[Overpaid Slacker]

Was watching with a friend, whose occasional F-buddy is this pretentious twit.... who tried to sell us on how "enlightened" or "creative" the non-ending was.

Which, unfortunately presaged what has been the pattern. Those who regard themselves as deep thinkers will herald this as creative or "thought-inspiring". Feh. Keep the mental masturbation to yourself. Chase chickened out with this "ending."

... Like there wouldn't be anything to talk about if we'd actually had an ending?

I think Bell's take is a great attempt to redeem what was otherwise a feeble, feeble finale, but I don't agree. It's not as though the entire show was "seen through Tony's eyes", so without him there is nothing going on.

I thought the Paulie/Tony dynamic was great; loved the cat (and its effect on Paulie) and otherwise grooved on the episode a bit. But, in the end, it was


JP