The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

This episode is wonderful. As a 51 year old guy, I still find myself tearing up about the life of this person. How 1 person with kindness can reach out and touch lives in so many ways.

Not rich in money, but rich in personality, character, integrity, compassion, and a hard worker.

He touched so many lives and left a lasting impression in each of their lives. And what was he? A repairman... and so much more.

What a great episode. I don't understand how people can't like an episode like this. Maybe they lack the ability to relate to someone elses life. This is a wonderful episode...

One of the best touching episodes I have ever watched. :)

Anyone who didn't like this episode must have a heart of stone. Having not watched DH the first time round, I am now binge watching them. This episode is so heartwarming and in my opinion one of my favourites so far, if not the favourite. A story of how one, seemingly insignificant, man touched and affected so many lives for the better. Utter brilliance!

Writers had imagined an amazing 100th episode, and casting Beau Bridges was brilliant.

Can you watch this episode without crying?

They managed the impossible, create a new character and make us care as if he had always been on the show.

Mary-Alice's memories were the most emotional. When she met Eli, you could feel a genuinely good and sweet man, humble and caring. When she sees her shoe with the tape to hide the hole, and offers him to fix her broken vase.

"Ma'am, you don't have to do that" Eli replied.

All the tears, I was fighting to keep inside ... I became an instant fountain.

Truly one of the best episodes of the show, focused on a unique character, the amazing Beau Bridges.

The handiman played by Bo Bridges was tender hearted and sweet. It was a perfect fit for his on screen personality. I have only seen Bridges in a couple of movies, but I remember him from one side of the mountain, and in another incredible performance.. I cried as well. His ability to move emotion.. is a pure natural talent.

This is one of the most moving episodes in this series thus far, equally matched with Gabbbie and Carlos relationship, which ranges from absolute depth to absolute shallow and tolerance between two very lovable characters. I am at episode 100+ and still have not given up on watching all the episodes.. which says a lot for the writers of this series.

so far season 5 has been pretty fantastic, compared with 3 and 4.. so this last episode came as a total disappointment .. it was a total fluff piece, with no relevance to plot whatsoever, it doesn't add anything to any of the characters .. and there's no point in making you care about some random stranger, who you create and kill off in the same episode .. it's more film than TV!

i do understand that sometimes series need filler episodes, they all do it, but then again, i don;t understand why they put it just before they have (YET ANOTHER) break .. breaks in the flow are annoying enough, without presenting your audience with a total anticlimax as the last thing they remember .. at least one would expect a minor drama, if not a cliffhanger .. which leaves you excited and gasping for more (as was the fire in the nightclub before the Christmas break)

in a nutshell, disappointing!

(and what is happening to Jackson? i thought he was making a full recovery from his accident and was going to be back??)