(Or the show could epically self snuff it’s own ending and they all run away to become lumberjacks ala Dexter! Apologies for that!)

If Philip’s getting fitted with a potential funeral suit a la Gran Turino, I could see him taking it myself. Or Elizabeth maybe after she finds him dead (or, even more tragically, Paige).

Yeah, a young kid like him didn’t have a chance, haha.

Henry might be saved now for the final scene or two where he comes back home and inspects/finds the damage everyone else leaves behind, both figuratively and literally.

Amazing how our priorities change over time, huh?

Yeah, the wig was a little more obvious, but I wondered if that was intentional somewhat? Philip didn’t exactly have the best disguise going out in the video store either... maybe they’re both getting sloppy as the game gets longer?

That was a great stare too. Keri Russell has been on top of her game this year, that’s for sure.

Agreed. The “kid” certainly had his acting chops down in that scene and elsewhere, for that matter. I just kept watching and thinking, “Oh god, he knows and now he’s going to be splattered in the alley or the inside of the car!”

*Elizabeth smiles and lifts 1980s station wagon filled with morbid face paintings over her head*

I picture that like the end of Legends of the Fall on my end! Cliff and Mail Robot in a battle to the death and then the scene pauses...

Same. When she began the schpiel about Gorbachev being terrible, I thought, “Well, it was a good run Martindale!” Looks like we’ll have her towards the very end though.

When Jackson pulled out the recorder, I just thought “Oh, god! It’s over for him.” Needless to say, I was a bit surprised.

Part of me wondered if the paint brush was meant to make it be a bit more lenient on the husband, just so no one would suspect it was a mercy killing and want that autopsy (which would show the morphine situation and all that).

Good to know I wasn’t the only one getting shades of Gran Turino in the suit-fitting scene there!

Time Of Your Life

Yeah, that sounds about right. I vaguely remember someone from the show saying how they picked up the audience applause for Kramer for somewhere around the third or fourth seasons, then tapering them down again because they thought it was too much. Or at least something along those lines anyway.

Exactly! And now that I know what they’re talking about, of course I had to up that knowledge to the whatever degree. ;)

I thought the applauses for Kramer’s entrances were gone by the final two or so seasons though?

I guess “Helloooooooo Newman!” (or just plain ol’ “Newman!”) doesn’t count. Though I suppose they didn’t exactly ram those into the ground either.

Great question.