Eugene isn't really a scientist? I bet I am not the only one who immediately thought of the great Kenny Powers quote roughly along the lines of how he had "a cock like a python, an arm like the Hammer of Thor, and the mind of a fucking scientist."

An interesting thing about this show and the "how McNulty/Alison remember things" as a storytelling device - for instance Rawls and his wife (particularly) come off as grotesque caricatures of upper-class assholery.

And, to be fair, Stringer had "The Wealth of Nations" on his bookshelf. Jax probably has a colouring book. And not for his kids, either.

Sutter would have to have more than a two (one?) digit IQ and a modicum of self-awareness to be "punking" us. He is just a fucking idiot who got handed a blank cheque by FX and is using it to no good end.

I asked myself rhetorically: is it wrong that I sympathise with the Marks organisation in their conflict with the Sons?

McNulty, McNulty, McNulty…….

So the hospital is sort of a ham-handed, over the top unsubtle caricature of fascism then? Or do we amp it up a notch and have Beth inducted into a Bund Deutscher Maedel chapter next week?

Next week - Carrie loses her crackers in some CIA command centre and shrieks at the top of her lungs while some ultra-tense shit is about to go down. (This is in fact hinted in the "next on" vignette.)

Damn you! (reading through comments and hoping to be the first one to call that guy Dave Grohl)

"McNulty - how about you get out of that pool, knock me out twenty pages, and then we go pound some Brewskis like proper writers."

So I'm Jax Teller. Do I:

Give him a damned TV show of his own FFS!

Well done, TWD!

Hadn't thought of that, but makes sense. Drugs off the boat. Drugs sent on their way to the City via the train to and from to the Hamptons. NYC to Hamptons train a safer way to transship them than the highways.

Some inspired work by the TV showrunners I think. To wit - my understanding of the comic series is that the leader of the evil cannibal gang had a different name.

"Cheating on my daughter, McNulty? Is this what I need from you, you insubordinate little fuck?"

"you made a lot of people do things they didn't want to do, McNulty. I hope you're happy now."

He's not British. He's a Geordie! Linguistically very distinct from the rest of England. None of the rest of us can even remotely understand their accent.

Good review, Sonia. And best of luck to you. I was annoyed upon just watching this and about to come over here and madly slag the writers for inflicting another WUVVVVVVVVVVV story on us. But after reading the review I think you are bang-on correct as to what you say here.

Go easy on Charlie. He can't even do an East London accent. (See "Green Street.") Those Geordies come from a linguistically-challenged part of the country.