Fantastic episode. I've always liked this show, sometimes a lot, but last night I felt like I was watching honest to God great television.

Ah, Sammi's head in a bowling ball bag. I can get behind that.

If he was black, yeah he'd do time. This is the US, where we execute the retarded!

Yeah, I thought the finale was great. Serious question: who did you mean by Bork? I assume it was a typo, but I'm wracking my brain and can't figure out to whom you were referring.

Ok, "cast" rather than ensemble, although you are exaggerating— I don't know who Bork is, but Sally had an ongoing flirtation with Mickey and met Lucky and Meyer during the Tampa deal,and one of the major elements of the Chalky-Narcisse feud was the way the Dr. drove a wedge between Nucky and Chalky and tried to play…

Agreed. I still find her irritating.

She ran that "pretend to sell Shiela's house" con last year,which she said she had done many times before, and also sold all of Sheil's furniture. Frank asked her what the lesbians were up to because "she has a good head for cons." She is a grifter, but seems to genuinely care for her half-siblings.

I absolutely see where both Kev and V are coming from. That's good writing.

You misunderstand. I'm not making some kind of moralistic judgment, I'm reacting to the signs the show is sending me. First of all Lip and Kev selling weed from a mobile dispensary is different from a twelve year old selling hard drugs on a corner for a gangster. Secondly, the show has repeatedly shown that Carl…

God I loved Home Movies. Need to break out those DVDs again.

I agree with everything you say except JJS not having had a proper send-off. I thought his send-off was very well done; now it's just a dumb fakeout.

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I agree, but if you recall when he started this war he told them there was no way they'd win but would die standing up for a righteous cause rather than live on their knees. Whether the ragtag crew of gangbangers he commands can maintain the ideological furor necessary to sustain his project is an open question.

I loved Frank empathizing with losing "what (he) loved most in the world," all the while gazing longingly at the booze, and finding the solution in filling the hole with other things…like coke, pot and pills. Some of Frank's self-contained stories are irritating, but little moments like that redeem them, and I…

This plotline is actually really hard for me to watch due to real-life resonances. I find it painfully well done. The fact that V is acting much more sympathetically than my ex-wife did just makes it worse, as it stirs up guilt rather than self-righteous anger.

Frank is the self-proclaimed grower if I recall correctly, not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

I don't even think that would've been fine. I was pretty neutral on the character, but I think his "death scene" was actually very well done, carried real weight, and grew naturally from the choices he had made. Now all that is out the window. And, like MuteLurker, being lied to by the showrunner rubs me the wrong way.

I just don't buy him as an Italian American gangster. I can buy an Englishman like Stephen Graham as one no problem, but Doman still looks and sounds just like Bill Rawls.

The overwhelming majority of the cops on The Wire aren't corrupt per se, at least in the Gotham sense of paid off. Barksdale, for instance, never had the BPD in his pocket. The department was much more hampered by careerism, politics, and unenforceable laws than rank dishonesty. Gotham seems to be much more similar to…

Reasons why Boardwalk Empire is a masterpiece:
-The way it has merged history, character and plot into a single story engine of cause and effect
-Terence Winter's genius for story structure, seasonal architecture, and black humor
-Howard Korder's flair for character-revealing soliliquies
-Some of the best direction in TV…