I also have to wonder if the show’s budget had a serious effect on the storylines, since so much of each season takes place indoors, in one location. The church in season 1, the apartment in season 2, Angelville in season 3, and the Grail headquarters in season 4. 

Yeah, it’s odd they chose to make Cassidy a loveable scamp, but maybe Gilgun wouldn’t be believable as a bastard. But him being a bastard is a pretty huge character trait, one in which the comic’s ending sort of hinges on.

It ended exactly how I predicted: By showing the names of the people who made the show. 

Jesus and Hitler are fighting it out in Jesus’s room

I noticed during the Jesus wrap-up scene in the hardware store (2 years later) that the kid had a t-shirt that said Eugene. I think it was meant to say that Arseface attained his rock star dreams.

Biggest fail of the entire finale...

that God is a needy piece of shit

I do have a soft spot for Starr, but there was no reason to show him mowing down the cops as his final act. In fact, the banality of him being taken busted by the local fuzz after everything would have been satisfying.

Starr not getting his comeuppance - and getting to keep his looks - is just surreal to me. Was Starr a fan-favorite or something?

Because, to me, they made Starr less sympathetic than his comic counterpart. Comics Starr is a terrible person, but at least he has some sort of motivation and - in his own sick and deluded…

Eugene becomes a big star.

Someone needs to share this with Kevin Sorbo

It was fun laughing about this until it struck me that there are literally tens of millions of people for whom this is some real, no-bullshit, truth bomb cinema, then I just got sad. 

I’m pretty sure this means the show automatically qualifies for an A grade, so I’m very confused by the rest of the review.

Well, this time it's David Simon on the helm. Whatever it was that went wrong with Vinyl, I don't see a reason to assume why this one should endure a similar fait. From everything I've seen Simon's track record is almost perfect.

Franco's not really much of an actor, but he's a great screen presence and he's got charisma to spare. So he's usually fun to watch even if he's rarely, if ever going to disappear into a role like your DisCaprio or Days-Lewis.

That's why I always rolled my eyes at recent New York transplants who longed for "the good old days." It's like, "So you're cool with the rape and murder rates going through the roof as long as you get to feel like a real bohemian? You sound like a wonderful person."

I just came back from "quantum leaping" into 1976 (I "leapt" into the body and life of a tollbooth worker who needed to reconnect with the son he abandoned - its a long story) and I can attest to what you're saying.

I don't see how that wasn't blindingly clear. There was nothing ambiguous about it.

I thought it was heavily implied to the point of being unambiguous. After Jude walks out of the meeting without responding to the cardinal(?)'s, "this is just between us right?", the cardinal(?) and Christophe exchange a nod…. Then when Celine is running to his room they show the door open and he turns to look, we…

I absolutely read it as murder disguised as suicide. Nothing we saw of his character throughout pointed to suicide, and they strongly hinted that Father Christophe was the type to do anything to protect the hierarchy.