November’s election, several outlets also called the verdict “unsatisfying” and potentially “irrelevant.”

Season 1 of “Outer Range,” on Amazon, was intriguing and unsatisfying — lush, expansive and compelling, but also marred by abundant faux-deep nonsense and a total lack of resolution.

The answer she gave was, to me, almost open-ended and sort of unsatisfying, but I wondered if that was the point.