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Cast: Melissa Benoist, Chyler Leigh, Katie McGrath, Jesse Rath, Nicole Maines, Azie Tesfai, Julie Gonzalo, Staz Nair, Peta Sergeant, David Harwood, Jon Cryer, Brenda Strong, Sharon Leal, Claude Knowlton, Jason Behr, Matt Baram, Jhaleil Swaby, Mila Jones, Calista Flockhart, Mechad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan, Chris Wood, Helen Slater.

There are finales that leave you breathless, there are finales that make you question your beliefs, and there are endings in which the length of time invested in a particular television series leaves you understandably devastated by its removal from your timetable and television schedule that it can hit you like a bereavement, not of the physical, but of the declared love you have shown it.