It's not a happy ending for the characters, but there's definitely more a happy or maybe bittersweet tone to the end than I would have expected. Wasn't a big fan of the music choice at the end, largely because it felt a bit like it was aping the Sopranos ending. 
But the more I think about it, the more I'm ok with it.…

Good:
-Cold open
-Final shot
-The shooting overall was fabulous. 
-BADGER AND SKINNY PETE
-Jesse killing Todd

*my opinion*
A+ episode
A - series finale

Just watched the pilot. Mixed feelings, but I think I'll keep going as there is some promise there.

No, just tell them that it's a wildly innovative show that made a switch from thriller/drama to meta-comedy halfway through. There's nothing else like it out there!

Talking Men would never get past the political correctness police.

Fuck AMC, this is stupid.

Oh man, if they got Christian Bale, this thing would do amazing.

Hannah is now officially Ghost Harry 2.0, AKA an object for Dexter to recite exposition at and who sometimes offers him ostensibly poignant advice.

More charitably, I think Boardwalk Empire is best understood as taking the traditional Mob narrative elements of The Sopranos, and turning them into their own show.

For the first time tonight, I had trouble following Dexter. It was so boring that I didn't even care enough to pay attention to the dialogue.

This episode is one of my favorites just for how tense it made me in the early going. At this point in the season my first time through, I was beginning to get very anxious about the whole missing Lisa plot. I was on the edge of my seat for every single opening death, just waiting for a sudden twist and the opening…

You're missing a David (Simon)

"Psychopath" is the new "tableau"

No comment on the somewhat subtle Peggy moment: Birth of a Cat Lady? Favorite bit of the episode.

Decent finale, I thought, even though I'm shocked they didn't do Lady Stoneheart as the ending scene. They continue to make strange choices with Stannis' character but I've basically accepted it by now.

I thought this was a pretty good episode, if a little unfocused.

I would be pretty shocked if they didn't use that as the last scene of this season. Every season so far has ended with magic - Fire or Ice. Season was was fire, season two was ice. Time for more fire - Lady Stoneheart is pretty much the only possible thing that has the same dramatic heft as dragons or an army of…

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