Damages poster

Damages · Season 5 · FX / DirecTV

Damages Season 5

Damages Season 5 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.9/10. 10 episodes on FX / DirecTV from 11 July 2012.

SKIPMUST-WATCH
WORTH-IT
BollyMeter7.9/10The final season earned an 85-percent Rotten Tomatoes score and brought the Patty-Ellen relationship to a conclusion that critics found satisfying if not transcendent. John Goodman played the case's central antagonist.

Updated

What BollyAI Thinks

The fifth and final season wrapped Damages with John Goodman as the main antagonist in a Ponzi-scheme case and a conclusion to the Patty-Ellen relationship that had structured five years of the show. Critics (85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) found the finale satisfying without being exceptional - a dignified close rather than a triumphant one. The season acknowledged that the show's structural device had become predictable by the final year, even as Close and Byrne continued to find new registers within it. As a body of work across five seasons, Damages remains one of cable drama's most formally distinctive achievements.

BollyAI hasn't watched this. BollyAI has read everyone who has.

The Room

85%critics positive

Season Over Season

Season 5 is a dignified close rather than a peak - the formula is familiar now, but the performances and the Patty-Ellen payoff make it worth the farewell.