Amen.

I liked that at least McNulty took that homeless guy(where? His parents'?) to make that one thing right,in keeping with the whole show's opinion that our best hope is doing small things, one to one. Overall, season 4 is probably my favorite, despite the lack of Bushy top and my being a big McNutty fangirl.(some of that stuff is quite a stretch of his character, even though I would never say it was completely OoC.) I think there's something...indelible about watching kids choose corners that even the most perfect newsroom story couldn't quite get to. And we didn't get the most perfect newsroom story, anyway, but even so. Prezbo really impressed me as he stepped up to be the lead, too, which I wouldn't have predicted at the beginning.

Innocent?? Oh, Jack's got a vengeance killin' comin' his way.

Farnum got a fucking SOLILOQUY. Wow. Milch does like his Shakespeare, I see.

I find it interesting that Toliver appears to be more like Swearengen than I initially thought. He even has his own Dan.

I have this sneaking suspicion that the newspaperman's got whatever plague Andy just died from. He's been inappropriately sneezing at funerals for two episodes now. And I think this show likes to set up its plots in the background.

Isn't Nebraska a long way off? It doesn't seem like a vaccine would get back to Deadwood in nearly enough time if an epidemic breaks out.

Yeah, he does that a lot. Sometimes to greater effect than others.

Any soliloquy that ends in "Goddamn motherfucker!" is fine by me.

I never had a chance to mention before how much I love Dan Dority. Like, I have a little crush on him and he seems so cuddly-- like a Teddy Bear. Even though he is a henchman and kills people.

Even though he is a henchman and kills people.

With his bare hands even. So more like a grizzly, less like a teddy.

But yeah, Dan was kind of awesome. I like how they let little details of just how much he and Al had meant to each other over the years.

I completely agree with you, Sophia! I even called him a big murderous teddy bear. He's clearly become one of my favorite characters; I was disappointed there wasn't more of him in this last episode, after four episodes where he figured pretty prominently.

I'm still not sure I understand Trixie as a character. Is she just the whore Al fancies the most? Is she officially above the others in a hierarchy (like Joanie seems to be? I'm not sure whether Joanie herself is a whore or not, given Toliver's whole "Were you not asking my permission?" bit)? I don't get why she's been focused on. And it's so sad to see her every time because her bruises haven't healed yet.

I want one. To keep people away when I ain't receivin.

I think those relationships will become more clear in time, P-C.

After Tom Block wrote his powerhouse High Hat essay about the fight in Season Three involving Dority, I heard that W. Earl Brown himself had commented on it at the HBO forum.