jdeamara

A clip show with about 5 minutes of original material, there's nothing memorable or good about the series finale. It's a lazy effort. Clips from 3 of the best episodes are played, but since this is the last episode ever, you wish the writers would have done more to say goodbye to the characters and the audience. In particular, a complete original episode would really have been appreciated. The final scene tries to be clever and meta but falls flat, as you almost have to be an insider to get the references and jokes. It's sad that the producers made the final episode for themselves and not for the audience.

As the writers on this show never tire of showing us, all the characters on it are just not nice people. They are all egocentric and selfish, to say the least. The character that escapes this kind of writing the most is Rob, not surprising since he's the lead character and should be likeable. But it's Rob's turn here, as he runs for political office and wins, knowing he's not qualified, but doing so anyway, all out of an ego trip and a desire for notoriety. So not even Rob is really a true stand-up guy.

It's the chemistry of the cast that raises the characters above such awful pettiness, so much so that viewers often don't notice it unless they really think about it. The producers and writers got really lucky with casting.