It's better to bring them over when they're so young because they pick up a second language much quicker.

Ok, so then this is my entirely crackpot theory.

My not entirely crackpot theory that Marty Hart is the real killer:

Rust working the case would certainly jive with his interest in seeing the new case files.

Wow wow wow wow.

The show came THIS CLOSE to going over the edge when Maggie called Rust. I felt like the back-and-forth in the beginning at the tent was a little too on the nose and Marty's reaction at the bar and afterwards was a little too extreme.

Great point about the use of space. Especially in the road shots, where there's always something in the distance, like a refinery that appears to be huge, but blurry.

Hitchcock and Scully killed it in this episode: Not knowing about the bet, dancing like Titanic ("Not even if it cured cancer."), and especially the stripping in the end.

I believe you mean Sir Ian Darke.

"Terry wouldn't do you like that!"

I loved this show and I'm really going to miss it. More than anything else,I truly appreciated the way it treated me like an adult and didn't spoon feed me.

That's a great point. Big Chief came back to New Orleans to rebuild his house and he was able to take his last breath in that house. When you think of all he had been through (rebuilding the bar, his forays into public policy, etc…), it was a fitting end.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the first episode start with a funeral? "Play for that money, boys." Coming full circle.

How do you know it was a child?

Oh man, he would have been the best presidential critic ever. I almost want to film Clarke Peters in character talking about Obama now.

A big theme is that nothing ever changes. The first episode started with the Obama election and John Boutte literally singing "A Change is Gonna Come," but quickly turns to Kermit Ruffins staring down the block to more of the same old. This episode reinforced that. Same old New Orleans, same old problems, same old…

Yeah. I actually thought in the first episode that it was understood that she knew what she was doing and that she was kinda doing it to out of spite.

A for the episode, D- for Big Chief's Christmas tree.

Ugh, Julie Andrews must be spinning in her grave.