So what happened to the writing sine Will died? This episode dances on it and pounds it into submission. There's so much wrong here that all you can do is shake your head and wonder how many bongs the writers took to come up with this. There are at least 2 or 3 plot lines dropped, but that is not rare with this series. There is very little to make sense of here.
The trial becomes a huge joke because there is almost no way to figure out the guilt of Peter for sure. Granted the motive appears to be money, but why is it the money of one donor was that important after Peter was elected and in office for less than 3 weeks makes no sense. Meanwhile, Eli never gets even a call from the Grand Jury when he should have been charged with Obstruction of Justice is simply shocking.
The NSA illegally overhearing everything and not even being brought to task for wiretapping never gets solved. Alicia's daughter Grace still has photos of her undressed on the Internet being sold for several seasons now and that is never even mentioned since back several seasons ago after her brother saw the photos. In fact, if I went through the number of plot lines dropped, this show holds the World Record. It gives legal shows a bad name. It leaves with poor taste too boot.
Will is back in this finale just like Diane showed back up on the last episode of Cheers. The difference in this one is that Will piles on and denigrates Alicia's character by saying she was never in class and drunk all the way through college. While that could be an excuse for her marrying the con man Peter, it weakens her character on becoming everything she was in the courtroom. It makes the whole reason for this series mute. At least Will is not as sickening as Diane on Cheers was, but after he buries Alicia's character, his spirit becomes her lover in the episode. There's no real charm here, and the memory is melancholy.
I guess they want to draw the conclusion that Peter was really guilty here by having the bullets show up for an iron clad proof. Then at the same time they undermine the lab tech on the blood proof, and meanwhile the murder has a suspect found whose cell phone is at the murder. This is really left dangling as there appears to be no interest in that person, who might have the real motive behind the murder Peter is supposed to have covered up.
Ironically, in November of 2016, Clinton would proof to be a bigger disaster than Alicia and this foreshadows the real historic event. Alicia is still supposed to be a viable candidate for election while the corrupt Clinton destroyed her chances of being elected ever by having the corruption in the Democratic Party brought into the open. This series brought corruption in the Democratic party out but Wiki Leaks showed the real stuff even went beyond what this series ever imagined. Another loose end is we never find out for sure if Peter rigged Alicia's election and then in another dropped plot line what ever happened to Alicia's vote on the voting machine scandal.
Then we have the dropped plot line of the corrupt judge who the FBI for some reason looses interest in after he screws over 1000's of people in the night court type of setting where he is obviously getting kickbacks from the lawyers in his court and others. Granted he gets away with a mock trial that is a legal joke and he is found innocent, but it seems the loss of interest in bringing him to justice is never explained.
The failure here is that normally last episodes usually tie things up and finish something. The only thing this episode does is get Alicia a slap in the face for using Diane's husband to try and get Peter off. If that slap is the only reason to justify this entire series, it falls way short of what we need to see. Diane is the only character who has grown in this series. The rest of it has just become a mess. This Diane actually has brains, unlike the airhead Diane who showed up for the last episode of Cheers. Everyone knows Diane Lockhart's name because she gets in the slap of Alicia at the end.
Unfortunately, Diane needed very much to slap the series writers. They went on strike after killing Will. They are guilty of making what could have been a great series into a soap opera.
The trial becomes a huge joke because there is almost no way to figure out the guilt of Peter for sure. Granted the motive appears to be money, but why is it the money of one donor was that important after Peter was elected and in office for less than 3 weeks makes no sense. Meanwhile, Eli never gets even a call from the Grand Jury when he should have been charged with Obstruction of Justice is simply shocking.
The NSA illegally overhearing everything and not even being brought to task for wiretapping never gets solved. Alicia's daughter Grace still has photos of her undressed on the Internet being sold for several seasons now and that is never even mentioned since back several seasons ago after her brother saw the photos. In fact, if I went through the number of plot lines dropped, this show holds the World Record. It gives legal shows a bad name. It leaves with poor taste too boot.
Will is back in this finale just like Diane showed back up on the last episode of Cheers. The difference in this one is that Will piles on and denigrates Alicia's character by saying she was never in class and drunk all the way through college. While that could be an excuse for her marrying the con man Peter, it weakens her character on becoming everything she was in the courtroom. It makes the whole reason for this series mute. At least Will is not as sickening as Diane on Cheers was, but after he buries Alicia's character, his spirit becomes her lover in the episode. There's no real charm here, and the memory is melancholy.
I guess they want to draw the conclusion that Peter was really guilty here by having the bullets show up for an iron clad proof. Then at the same time they undermine the lab tech on the blood proof, and meanwhile the murder has a suspect found whose cell phone is at the murder. This is really left dangling as there appears to be no interest in that person, who might have the real motive behind the murder Peter is supposed to have covered up.
Ironically, in November of 2016, Clinton would proof to be a bigger disaster than Alicia and this foreshadows the real historic event. Alicia is still supposed to be a viable candidate for election while the corrupt Clinton destroyed her chances of being elected ever by having the corruption in the Democratic Party brought into the open. This series brought corruption in the Democratic party out but Wiki Leaks showed the real stuff even went beyond what this series ever imagined. Another loose end is we never find out for sure if Peter rigged Alicia's election and then in another dropped plot line what ever happened to Alicia's vote on the voting machine scandal.
Then we have the dropped plot line of the corrupt judge who the FBI for some reason looses interest in after he screws over 1000's of people in the night court type of setting where he is obviously getting kickbacks from the lawyers in his court and others. Granted he gets away with a mock trial that is a legal joke and he is found innocent, but it seems the loss of interest in bringing him to justice is never explained.
The failure here is that normally last episodes usually tie things up and finish something. The only thing this episode does is get Alicia a slap in the face for using Diane's husband to try and get Peter off. If that slap is the only reason to justify this entire series, it falls way short of what we need to see. Diane is the only character who has grown in this series. The rest of it has just become a mess. This Diane actually has brains, unlike the airhead Diane who showed up for the last episode of Cheers. Everyone knows Diane Lockhart's name because she gets in the slap of Alicia at the end.
Unfortunately, Diane needed very much to slap the series writers. They went on strike after killing Will. They are guilty of making what could have been a great series into a soap opera.