Colin in the car the first time with Ani was the first time I saw him as "acting" rather than buying his character since the dreadful scene with the dad in the early episodes. But, like that earlier scene, I think the dialogue was the problem. Pizzolatto doesn't write casual dialogue well.

What did you think of the song in the finale? I liked it ok in the bar but I did not like it at the end.

I can't read the writing on your avatar but I want it to say "Even the stars look like a mess."

The slaughter at the meth lab was where the believability crashed and burned. We are supposed to believe that Paul gets followed around by the press because of an incident with an actress and at the same believe that only three months after such a huge fiasco one of the characters would be describing it to a side…

I'm bummed we never found out what Austin Chessani's creative form of patriarchy was that made his wife kill herself. I guess we just have to take his daughter's word for it that he was a very, very bad man. Because, in the end, what exactly did he do that was so bad?

The diamonds may have been cashed in many times over since the robbery and still be in Caspere's hands because Caspere was the bank for all the crooks in California, apparently.

Because Caspere was passing payments around among so many different people I assumed he was now "holding" those diamonds for whoever the cops had given them to as a buy-in. The cops needed them back after Caspere was murdered because, as Jared says, whoever they technically belong to now they can be traced back to the…

If the writing were good we wouldn't need to be told this by various commenters week after week.

Paul didn't have a downfall by Vinci logic. He got a highway named after him. He was almost successful at being someone other than he was. He was just authentic enough to get killed like a good guy, though. He didn't die because he was gay or closeted; he died because he let his true feelings govern him at a crucial…

It would have been a little more interesting if Ani had gotten killed with Frank and we ended up with Ray, Jordan, and Nails raising Frank's surprise baby. With no romance between Ray and Jordan.

I was at the smoker's table, but yeah.

After all those highway shots.

Interesting that those two were completely fubared, the son beyond redemption. In Pizz's world even a rat-killing basement childhood is better than a fostercare childhood.

Burris was pretty supernatural, for one.

When Frank gave Ani a message for Jordan you knew Frank wasn't going to make it. I was pretty sure Ray wasn't going to make it because Frank had to convince him to go along with him on the raid. If Ray had just gone along with him I might have had hopes for Ray but that scene was only there for doom purposes. So I was…

Huh. I edited that right after to say "Duh, wrong diamonds" but it's not showing up."

Yes, a foredoomed conclusion shouldn't take the majority of an episode's length to play out.

I think his performance was supposed to be stiff. The excuse that his dialogue was supposed to be grandiose because of his character is what annoys me. His dialogue was supposed to be AWESOME, hilarious, pithy. No one will convince me otherwise.

Well then write a docudrama and leave the dreams and Lynch stuff out!

They were on Frank. It was why he didn't want to give up his suit. Oh whoops. Not the BLUE diamonds! Sorry!