Why is the fosters ending
THE FOSTERS Series Finale Explained (Season 5 Finale Recap)
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so fosters has officially come to a
close and set up for the spin-off good
trouble so let's break it down one last
time right here on what happened what's
going on everyone Lisa here and it is a
bitter day for this episode of what
happened this is my last recap for the
Fosters and I'm honestly going to try to
stay composed if you've been a fan on my
channel for a while then you know I've
been right there interviewing the cast
of this show since day one it was one of
my favorite sets to always go to because
everyone was so sweet and I actually
just really loved this show and I'm
excited to see where everyone goes from
there are from here but that's why I
kind of have a real attachment to this
show because I've watched this cast grow
up before my eyes for the past five
years now as a finale I think this was
actually a pretty good one sometimes
finales just stink and even when they do
these special episodes they try to do
too much I think this final episode was
actually a really good one
now sure there were probably some
questions you had that weren't answered
and it wasn't one of those finales where
they decided to shove every person who's
ever been on the show back in it was
just simple dramatic satisfying and for
me beautiful I think the only main
question unanswered question I probably
have is where exactly did AJ go did he
not get adopted by Mike did he go live
with his brother did I miss something
there I feel like last we heard he he
was gonna go live with his brother but
then he just vanished
but other than that these finale
episodes a five-year time jump so you
can basically imagine that all the past
characters you've seen have gone on
grown up gone off with their own lives
no I won't lie I did tear up quite a few
times during this finale I mean okay so
I didn't use all of these but you get
the point right I'm sure some of you had
to bust out some Kleenex for this thing
and one of the reasons there were some
tears is there are a ton of flashback
montages because it's the series finale
you got to relive the moments that we
had on the show so we get to see the
evolution of rally the evolution of Stef
and Lena as well as the moms with the
kids but you know what
Sene really made me conjure up the most
tears it was towards the end of the
episode with Jude Callie and Stef and
Lena like that scene just really brought
it home for me and just had me like uh
it was like the core of really what the
Fosters is the whole family just very
much an emotional episode so uh let's
just go ahead and start talking about
this finale and for those of you who
just want to know right now whether the
wedding happened or not it indeed
happened so last episode left us with
the cliffhanger of Callie walking to
someone's door and Brandon getting up to
answer his door
well I'm sorry Brawley fans but Callie
ended up going to Jamie's door and Emma
was that Brandon's door yes Emma now at
first I was like WTF what is she doing
here but then I realized that Brendan
and Hasty's were sharing a hotel room so
that's why she went to that specific
room anyway that is how the episode
kicks off before I get to all their
drama though let's talk about Stefan
Lena because they have quite the
hilarious and embarrassing storyline
this episode they're sitting on the
beach talking about how the kids are
growing up so fast and if Lena should
run for State Assembly Lena then tells
stuff that she's decided to not run but
somewhere they are running to is into
the ocean for a midnight skinny-dipping
session and it is a cute adorable love
fest until one of the hotel workers
obviously does not hear or see them in
the water and picks up the robes yeah
and that is not a good sign
they end up on Nicky Nicky till they
find some big tree leaves and then they
end up finding some gross used towels
since they have no idea on them they
can't get someone to open the door so
they have to go to the front desk to get
a new key and they're just hoping and
praying it is early enough in the
morning for no one to be in the lobby to
notice them well this is a TV show and
of course for the best comedic effect
there is someone in the lobby who
notices them and of course it's Jim and
Diane Elijah's parents yeah I finally
learned the first names in this episode
as for Jude he ends up leaving Carter's
room and going to hook up a some guy at
the resort next door who he met on an
app as he's leaving Carter's room though
he's spotted by Jim and Jim does not
look too happy now let's get back to
Callie Brandon Mariana and hey Seuss
when Callie knocks on Jamie's door
asking if he's still up for a drink the
invites are in but sadly they are not a
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Hey yep surprise Mariana is there and at
first it's kind of like huh the three
then share a drink and of course it's as
awkward as you imagined and then Mariana
gets a text from Brandon saying that
he's looking for hey-zeus because emma
is there everyone then kind of goes into
panic mode to find hey soos who is in
Jaden's room because he ended up having
sex with her while Mariana goes off to
find hey soos Kelly goes to Brandon's
room to stall and that's the scene in
the promo that they tried to get you to
think it was Callie going to see Brandon
to like discuss her feelings or ever it
was just a red herring to throw you off
completely different scene instead
Callie is at the room because she's
there to stall while Mariana goes to
find hey Seuss and that process is
pretty hilarious it's money my sister
Mariana
