"The Rayburns did a bad thing all right—they doomed future seasons of Bloodline by eliminating the character most likely to elevate any scene." Damn, I was afraid that flashbacks would not sufficiently resurrect this character. Ben Mendelsohn made the show.

Yes. Next on the menu: Hostess chocolate cupcake with the squiggly line of frosting. Also, a Ho Ho.

I have an ancient jar somewhere on my spice shelf.

I'm appreciating how, while Stan is portrayed as a good agent, they have not given him the deductive superpowers so rampant on dark procedurals these days, where the flawed, tormented lead detective (who has OCD, or autism, or is a recovering alcoholic, etc.) manages to draw astounding connections that no one else…

Only on television do parents have sex in the kitchen, where kids could walk in on them at any moment.

I can't wait for that.

Love this show, but it's about time for it to end. It seems to me that they had explored every conceivable storyline with these characters. Going out on a high note is a good thing.

I loved that, too.

You're already ahead of that detective.

What a season. Some final thoughts:
1. Sable will most definitely help Norman with the embalming. Norman will want the best corpse beautician in the land for Mother. And who knows what love may bloom from that?
2. Now I'm hungry for chicken enchilada casserole. I knew Chick had a good heart, and now I fear for his life.
3…

Laughed out loud at the pretzel (with dip) and the saxophone tampon case. I call twice in one episode a success.

Calvin outed himself as a Nazi in grand style.

"The fact that both Hood and Carrie in their respective confessions
reference each other as the only person who knew them and the person
they never stopped loving respectively makes me wonder if we’re heading
toward some kind of reconciliation in the finale." Hood and Carrie belong together. No other ending will feel…

It's easy to catch up on in that it's absolutely riveting and the seasons are short.

This season has been excruciating to watch for so many reasons, and one of them is how tragically well it portrays our hopelessly effed up mental health care system. I can't recall if Edwards, throughout this season, ever told Norma that her son has dissociative identity disorder (help me out if you remember!), but…

Praise to Romero for pulling Norman out, too. Not sure I would have.

I experienced that, too. If ever an episode really needed its last five minutes, this was it.

If I didn't have this recap to tell me about it, I would not have known about Alicia's disappointment and mistrust of her family or where it came from. That's how this whole show is going for me in matters big (characters' motivations) and small (why did both parties put hoods on the hostages?). Another example: I…

OH damn, I guess that was a spoiler of sorts. I am very sorry! I should not have made that assumption.

Oh yes. Think of Hank and Walter White's confrontation. And as woeful as Gaad's line was—-“I’m in charge of FBI counterintelligence and my secretary married a KGB officer"—-just think of what Stan will have to say.