The Closer Last Rites

The ending of the show was one of Kyra best performance. Spoiler below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/the-closer-brendas-father-cancer-sudden-tragedy-video_n_1722456.html

http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/07/the-closer-review-just-one-minute/

Although I saw the last minutes of "Last Rites" coming somewhere around the halfway mark of the hour, the impact of what occured wasn't obscured by the foreboding. Not in the least. If anything, Kyra Sedgwick's incredible response brought me to tears.

Sedgwick is such an incredible, emotional actress that you have to wonder how much of her was feeling not only Brenda Leigh's pain, but her own pain at the loss of her alter ego. Surely playing those last minutes drove home that the end was near and she'd be saying goodbye to a character that had become intrinsically linked to herself.