Season 5 opens with Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons preparing to face off in court after a cyber-hacker's revelations about insider trading expose damaging personal information that push an informant over the edge.
Damages has never tried to be anything other than what it is, and while the quality of the show overall has been uneven since the first season, its basic architecture hasn't changed at all.
If Glenn Close does not get an Emmy nomination for the series finale of Damages, the folks at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences need to relinquish their clickers.