The corpse of Monty Hall seems, er, ripe for a cameo.

Side note: "We're like an old couple" — I haven't seen Frances Ha, but if Baumbach has Gerwig saying this, it's like he's paraphrasing himself from the end of Kicking and Screaming, where Grover says to Jane, "I wish we were an old couple."

Season 1 of Remington Steele opens with a Laura voiceover that tackles her background, professional sexism, faking Steele, and office dating. It's like 75 seconds of straight talking.

Ah - thx. I was actually able to catch the last segments via other websites. It hadn't been posted on CBS last night when I finished watching what the Tivo caught. It was a weird kind of panic at the time.

As did my Tivo. Add to the that the fact I got home late… There's nothing like staying up until 2:30 and then discovering you can't even finish the damn thing.

That NY Mag profile said he's known what he wants to do on his last show for some time, so I can only image the camera zooms in on his eye, and we hear his breath slow, and his eye slowly closes, then silence and the scene cuts to black.

I was surprised at how much I found myself laughing out loud at that montage.

Ah, yes - I hear you, and I agree. That's why I'm intrigued by the ambiguity of the ending, and why I think these 2 minutes in the Brownstone at the end of the episode have been subject to so much Kremlinology on this site: the Joan/Sherlock interaction is so deliberately vague, we can't help but theorize. Is it…

Agreed - thank you. As many others have noted, addiction and recovery are life-long issues that rarely, if ever, involve an instigating event that you can point to and say, "This, X, is why that, Y, happened."

Yes and yes. Thank you for laying it out logically. While I'm not sure I'd go C-, I hear where you're coming from.

(Joking aside, it actually came up the other night — in the context that Leno had asked if Letterman wanted to show up for Leno's finale. Letterman declined, citing that it should really be about Leno; his feeling was that Leno probably feels the same way about Letterman's retirement.)

I do really wish Bill, Peter, Mike, and Michael would reunite for a one-night farewell reprise:

I think in general, the ep had a lot of seemingly "throw away" lines that allow it to plant lots of "what ifs" — the frail addict/bum ticker line, the Irene reference, etc.

Yeah - he definitely did the old "you think it's over, then there's 2 more for good measure" thing. If nothing else, I think they did it to make us wonder.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be murder, but there are ways they could justify/write around his not being in jail, at least at first: bail, especially given his means and history with the NYPD; or a claim of self-defense - he also could have restaged the scene in a blind rage (he's Sherlock, after all, and could do that…

The Rob Doherty interview linked to below seems to imply that unpacking/examining those 3 days would definitely be a theme in the next season.

One last thing - are we sure he didn't kill Oscar? The savagery of the beating and the limpness of his body might point to something else with regard to the relapse, in addition to his being dragged through Oscar's terrible Odyssey. (I'm assuming there'd be a plea of justifiable homicide or self-defense.)

Thank you, Myles.

That's what's getting to me - the previously-on specifically mentioned the "he'll cut you off" thing, so who knows what his arrival means.

I'm still annoyed they used up Roger Rees.