Finales are Terrible

Here's the deal, I hate series finales. I wrote all about it a few months ago.  I like to avoid them at all costs, mostly because they tend to make me cry.  I'm not even the biggest fan of season finales, because that's the time they choose to leave everyone on a cliff by killing well-loved characters.  It's a total racket.  And being the smart and well-adjusted human that I am, I stick my head in the sand and pretend that no deaths, injuries or retirements happen. It makes things a lot easier, even if it's not completely sane.

However, there are some shows I just need to see the end of.  Shows that I've loved and respected.  Shows that have never let me down.  Shows that I know are much too civilized to actually kill someone in a dramatic fashion in the final episode.  Shows like Friends, though I'm still sad that's not still on the air or ER where death was a common occurrence so eventually it was just par for the course. Or shows like The Good Wife which has been phenomenal for 7 years.  I've enjoyed pretty much everything about the series: the writing, the characters, even the cases that they managed to make interesting and not completely off-the-wall like some other legal programs. 

After 7 amazing years, I owed it to myself to watch the final episode. Not only watch it, but watch it live so I didn't spoil anything for myself today by reading reviews.  That's a big commitment from me.  I was risking the possibility of crying over something terrible happening.  Not good.  But, I had faith that it would be just as compelling and well-written as every other episode had been over the course of the years.  Yeah.  Not so much. It wasn't just bad.  It was terrible!  

Spoiler Alert...

The only thing I liked was getting to see Will Gardner again. As a Marylander I'm a huge Josh Charles fan since he's a MD boy.  And when his character Will died, I was heart-broken. But in the final episode we got to see his smiling face again, which was a big shock but a fantastic one to say the least.  But that's about the end of things I loved. No big questions were answered.  Characters were completely changed from how they acted over the 7 years to fit in with the story line. Alicia didn't even get to ride off into the sunset with the all too dreamy Jason.  Who, granted, I only wanted her to ride off with, because Jeffrey Dean Morgan is all too adorable and honestly who wouldn't want to jump his bones? But I digress...

It was just such a shock to see something I loved so much, end so abruptly.  I'll miss this show every week, because there will never be better writing or acting on television.  But I will try desperately to go back into my hole and pretend this whole finale thing never happened.  Now, I have a brand new reason for my hatred of finales - bad ones!