That season finale was yet another dumpster fire. I'm not even sorry to write this. Whoever let Kristen Reidel ruin yet another season finale should leave the show immediately with her. This 43 minutes were really hard to swallow if you watch this show since the very beginning. It felt like a lot happened but nothing happened at the same time.
This season once again individual storylines were really questionable (the doppelganger) and there wasn't a single light episode in the second half of the season. I am in the camp of people who still hate the Madney wedding episode and how it had more Doug than Maddie. Why? I won't mention Buck and Tommy here , because that character does not work for me at all and i hate every single wasted moment with this pairing. The bi Buck arc is one of my biggest disappointments of this season and i REALLY don't want to see more of Tommy. Sorry Tim Minear.
Now to my favorites the Diaz Family: I don't even know what to say. I'll start at the beginning. The first arc with Chris two-timing (or possibly more) the girls I felt was actually a great way to introduce the Diaz family to the new viewers on ABC and bring up what Shannon meant to both Eddie and Christopher. Almost every other storyline fell short. I hate that they had Eddie make fast friends with Tommy in one episode only to completely drop it once Buck started dating him but it's clear now that Eddie was only being used as a plot device (and buddie bait) in that storyline. Two episodes later showed us he was pretty neutral or negative toward the guy he was ditching his girlfriend multiple times a week to hang out with less than a month before. Speaking of Marisol, the nun thing made me laugh for like a second but other than that it did nothing but spark a catholic guilt storyline that didn't go anywhere when he starts emotional cheating on her a few episodes later. The moving in/out thing was again unnecessary. Then there's the Kim of it all. I like Devin but not enough for them to bring her back for this. I realize Tim thinks he made a mistake killing her off, but like, she's been dead for five years you have to let your writing regrets go at some point. Personally, I would have loved a delayed exploration of their grief over Shannon. If they just did it well. Instead it was a two (or maybe three?) Episode arc just to make Christopher mad enough at Eddie to go live with his grandparents possibly permanently? That is so screwed up and erases pretty much all progress Eddie and Ramon have made in the last few seasons. Anyway I super hate what they've been doing with Eddie, especially when Eddie's breakdown was one of the only good storylines in season 5 so to pretty much ignore all the progress that he made that season Is super pointless.
That being written the only thing that would make me watch Season 8 is if they finally give us the coming out storyline of Eddie Diaz, because if this season has proved one thing, than that Ryan Guzman is an excellent actor and he even can turn very little into very much.