Things kick off with Joan in New Orleans, helping with a Habitat for Humanities home building for a victim of Katrina. On her last day, she meets a great guy named Aaron (Richard T. Jones), who lives in Long Beach, CA as it turns out. They eventually find their way to each other back in California and work on their relationship throughout the season. Although he is a different sort of guy than Joan is used to dating, he seems good for her and they gel well.
Maya (Golden Brooks) is busy living the dream in her home in Lancaster, or the "High Desert" as she calls it. While she busies herself with weekly fish frys, eating at Chili's, and chasing away coyotes, Darnell (Khalil Kain) is living his dream in Florida doing the NASCAR pit crew gig. Being separated from Maya and Jabbari, he realizes his dream is not all its cracked up to be, and he and Maya decide he should quit and return home. Although Darnell wants to buy back into his garage, it turns out Peanut sold his interest to Darnell's high school nemesis, Kenny Phelan, and Darnell begrudgingly goes to work for Kenny. Eventually, with the long commute and wildlife battles, Maya and Darnell decide to sell their home and move back to L.A. When the chance comes up for Darnell to buy back his garage, will he choose his garage or a house for Maya? To complicate matters, Maya also becomes pregnant, which is something she and Darnell had planned, but it happens to occur right as all of their house changes spring into motion.
Meanwhile, Lynn continues to pursue her music career, doing everything from singing in karaoke bars, to singing on the street, to even sleeping with a music producer to hopefully get an edge. When she gets discovered by Big Boi and is asked to be a producer on some tracks with him, it looks like her dreams could finally be a reality, but then her track gets cut and she is back to square one. Still hurting from her breakup last year with Finn (Tricky), Lynn embarks on a relationship with a pastor named Eldon (Kadeem Hardison), but when he tells her they can't continue to have a sexual relationship (after they slip up once), she breaks things off with him. Eventually, they both realize that they belong together and decide to give things another try.
William Dent (Reggie Jones) and his on again/off again love, Monica (Keesha Sharp) finally decide to tie the knot in grand fashion. As the big event is being planned, William's feet get more and more cold and he is unsure whether or not he is making the right decision. When he finally decides that Monica truly is the love of his life and the wedding comes off without a hitch, William ruins the entire thing by making a drunken toast about how happy he is now that he is married to Monica, when he almost called the whole thing off, thinking it was a huge mistake. Crushed, Monica leaves William the next day. Naturally, William grovels and the girls do everything they can to bring Monica around. They are finally able to convince her to come back from Chicago when her mother announces she is cutting Monica's cash flow off and she is on her own. Monica returns to L.A. to run The J Spot because she is penniless, but keeps this from William. As the two spar with each other, they come to realize how much they still love one another and get back together.
The season wraps up with Aaron waiting for the perfect moment to propose to Joan, only to have her jump the gun and ruin everything, asking him. Thinking she has blown the relationship, Joan is shocked when Brock waltzes back into her life, offering her the perfect future, complete with the children he said he didn't want previously. Will Joan go back to Brock or find true love and live happily ever after with Aaron? Rest assured that for the first time in as long as I can remember, the season finale plays out nicely and without all of the sad drama that has plagued the last few season finales. Special features are limited to commentary by creator Mara Brock Akil on select episodes and is really only for the hardcore fans.
While I found some of the episodes and elements in Girlfriends: The Seventh Season to be amusing, quite frankly, these ladies are getting a bit too old to be acting this silly and the act is just getting tired. It seems to me that Girlfriends played itself out when Toni Childs left the picture, as the quad of crazy females split up and that ruined the dynamic and chemistry that they had as a group. I am honestly not really looking forward to Season Eight. This season is only for the true and devoted fans of the series who followed it to the bitter end.
