Purple narration?
What the hell is purple narration? Also, "try to," not "try and." I'm going and Google "purple narration."

Calaveras MC
Calaveras MC are the ones the Mayans were going to patch over. The leader of said MC, the guy who got stomped a few episodes ago and who sold out his buddy tonight, is named Salazar. The leader of the Mayans is named Alvarez. I always wondered what you meant by Calazar.

She is adorable beyond words.

@Noah. Thanks. None of that info was there last night. It was Sean Walsh's song "Record Spin."

The song over dinner
What was that song in the background during the Britt-Hank-Ray dinner scene? I watched the scene three times to try to pick up lyrics but the song was too low, and I can't find an answer on the tubes. Anyone? Professional critic Noel Murray?

There are three Deadwood players on SoA right now, and others pop up all over FX and elsewhere with regularity. Timothy Olyphant is the lead on Justified (duh), and W. Earl Brown (Dan Dority) was the guest star on episode 108 "Blowback." I think this phenomenon should be more widespread. Great character actors make…

Eric got out because he called Pam. Russell's progeny, Talbot, is dead, so who knows if Russell has anyone to call?

What was the rap song that was playing when Louie went into that club with the black guys? That song was awesome. The one right before the black guys got up and were all like "ooohhhhh" when that other song came on.

It is ridiculous. No one who watches this show thinks it has anything to offer the 9/11 conversation.

The dream sequence
The quick cut to adult Louie awakening from the same nightmare at the same time as little Louie was a pretty canny nod to a couple different things addressed in the episode: First, the temporal remove from Jesus's crucifixion literally means that your sins could not have pounded the nails into his…

On how the episode felt
The finale didn't feel like a finale because it was basically a mid-season episode that just happened to end a truncated S6. So I don't think it was ever meant to be a finale per se. In a normal situation, there would be three episodes left in S6. I wouldn't be surprised if S7E4 feels and…

three bands, one filmmaker
The Walkmen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Big Star.

Last week's episode ended with Louie joking how, at 42, he's too old start sucking dick. I guess it depends on the circumstances.

How in the hell did Mickey get into Sheila's apartment anyway? And how did he get back to Tommy's house fast enough to spill the bean to Janet et al., and plot an ambush? Serious continuity problems.

Best line: "It must be euthanasia day at the geriatric hospital!" Best.

I took it as Tommy literally, finally confronting his demons, to get all dorky about it. "Fuck you both, leave me alone."

The ending was terrible. It was overlong and predictable, and I think it existed only because the producers paid a licensing fee for that song, and they were going to get their money's worth. We don't need several minutes of montage to know how Tommy is going to deal with an external stressor. It might, as Todd…

Because the show is out of steam. But neither of us was completely correct:

As I understand it, there are only 13 episodes remaining: 7 in season 6, and 6 in season 7. The producers and the network decided to split up the final season in this manner so the series finale would coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11—as if Rescue Me has something to contribute to the national memory of that…

Act by act. Good idea. Break down/overanalyze key scenes if/as necessary, but scene-by-scene analysis doesn't seem necessary.