I'm going to watch the finale because I've seen the rest of the season, but I must say that DA has completely jumped the shark.
I still liked it but they did kind of blow off the scandals like the rape and Edith being pregnant without the father of her child around. I'm thinking about how they handled Ethel Parks giving her son up to the grandparents after realizing that she could no longer care for him. I broke down in tears when that kid was waving to her out the back window of the car. That season was stellar.
Heart wrenching...
These things were kind of glossed over this season. The clothes were very beautiful this year though.
I can buy a rape during those times being swept under the carpet. I think it would have been more realistic for Edith and her aunt to have traveled and left the baby with a foreign couple as the aunt originally suggested. Edith became sort of whiny about it all, but she is heartbroken after losing her love, and perhaps sees being able to glimpse the child on occasion as a way to keep him alive.