Awful writing, terribly delivered, overwhelms the sketchy plotting. Hey, just like the last half of TWD. It seems to me the franchise has become stupefied due to its success. Plus: there is Talking Dead soaking up an hour to ritualize the self-congratulation.

I keep waiting for Jeff Probst to show up and bestow more bennies.

I have to remind myself that were the Ricktator to demonstrate sensible leadership he would have gathered his soldiers around him and told them to tighten up the defenses "because we have no idea what we're actually up against," BUT, this would constitute boring TV.

"The pilot is a mess of varying tones, at once delightfully campy and violent while also unbearably self-serious." …such were the last two seasons of SOA.

I'm being patient amidst the crunchy dialogue and the show's unwillingness to have anyone process their observations and experience like a normal person might do so.

Betty went to Bryn Mawr. I'm reminded of this because she's put much into how she wants to be perceived, yet her core buried quality is smarts and curiosity—she was an anthropology major—and, suddenly in a sense, self-awareness.

Without pre-ordering the body bags, who saves who?

Maybe he'll catch the gun on his holster giving Raylan a chance to utter a memorable line before Raylan sends Boone to Hell.

Elmore Leonard mostly kept his white hat protagonists alive—after demonstrating their shaky and/or complex moral codes.

I think Constable Bob may have winged Boyd too.

A+ Now the "angriest man" has shed his badge, and he strides into a target rich environment with a pistol and a code. Justified has framed its Samurai moment.

I'm glad somebody, no doubt many others, enjoy this season and may do so to the point of rating it much higher than others, like me, would rate it.

My view is that it would be impossible to be too harsh in pointing out the obvious bloat and self-indulgence and—I shall now coin a term—turgidity, no wait, turditity, that has sunk this last season. And, also slowly sunk it in a slow-mo unfolding of mostly ridiculous plotting.

I have watched every minute of this once fascinating show and will do so until its inevitably improbable ending.

Blackwater!

Grade A moments mixed with C & D moments that thankfully were self-contained.

(I thought David Lee was first in your heart.)

If I could sneak an idea into Sutter's OCD plotting, I'd end the show with Raylan Givens on loan to law enforcement and, last shot, him saying to Jax,

Crisp: "But the soul is gone, bled out over the seasons through countless ragged wounds."

True Blood somehow managed the dullest kamikaze mission ever launched.