I\’m extremely conflicted about the ending. I\’ve loved this show from the beginning, and feel this finale was in many ways a cop out.

1. No big showdown between Patty and Ellen.
2. Ellen gets played YET AGAIN by Patty (Re: Simon),
3. Patty gets off by not only not going to prison for her role in the attack on Ellen and the death of David, but also she gets full custody of her granddaughter with the sad death of Michael.
4. The whole thing with the cops this season turned out to be nothing at all, in the end. They bring Patty in and say \”she\’s missing, she was going to testify against you\”, Patty says some things, and that\’s it? They\’ve repeated the same dialogue all year leading up to this finale and nothing came of it.

The acting was excellent as usual, I kept saying \”oh no. OH NO. OHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO!\” when the Michael scene was happening. I really liked that character and was so glad that he came back last season, and had a big role in this season and last after being a bit player early on.

I just felt let down by a good deal. I thought the show could have benefitted by being perhaps two episodes, or a full 90 minutes (after commercials are removed). As it is it was 1hr and 10 minutes, give or take, and several moments I felt like they were rushing. No moment of Chris discovering Ellen\’s betrayal, none of that, it was basically \”oh yeah, you moved your stuff out sometime in the past.\”

I didn\’t HATE the finale, despite it probably seeming like it, I was just really disappointed. I\’ll watch it again and might like it better, but…right now I\’m disappointed.