as soon as hey soos learns that emma is
there though he immediately has this
look of regret on his face and Mariana
tells him to not tell Emma that he
hooked up with Jaden because they were
broken up a time and it'll just work out
better for the relationship she doesn't
have to know kind of like how hey soos
didn't want to know that Emma got that
job offer indie and he would have felt
better not knowing Eman hey soos then
have a talk and she tells him that she
does understand why he felt like he did
like she wasn't choosing him but now
she's choosing him and she flew to Turks
and Caicos to say that she loves him
he's her soul mate and wants to be with
him for ever it's a really actually
beautiful speech and hey soos yeah is
pretty quiet though he still has that
guilt look on his face and all the
answers is I love you too Mariana then
leaves Brandon and Kelly alone and
Callie asked Brandon if he's talked to
Eliza yet about how he's feeling and he
says he just doesn't know what to say
Callie advises him that he really needs
to talk to a lives before he does
something to hurt her that he can't take
back and Callie has actually seen the
way that Brandon looks at Eliza and she
knows that look and she knows for sure
that Brandon is in love with Eliza
Kellie just keeps encouraging Brandon to
talk to Eliza they hug it out and she
leaves and
course watching from the sliding glass
door is Eliza who of course has the
wrong idea about the whole situation and
brings up Callie and Brandon's
relationship and asks if that's the
reason he doesn't want to get married
Brandon insists that Callie has nothing
to do with how he's feeling but you know
what the boys still can't answer Eliza
when she asks why he's having cold feet
and if they're going to get married so
she ends up leaving the room devastated
so Brandon heads to the beach to clear
his head as he's sitting there he feels
a hand on his shoulder and it is none
other than good old dad Mike who was
just arrived for the either the
impending wedding or the impending
disaster and I'm kind of sad that he
only has this one short scene and then
we see him like walk someone down an
aisle that's it I would have loved to
see more Mike anyway Brandon opens up to
Mike about his fears and feeling the
pressure of having to get a real job and
make money and impress Eliza's family
and all of this Mike it sells Brandon
that the only person that can keep you
from achieving what you want is you and
if Brandon can't trust himself enough to
stand up to Eliza and her parents then
maybe he's not mature enough to get
married you can see Brandon really does
love Eliza though as he says he doesn't
want to lose her and Mike just says that
if he can't also choose himself they may
have to call this wedding off well good
old dad's pep talk works and Brandon
goes to Eliza's door and you know what
girl it's in rough shape because she has
been crying all night long and I kind of
don't blame her the two of them talking
he grabs her hand and they marched right
up to the parents and slam that prenup
on the table which he actually has
signed but Brandon ends up laying down
the law he says he doesn't want the
condo he wants to buy his own place he's
going to work his ass off as a film
composer prove them all wrong but he
knows that it's gonna take some time so
they just need to have faith in him and
he's going to sign this prenup if it'll
earn their trust yet Brandon grew a pair
of balls and then it's time for Eliza to
grill her pair and she finally takes a
stand and tells her parents that Stefan
Lena are officiating the wedding the
bridesmaids are not wearing those
uptight dresses and then she has one
last thing to say or do
lyza I trust Brandon and if you guys
don't then you can take me out of the
whoops yes you go Eliza I've been
waiting for this since I like first met
your parents like tell them who is boss
I may have taken three episodes for you
to kind of get me to like you but we've
seen growth in you we actually do see
some growth in the parents too
and I love that all Jim and Diane can do
is just kind of look at each other
dumbfounded but I also feel like there's
this sense of you know being proud in
their eyes of seeing Eliza stand up to
them the wedding is officially on still
I was gonna say back on but it never was
off so it's officially still on the
night before the wedding Mariana and
Kellie also have a little fight as Kelly
asks Mariana if she told Brandon about
Brawley Mariana says she would never but
Callie just keeps grilling Mariana and
questioning her so much so that Mariana
is just like forget this I'm going to
sleep on the couch also the reason that
Mariana was in Jamie's room was because
she was tempted to go back to Matt's
room but then ran into Jamie she asked
Jamie to help her out and not let her do
something stupid with Matt so she went
in his room to have a drink and talk
Mariana is all for Callie hooking up
with Jamie also just like Jude said that
he and Callie have drifted apart and
don't confide in each other anymore it
also seems like Callie and Mariana have
had that rift too so that is all the
pre-wedding drama now we get our really
beautiful wedding ceremony it's super
small everyone looks perfect and we do
get Callie and Brandon glancing at each
other which queues up this whole Brawley
montage that brings all of the fields
now Emma's holding the phone with Corey
on FaceTime so he of course can be part
of this wedding too Stef and Lena then
start reading a poem that they think
summarizes love and family and we get
more flashbacks of Stefan Lena's journey
on the show and then flashbacks of them
with all the different kids and yeah now
I'm guessing by now you're on your
