TV Series Set To Take Their Final Bow In 2017

Premiering on A&E in March 2013, Bates Motel has been taking the viewers through the close knit world of the Bates family in a contemporary prequel relating the events prior to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho movie. The widowed Norma (Vera Farmiga), originally moved to White Pine Bay, Oregon, to rebuild her life by offering her son Norman (Freddie Highmore) a new beginning. She tried her best to shield him from an environment not adaptable to his damaging sensitivity due to his mental illness while protecting him from himself and the deadly consequences of his psychotic behavior. Their disturbingly tight relationship makes for the lifeline of the show.

For four seasons, Norma had to face the aftermath of being raped upon their arrival, the self-defense homicide that followed, welcoming her first son Dylan (Max Thierot) back into her life and forming a new bond with him, while sorting out the complexity of her incestuous past relationship with her brother Caleb (Kenny Johnson). Norman, who appeared as a bit of a deranged teen at first, slowly raised to insanity with his blackouts becoming more numerous and resulting in brutal murders. The Bates' were under Sheriff Romero's (Nestor Carbonell) scrutiny at ever turn, making him sometimes an unwilling participant in their madness, which didn't prevent him from falling for Norma.

As Norman began therapy, it exposed to a medical authority the extent of his sickness that meant he was taken over by an alternate personality, 'Mother,' self crafted after his own mother. He checked himself out of the institution when he found out that Norma and Romero had gotten married. The culmination of this incredible fourth season came when Norman killed Norma, unable to cope with his feelings. It remains heartbreaking for Norma as she had eventually found love and acceptance with Romero who vowed to prove Norman's culpability. The tone is set for the final season, which will see Norman go completely Psycho and will introduce Marion Crane (Rhianna) when it returns in 2017.

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Bones had a long run. Premiering in 2005, it is entering its 12th and final season in 2017. It has helped bring forensic anthropology into the forefront of television, with Dr. Temperance Brennan solving murders with Special Agent Seeley Booth. Science is always the key in several factors, including identifying the body, cause of death, and inadvertent clues left behind from the murderer. They aren't afraid to break out of their shell either. Episodes such as "The End in the Beginning" and "The 200th in the 10th" are in completely different realities that break the mold the show has created. The final season is set to premiere April 14, 2017.

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Grimm is a series that premiered on NBC on 28 October 2011, in time for Halloween. It is a procedural with a twist. It also incorporates fantasy into reality, specifically the monsters in the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. These monsters were given a name: Wesen (VEH-sen) which means creatures in German. The main character, Nick Burkhardt, a detective working for the Portland Police Department, is a descendant of the Brothers, thus when he came of age or when his Grimm sense was opened, he can see these creatures that no one else can. In the pilot, he is left a treasure trove of books on the Wesen community by his Aunt Marie, who died later on without explaining what he has to do. He reads the books and learns that he has to kill these creatures. But he comes to know Monroe, who is a Blutbad, a wolf-like Wesen, in one of his operations and they became fast friends because as he realized, not all of these Wesen are violent. He keeps his gift a secret for a while but eventually shared it with his friends in the police department and his girlfriend, Juliette.

It breaks my heart that aside from it being cut to 13 episodes and will be the last, it will premiere mid-season and not at their regular Halloween premiere. I've watched it since the pilot, through the promotion and "insistence" of Sean Hayes, one of the producers, in Twitter. It's a one-of-a-kind adventure, different than others in the sense that it manages to intertwine fantasy with reality and not just your regular I-woke-up-and-it-was-just-a-dream twining. It's real and that these creatures walk where we walk, hiding among us. I'm glad that before it ends, a Filipino monster made it to their Wesen list - the aswang - and it gave Reggie Lee, a Filipino who plays Sergeant Andrew Wu, time to shine. That episode will always be close to my heart, as we had endured stories of the aswang, as well as other Filipino monsters, when we were young, just like Wu. And it's the first time I didn't have to read subtitles when they were speaking another language. This is one of the shows I am going to miss when it ends, having reeled in my mum into watching it, too.

