Much of my favorite TV programming is coming to an end for the season.  It's challenging, I must admit - an abrupt end to a storyline in which I have devoted much of my evenings getting attached.  Albeit drama, reality, or some other weekly goodness I won't admit, it's all coming to an end for another season.  Izzy and George (Grey's Anatomy) may be dead, Jack (24), clearly can't die, because he is the show - but his "imminent death" is implied... God only knows what's going to happen on American Idol tomorrow... and Dancing with the Stars. The good news about these finale's is that they always come back - often times with a better storyline than the season before.  Assuming the producers learn from their mistakes in the previous seasons, they enrich the content for next time...

If that aint a parallel to life, I don't know what is.  My most recent season was full of challenge, questions, experiences, love and discovery.  There was drama - because no good season is without, and there was understanding. But alas, the long-awaited, inevitable, screeching halt came.  My season finale was full of emotion, tears, and learning.  And then it was over.  The cast and crew is a little sad, the audience is still in shock, and the producers... well they are getting ready for a possible season two. Season one was for learning... they picked up some good pointers along the way, understand what the episodes need and don't need, and have come to an agreement as to what will make the series the most successful.

The off season will be good.  The off season is needed.  It wil be a time to gather thoughts, reflect, grow, experiment and regroup.  So now the producers will sit back, and take note as to what the other episodes are doing in this new season, what's working... what's not, and add their own little creative twist to season two of their one-of-a-kind series they lovingly refer to as "Life."