second box of Kleenex maybe no moving on
to the reception Jude asked Carter if
he's okay because he seems a little off
and Carter says his dad was not too
happy about seeing Jude leaving his room
and freaked out Carter then says he
doesn't have a family like huge so he
can't be whatever he wants to be or
whoever he wants to be I know it's
probably tough but I think Carter should
maybe take a cute
lyza maybe stand up to his parents
because by the end of the episode
his parents are actually making some
progress maybe not towards accepting a
gay son but some progress in the right
direction then again maybe Carter
shouldn't quite tell them yet but he
really should just he's an adult he's in
college you know what he can do what he
wants right now I say his parents are
making progress because Jim and Diane
first asked Steph about her back tattoo
and we get that sweet back story and how
it's a family tree then Jim asks Lina
what her platform or agenda is going to
be if she's running for a state assembly
and she tells him but then she says
she's actually not running Jim and Diane
then surprised the crap not only out of
Stefan Lina but I think out of the
entire audience when they say that if
she changes her mind they actually know
some Democratic donors who might hold a
fundraiser for her see while their views
may not be the same there is some
support there you can you know respect
someone else's platform and and show
support and whatever way you can while
still holding on to your beliefs without
you know cutting someone down and it's
nice to see that this family has slowly
made just maybe a centimeter of progress
in the right direction right I still
have a feeling like their get together
they're you know family dinners are
gonna be super awkward when they're
together but maybe less awkward than
they would have been if this had not
happened what else we also have Callie
finding Mariana and apologizing for
accusing her of snitching to Eliza
Mariana says she knows she hasn't been
the best at keeping secrets and it's
like no Sherlock
but she's grown up now and okay so maybe
Mariana has grown up some but not in all
departments I mean when it comes to boys
not so much she then starts thinking of
going on tour with Matt in Europe and
she is so hung up on him being her first
love and then they're destined to be
together and she thinks that if she
waits too long to get back with Matt
it'll just be too late
she then heads off the fine Matt and
well unfortunately finds Matt making out
with Ashley the bridesmaid in the
stairwell so looks like Matt wasn't that
into Mariana and just wanted some nookie
nookie I don't really know how I feel
about them all of a sudden making Matt
such a jerk
because I really did like Matt but I
guess we had to have some kind of kick
in the butt for Mariana to be like okay
I can be independent
now I can move on from you know this
high school drama in this first love and
go adventure out into the new land and
it's like don't worry Mariana he may be
your first love but he is not your great
love after clearing the air with Mariana
Kellie tries to sort of do the same
thing with Jude but not really
she asks Jude if he hooked up with
Carter and Jude says no but I hooked up
with some other guy that I found on this
app Jude says that he feels sorry for
Carter having hit on girls to compensate
for being in the closet - which Callie
asked Jude what on earth he's
compensating for hooking up with all
these random dudes - Shay right well
it's brought out the Jude at least has a
family to talk to but then Jude says
that he doesn't want to talk and just
says that he's fine
Jaime then finds Callie and brings her a
drink we learned that Callie got the
clerkship she wanted with Judge
Engelmann but it's in San Francisco now
Jaime of course tries to plead the case
for her to take the job in LA with that
other judge and how being a progressive
influence on a conservative judge could
be a more fulfilling job and how if she
chooses LA she'll already have a friend
or maybe more than a friend as she
finally makes a move and kisses him as
for hey she said Emma there ending is a
bit more heartbreaking and by a bit I
kind of mean a lot jaden of course
confronts hey Sue's about having a
girlfriend which he technically didn't
have at the time he then tells Emma it
didn't mean anything with Jaden and he's
sorry and it was just weird with her but
Emma says she gets it she then makes a
really tough decision she says they've
been together since they were around 15
and 16 they don't know what it's like to
be with anyone else so maybe they
actually do need time apart with other
people to figure out what they want now
even though this decision is truly
heartbreaking and neither truly wanted
she says they need to figure out who
they are without each other and if they
are meant to be they will find their way
back to each other are you on box three
of Kleenex yet now it's time to pack up
and head home and when our family
returns home Mariana and haters actually
make amends and she says they should
actually be the ones to go backpacking
in Europe together I honestly would love
to see a web series on that because the
dynamic of these two in Europe living in
hostels or whatever they'd be doing I
feel like it would just be kind of funny
to watch when Jude goes up to his room
he finds Korey asleep in his bed because
Korey took the bus to their house and no
one knows that he's there his mom
actually wants him back and he's just
soaking
on what to do because he also really
loves Stef and Lena and they end up
telling him that decision is up to him
and whatever he chooses is okay he
actually ends up choosing to go back
