Something about the way this season is ending feels a bit unsatisfying. Can’t put my finger on it as the writers really have checked a lot of the boxes of what I wanted to see or expected to happen, but it’s kind of like the sum of the parts aren’t quite adding up.

I agree that Jimmy changed too quickly — and I think the same could be said of Kim.

It feels like we could have used 2-3 more episodes that show the change in both characters before going to black-and-white land. I never really believed that Saul was going to kill a person, so those beats didn’t 100% work for me.

While the acting and writing continues to be sublime, am I the only one who finds this back half disjointed and not exactly... satisfying?  Like, it doesn’t feel like a conclusion to the show we spent the last 5.5 seasons with, but a completely different one that almost has completely different characters in it?

Maybe it was just from watching the show in a really bright living room...but is Kim putting together a completely tan puzzle?  I thought maybe it was just washed out on my TV, but did she create a cover life so bland she puts together solid color puzzles?

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I thought the Florida stuff was a little heavy-handed, but I guess the show has gone broad before. I also wanted to see a little bit more Kim in Florida Kim. Rhea did great by playing it as barely fitting in rather than obviously miserable, but she also wasn’t recognizable as Kim, at all. I don’t know that Kim needed…

Something I just realized after finishing this episode: Jimmy is always at his most vengeful when people attempt to hold themselves accountable. Note how his true rage at Howard started when Howard confessed that he felt responsible for Chuck’s death. When Kim comes in to sign the divorce settlement, his performance…

Is that Langoleers? 

I’m kind of terrified of how bad this script was, considering he said yes to Bewitched. And Curious George. And Land of the Lost. And Daddy’s Home. And Zoolander 2. And The House. And Daddy’s Home 2. And Downhill.

I don’t understand why people hate The Architect’s speech so much. It’s one of the more intriguing bits from the sequels. I guess it’s because no one gets kicked or punched or short for a good 5 minutes.

This movie is going to be a hot mess, and I’m most likely going to pay to see it.

Money?

I believe it’s a reference to the name “Moltisanti”.

For some reason, I thought the oft-discussed Sopranos prequel movie was just going to focus on the machinations of the family with Tony’s Dad, Junior and those characters, not that it was literally going to be an origin story about Tony.  Kind of less interested now. 

I don’t know how to feel about this. “The Sopranos” explored the characters’ backstory just enough, while leaving certain details ambiguous. I don’t necessarily want or need to have all those details filled in. Also, from the trailer alone this looks much more like a straight-ahead conventional mob story than the show…

I always liked the part with the Architect. I think some people consider exposition in general to be a chore, but I thought that part was pretty fascinating.

Eh, it’s streets ahead of Revolutions (recently rewatched, and egad is that boring trash), but no amount of masturbatory filmic doubletalk is going to convince me that Reloaded is anything but an okay sequel with some good fight scenes (the highway scene is thrilling), a lot of CGI that has not held up, and an…

I like that at CNN, the headline for DMX’s passing is above the passing of Prince Phillip. I’ll take a rapper who clawed his way up who struggled and became an artist who spoke truth and poetry, over a fucking royal who had everything handed to him.  DMX was given half as much time, but did so much more.  

Jimmy’s hatred of Howard is so misplaced, and sad considering that Howard seems to have some genuine affection for Jimmy. Also, did anyone think Gus was gonna do a Victor to Lyle ?

They sold it to Netflix. Duffy starts a riverboat casino in Harlan Co. by towing one into a swamp. It’s called “Wynn’er Take All” and it’s streaming now.