I love this show, probably more than The Wire. This episode was also near perfection for the first 45 minutes: perfect acting, an amazing heist, brilliant characters, lots of twists and turns, and not even slightly predictable. Why not give this episode a 10?
*vague spoiling*
It's something I rarely ever say and I know non-sentimental reviewers will dismiss my review because of it: it got a bit too dark, even for me. I love ultraviolence, I love raw, unbridled sexuality. I grew up watching A Clockwork Orange repeatedly and I'm not timid in almost any circumstances when it comes to violence, realistic or campy on the screen. But a certain character's demise was too much. I've thought about this a lot and I am certain they have the worst "on screen" death of any non-evil character on the small screen or large, aside from the Red Wedding. The character had a lot of character flaws, but at the end of the day, they were a good person and not actually a threat to anyone yet. The death was dragged on and on, and given multiple spots where the character and audience are to that there is a chance at survival. It's needlessly cruel and never repaid in kind later on. I know that's not usually something people rate tv and movies on, but I don't care. Someone out there will heed my warning and steel themselves for this episode, and this review will have served its purpose.
*vague spoiling*
It's something I rarely ever say and I know non-sentimental reviewers will dismiss my review because of it: it got a bit too dark, even for me. I love ultraviolence, I love raw, unbridled sexuality. I grew up watching A Clockwork Orange repeatedly and I'm not timid in almost any circumstances when it comes to violence, realistic or campy on the screen. But a certain character's demise was too much. I've thought about this a lot and I am certain they have the worst "on screen" death of any non-evil character on the small screen or large, aside from the Red Wedding. The character had a lot of character flaws, but at the end of the day, they were a good person and not actually a threat to anyone yet. The death was dragged on and on, and given multiple spots where the character and audience are to that there is a chance at survival. It's needlessly cruel and never repaid in kind later on. I know that's not usually something people rate tv and movies on, but I don't care. Someone out there will heed my warning and steel themselves for this episode, and this review will have served its purpose.
