Even as I know wrapping the show is probably a great decision it breaks my heart. But if Ian McShane shows up and somehow Boyd and Ava have a happy(ish) ending I will welcome the sixth and final season with open fucking arms.

♬ Hee-ee-eere's jazz hands! ♬

If Gwen does come back and at some point says something like "You know nothing, Thomas Barrow" I'll DIE.

It's become SOP for me to crack up so hard at various lines and have to pause, rewind, and watch the scene again. This episode hit all the right notes for me, even the admittedly weak B-plot. But watching Peter lose his frat-boy cool and dissolve into a screaming madman made it so, so worth it.

I absolutely plan to! I've heard a lot of high praise for it, mostly around here — it seems to have quite the AVC fan base, which I consider the best sign.

This is the part where I fess up to never having watched The Shield. I knew this day would come but I'm still ashamed!

THEY'RE BACK YOU GUYS

Seriously, Boyd unhinged is a thing of beauty. Walton Goggins owned all that rage and desperation.

I kept wondering if Boyd and Wynn had walked into a torture-porn set.

The final shot of him disconnecting the Skype session with Winona and the baby, then watching the computer screen cut to the Marshal Service wallpaper, really landed with me. Until that moment I'd been chalking his unwillingness to go visit them in Miami to Raylan's Usual Lovable Assholery (TM), but then we got…

B+ would've been my grade, too. I thought the basic introduction of all the new characters was intriguing and refreshingly to the point (no real beating around the bush as far as the Crowes go), and the various plotlines in so many cities were handled nicely. I got a little confused as to small plot points, but that's…

No, I liked him, too. I got a bit of a Bennett vibe with his whole family-sticks-together mentality, and I thought he imbued it with more frustration and vulnerability than someone like Mags would show. Like the look on his face when Dilly was dying, for instance, or when he had to say that Wendy had split back to…

Her delivery of "You didn't have to do physical therapy with him, Amy" was hysterical.

Grizzled, yes. But maybe his wife was murdered by a man in a yellow sweater.

"My husband's dog, Cheddar, had relations with a neighbor dog, Karate, and resulted in these two smaller dogs."

I figure that's why he made sure to say they were the progeny of "my husband's dog, Cheddar."

"This is Richard…and this is Dan. They are puppies."

I'm still laughing at this one.

Paul Blart: 2 Mall 2 Cop

Al Pacino wants in.