The third and possibly final season of
Damages came to a brutal end last night, almost quintessential in the knowledge that these might be its final moments. As an expensive, award winning series with a dismal viewership and little chance of returning (unless the fine folks of DirectTV come through with a last minute save, as they did with
Friday Night Lights), the future of one of televisions most interesting and accomplished dramas looks bleak. But for a show defined by the dark and dreary elements of desperate people living desperate lives, what outlook could be more appropriate?
Indeed, the death rattle of
Damages’ 13th Season 3 episode, “The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat”, shook strong last night as the series moved in for the kill shot. Three years worth of storylines were wrapped up, in a tightly maniacal puzzle pieced together as only
Damages knows how. Characters were nudged to the brink of hell, then pushed over with a shrug, as if their demise was written in destiny. Because it was.
