Some TV Show finales

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!




NCIS

The lead-up was passable but HOLY CRAP! What an ending! Bomb blast, the team is in the building. The only one confirmed not in the building, Ducky, collapses on the beach with a heart attack.
However, I was seriously hoping something bad would happen to Jamie Lee Curtis' character Dr. Ryan. She is probably a fine actress (only seen her in Christmas with the Kranks and she was good in it) but I can't stand her character on NCIS. She was just annoying and the chemistry between her and Gibbs never came off that strong or enjoyable to sit through.

Maybe its because I really liked Diane Neal's character. She seemed a great fit for Gibbs.

I hope Palmer is alive. If they decide to go Joss Whedon then he is as good as dead.

I'm probably doing another blog post on what the finale means, my favorite season finale, and where they might take.



Big Bang Theory


Touching ending with Howard Wolowitz marrying Bernadette before going off on a (Russian) rocket to the International Space Station as his friends watch the lift-off on the television. What is amazing is how much Howard Wolowitz has grown in the past 5 years, which a recent episode commented on. When the show started he was the group's resident immature pervert and now he is the most mature and well-rounded guy in the group.

Character development's a marvelous thing.






Castle


First, a spoiler . . . RICK AND KATE ARE TOGETHER!!! GIRLISH SHRIEK THAT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY DIMINISH MY MANLINESS!!! Now that we got that out of the way the episode was good. A bit dark like most episodes dealing with Kate Beckett's mother's murder mystery.

Also, Ryan's decision to go to the captain might create a rift between him and the rest of the team, especially Esposito, who seemed to view it as a personal betrayal.






The Veep


After dealing with a pregnancy scare, a secret service firing (Transferring), and all sorts of gaffes the Veep's disapproval rating is 66% and now a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio tells her that he does not want her endorsement -right after she arrived in Ohio and Dan Egan's earlier machinations to get part of the Green Jobs bill into a major bill comes back to bite him. To save the situation the staff tries to pull a series of schemes to salvage her approval rating, including getting her to cry in an interview. It seemed to work but, since this is a political satire-comedy, it collapsed in the last 5 minutes.

The first season of The Veep has been like most good first seasons: spotty with enough goodness to make you want to come back next season. The first few episodes were okay, not great, but decent. As it went on the laughs got more with the funniest being "Nicknames" which had the Green Jobs Bill collapse and "Baseball", where she had a pregnancy scare, a gas leak at a health conference, and a school event.

Now, is it as good as that other political satire-comedy, Yes, Minister? No. In fact the first episode of Yes, Minister had more wit, humor, and intelligence than the entire first season of Veep. But given the sheer brilliance behind Yes, Minister that is not a damning criticism of The Veep.

So I will be back next year to watch Season 2.