SERIES FINALE: Last week’s episode generated headlines and controversy by including a volatile and accidentally timely subplot about accusations of rape on college campuses – but ended with a development even more notable. It was a very sudden death of one of its main characters – a surprise that allows series creator Aaron Sorkin to go out not with a whimper or a bang, but with a eulogy, for the series as well as the character. And it’s a series that has never gotten its full due, but has been building to an emotional and provocative conclusion.