If the movie has the ring of a high school or college reunion, that’s because that’s pretty much what it’s like.
Jax spends much of the episode trying to mend the bursted gangland seem that he was entirely responsible for opening.
The slow-moving guillotine that’s been hovering over the heads of so many characters in the final season starts to speed up in this episode.
Images fixated on agitation abound in the episode’s early stretch.
The episode merely bides time until the bloody series finale and leaving viewers in a state of disorientation.
If it weren’t for all the bloodstains and gaping wounds, the eerie opening shot might seem like the beginning of a party sequence gone wrong.
Revelation takes many forms, and David Milch chooses a more subdued and implicative tack in closing out this chapter of the show’s narrative.
The varied impressions of a discordant society finally banding together are offset by a concomitant sense of purgatorial limbo.
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That was most certainly the voice of the Creator taunting the fragile Barry Cunningham in the dilapidated barroom of the Snug Harbor Motel.
Like Coltrane’s cover of “My Favorite Things,” John from Cincinnati is an extended riff on things familiar, now made strange.
Completion does not necessarily mean forcing the end.
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The fences go up in the aftermath of the miracle that closed the second episode of John from Cincinnati.
Maybe the problem with John from Cincinnati is its miscalculated sense of center.
The closing shot of last night’s Deadwood episode was never meant as a series-ender.
Deep down, you just knew that Whitney Ellsworth was too good to live.
The show depicts human beings as they are—scatterbrained, selfish, myopic, sometimes viciously cruel.
Savage men who disagree beat each other’s brains in. “Civilized” men who disagree send proxies to beat each other’s brains in.
In Deadwood, no one incident is isolated; it inevitably touches everyone and everything, reverberating throughout a community now readying itself for its first legal elections.
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