BTW it won't be back for two weeks, not one week. Election night and all.

No Brian Van Holt is the actor, the guy with all the tattoos at the end.

Wasn't that Ray from The Bridge, minus puka shells? It doesn't list this episode as a credit on his imdb, but I could have sworn that was him.

I think he's talking to you.

Go watch Trainspotting. Well, a few minutes of Trainspotting.

Possible. Nucky Johnson did do time for tax evasion. Not sure what other purpose the Treasury guys at the end serve. Hadn't thought about it befor eyou mentioned it. Maybe Winter was going for his very own "Tony is alive" moment.

They were still legally married when he bought it, she gets the whole wad.

Well, the Commodore manipulated the shit out of him by yanking his badge and telling him hard work don't mean shit, through him was the only way to get anywhere. I actually thought the "crucible" moment made more sense. He had a momentary lapse in a state of desperation and spent the rest of his life regretting it…

Having a "fictional" character (modeled in large part on an actual guy) in the middle of clearly historical figures was always a bit of a cheat.

Not totally crazy about the ending (and Nucky Johnson lived to be 85 so they could have done basically anything from a historical perspective), but it was thematically good and well done, so can't complain too much.

Each of those kids is from a different father. Think about that for a while.

His name was Archimedes which makes him that much more awesome.

Yup solid A without a doubt. Amazing episode of television.

David Simon. From his book to every series he has done you know it will be quality. Hell, his blog posts are better than most stuff that comes out.

That's everyone's senior year in college.

Can I go now?

Palmetto bugs are a species of cockroach.

He is a bit more of a direct analogue than someone who "talks to ghosts" but Sutter has pretty much drifted completely from the plot anyways, so indeed who knows.

"reinforcing that Jax may just survive"

That's what Zack thinks although he keeps calling him Jerry when his name is Jury.