That's fair enough.

Even though Justified was one of my favorite shows of all time, Yost's keeping all the main players alive was nothing more than fan service. Here the choice was more organic.

Yes it would have. Just more slowly and imperceptibly. Peggy wasn't a budding feminist—just a sociopathic cuckoo bird.

Out of all the horrible fates that have befallen characters this season, the most hilariously Coen-ish one belonged to one who didn't die except on the inside—-Mike, who killed and conquered his way into the corporate hell behind the Mafia curtain.

The irony of the state where the New York Stock Exchange exists shutting down a site for "gambling" is quite thick.

GET OFF MY FUCKS!

I can't honestly think of another otherwise fairly standard (if slightly more sardonic and vulgar) comedy that took such a risk over the course of a whole season and had it pay off so wonderfully. I've seen risky one-off episodes that worked (the entirely-on-social-media ep of 'Modern Family' comes to mind) but this…

Yep, I was wondering if anyone else would mention that. If Hank had been in WWI he would have been in his 80s.

I'm not sure I've ever gasped more in one hour of television as I did tonight. Powerhouse stuff. My favorite moment from the night, however, was a more quietly funny one: Hanzee spying through a scope at the stupid cops from atop a building emblazoned with "OPTOMETRIST". Many of tonight's characters needed more than…

Good call.

Wouldn't he have subsequently used the revolver to shoot the racists at the bar?

Entirely true, but clearly Mike exhibited no qualms about doing it.

That's a fair enough point. I think the haircut serves both purposes.

Yes, my initial thought was that the overt racism was far overdone, but given the events that had recently happened in the show's timeframe, coupled with stories from my grandmother-in-law who grew up in the Upper Midwest in the mid-20th Century, I think it's not too much of a stretch to imagine the events being a…

I'm pretty sure Hanzee mostly wanted a haircut because he's wanted by the police and wants to throw them off his trail a bit.

Mike surely didn't mind popping that innocent nurse at the hospital in one of the early episodes.

Two film references caught this week, one Coen and one non-Coen:
1. The opening hallucination scene, with its undertones of brainwashing, reminded me of the opening scene of "The Manchurian Candidate".
2. The country store scene where Hahnzee quizzed the storekeeper was straight out of "No Country For Old Men".

I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I think Hahnzee might be tired of the racial slurs.

This Week's Title Reference: "Loplop" is a fictional creature from the imagination of artist Max Ernst, which later became used as a "familiar spirit" or "spirit animal". I suspect there may be a bit of punning going on here since Hanzee wanted Peggy to "lop lop" his hair at the end of the episode.

This deserves endless upvotes.