The end of the series!
I’ve watched Marty Kaan swim around the consultant firm from the start and really enjoyed it. I think they ended it right on time, though. A lot of side characters fell to the wayside (like Marty’s son, I think he was in 3 episodes this season) and there are only so many times you can do a hostile business take-over story.
The four main characters remained fun and the highlight of the series. The end of season four and this season zeroed in on Marty and Jeannie relationship. It’s a move that made the most sense as Jeannie was pretty much the other leg of the show. I think Marty bounced off of only Monica more. The last big
The final client for the show brought the team to Cuba and they switched things up a bit to bring the show to a close. Once more they were  chasing a bigger whale. Kaan and Associates (and the show) had hit a wall–when is enough, enough? Marty seemed to be OK with (or at least never saw an alternative to) pushing the speed up on the treadmill but Jeannie saw otherwise after the birth of their child. The weight of pushing rivals into oncoming traffic was getting too much and making more money for the sake of making more money didn’t make sense anymore. The future she saw for herself wasn’t a happy one. Could she have a future with Marty outside of child visitation? Could Marty think of the future? And Cuba had brought the team into another back-stabbing deal. Marty did manage to find a route out of it that kept him and his friends in a good space and his two biggest rivals pulling their hair out.
Jeannie got Marty to slow down and think. In doing so, he saw a happy route for all of them. Using that Marty magic he pulls a win out of a losing scenario. It kept him and his friends in a good space and his two biggest rivals pulling their hair out.
Whenever a show ends, I pretty much just want to get a good idea of what will (most likely) happen to the characters when the cameras are gone. I find that satisfying. I got that with House of Lies. Marty, Jeannie, Clyde, and Doug will be working together, on their terms, for the foreseeable future.