Plan and Execution

I have no words. Speechless. This episode was brilliantly executed from start to finish, as always, with great pacing.

And then the ending hit and left me with my jaw dropped for about 30 minutes. Scratch that, my jaw is still on the floor as I'm typing this. I'm in shock. WTF.

All good things come to an end.

With episode 7, the first half of season 6 concludes with a brutalist bang, crushing any concerns about the pacing of season 6 in a heartstopping instant.

Director Thomas Schnauz absolutely delivers:; flush with particularly elegant cinematographic flair, episode was cruel and unrelenting by all metrics, with fiery tension and ramifications that will echo across Gould and Gilligans universe for years.

One thing I particularly noticed was the foreboding sense of despair and downfall that underpinned the plot, travelling exactly where most viewers suspected but in a twisted, unique style packed to the brim with chicanery levels of emotion.

All in all, season 6a has been an emphatic success, with episode 1, 3 and 7 being the highlights.

The best episode of the show yet. An intense, complex and quite wonderful scam plays out for the most part, and then on top of that there's a twist ending involving the secondary plot which absolutely blows you away. An incredible pay-off to what's come before.

Another elite episode has arrived. No other show has payoffs like this, intertwining storylines coming together with massive buildups all while relating it with the all the other seasons. Vravo Bince.

It's like the poem 'Ozymandias'. This didn't felt like a TV episode. This was art. This was terrifying. This is perfect. This show is perfect. I don't know how to properly review this. I'm still processing.