The shot of Chuck, from the rear, sitting on his bed and making sounds (sobbing? laughing?) was BILLIONS shark-jumping moment. Don't care how clever next week's Season Three finale is, this was a fatal mistake on the series' part.

Three-quarters of the way through Season Three and I'm thinking, is this the bleakest network series I've seen since Season One of "Hill Street Blues?" Up until this evening's finale, it's been three years of unremitting despair. pain and hopelessness, so while the viewer was left with the sense that some justice was…

Aesthetic Note: That's not a "machine gun" that Elias Marcos has in the confrontation with Art and shoot-em-in-the-back Raylan, but a drum-fed difficult-to-reload-while-being-shot-at Saiga 12 shotgun.