(PEOPLE) actor Ben Hardy

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(TV) "How to Get Away With Murder" season finale

Getting emotional here, with four of my favorite series airing their season finales in one week ... but this was the one I thought would be most "pee your pants" worthy.  Again, the mystery/court case itself, for Annalise and company - involving a pastor who's killed another pastor many thought were about to expose him - took a backseat to the biggest mystery of the entire season: Who Killed Lila?  Was it Sam, already seen as guilty and even "punished" for the crime?  Rebecca, already acquitted of the murder, but who's told so many lies, you wouldn't believe her if she said she needed to use the toilet?

True to creator Peter Nowalk's word (he also wrote the finale), we indeed found out who the killer was - and they did it right, by showing viewers instead of trying to get us to rely on what anyone said (impossible to do, as we're talking a mega-cast of mega-expert liars, here).  Not sure, for me, if the reveal was a "cheers" or "jeers" moment, but it certainly fit - and though the "shocker" that came after, in literally the final minute of the show, wasn't that big a surprise to me (it was actually what I'd been hoping would happen for many - many - episodes now), it put an excellent cap on everything that left for a very satisfying conclusion ... and, God knows, opened up a hornet's nest of questions already churning for season two.

(BOOKS) JACKABY - William Ritter

My favorite novel from last year - and one of my favorite novels, period - is available today only on Amazon Kindle for just $1.99.  Labeled a "book for young readers", if all kid or YA fiction read like this, I'd never read anything else.  Like Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Who?  Here's your chance to find out, if they could have a kid together, what their son would be like.  Brilliant book.  A+

(PEOPLE) Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): "Adieu, Paris."

I know for many, Leonard Simon Nimoy - actor, director, writer, artist, photographer, scholar, and U.S. veteran - will always be thought of as Mr. Spock from the "Star Trek" universe.  But for me, I was enamored of him as Paris from one of my very favorite shows as a kid (and to this day), "Mission: Impossible" - a series that fired up my imagination like few did back then and, I feel, fed my earliest desires to write.  He was so smooth, so slick as Paris, and while I have never considered myself exactly a 'Trekker,' in the years since there was always something so magnetic about Nimoy - in anything he did - that I've always followed his career (he even directed my favorite of the films from the original "Trek" franchise, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).  And though it only lasted about sixty seconds, I think it was around 1997 or so when I had the total pleasure of meeting Nimoy myself, just by chance during the intermission of a play at the Coronet Theater on La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, when I didn't even know he was in the audience.  He was reserved yet generous, taking a stroll with his wife but still kind enough to sign an autograph and accept praise from a fan.  Will never forget it ... and just wanted to say thank you, Paris, for all those impossible missions - and impossible inspirations - you made seem possible.  May you always live long, and prosper, in a better place than this.

(TV) "Death in Paradise" series 4 finale

Sadly, another year of the BBC series "Death in Paradise" has drawn to a close.  So stoked their WILL be a series five (!) - it just always seems so long a wait!  The finale was strong, even if it did sacrifice a bit on the mystery in favor of revealing more of Humphrey and his stormy relationship with his father.  Not many television series could survive such huge shakeups of changes in the lead actors as "DiP" has in the last couple of years - but the show continues to be stronger than ever, with brilliant writing and characters that you not only grow to care deeply about, but whom you also wish you had as friends.  And this year, with sweeping camera angels revealing more of the beauty of the fictional Saint Marie island, more than ever it seems an idyllic place (well, except for all the murders) you'd probably love calling home.  One of the few television shows that, if I were stranded on a desert island, I'd want with me.

(TV) Tonight on CBS: "The Victoria's Secret Swim Special"

Or, how to simultaneously rot out your brain, lower your IQ, and lose an hour of your life you will never, ever get back.

(TV) "How to Get Away with Murder" season finale (ABC)

Television's best new series closes its season one tonight with a two-hour finale that, frankly, looks pretty freaking EPIC.