with his mother but Stefan Lena promised
to always be a part of his life if
they'll let him and he's of course says
yes
now overhearing their talk prompts Jude
to finally open up about his struggles -
Stef and Lena he goes to talk to the
moms and Callie also happens to walk by
and stays Jude says that he's failing
two classes and he thought it was ready
to go - way to school and he really
wanted to prove so hard that he was okay
and he was up for this challenge but he
just ended up feeling so lost and with
everyone else having a lot of other
things going on in their own personal
lives he didn't want to bug them with
its own problems so he found other ways
to try to not feel lost which include
hooking up with a lot of random guys
yeah he thought he could handle things
on his own but he really couldn't and he
says he really misses everyone being at
home together
Lena then comforts him and said that
they just now have to work harder to
keep in touch with each other and they
are so sorry for not realizing how much
Jude was struggling and then they
thanked him for finally sharing his
struggles and Callie and Jude then crawl
into bed between Stef and Lena and there
goes boxes four five and six and my
Kleenex
we then flash forward a few months to
after Brandon analyzes honeymoon and the
Adams foster family is back together and
planning to take Corey to Disneyland it
was first just gonna be the moms but now
it seems like it's gonna be a family
affair
Callie indeed took the job in LA to be
closer to Jude not Jaime to be closer to
Jude and at first this seems to upset
Mariana who took a job in Silicon Valley
to be near Callie Callie then points out
though that Mariana got multiple job
offers with some in LA and that if she
comes to LA they could be rubies and
that of course queues up for the
spin-off good shovel coming in 2019 I'm
also guessing since they're going LA we
might get some more of Jamie in the
spin-off which I like Bo merch off I
actually kind of like this Jamie
character so I'm all for it but also
seeing Callie and Jamie date to me just
feels weird I think they'd be great
friends and it it's a fun bantering
dynamic between the two but if they
dated wouldn't that just make family
functions weird since Callie would be
dating Brandon's brother in law and
there's already kind of awkwardness I
don't know that's a whole tangled web
that I don't know if I can fully think
about
right now now the real reason the family
got back together for dinner was because
they all wanted to tell Lena that they
are supporting her to run for state
assembly and that she really needs to
Steph even admits that she wasn't so
sure about Lena running until that talk
with Jim and Diane in Turks and Caicos
and she saw how supportive they actually
could be and work so that means that
it's time for the family to sell the
house pack up and move before selling
the house we get one last Brandon and
Kelly moment as Callie jokes about Eliza
probably being thrilled that she's
moving to LA - Brandon actually says
that Eliza's all good with Callie now
and that the two of them Brandon and
Callie made the right choice choosing
their family over each other because if
they had actually chosen each other who
knows what would have happened the
romance probably could have fizzled out
and then they wouldn't be in each
other's lives so at least now they're
family and they'll always have each
other and they'll always be each other's
best friends the episode that ends with
another short time jump as Lena and Stef
say goodbye to Frankie's tree and they
take one last photo in front of the
house that they just sold and then
everyone drives off into their own
separate directions to begin their new
journeys and with that my friends the
Fosters has sadly come to an end and
like I said before I'm actually really
happy with this finale because everyone
ends on a happy note and is starting a
brand new discovery new journey I mean
sure Emma and hey sis their breakup was
not that happy but think about it
hey Susie's doing a lot better with his
TBI and he's ready to go start a new
business and just kind of explore the
world and I love seeing how far he has
come as well and also like I said I'm
sure there are plenty of characters we
would have liked to have known what
happened to in this finale but like I
said they didn't shove it in our faces
to try - fanservice every single person
every single character we've had in an
episode because that's happened on some
other series finales and then it just
gets too cluttered and just too
over-the-top the only character I think
we dig in a mention of in these three
episodes was Noah who we learned one off
the Syracuse and ended up getting
another boyfriend so it seems like we're
just gonna have to kind of wander in our
imaginations what happened to characters
like him and poppy AJ Sophia Daphne and
others but who knows who might pop up in
the spin-off right I mean Sofia is
Callie's sister so who knows she could
maybe come visit her in LA at some point
but now it is your turn
let me know what you thought about the
series finale of the Fosters are you
happy with where the characters ended up
and what do you hope to see in the
spinoff with Callie and Mariana are
there any questions that are unanswered
that you're still curious about plus
what has been your favorite moment from
the Fosters and maybe how has this show
even impacted you so many questions I
know but I love hearing all of your
thoughts so hit up the comments and just
type away type away guys let's just
pretend the Fosters didn't end and and
we can just live it's still in the
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