"Damages" finale delivers

is that was soooo good. Definitely the best show I've seen in a while. Great acting, amazing story lines, brilliant writing...what more could you ask for?

I'm a first year associate at a pretty big firm in Manhattan, and this show totally had me looking at my coworkers in a different light. You never know what people are hiding or what they're capable of...lawyers are so damn shady.

Fingers crossed for a second season!

-SMP-

I saw the first episode and I got hooked, totally hooked. Not only because of the story in itself but also because of it's cinematography and the broken timeline. So, for thirteen weeks I've been living my life as a criminal - I couldn't get the fact that I live in Sweden stop me from watching this show...

And with a finale like the one last night they simply have to renew this show for another season! Unless tptb are all sadistic, mean and like to torture people hooked on shows... I also really hopes that this show comes to Sweden so I can force all my friends to watch it.( I mean - I never thought that I one day actually would like Ted Danson in anything but Damages have proved me wrong.)

So please Fx renew it.

This show was simply the best thing I've seen on TV for years.  Better even than Dexter and Battlestar Galactica (probably the next two best shows).

I'm not convinced that the bit with Patty's daughter was irrelevant.  The juxtaposition of her visit to the cemetary, her shakes after ordering Ellen's death, and the interaction between them makes me suspect that Ellen might actually be Julia.  But if they don't renew the show, we'll never know.

I was also very skeptical about them renewing the show.  I remember when they renewed Witchblade and I suffered through the horrendous second season before they mercifully cancelled it.  I couldn't imagine how they could possible continue the story.  But now I can see it.

My big issue with the finale is that they didn't explain why Patty was gunning for Frobisher as hard as she did. Was it over Julia, her daughter? Was Patty somehow connected to the woman who died in the car in Arlington?

Having said that, I want to see a second season. Ellen finally grew a spine and that will make Patty Vs. Ellen a more fair fight.

I thought the finale was really good, and I hope they renew this excellent series. It's great for a couple of reasons that make it unique among prime-time shows. First, like was said earlier, it revolves around women, and not in a relationship-y sort of way, like Women's Murder Club and thos kinds of shows. Plus, it allows the women to be bad. I love that. I was really hoping that Patty would be evil. It just shows how far we've come that we can be a lead villain in a show.

I also like that they don't spend much effort slowing down to let everyone keep up. 24, another great show, does too much of that. Damages just assumes that you've been paying attention and rewards you for it.

About the dead baby, I didn't think that it's Ellen, she's way too young. She would have to be 35, and there's just no way that could be, in my opinion. I was wondering if my the dead baby was Frobisher's, and there is some real history between him and Patty. Remember when she showed up at his place and blackmailed him ("legal blackmail," which is just as illegal as any other form, btw) with the tape? He asked her why she hates him so much, and she didn't answer. I would love it if they had a past.

Finally, I'm not usually on the bandwagon of hoping for out-of-nowhere lesbian hookups, but I thought Ellen and her dead finace's sister had real sparks between them.

“Damages” – one of the few bright spots in television for the past 13 weeks.  Overall, I was pleased with the finale – they tied up enough loose ends to satisfy me, and the few annoying bits they threw in (stalker, dead baby) were easy enough to overlook, esp since they’ve consistently delivered on SO many other fronts, week after week after week. 

I didn’t see the characters as flip-flopping in their morality.  One of my favorite characters was Ray Fiske (and I love the actor who played him).  I thought he was well-developed throughout the course of the season:  in the beginning, he seemed like a major league scumbag, but slowly, his conscience was torn between the likes of Frobisher and Gregory (Gregory was another one – he also seemed like a bastard, and turned out to be a good guy who just got in over his head).  Were the series not so well written, their character development could’ve seemed hokey or contrived, but it was done slowly and consistently over time – it all rang true to me. 

I still don’t like Ellen tho – she’s just too damn boring.   It’s down to the fantastic plotlines/acting/tight scripts that I was able to overlook the vapidity of Ellen Parsons.  I’m hoping they bring Kate back as a regular – she’s infinitely more interesting than Ellen (and a better actress, IMO).  Also, I’ve got a whole new respect for Ted Danson.  

Now I anxiously await the return of that other fab FX series – The Riches.

Of course, there are more twists and turns to come on this, too. I was stunned to hear Ellen tell the FBI agents that 'she tried to have me murdered.' And, we see the two henchmen who killed David surprised to see Ellen fleeing Patty's apartment (just when one of them has decided to go into Patty's apartment to look for the tape). We've also seen the older man who does favors for Patty (including killing Kate's dog and cleaning up her office after Ray Fiske's suicide) let somebody into the apartment -- either he was working against or for Patty. So, I definitely want to watch to see how this all unravels. (Like everyone else, I was bored by the suggestion in last week's episode that a second season would focus on Ellen's trial.) Now, if Frobisher is apparently murdered, I don't know if the second season will focus on a specific case, or be focused around Ellen determining who killed David and whether Patty tried to have her killed. !

I'd like to see another season if its on the same level as this one. I'll gladly rewatch the season and that doesn't happen very often.

wasn't Ellen Parsons morphing into Patty Hewes.....

I thought that maybe the Frobisher car accident had something to do with the baby......but I'm not sure. When did the car accident happen? Going to have to watch it again.