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In 2009 The Vampire Diaries stormed the small screen capitalizing on what was at the time a HUGE vampire craze. Introducing the Salvatore brothers and their obsession over a human teenage girl I don't think anyone expected the show to last 8 seasons. But last it did and it has given us laughter and tears, drama and doppelgangers (Oh all the doppelgangers), and not to mention a very successful spin off series "The Originals".

Fans all knew this would have to end, I mean the best make up in the world can't keep these teenage vampires looking young forever but despite it being inevitable the end has still caused devastation across the fandom. Now we find ourselves hoping that the end will bring us resolution. After 8 years of investment the show runners owe us that.

Personally I need Damon and Elena to end up together, awake, and yes I am fine with the sacrifices that this will entail. As for everyone else, well whilst there are a couple I would like to save, I'm pretty good with whatever. I know there will be tears, I know there will be heat break, but as all the Vampire Diaries fans know - this is what has made this show great .... well that and the music! Goodbye Vampire Diaries. It has been a good run and despite our story idea differences you will be missed.

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From the beginning of season 1 of Orphan Black you could see that a new Star had been found. Tatiana Maslany turned out to be a star waiting to be discovered. Playing as many as seven characters in Orphan Black you forgot that you were watching just one actress. You forgot that you were watching just one amazing person play several characters all with different personalities. They may have been clones but they were definitely all different.

Watching that first time Beth Childs looks to Sarah Manning with utter defeat and pain in her eyes just before she steps off that train platform even now is shocking. As Sarah looks on watching her newly discovered “twin” step in front of the train in total shock, you don’t even realize you are seeing the same actress there; they seemed like two different people. One is full of life the other is very much done with hers. As Sarah learned of the Clone Club by first posing as Beth, who is who had been a police officer, slowly realizing that there are more and more of her and they aren’t twins or triplets or even quadruplets, that they are clones. When she showed herself to actually be Sarah Manning with her still living clones and learning that there is a conspiracy around them, you lose yourself more and more to the story.

First you have Dyad and Helena after the clones for one reason or another. Then you have the Castor clones. The fourth season saw Helena as a full part of the clones' lives while she expects twins, M.K. coming into the clones' lives, and working hard to find a cure for Cosima. In the 4th season we saw Beth in the days before she died, as she learned more about the clones, led them, followed M.K., and threw herself from that platform.

Meeting her brother Felix or Fee as he is known also shows us an amazing new actor. Jordan Garvais play’s Sarah’s adoptive brother. He is loyal to her and her daughter. He also plays a male character who loves others males, with dignity respect and honor from the first day and gives us a breath of relief in a rather dark show. Even with the struggles in season 4 to find an identity and a family for himself; he is amazing. Slowly Sarah learns to rely not just on herself but on her clones and her family around her, even if her family was chosen and not made. She grows up, learns to take responsibility for her actions, and starts placing others before her. She may have lost her way in season 4 but she has found it again. Season 5 may be the last for Orphan Black but it will not be a show soon forgotten. If you have yet to see Orphan Black I highly suggest you catch up on the first 4 seasons before the new season starts. I am lucky enough to get to say that last night Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy for best actress in a drama series. The listing for her nomination is telling. Maslany was nominated for playing Sarah, Beth, Cosima, Alison, Helena, M.K., Rachel, and Krystal. All very different characters and yet all played by one talented actress.

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For the past 7 years, fans everywhere have loved being part of the most messed up town in America - Rosewood. The Liars broke all the rules of horror movies (going places alone, letting phones die, not turning on the lights - I mean, come on!), and yet multiple "A's" have been unsuccessful in ruining their lives.

I've honestly never watched a show with as may plot twists as Pretty Little Liars, and that has me really excited (oddly) to see the show come to an end. First, I love that they're going out on such a high note. They didn't drag things out until there was no interest and fans were left disappointed.

I'm really excited because there are so many fan theories that could actually be quite accurate, and the buzz around finally finding out who A.D. is, and how things will turn out for the Liars, is going to be incredible. I have to say this is probably one of the most bittersweet endings to a series that I'm going to experience, and I cannot wait for all of the answers coming in a few months!

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