For seven long years, Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross) has been looking for love in all the wrong area codes. She's suffered through failed relationships, rejection and heartache on The CW sitcom "Girlfriends," making her one of TV's most endearing and sympathetic characters.
All of Joan's love woes could finally come to an end tonight when she is faced with not one, but two suitable beaus in the comedy's season finale -- rumored, but not confirmed, to be the series' end.
She could choose Aaron (Richard T. Jones), who adjusted his rigid, anti-Valentine's Day beliefs for Joan's love, or Brock (Malik Yoba) -- the same Brock who told Joan that he didn't want to have kids and ran away after she said she did. Now he's back with a changed mind and open heart.
"It's fun to see Joan settle into a stable relationship," says Mara Brock Akil, 36, the creator, producer and show runner behind "Girlfriends." "Over the years she's grown and now she's ready to be in a relationship where the other person accepts her for who she really is.
"When we first met her, she was 29.
Now she's in her 30s and she realizes that you can't change people and suddenly she has to decide what really matters."
The future of "Girlfriends" is as uncertain as Joan's. Brock Akil will be finding out if the network picks up her show for an eighth season shortly before reporters and fans in a couple weeks.
"All I can do is do my best and put it in God's hands" she says.
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