Answers, explanations, endings, and beginnings add up to a fantastic conclusion
Wow.
The finale was bloody brilliant and morally right, loud, quiet, and deep.
I mean, how do you recap that?
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Well, you start at the start and work your way to the end.
(Thanks, Lou.)
This is a true story.
People died, Peggy.
We see their faces as Lou reads the epigraph.
The answer is that everyones story is true, but mostly only true for oneself.
Camus, for all of his French wisdom, cannot speak for Betsy.
She has Molly, and in Molly she has purpose.
Were put on this earth to do a job, she tells Noreen.
Each of us gets the time that we get to do it.
Its the rock we all push, men.
We call it our burden, but its really our privilege.
The funny thing is that both Lou and Betsy mostly agree with Camus.
The latter diverges on the whole Does God exist?
Unlike organized religion, there isnt an absolute answer to how its done.
It just happens that both Betsy and Lou have found theirs in their family.
Did I mention that Betsy is still alive?
According to Noreen, shes had a bad reaction to Xanadu.
The good news is that the pill seems to be the real deal and not the placebo.
The bad news is that the medication might kill her before the cancer does.
While Betsy was unconscious, she had a dream.
That night I had a dream.
It felt so real, even though I knew it couldnt be or wasnt yet.
Then I saw farther still, years, decades into the future.
See, its all true.
The butcher took one in the back while they were running away, and hes fading fast.
He doesnt think theyre going to make it, but hes not talking about survival.
Hes talking about them.
Youre always trying to fix things.
Sometimes nothing is broken, Ed says.
Everything is working just fine.
But that life was poison to Peggy.
Or, he doesnt.
It turns out that the warm champagne of corporate praise is about as appetizing as warm champagne.
And after all of that triumph, too.
And while we still have kings under another name, that is a realm that is kept from Mike.
While it may seem simply anticlimactic, this end for Mike Milligan is tragic.
He is neither king nor cowboy.
His deadly intellect has been rendered dull, transformed into a blunt instrument of line items and budget cuts.
It wasnt a revolution, and it wasnt a rebellion.
All Mike was able to do was become a part of the system he fought against.
For his coda, Hanzee gets a new face and a couple of huge season 1 Easter eggs.
Although its left vague, there was another part involved in the destruction of the Gerhardts.
The representative meets Hanzee at a baseball field and hands over his new identity.
On the field in front of him are two boys speaking in sign language.
These two are presumably Mr. Wrench and Mr.
Numbers, the men tasked with taking out Malvo.
But none of thatreallymatters.
Yes, before its all over, we get an explanation for Hanks office.
From where he stands, most of the worlds problem boil down to a lack of communication.
We would see that were all fighting the same fight.
Its Hanks hope that he can do something to fix that.
Its a extremely naive hope, but like he says a well-intentioned one.
Or at least one thats more polite about it.
