Part One: “Damage Control”
Last night gave birth to Drop Dead Diva’s sixth and final
season, it is kind of heartbreaking to know this is the last season of sassy
Jane. Over the last few season’s so many
of us have welcomed the voluptuous lawyer and her bunch of kooky co-workers
into our hearts, even through the darkness of limbo that was between Jane and
Owen’s botched wedding and “Old Jane’s” return.
So now we can begin our decent into the last season before our farewell.
After last season’s explosive finale I was all to egger
to find out if Jane’s secret was seriously going to be revealed. What we opened with was Jane rearranging the
kitchen. That’s right Jane take it out
on a ladle. Seriously though, the major
coping mechanism in this show seems to be strict avoidance so it is a mystery
to me why Jane thought Grayson would just want to suddenly talk about the sole
of his dead fiancé being trapped in the sole of a plus sized lawyer.
As a distraction we enter the cases that always provide a
backdrop for the lessons that our quirky lawyers need to learn. Jane’s case is one very close to my heart; a
lunch lady is fighting the super intendants decision to cut more than 50 kids
hot lunches do to their parent’s income being higher than the cut off
points. As a single mom, the most
important thing to me is my son’s wellbeing and that he gets the nutrition he
needs which is not always easy. I’m
working full time and it’s still hard to make it all work some weeks so when
someone decides to cut a budget by removing help some of our children need, it’s
degusting. Personally I think there are plenty
of cuts that can be made in things like payroll for school boards, but that’s
just me.
Unfortunately, Jane gets a door slammed in her face when
she appeals to the school board but, she discovers in the process that her
client is wanted by the AUSA for an act of terrorism. It would appear that her client stole some
ammunition 10 years after her son was killed in Iraq siting that it was her
hope that the ammunition she stole would not be used to kill anyone else. In an act of compassion Jane decides to
appeal her case to the AUSA and gets another door. Man, people on this show love to slam doors
in people’s faces.
In the midst of all of this Owen is finding himself in a
bit of a boiling pot when his brother Charlie comes to town in need of defense
in a case against him by a local gentleman’s club. Owen and Charlie could not be more different,
and you can imagine my disappointment in Stacy when she agrees to go out with
Charlie. In her defense at least she
didn’t know who he was, that makes a good plausible deniability right? Oh except that she is carrying Owen’s baby!
So what did Charlie do you ask? Well he is claiming that a stripper stole his
wallet while receiving a lap dance in the VIP room. Yep, that’s Stacy’s date… Such a man. This turns out to be a clever rouse to get his
hands on surveillance footage which shows the mayor getting some happy time as
well. Needless to say the firm ends up
in trouble, again.
Back in Jane’s world our fugitive lunch lady faces 25
years for her “expression” and Jane is offered 50k for her life rights to make
a film. Thankfully Jane has more
integrity than, say Charlie. However,
being tenacious Jane refuses to give up and intends to fight for her lunch lady,
yet another reason to love Jane so much, that and the zaps of knowledge. Once again however, we get the fairytale that
if you live a good life after you do something bad that you can get some leniency
as she argues the 25 years to 3 due to her exemplary life. But, what about the kids?! Well our lunch lady decides to donate the
sale of her life right’s (valued at 100k) from a movie producer to feed the
school’s 50 plus hungry kids.
Owen’s case gives us back the idea that people have to
make sad choice’s as he decides to turn his back on his brother and leaves him
in the hands of a public defender. If
you’ve ever had free legal counsel you know that you get completely what you
pay for. Equally as tragic is Grayson
being ready to talk; he is of course overwhelmed but at the same time seething
with anger and hurt. What is he hurt
about? Well I would go with the lie, but
he seems even more upset that she told Stacy but not him. I would be yelling that when she did try
Grayson got hit by a car. Seriously, did
you forget that one Jane?!
I was so ready after Grayson’s scene to go to bed
thinking wow what a great season is going to happen, but it was a two partner
and I found myself glued. Come the ring
of the alarm this morning, I have learned that I hate “TV Glue.”
Part Two: “Move Forward”
Once again we are pushed into two cases that are of
course more about what is going on at the firm than what’s going on in the
lives of the clients. One is a case of
an emotionally distraught couple who was trapped on a cruise ship and the other
a case of an innocent man who keeps getting denied parole because he isn’t
sorry for something he didn’t do.
Now, we throw in a wacky situation to bring in levity,
Stacy and Jane’s guardian angel has decided to set up Owen with a new love
interest. I still think Stacy should have
stuck with Owen, even with the threat of future discomfort. I mean she caused a stir and now she’s just
dropping it? Bitch. Speaking of being bitchy looks like the “honorable”
judge Owen carried out a huge miscarriage in Jane’s case. So now how do you approach Owen with a “hey
you were wrong when you sentenced this poor kid to a long ass sentence because
you didn’t see other available evidence.”
My answer, you shouldn’t… Jane’s plan?
Poke a badger with a stick. That
doesn’t go well, of course. So let’s serve
Owen so that he has to tell a court that he messed up. What ensues is Owen making Jane look like an
idiot and giving her a sound piece of his mind.
In the cruise ship case, well I really honestly don’t
care what happened there. Grayson is
working with a new temp partner in a case that has them defending “piracy” for
pilfering snacks. We can file that as an
excuse to show us Grayson. Now, back to
the temp partner, looks like Stacy has picked her “Stacy-Jane hybrid” to distract
Owen. Belinda, our new temp partner. After what he did to Jane I don’t think he
really deserves it.
Let’s face it we know that the cases will be won, more
importantly Jane does something amazing in admitting how shallow she was in not
accepting that Grayson would love her being either Jane or Deb. Grayson tells her that he doesn’t accept this
reason, because no matter what he loved her for her. I don’t believe it at all, not that he didn’t
love her, but more so that he wouldn’t have wanted to believe it.
Owen also shows growth by admitting his wrong in Janes case and even comes to her rescue. Through his omission I believe that he is showing that he can move forward past the confusion of the last season. It would also appear that he has acquired someone to help in Belinda, hope that doesn't bite Stacy in the ass.
Even more amazing to those of us who have been waiting... Grayson asks Jane on a date. He explains he wants to get to know Jane, for how she really is. I got to respect that, he isn't just accepting that this news won't change what has been. He also knows that Deb may be in Jane, but he also had buried her so this needs to be a fresh begining.
All in all I could have done with breaking this into two weeks, but I have a thought that Season 6 will be awesome!
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