Don't forget, Dom kept saying how she's just another "Jersey Girl" on the finale.

It was on AMC just last night, on the back of a showing of the first film. I got sucked into its cheesiness for about ten minutes.

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Heh—did a search of the Fry's store fronts, to find out where they filmed this. It looks like the one in Phoenix.

I thought the scene in this season's opening episode of a masked Scott burning the money out in the street was a good, electric scene.

What a whimper of an ending for this uneven, clunker of a season.

Setup aside, and I know the show kind of laid a foundation in Season 1 on pulling tricks on its audience, but the fact that we didn't know for sure exactly where Elliot was, what his situation was (despite whatever people called in S2E1), why the characters were acting the way they were—it all qualifies as an asspull…

The fact that they spent five+ episodes on said "groundwork" for that kind of payoff is the critique.

My guess as to where the calls are coming from that Elliot triangulated to, are from the house of the E-Corp CFO who's wife was strangled by Tyrell last season. We haven't seen the CFO in awhile, and that's definitely one place Tyrell wouldn't / shouldn't be calling from, as the goon said.

My thoughts before I read the review:

I too thought the "who's at the door? / what did Cisco see?" cliffhanger asspulls were pretty annoying.

I enjoyed season 2 of the Wire quite a bit also, though it's probably my least favorite of the 5. It was pretty daring of them to shift focus so drastically, especially after the world-building of season 1.

I'd say even Stone was hardcore cynical (and he had no problem sacrificing Chandra), as was Box. Freddy was in Naz's corner, but was pretty ruthless in dealing with everyone else.

Nope—just using it as an example of a show that starts you out with one set of characters and viewpoints, and then completely changes them for the second season.

I laughed at a few lines / scenes over the 97 minutes.

At the risk of being reductive or giving an obvious explanation, it was really Naz and Stone's narrative, and to a lesser extent, Box's. We got in their heads the most, and the story we followed was theirs.

Like the massive narrative shift from the police / drug dealers procedural of The Wire Seas 1 to the dock workers story of Wire Seas 2.

Having not read the review yet, I actually found this episode pretty satisfying in its scope.

Yeah, Frusciante's copious solo output particularly from 2004-2005 went a long way to distancing him from the Chilis. But now he seems to be off on some weird tangents on his last few solo albums that I've heard.

I thought there was a lot more interesting stuff going on this episode then there was with Elliot and Craig Robinson and the whole limp prison reveal of the last 2-3 episodes.