Posted by Dustin on 08.10.2009 at 8:27 pm

So this weekend was the “Dirty Sexy Money” finale. I loved this show, but I hated the way things were left. For those who missed it, you can catch it online at ABC.com. I’ll quickly summarize what happened.

Nola headed to China to rescue her brother after Simon was stabbed and stuck recuperating at the Darlings. She told Jeremy, who proposed, that she wasn’t coming back. Jeremy ended up going to Vegas with some girl (who I think just worked for Tripp, I don’t know who she was) and they got married. When Nola had a change of heart and returned to be with him, oops too late!

Patrick ended up in a love triangle with a gay senator and his wife. Well the husband liked Patrick, while he liked the wife and was determined to be with her, even though the senetor demanded he stop seeing his wife. Patrick promised her that he would do what it took for them to be together.

Lisa signed a deal to write a tell-all book about the Darlings, which infuriated Nick. She tried to win him back, and when Karen saw her kiss him, she got upset and fell down the steps, losing Simon’s baby. Nick however chose her, telling Lisa it was too late for them, and he wanted to be with Karen.

Brian remolded Nick’s apartment with Letitia’s help. He was living with Nick as the wife kicked him out after it seemed Brian slept with his ex-wife while on a business trip (I don’t think he did, but I’m not sure).

The big shocker was when Simon spilled the beans to Nick, assuring him he was not the bad guy here, and he was being controlled. He began to tell Nick everything, how this all began. He was a student of Nola’s father, and it was her father that came up with the bio-fuel. The father wanted to share it with Simon, going into business 50/50. Simon got greedy and framed him for sedition, hid Nola’s little brother and used her to his advantage. However when Trip hired Dutch to dig up dirt on Simon, that’s when Dutch found out Simon stole the bio-fuel. Dutch was the one who was controlling Simon, he forced him to have Nola prosecute Letitia for his murder. Yup, Dutch is alive and out there somewhere!

And thus, this is how it ended and how we were left.

Infuriated doesn’t begin to describe how I’m feeling! I am at least happy we got confirmation that Dutch was alive, something many of us began to figure out. However to be left with some of those cliffhangers and never knowing how things will play out . . . Grr! I especially hated how things were left with Lisa feeling all high and mighty. They really turned her into a real . . . witch . . . and I could easily have seen her being knocked off in the third season.

I loved this show, it was one of my favorite shows of the past year. It was a great guilty pleasure. It was also a breath of fresh air from the million and one reality shows, Law and Orders and CSIs dominating the airwaves. However these days if the show doesn’t fit into a formula already existing, it seems its chances of surviving aren’t good. It makes me not wanna invest in new shows this fall, because everything I like never seems to survive!