There are a couple of scenes where he's not John Cusack, and just becomes Brian Wilson. I definitely appreciated that. I do wish he had at least combed his hair like latter-day BW. That's all we're asking for, John.

I like Dano's stuff. I'm glad to see him playing someone who's not a Cringing Coward(tm)

I'm still not done hating that movie. I hated how unfair to the audience the big reveals were, because they were not even slightly set up. (Okay, maybe the tiniest of teases…but) Suddenly the movie just makes a big right turn and off we go into a completely different kind of movie than the one we started out on.

It was a little too loose for me back when I was in high school, but later, at a time when things got really dark, I just couldn't get enough of the song "Tonight's the Night". Yes it is.

Totally agree. I live here in NYC and I like that the current uber-gentrification of the city is what's behind the ideological rift between DD and Wilson Fisk. And what's at stake (although I'm afraid we all know how that one's gonna go… at least IRL)

I didn't even realize that's what "The Incident" was and I watched the whole series. Doy! But definitely not a plot point.

I guess it depends on what they like about it.

I can't really take part in the conversation until I've watched the season — way too many spoilers ahoy, but I do have some random observations of my own:

Given all the delayed resolutions he has to plot points, it's almost like he expected to pull a Robert Jordan and just keep cranking 'em out until he croaks—but the show has been so popular that he can't continue to drag his feet.

I was happy to see Michael Slovis directing—he was such a great cinematographer on Breaking Bad. I felt he added that same sense of space and place to this episode.

No, I don't think that was "kill 'em all". I think that was the patented Ned Stark "do the right thing at the worst possible time" style of ruling.

Yeah, I just re-watched this now that the season's over and it absolutely stands on its own as something dark and awesome. A or A-, for sure.

Right. Yeah, good good stuff. I had that record (back when there were records…)

I can't say I agree, and I think it does work. Or will — because this is clearly just a mile marker, and not the endpoint of the story. I agree with you about that. I'm surprised this was the season closer.

That trick never works.

Huh. IMO we just watched an entire episode explaining why Jimmy's acting this way. It's where his joy is. What we (or at least I) really want to see from him is the synthesis of Slippin' Jimmy and that guy that the old people really like and trust. You know, Saul.

What's great about that moment is watching Jimmy realize what kind of person he really is, and not denying it, and not trying to straighten up and fly right either.

That’s the Mike Bloomfield Super Session cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch”

Sure it was. It was one more shoutout in a movie filled with them (Hi Hector!). But MAN he got older.

Well, I have no idea if my theory is part of the writers' canon, but I am pretty sure that people don't develop such serious problems unless there is an intense mismatch/disagreement between the conscious and unconscious parts of a person. (Conflicting drives, religion, sexuality that doesn't fit one's idea of Normal…