(MUSIC) "The End" - Kris Leone

(MUSIC) "Too Very So Much" - MYNAME

(MUSIC) "Sniper" - Shinhwa

(FILM) James Wan

One of my all-time favorite writers/filmmakers - and he has been since I first saw Saw in a theater - turns 38 today.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES WAN.

(TV) A Match Made in Heaven (or maybe hell?)

Lady Gaga joins the cast of season five (and reveals the full title) of "American Horror Story: Hotel".  Now this is something even Armageddon couldn't keep me from watching.

(TV) "Sleepy Hollow" season finale

With a season of ups and downs, where the series faltered and lost its way for a bit, the season two finale of "Sleepy Hollow" was a happy and fulfilling - even thrilling - surprise.  Sadly, it also felt too much like a series finale; as if the writers and producers, unsure if the show was coming back for a third season, cared enough about viewers to not leave them hanging.  But fingers crossed for a season three - because this finale proved these are characters we want to stay with for a long time, yet.

(MUSIC) "Uyir Poo"

Been following Dinesh on FB for awhile now, as he's been putting tracks together.  Love this one, so haunting.  Feels like it should be playing over the opening credits of a James Bond film.

(PEOPLE) model Chris Gustin

In case you're having a rough day.

(TV) Will & Grace, Together Again

Check out who's guest-starring on this week's episode of "The Mysteries of Laura" (Wednesday, NBC).

(MUSIC) The Best Dance Tune You Will Never Understand the Lyrics To

Warning: I am obsessed with all things Korean.  Get used to it now.

(FILM) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Is it me, or does this new, "official" poster for the upcoming film look like it might benefit from a shot of Ritalin?

(FILM) Oscar Gets It Right

And the (well-deserved) Oscar goes to ...

JK Simmons for Whiplash

Patricia Arquette for Boyhood

Julianne Moore for Still Alice

Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything

(TV) It Takes a Village ...

So, the verdict has been read, justice for two young women has finally been served ... and people can stop bitching about series two of "Broadchurch".  Personally, while I can see why some were let down by the second series, I for one was in many ways happy with it.  I'd wondered how they would do series two, figuring it would just be another new murder and subsequent investigation - but the show took the hard way out, a gamble, in having the killer who was caught (and even confessed) at the end of series one plead "not guilty" at the last minute, throwing the entire small town into chaos.  For me, this season was about the court system, how the defense twisted facts and raised doubts in the jurors' minds, even as the entire gallery of those watching the trial - the residents of Broadchurch - absolutely knew the defendant's guilt.  I found that aspect fascinating.  The second storyline, the mystery of the dead Pippa and missing Lucy, was indeed less successful, mainly (I feel) because - unlike season one - you weren't given time to know the involved parties enough to care all that much about what happened to them (Lee and Claire, particularly).  So while yes, not as strong as series one, I do sort of wish people would lay off series two; the writers tried something different, and it both worked and didn't - get over it!  Having read that ITV is doing a series three, it should be interesting to see how the writers may learn from mistakes made in series two ... while still making the tale as engrossing as series one.  (Note: series two premieres on BBC America March 4th.  Beware, spoilers abound in the preview below, if you haven't seen series one!).

(PEOPLE) Viola Davis Has It Covered

The coolest lady in primetime, Viola Davis, is the cover story of this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly.  This, alone, is reason to buy it (decent story), but there's also an early Fall TV Preview, and - if you haven't had enough already (God forbid) - more Fifty Shades hype.

(TV) Oscar goes Gaga

Okay, so "Bad Romance" came out and I was in love with Lady Gaga.  That song and "Paparazzi" are still my favorites.  But soon meat dresses and bizarre behavior/quotes and questionable makeup and wardrobe choices put me off totally.  Then came the Oscars, when Da Gaga brought back a chunk of the old-style glamour the Oscars used to have with a voice I, for one, didn't know she possessed, doing a medley from "The Sound of Music".  She looked great, with hair, makeup and wardrobe toned way down, and even more than the accomplished performance, her emotional reaction to the standing ovation she received was so moving; so real.  So I am back on the Gaga train now, hoping she keeps it toned down and lets the music speak for itself again ... because this performance, Oscar night, was magical.