EPISODE
SEASON
Season 5 opens with Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons preparing to face off in court after a cyber-hacker's revelations about insider trading expose damaging personal information that push an informant over the edge.
9 June 1977, Norway
8 August 1977, Rocky River, Ohio, USA
1 April 1972, New York City, New York, USA
30 March 1974, Iran
6 April 1970, Michigan, USA
15 February 1973, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
17 July 1954, Los Angeles County, California, USA
8 August 1949, San Mateo, California, USA
24 November 1964, Castro Valley, California, USA
30 September 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
July 11, 2012
There's a clear focus to these first two hours auguring what could be a truly whiz-bang finish.July 11, 2012
The Patty Hewes story is almost over, and in Close's hands, it's still compulsively watchable.July 11, 2012
If Glenn Close does not get an Emmy nomination for the series finale of Damages, the folks at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences need to relinquish their clickers.July 11, 2012
Judging from the first couple episodes, this final season may be the show's strongest since the first.July 11, 2012
Damages endgame is on, and so far it's a doozy.July 11, 2012
This plotting may seem tangled on paper, but the show's time-skipping narrative is surprisingly easy to follow.July 11, 2012
It spins a dark and compelling story that now has seemingly come down to a survival duel between two women lawyers.July 11, 2012
Damages has never tried to be anything other than what it is, and while the quality of the show overall has been uneven since the first season, its basic architecture hasn't changed at all.