Dead of Summer comes to an end with this season finale, which turned out to be a series finale, entitled “She Talks to Angels” and in it the story closed with what I thought was a good ending.

There weren’t many flashbacks in this episode and that contributed to make it great. In an episode that intends to end a story (since a second season would have begun a new one) the focus should always be in the present. And I liked the fact that the flashbacks weren’t, as in previous episodes, a continuing storyline: we simply saw 4 flashback scenes unrelated to each other. Out of the three, my favorite one was Garrett’s because it was a bit emotional and also was the only one which seemed to have a connection with the present. I also liked Jessie’s because we got to see her sticking up to her mother, which she definitely deserves.

In present day, while the survivors were trying to finally leave Camp Stillwater, Garrett’s car broke down. Amy explained that Holyoke put the last piece of his soul inside Jessie, so while both powerful and opposing sides are still breathing, none of them can leave the camp. Amy soon advertised she was always evil and she has Malphas inside her, and I think this was another proof of how much of a psychopath she is. She could have pretended for a few more seconds, got close to Jessie and kill her right away, but she didn’t. Excluding the fact that this happened because the writers wanted to make 10 episodes instead of 9, we can see that she was so sure she could kill them all and get out, that she could tell them anything and even give them time to run.

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A cat and mouse game began soon in the episode and this was really nice to watch. Made the episode very intense. In an anthology show, every season finale is kind of a series finale, so we really never know who will make it out alive, since no matter if their character die or not, the actors can still always return for another season. This episode really shows that, because it was made obvious that it was either Jessie or Amy, and blood would shed before any of two were dead. And if we consider this was what the writers promised, they totally delivered.

One good thing about this was that it brought out the good in some people, especially Alex, who sacrificed himself so that Jessie could get away, hoping that would buy her some time to run and come out with a plan. This was a great scene and it had even more impact because it was placed after a flashback between Alex and his mom, in which she called him weak. Well, he wasn’t in the end. Garrett was also suffered a casualty in the episode, but even after he died, he managed to help Jessie.

After Blair and Drew came back, the four made a plan and were able to trap Amy using the last pure water in the camp. Garrett managed to play Holyoke’s song (which was recorded in Joel’s camera by accident) and that weakened the demon, allowing Jessie to kill it and with it, Amy. In the end, Jessie, Drew and Blair got out of Camp Stillwater (definitely hoping they would never had to return), and started living what seemed like a good life.

Overall, this was a good show, which had a premature end. It starts off a bit slow, but gets more intense episode after episode. These final few were really intense episodes and also full of unexpected twists. I just think this season finale would have had more impact if Amy managed to kill everyone and got out of there, spreading evil and destruction onto the world.

But anyway, it had a good ending, a happy one, and this tenth episode was definitely great. I am giving it a 9.5/10.

It is now time to say goodbye to Dead of Summer. As I said some times (hope I am not being very repetitive), but this was really a great summer show, which could have had a good future. But it is never a good thing to be sad about the past all the time. Even though it could have had more seasons, it didn’t, but we still have this one and no one will ever take that away.