Night Shift, Season 2, Episode 13 (2)

Not so many tears this time around, which was good because I didn’t need to go out crying from a series that wound up delivering so much good soap .  I much preferred to go out smiling, as I did here.

This episode was really two separate shows in one.  The first show was the five odd minutes with the aftermath of the bombing and the well-built tension between the bomb defusing and Saira reviving.

Unfortunately I think it was then let down a bit by the complete sapping of that tension in favour of a startlingly quick wrap-up of the bomb/suit against Patrick plot and a sweep straight into the second show of the evening: the wrap up.

I didn’t have any problem with the wrap-up itself, just the transition to it.

Some of the tying up of loose ends was a bit neat/predictable, but I would much rather they tied them up than left them hanging.

First, Kyle and Claire, finished off as expected in all respects, but sweet nevertheless.

And Kyle and Leo wound up in an equally predicable, but no less sweet place.  It’s just a pity that they had to completely cut Leo’s personality to shreds at the beginning of the series to wind up bringing him around back to human again with both Saira and his brother.  I’m still of the view that the whole series would have been much better had they not made this character “Leo Julian” and instead started with someone new.

I think they short-changed the Toussaint has a son story throughout this.  Obviously I didn’t even remotely watch the whole first season, but this was groundwork that was laid then, yes?  So why the story got all of about three minutes in this series, with most of it in the last episode, I’m not sure.  And I didn’t care much about it because I’d been given nothing to work with.

For Jagger and Robert I appreciated that they gave them out of town stories, if only to save me from having to ask, futilely, why they’re not in certain upcoming stories or attending a certain wedding during the Day Shift.  Well, I’ll probably still ask that, but not in a “but they’re in town, they should be here!” kind of way.  And they left the doors wide open in both their various relationships to have them come back should pigs start flying backwards through an icy hell and regular GH starts being run by smart people again.

I also loved where Anna and Robert wound up.  I loved that they got their relationship back, but that they didn’t send them off together in some mushy way that wouldn’t have felt right, and would have only given the Day Shift the ammunition with which to decimate their relationship again by having Anna come back straight away and say it all failed because Robert was an ass.

They got Patrick nicely, and reasonably, out of a job he never should have had in the first place, gave him and Robin a bed for the first time in years, and left them argument-free and sweet as always.  All in time for the Day Shift to wreak whatever hell they have planned for their wedding and the birth of their child.

So, let’s leave this series that was imperfect but exceeded all expectations with some happy pictures from the finale.  Well done, Night Shift, well done.

Caps courtesy LiznJase.