NCIS 9×23– “Up in Smoke”: As I said last week, I don’t care for these multi-episode arcs. Didn’t they do the same sort of thing last year in the eps leading up to the finale with that serial killer storyline? It’s just so boring because these temporary characters that we can’t possibly care about (even if it is Toby Ziegler this time around) take over the screen dominate the hour with their dumb plots against the entire Navy (and Gibbs too!). And do any viewers even care that Vance has been kidnapped? He hasn’t been in the past few episodes, and I can’t say that I’ve missed him. If he never returned again, would the show suffer? No, so why should I be concerned over this stupid “twist”? Thank god the season ends next week.

Cougar Town 3×11 — “Down South”: I liked Grayson trying to figure out a catchphrase for when he shuts down his bar. That seems like something he would do, and he failed miserably at it (as expected). But I HATED the Laurie/Travis stuff. I cannot stand Dan Byrd’s character on this show (I have felt from the first episode that he’s the weakest link), and think he and Laurie have ZERO chemistry. It doesn’t make sense for them to be together, but I guess the writes are determined to make it happen. Sigh.

Criminal Minds 7×22 — “Profiling 101″: This episode was kind of boring, but at least I didn’t have to watch some random unsub the whole time. I wish this show would get back to its roots, which is profiling. When was the last time the team came up with an interesting profile beyond the “white male, 30-40 years old, etc.”? Remember in Season 1 when Gideon predicted one of the killers would have a limp??? Now THAT was a profile! These days it seems that nothing differentiates the killers except their motive — and that’s not very interesting at all.

Castle 4×23 — “Always”: The ONLY part of this episode that I was interested in was the Castle/Beckett hookup at the end, so I barely paid attention to the stuff that came before. As a longtime shipper, I have to say that this was a satisfactory resolution to all the UST that has built up over the years. Plus, I liked that Castle pushed her away at first and that she apologized before he haltingly accepted her. Both of those things needed to be done, because where Castle was at earlier in the episode, he wouldn’t have just accepted her with no questions asked. I still think this whole thing came way, WAY too late, but at least they’ve done the deed (presumably, since they seemed to be walking off towards the bedroom there) and now everyone can move on.

I haven’t read any speculation or spoilers for Season 5, but I wouldn’t be too upset if Beckett opened her own investigation agency instead of going back to the force. Ryan and Esposito could be her connection to all the fancy equipment and police databases, and then she and Castle could still work cases together without straining the whole “research” concept.

The Good Wife 3×22 –”The Dream Team:” This finale was pretty disappointing, IMO. I am not really interested in Kalinda’s big, bad husband, and I’m getting tired of the firm always teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. That has been a running theme for three seasons now, and it’s just kind of annoying at this point. Can’t they find some other source of “conflict” for the firm? I did like Patty Nyholm teaming up with Canning, though. That provided some comic relief in an episode where not much actually seemed to happen.

Peter’s testimony at the deposition was pretty good, though I’m not sure why the fact that he and Alicia are separated would automatically erase suspicions about him trying to influence the judge. Couldn’t his alleged actions simply be construed as an attempt to win Alicia back?? I can understand the lawsuit coming to a grinding halt if Peter and Alicia were divorced. But just being separated doesn’t seem like a big enough bombshell. Guess it doesn’t matter in the end since it was all “misdirection” anyway.

NCIS 9×22– “Playing with Fire”: I dislike these multi-episode arcs because I think the writers don’t do them very well. I’m not invested in this storyline at all, so whenever the focus was on the saboteur, I was flipping through different apps on my phone. I didn’t pay attention to that stuff AT ALL. I only looked up when Ducky was talking about his will (strange, since the actor is slated to appear for two more seasons) and when Ziva was giving Tony a hard time about her stupid pilates weekend with her landlord (and, really, WTF was that all about???). Zzzzzz….when is the season over?!

Cougar Town 3×10 — “Southern Accents”: There weren’t really a lot of laughs for me in this one. I’m glad to see that Andy will be given something substantial to do (he really would make a good mayor!), and I like the fact that Grayson’s baby mama (I don’t know here name yet) will be around more frequently. The Cul-de-sac crew could certainly use some new blood! Plus, Travis had a good point about Jill’s mother basically being like a young, struggling Jules when she first became a mother. It’ll be interesting to see where this storyline goes.

Criminal Minds 7×21 — “Divining Rod”: I don’t think I understood this episode. Was the wife somehow implicated as being the one manipulating the shuttle driver into becoming obsessed with her? That didn’t make much sense at all, but that’s what I was led to believe based on the fact that the driver denied having any knowledge of the 1001 Nights quote — which was supposedly used in his fan letters to the original serial killer. But if it was the wife pulling the strings all along, why did she bother faking fan letters from the shuttle driver??? And how did she manage to get him to kill women as some sort of sick tribute to her husband?? It was just too confusing and weird….