The Vampire Diaries finale! This was definitely the pop culture highlight of the month, maybe the year so far for me. It certainly wasn't perfect, it was very rushed, confusing in places, and really should have been two hours long. But they actually did manage to wrap up everything in a fairly satisfying way and left…

You only missed two of the three best seasons of the series! You should definitely go back and check out the highschool years if you're a fan.

You have to get to episode 7 of Season 2, "Lie To Me", which is where the show really starts to grow, mature, and become the series that left such a huge legacy. If you aren't in love by the end of Season 2 though, the show probably just isn't for you.

Oh yeah, I thought they had great chemistry as friends, but not as a couple. The only time they had any chemistry was when their humanity was switched off, which should have made them realize they're a bad match and bring out the worst in each other. By the end it's actually ambiguous as to whether Stefan loved…

The Katherine storyline really redeems Season 5 for me: it's one of my favorite storylines in the series and I definitely like it better than anything in Seasons 7 or 8. Season 7 is just… really bad and confused, with the exception of one or two episodes, and 8 suffered from a very rough beginning, muddled themes and…

Oh, is that just for Originals? That makes sense now that I think about it. I always get confused about the rules on this show over time, they're so odd and arbitrary.

Huh I'm really surprised that people were shocked at Malarkey's real accent. His British accent as Enzo has always bugged the hell out of me because it sounds so horribly fake.

Hell was destroyed though, right? So maybe just no one goes to hell anymore, and they all get soft focus family reunion heavens.

I haven't read all the comments yet, but I'm sure everyone has made most of the points I was going to. I mostly really liked the finale… it was rushed of course, and really felt like it should have followed a different final season. But given what they had to work with, I thought it was as good as possible and gave…

They were already setting them up together way before Nina announced she was leaving. It was already in motion in Season 5, and Season 6 had a ton of Steroline drama throughout.

He didn't really seem very involved, it didn't feel like he did much more than co-write a couple of episodes and toss out a few ideas for the season to other writers. And his writing since he left TVD has been horrible across the board, so who knows what's going on there.

I mean, I think more than a year and a half would be an unusually long pregnancy leave. Plus Shahi filmed a pilot around the same time as she was doing Season 5.

In S4 yes. But 5? It aired over a year after S4 ended and Shaw was in most episodes, just isolated from the rest of the cast until the last four episodes or so.

I feel like Seasons 3 and 4 of TVD were a looooooot better than the respective seasons of The 100 though so… yeah.

In Person of Interest the death only happened a couple of episodes before the end, and that death felt really purposeful to me. Shaw couldn't have ended the series in the same place without it, and it allowed Acker to step into a new role. Plus Root's death was beautifully executed, whereas Lexa's death was so fucking…

iZombie isn't really a summer series? Season 1 only ran a couple weeks past the normal network tv season, and S2 aired over the fall and spring. S3 is starting a few weeks later than S1 did though so it will push on a bit more into summer.

I was kind of hoping this would be announced as the last season… 5 Seasons is a good series length and at this point I feel like they could still pull together for an amazing final season. The Vampire Diaries just proved that you reeeeeeally don't want to keep a show running long past it's prime, since it's hard to…

The back half of Season 1 and Season 2 are amazing. Maybe the best tv that The CW has ever produced. They're insanely addictive and emotionally compelling, and introduce one great character after another. The series looks insanely great for something that can't have that huge of a budget.

Huh? Buffy had some of the most well thought out season plotting of any tv show. It really helped develop the standard for how tv seasons are plotted, at least for genre series.

There's no way he could possibly pass on a project this insane to anyone else.