For me it's just because I'm from the PNW, and he reads as the truest PNW-style character on the show. Who in BC/Washington/Oregon hasn't known at least a handful of Chicks?

I love the Normero arc, from the "We're not friends, you don't know me," of season one, to them being the only real friend each other has. It's good stuff, both the writing and the acting of it.

Agree completely. Except it's "ballet boy and a hockey girl".

This isn't quite about dealbreakers and more about dealmakers, but I remember when I met my fella in the early 90s and he had no tattoos and no piercings and no long hair (and thus no ponytail) and no Lennon glasses and no goatee and no philosophy books tucked under his arm, I grabbed him and held on tight. Not that…

Wearing a shawl, no less.

I would find it weird if it just went away completely. At best, for those who wish it gone, it could fade into the background as long as it continued to cast a long shadow over the town and its occupants. Otherwise, the inverted burning corpse of S1 makes even less sense than it does at present. Since I don't mind the…

The behind the scenes video of the episode on A&E shows Carlton Cuse making a rather definitive statement about it.

It’s almost charming that anyone could think that Nick Ford’s death now means the end of the drug plotline. Um. The drug stuff IS White Pine Bay. You’ll see the end of that particular part of the story when we get to the series finale.

The pot subplot has been an essential part of the narrative
since the story began, so it’s a crucial element. I’m not sure why there’s such
hate for it, but then I’m from the PNW and if I didn’t see the occasional dreadlocked
trimmer, flannelled dime-bag hustler, or forest pot field, either centrally or
peripherally, the…