Well it would be easy to portray Nucky's eventual failure to be Bacardi's exclusive US distributor as a function of Lansky's influence and ties with Batisa.

Great point! Assuming the stories are true I do hope he's gotten his arms around it for now and the future.

I think Lansky was there for the same reason as Nucky, to get in on some business they saw coming down the pike. Also, I am suspecting that he was behind the assassination attempt on Nucky as he's just one more competitor for Bacardi's business. I don't think it was premeditated prior to the bump into him during the…

I think it revealed that Lansky was there trying to make a similar deal. Once he saw Nucky, I think he probably took it as a good time to shorten the list of competitors for Bacardi's business. Thats how I took it, anyway. Had he known Nucky was there already I doubt he would have revealed himself so easily to Nucky.…

Yeah, I'm not exactly loving the redundant flashbacks either. I am hoping that they're for a reason other than padding. True Blood did the same in it's final season and they added up to nothing. Plus with only (8) episodes this season, there isn't as much real estate to waste!

Not for nothing, but word is the writers were forced into that 'fateful decision' because the actor couldn't keep his substance abuse in check and was damn near unable to work. So, not really an artistic choice as much as a forced one.

Like another HBO show (which I will not mention by name) in it's final season, I hope we don't get too distracted in flashbacks to Nucky's childhood. It feels like the show communicated enough about his upbringing all throughout the series, especially in the first two seasons. None of what they showed in this episode…

I looked again, and you are totally right. I think it was the awkward stumble she took in getting up that threw me, along with the way she looks past her father as she leaves the room.

I do have to admit I was pissed at her for following Thackery. Can't a man have a secret, illicit life?! Busybody! heh…..

When Clara got up for dinner, she moved like she's blind. Did I miss that she is? Was that in the dialogue?

This is exactly why I find music reviews to be worthless. Skin color always seems to determine what 'kind' of music the reviewer seems to think something must be, regardless of what they're actually hearing. The review is way off. Just listen to it.

Damn right! Or ended it after his season. I mean, did we really even need Billith?

Well the whole 'getting warmer' and hearing thoughts would definitely lead towards that, wouldn't it? Apparently they weren't sure themselves how they were going to end it. I was kind of hoping that when she stabbed Bill, he would start screaming and cursing like a mad man because he was now human and that shit was…

DEFINITELY Russell. They dragged everyone else out of mothballs for a curtain call, but no time for the best Big Bad of the show? (A close second with the Maenad.) I assume he's too busy on American Horror Story: Freakshow to show up here.

Eric's TV huckster persona made it instantly better than Dexter's finale, but this was still tripe.

Six of one, half dozen of the other. Both are lame endings.

Yeah, what was Lafayette's final scene, other than being in the background at the last supper in the last scene?? Was it when Tara's ghost finally showed them the flashback about the gun? Was that two episodes ago?? What a shit show.

I know you're kidding, but without that pancake on his face that dude is hot (to me, anyway)!

Did anyone else read Jill showing up at the GR home as her just wanting so badly to re-connect with her mother, not as joining the GR as the reviewer suggests? That didn't even occur to me. Although, to be honest, there is a LOT that doesn't occur to me until I read the recap and comments.

I took his exiting statement to be addressed to some entity we can't see, just like Kevin's father has been doing.