The Riches Season 1 Episode 13

The Riches came with an interesting finale. Just like the play "Waiting For Godot", the episode made us wait for something, at least a conclusion of a tiny subject. But nothing happened. The title was an allusion to many things. Doug's arrival for Pete, conclusion for us, and Dale for the Malloys. And only one happened, and then it went away, and it came back.





Anyway, back to the episode. It was on everybody's mind about what would Pete do to Wayne after finding out the truth. He was pretty angry, and he wanted to learn about everything. At that point, when Wayne took Pete back to home, we could see the characteristics of both Wayne and Dahlia. Dahlia wanted to slip something into the drink and finish t as fast as possible, but Wayne cared about Pete and didn't want to leave Eden Falls.





Needles to say, they followed Wayne's plan, and although Wayne tried many ways, something went wrong and Pete understood that he was being lied again.





Pete is a character that was painful to watch him suffer. He was being lied all the time. He was going to commit suicide because Dahlia made a phone call and talked about how Doug hated Pete. And after all the things (including being under the stress of having a gun pointed at your head and your best friend's disappearing), he thought that the solution was Dale, we thought like that, too... Still, Dale whacked him hard.





The episode was pretty serious, but it had its funny moments like Wayne pretending to be an agent and singing "Amazing Grace". But it was sad to watch the situation of the family. Di Di didn't want to leave but left unwillingly, Sam painted over his masterpiece and then the family finding out that Dale sabotaged the car.





The episode would be at its best as a normal episode, but as a season finale, it gave us nothing than wondering what will happen. I like cliffhangers, but the finale gave us a lot of them ("Lost"s season finale cliffhangers are bearable, by the way, at least they inform us about things that are unresolved), Hugh's marriage, the family's departure, Pete, Dale and Aubrey... It was too much for some people.





I just hope that they can bring a fine conclusion (I know that they will, but they have adjourning the Aubrey-thing for many episodes) and we can all be happy again...