Yup, that was it, after settling quite a few old scores. I was kinda surprised, I thought he would turn around and go out in a blaze of glory firing at the 40 cops who were slowly chasing him, a la O.J., only single file, lol. In doing so he might've taken out an old favorite of mine, Michael Chiklis, the star of the old show "The Shield," who helped Gemma on his way north, and "helped" Jax on his way south. In the finale of "The Shield," Walter Goggins, rather than face jail time as a disgraced cop, killed his wife, kids, and himself. In the "SOS" finale, he got to comfort the club's kinky new Vice President, lol. He's been the main bad guy for the entirety of "Justified," too, I'm quite sure he's gonna end up as worm food there in several months, as well.
And, just to be clear, the club voted he had to go for bringing so much "mayhem" down on them, but this way he got to clean things up to a great extent up and go out with honor?
It's funny, I liked "The Shield" and the "The Sopranos," both of which had, IMO, excellently written shows, but I was initially drawn to both of them because they had something I had never seen before on TV-a lead character who murdered somebody, in the very first episode(for sure in "Shield," not sure for "Sopranos," but if it wasn't the first episode, it wasn't long thereafter), and I waited YEARS for them to finally get their comeuppance(of course, for Vic Makey it was a living death in that his family was whisked away into Witness Protection while he was "chained" to a desk job, and we're not 100% sure that Tony S DID get his comeuppance, but I'm pretty sure he did). And SOA had something I've never seen in a series, too: the top 4 characters all dying in the last 2 years of the show-and Bobby and Unser weren't that far down in "Tier Two," either.
You wanna know one lucky mofo? Connor, talk about luck 'o the Irish, or nine lives, he walked in and discovered that Jax took out his Irish homies and coudda been popped there; then Jax had the fake betrayal giving him up to the Chinese(which Connor didn't know was fake) and he coudda bought it in the ensuing gun "fight;" then he got caught skimming by his Irish homies, and those around him who did likewise were killed, but he was spared; then he seemingly had a Jax-like death wish in taking a shot at the SOA and trying to out run them in a crate, he coudda bought it about 9 times racing through a friggin' warehouse; and lastly, when his Irish higher ups were murdered yet again(don't those Micks catch on, lol, they're bad asses, but every time some of them visit the States, there are Irish bodies flopping around) in the finale, he was spared(I liked the way Chips had to kinda prompt him to say, "Thank you," lol).
I know absolutely nothing about this show, but since people are raving about it, I'm considering checking it out.
What other shows does it compare to? I don't watch a lot of TV dramas, but I really liked Breaking Bad and Homeland, those are really the only 2 dramas
I've watched over the last 5-10 years. (And Dexter... )
In a couple sentences, what do you like so much about this show, compared to some others out there?
Thanks.
What other shows does it compare to? I don't watch a lot of TV dramas, but I really liked Breaking Bad and Homeland, those are really the only 2 dramas
I've watched over the last 5-10 years. (And Dexter... )
In a couple sentences, what do you like so much about this show, compared to some others out there?
Thanks.
