It does do a great job of showing the humanity of the characters. But I think where it really stands out is how it shows those characters communicating with each other, which it does better than anything else on TV. The second episode of the season had an entire plotline of two characters simply talking on the phone,…

Tonight reminded me how much I’m going to miss these characters and this show when it wraps up. There’s nothing else like it right now.

I don’t think I’ve ever cried this much over an episode of television in my life. What an absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking hour. For me, what got me wasn’t the idea of Gordon being gone, but seeing how much everyone loved him and was lost trying to recontextualize the world without him in it. Pretty much…

The last episode was devastating, but because Gordon’s death came so suddenly, resulted more in shock and grief than the deep sadness we saw on display this episode.

Some thoughts in no order:

One of the most beautifully done, honest, and emotionally devastating episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

Since Gordon was given the illness in series 2, my friends and I have been waiting for him to drop. I started to honestly think they wouldn’t go down that road in the final season. Yet, for a death largely anticipated for two seasons, I still found myself shocked when it happened. So many shows would’ve gotten his…

In his mind, he was with his wife and kids at their happiest times.

FUCKING DAMMIT. my husband usually only has to hush me during lead-ups to critical events during Game of Thrones. But as soon as Donna started singing Baby Mine that Gordon couldn’t get out of his head in an episode past and the scenes kept cutting between all of the people for whom this tragic shit would be fucking…

You’re right, you are much too good for this show. You should’t even own a television

This show should be studied for the next several decades as a masterclass in creating conflict among your characters without making any of them a villain.

I ugly-cried. HARD.

I think this was one of the single best hours of episodic TV I’ve ever seen. I’m a 59 yr old lifer tech geek (complete with some Bay Area; Boulder now; still cranking with small high-tech co because what else would I do; etc.) and this show has connected with me at the deepest levels. They pretty much had ME die…

Gordon’so dying moments were beautiful. I think we all were sad that he and Donna divorced and it was somehow... good that his final thoughts were of his life with her.

The last 10 minutes really hurt. Total gutpunch. I usually watch the replay to pick up on things I missed and I debated not doing it tonight but I’m glad I did. Watching it again really made me appreciate how well the show handled it. The tone, the lighting, music, and seeing a half reaction from everyone but not the…

The second he started hallucinating Donna walking down the hallway I had a feeling where it was going, but I was hoping I was wrong and he was just having a stroke or something and we’d still see him alive the next episode. I feel like a lot of shows, before a character dies, really foreshadows it by having them tie…

For how much Gordon’s facial hair, or lack thereof, helped change his character and especially our perception of him, it really should get its own credit, which it does in way considering the opening credit image hasn’t changed since season one.

I cried. Not in a pretty way. This goddamn beautiful, weird, painful show.

Well. Damn. I just spent most of today surrounded by the grief of my loved ones over the funeral of my sisters’ father (and my mother’s ex-husband). Like Katie with Gordon here, my mother found him at his home a few days ago - just as she found my own father several years ago. So those last moments, especially Donna…

For a show about technology and the development of personal computing, this is one of the more human shows I’ve ever seen. It goes slow and curtails itself when other shows would go for the bombastic, and it has such control over its events that they seem more true to life than they way these events are portrayed on…