By John Keegan and Gregg Wright

How’s that for an episode title, eh? Unfortunately, despite what the promo and title might lead us to believe, this episode does not mark the glorious return of Doakes to exact his revenge on Dexter. This finale is solely concerned with resolving existing threats and issues. And as far as that goes, it works. A Doakes-like twist might have injected some much-appreciated life into the mix, but the episodes does a reasonable job of taking elements that have been in play since the beginning of the season and offering a payoff.

By John Keegan

It’s become a tradition for “Fringe” to have an off-format installment with Episode 19 of each season, but with only 13 episodes for the fifth and final run, that obviously wasn’t going to happen. Yet the writers wanted to keep the tradition alive in some sense; it makes sense that Episode 5.9 would be the one to get that duty.

By John Keegan

Leave it to “The Vampire Diaries” to use a Christmas hymn as the background music for a slaughter. The writers for this show don’t fool around when it comes to the mid-season cliffhanger, and that is triply so in this case. There are shows that don’t display this level of ambition and fearless change in a season finale.

WILLOW

Journey to the far corners of your imagination with Willow, for the first time ever on stunning Blu-ray! Written and produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, the film tells a timeless fantasy tale in which heroes come in all sizes...and adventure is the greatest magic of all. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the unforgettable classic has been fully digitally restored and debuts on Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack March 12, 2013 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

By John Keegan

Ever since the beginning of the season, there has been a sense that John Barrowman’s character was waiting for the right moment to strike. Even as relatively grounded as “Arrow” can be, given the emphasis on human relationships, Barrowman manages to exude the characteristics of a melodramatic villain without going completely over the top. Instead of being silly, it comes across as supreme confidence.

By John Keegan and Henry Tran

I'm not entirely sure of what I'm supposed to feel about this episode after viewing it. On the one hand, it showed some really powerful moments, ones that were true to the characters on the show. On the other hand, there exists parts of the episode (and many of the storylines within it) that somehow defy logic. I made the comment to no one in particular that at times, it felt like the show was falling apart at the seams. That something like the death of Abu Nazir should be a big, public event where the CIA and FBI are too late to stop him from enacting his entire plan. Instead, he dies in an anonymous Virginia mill surrounded by armed agents.

By John Keegan and Gregg Wright

This has been a very rocky season of “Dexter”, at a time when there is every reason for the show to return to its former glory. At the beginning of the season, I expected things to rapidly begin to escalate through a two-season story arc that culminated in a definitive finale. Instead, the season explored other various other elements that were interesting in and of themselves, but suffered from poor execution, and seem to have been only tangentially-related to the real closing arc of the show.