[Bay Ridge Jet]

Originally Posted by Dcat

Holy Sh*t!

What a great season finale! Should have seen it coming, but I didn't. And it all makes sense. After the evils committed by JD, including incest and patricide, it makes perfect sense.

Without Michael Pitt, Dabney Coleman, Aleska Palladino (Angela), they'll be needing to add a lot of new characters next season. They gave room for the return of Michael Shannon (Agent Nelson VanAlden) to return. Good. I hope they bring him back. He is a terrifically odd character and one of the more interesting ones on BE. I also hope they find some way of bringing back Jack Huston (Richard Harrow), who has been sensational. It truly has been a show with a stronger supporting cast than the main characters sometimes, including Buscemi (but not by any fault of Buscemi). Maybe the surprising finale can put some life into the Nucky character, who this season was relegated to constant cynicism and the one-note song of always being annoyed by everyone around him, which got very old and boring very quickly. The limitations they put on Buscemi for this character have been a crime. Buscemi is so good and creative in interpretation of odd characters throughout his career, but not so much on BE. He was totally one-dimensional for all of season 2. That is until the last scenes of the season finale.

Pretty good interview about the finale at EW (Spoiler ridden of course)

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/11/bo...side+a+shocker