Finale Season Is Upon Us

Clockwise from top left: Joel McHale, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi of Community; Joshua Jackson of Fringe; Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder of The Vampire Diaries; Lea Michele, Heather Morris, Jenna Ushkowitz and Dianna Agron of Glee

It's that time of year again, folks, the time when our favorite major network shows begin ramping up the twists, the suspense, the general balls-to-the-wall awesomeness of their episodes in preparation for one thing, and one thing only: the finale. Some choose to leave us with a cliffhanger to build up our anticipation over the long, empty summer months, while some would rather wrap up the season in a nice bow, with everyone happy and working through their drama (at least until September rolls around). And some just want to leave us laughing.

For the next week, Pencils Down, Pass the Remote is going to be finale central. I'll be offering my thoughts on the season-ending episodes of Community, Fringe, The Vampire Diaries, Glee and more! Plus, I'll be providing flashbacks to finales past with a list of the best and worst season and series finales of all time! (When I say all time, I mean the ones that I've seen.) I'll even be providing some predictions of where my favorite shows will go next season, purely because, as I've mentioned before, I know that network executives and showrunners read my commentary.

So, stay tuned today for my thoughts on the finales of Community and The Vampire Diaries, and keep checking back throughout the week for more of the Pencils Down, Pass the Remote Finale-stravaganza! Tell your friends.

P.S. For reasons that I do not fully understand, my recent post about ABC's Castle has vanished from the site. That'll be going back up as soon as I have a chance to rewrite it. (This will possibly teach me not to compose my posts in Blogger, but rather to write them elsewhere. Live and learn.)