And they lived happily ever after

It's that time of year where the sun is (hopefully) shining and with more and more people wanting to spend their time in the garden instead of indoors watching TV, all the major networks bring their shows to a season finale. This year though, loads of them seem to be ending for good! I thought I'd do a little round up of what I've been watching so obviously a spoiler alert is needed here. New Girl is a show I've loved for ages, based on the extremely sweet and quirky Jess, who moved in to a new apartment with 3 guys in the first season and the show has since followed their laughs, loves and mishaps along the way. After finally giving everyone their happy ending at the end of season 6, I was surprised it got renewed at all. It turned out to be only for an extra 8 episodes which were done on a 3 year time jump. Cece and Schmidt have a daughter, Winston and Ali are married and expecting their first child and Jess and Nick have been together for the last 3 years and Nick is finally ready to propose. Considering we ended season 6 with Cece and Schmidt married and expecting a baby, Winston and Ali engaged and Jess and Nick finally together, it didn't feel like we really got any more out of these characters then we'd already been given. However, the episodes were still good and it was nice to get the same humour we know and love (although they seemed to be overdoing Cece's character a little bit). The series ended as I thought it would; it started with Jess moving in to The Loft and it ended with her moving back out again, which was definitely a fitting end!

I started watching Suits when I started working at a law firm (it felt fitting) and I immediately fell in love with all the scandal and drama, the quick wit, the sarcastic comebacks and of course, Harvey Specter (who is basically my dream man). Although Suits hasn't ended for good, it did feel like a more significant season finale than normal as this was the last one with Mike and Rachel (does anyone know why Meghan Markle decided to quit the series?...). I think it worked out well that Patrick J Adams decided to leave too, as it was easy to write the couple out together, after a beautiful wedding episode; I think it would've been a bit tricky if she was leaving on her own. I am just waiting for Harvey and Donna to finally get together and this season felt like it's been building and building up to it. I thought that they'd finally have a moment in the season finale but with Mike and Rachel gone, the writers probably thought it'd be best to drag their relationship out a little longer, since they will be the main couple to focus on next season. I hope this show doesn't fall flat with some of their main characters gone (like The Vampire Diaries did after Nina Dobrev left), and I will definitely miss the bromance between Harvey and Mike but I'm intrigued to see where they'll go with the show next.

Once Upon a Time is a show that I have always found to be one of the best written shows I've ever watched. Well, probably best planned, rather than best written. It's based on the idea of all the classic fairytales coming to life, woven together through clever links and turned on their heads with different perspectives than we're used to. It'd been running for 6 seasons and when it got renewed for season 7, it was announced that loads of the main cast weren't returning. So they did a total reboot; fast forward way in to the future so that Henry (the child from the first 6 seasons) was all grown up and living out his own fairytale. It was, as ever, fabulously written and I loved some of the new characters (like Alice from Wonderland), however I'm glad it ended after one season. It wasn't a patch on the original story and it seemed to fall a bit flat without some of the key love stories in there (Snow White and Prince Charming, Emma and Captain Hook). They did finish it off really well though, with all the old cast returning for the finale and everyone getting their happily ever after, of course!

This Is Us is another extremely clever show. It's based on 4 people who all share the same birthday and the first episode shows them each turning 36. At first you think that's their only link, before you realise that the couple are the parents of the other 3 and the stories are running parallel with the past and the present. The best part about this show is its authenticity; it's a show about life. It's about parenthood, about love, about the relationship between siblings, about your relationship with your parents, about loss, about the scars childhood leaves behind, about guilt, about regrets, about marriage and about moving forwards. Each episode flicks between who it focuses on, sometimes focusing on all the characters and sometimes focusing on just one and it flicks between the past, the present and sometimes even the future. A lot of the time as well, it shows characters you've never seen before and it's not until the end of the episode that you find out how they play a role in the main characters lives, which I always find really good. The show has just reached it's season 2 finale and after the sneak preview it gave of where each characters lives was headed, I'm not surprised it's been renewed for another season. It's a really emotional show and towards the end of this season, you find out the details of something you knew all along (maybe season 1 episode 1 is when you're first told about it) and even then, it still had me balling my eyes out.

I knew I would be obsessed with this show the second I watched the trailer. Think, gossip girl but in the adult world rather than a teenage one. Dynasty is a reboot of a show from the 80s and is based on the rich and dirty Carrington family. Filthy rich and totally dysfunctional, the show begins when Fallon's dad marries a woman young enough to be his daughter, and promotes her within the company in place of his actual daughter. There's also murder, betrayal, dark secrets, a runaway mum, scams, sex, rivalry, catfights, sarcasm, cutting one-liners, the most gorgeous buildings and outfits and a few love stories that you can actually root for. I've been hooked on it all through the first season (with the love story between Sam and Steven being one of my faves) and the season finale was a really explosive one. Thank god they've already been renewed for season 2 because the cliff hanger it's been left on is a really good one! 

Another series that I've been hooked on from the start is Lucifer and this one is really hanging in the balance because after a dramatic season 3 finale and a cliff-hanger of an ending, the network has cancelled it! The series is based on Lucifer, the fallen angel who was sent to hell by god to punish people for all eternity, who has decided to take a break from eternal damnation in none other than LA. A swanky club owner with a penchant for sex, drugs and all things thrilling, plus the ability to find out a persons deepest desire, Lucifer stumbles across the path of Detective Chloe and they end up working cases together. Of course, the next part is obvious - they fall in love. And yet 3 seasons in and we're still yet to see them finally get together! Each episode is a self-contained murder mystery, with a great support cast and a number of great relationships other than the one between Lucifer and Chloe (the one between Lucifer and his therapist Linda is one of my favourites). How and why it's been cancelled is a mystery to me but I've got my fingers crossed that one of the other networks or streaming services will come to the rescue!