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The Week in Gay TV: Finales for "Supernatural," "Glee," "Happy Endings" and more!

It's time for The Week in Gay TV, your look at the week ahead and the shows that will be battling for space on your DVR. This week, we're going to see more shows wrap up as the TV season comes to a close. That includes a big Supernatural battle, a Glee excursion to New York and a Happy Endings wedding.



"Just think of it, a whole summer with no new episodes full of our hotness."

Friday we see the last of the Winchester brothers for the season when Supernatural wraps things up with a two-hour finale. It starts when a demon kidnaps Dean's family, which is the kind of crisis bound too leave him in an unconventional alliance. That leads into a climax that sees the war in heaven peak just as Sam loses control of all those walls placed in his head when Castiel restored his soul.

While this season has suffered from insufficient levels of Misha Collins (I know, Castiel was supposed to be busy leading a revolt in heaven) this one had the kind of pacing that made earlier Supernatural seasons compelling. I'm eager to see how all this wraps in a way i never felt about last season's apocalypse.

Friday also sees ABC News' Primetime: What Would You Do? wrap up its fourth season with another gay segment. This time, the cameras will capture what happens when a waitress refuses to wait on a pair of gay parents. This segment was filmed in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch which David N warns us is a very conservative area.  Still, What Would You Do? seems to rely on a formula where the crowd initially disappoints, only for your faith in other people to be reaffirmed before the segment is all over.

Finally, NBC has a new Friday Night Lights as Vince deals with his past and Luke learns what's really going on with Texas Methodist University.


With New Directions about to head off to New York for Nationals and a new Glee reality series getting ready to debut, Oxygen celebrates with another Gleekend Marathon. In addition to airing 13 hours of Glee on Saturday, the twelve competitors of The Glee Project will get a spotlight  and the first Glee Project music video for "Firework" (which, it turns out, sounds pretty good if you actually sing it instead of autotuning it to extremes).

The marathon features the most recent episodes, from Kurt's first day at Dalton to the appalling episode where Blaine questioned his sexuality (I hoped we could forget that), that incredibly gay prom episode and wrapping with last week's touching funeral.  That should be a good warm-up for Tuesday's finale.


Oh goody, the costume budgets didn't include enough money for shirts.

The newest Syfy Original Movie delivers a clash of the cultures' contribution to the public domain with Sinbad & the Minotaur. The movie sees the hero from Scheherazade's tales seeking treasure and finding himself on an island with the legendary bull-headed beast, as well as the king who had the labyrinth built.

Saturday also brings a new Doctor Who, the beginning of a two-part adventure that sees doppelgangers on earth. That's followed by a new episode of The Graham Norton Show with Jennifer Hudson, k.d. lang and comedian Bill Bailey.


Arnett and Tambor with Peter Serafinowicz.

Meanwhile, fx has the series finale of Running Wilde which delivers a bit of an Arrested Development reunion when Jeffrey Tambor appears as Steve's oil exec father, who has underlying motives when he asks Emmy to lead an oil spill's cleanup. I ended up liking Running Wilde a lot more than I expected and I'm eager to see Tambor playing Will Arnett's dad again, but I don't think I'm going to miss it.

Finally, NBC has Justin Timberlake hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live with Lady Gaga as the musical guest, while Logo has a new Pretty Hurts that sees Rand step back into the dating pool.


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