Yeah I totally see the next episode going this way. They have underlined the fact that this isn't a "real" trial enough to have the judge go against the law without causing a dangerous precedent and giving Hooli something like 10% of Pied Piper, so Erlich can be Gavin's equal.

Yeah, the fight was downright awful.
I fear for Bronn though. A blade injury, in Dorne, from the daughter of a man famous for poisoning his blades and following a fight where no one died… If you add the fact that they can connect this to a foreshadowed Mountain comeback in the next episode, with graphic gruesome…

I didn't go through all the comments, but was I the only one to see in the weird cough before a speech to the press by Frank Underwood/cut to a very brief lung x-ray in Jacky's appartment a foreshadowing of a lung cancer or something like that ?

Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't read anything about it before coming here to read the finale review. I'm really glad to hear that !

This was the best Ellroy screenplay ever. And I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't want another season. I actually don't see how they could make the characters grow in a satisfaying way ; I mean what really got me hooked was the time span, seeing their 1995 version interact and clash with each other only to have…

Indeed. And I'm so glad they did.