Lost Girl, Season 5 (2014)

Bo & Co have saved the world a bunch of times, but the last time cost her deeply.  She's determined to rectify that; but (surprise!) her 'at all costs' determination may lead to the emergence of even worse threats.  It's enough to get a Succubus down, even before she has to deal with her dysfunctional family life and ever-more-complicated relationship situation.  Will Bo manage to get on an even keel before all her ship sink?

Season five of Lost Girl was originally announced as another standard 13-episode entry, but six months later, right around the time that production would have been at full tilt, it was announced that this would be the final season, an would be extended by an additional 3 episodes.

That's not the best timing.  The writing staff clearly had to scramble to re-structure the final season as two 8-episode parts.  I say clearly, because the structure and character actions / motivations this season are something of a mess.  Bad guys are introduced, re-positioned as possible allies, flipped to villains, killed off, un-killed, switched to being allies with no clear motivation, and then dumped so the show can focus on the newer-and-nastier Big Bad who is hateful for all the wrong reasons, and who will be defeated in the least climactic climax this show has ever had, and since this show is about a succubus, it has had a lot of ... nah, too easy.

Anyway. season five is simultaneously overly-long and slow-moving and also overstuffed with content that doesn't get a chance to breathe and have impact.  Plots race to conclusion or go in circles.  Sometimes both!

Also, Kenzi is only in a handful of episodes, and despite Rachel Skarsten's brave efforts to have Tamsin fill her shoes despite the ever-more-awful plotlines they keep throwing at her, the show never really recovers from her absence.

If you've solidly enjoyed Lost Girl thus far, then you might want to follow through to the end and Bo's final fate.  If you're at all on the fence about it, though, maybe give this one a miss and make do with the season 4 ending, which has a lot more emotional weight.