It's A Finale Fest Out There...

Nothing like a flurry of finales to get the heart thumping and the tears flowing. America's top television programs are closing up shop for the season. Let's sit back, recover from the drama, and allocate gold star stickers to the leaders of the pack.

Best Hero Moment

Winner: Supernatural

A three-way tie between Sam, Dean, and their 1967 Chevrolet Impala. Yes, Sam slash Dean tied for the title with their own car. Writers who can transform an inanimate object into a hero are talented scribes, indeed.

Best Decisions, Decisions

Winner: The Good Wife

A sophisticated, almost elegant conclusion to the debut season. Clever sub-plots see nearly every main character make a defining choice, neatly setting in place the potential for change come season two. Nicely done.

Best Psycho Tantrum

Winner: V

"I believe you're experiencing your first human emotion." Um, yeah, sure Anna, that's human emotion. If you're CRAZY. (No polite way to say that to the boss mama, though).

Best Closing Twist

Winner: The Vampire Diaries

Katherine, the Queen V who knows how to party and pile up the corpses, has finally come to town. What writer doesn't love a doppelganger? Better than an evil twin, Katherin's an evil UNDEAD look-alike. Good times.

Best Thank-God-It's-Over

Winner: Lost

Only because people constantly assume I'm a fan. Relative strangers would launch into long Lost monologues focusing on the latest season arc before I could say, "That's the one where a plane crashes on an island, right?"

Best Will-They-Won't-They?

Winner: Castle

Ah, Castle. Ah, Beckett. You crazy kids. Hooking up is the beginning of the end for television programs built around a reluctant pairing's sexual tension. (Hello X-Files, hello Moonlighting). This episode, Beckett's romantic ineptitude is so... realistic. Sigh.

Best I Knew That Would Happen

Winner: Gossip Girl

Jenny sleeping with Chuck? Saw it coming. Didn't Chuck sexually assault Jenny early on in the series, you say? Gossip Girl plotlines have long since proven the only thing you can't buy on the Upper East Side is a functioning longterm memory.

Missing your favourite shows already? The good news is, networks give some programs unusual kick-off points, so there's always something to watch.

Soon a new season of True Blood slinks onto screens. I know vamps are going to have to fight with shape shifters for camera time this season, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more Eric. (Here's hoping Bill continues the way he starts out- Missing In Action! That character is CREEPY).

Then there's the mid-season replacements. Those who consider Middies to be dumping ground fodder should remember diamonds can be buried in the dirt. Middies who became successful include Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Third Rock From The Sun, Grey's Anatomy and even the classic Walker, Texas Ranger (we love you Chuck!).