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Wonderfully crafted episode of television. Even if you have experience with the earlier show or the novel, it still subverts and exceeds expectations, which is just peak storytelling.

This has been one of the best well crafted series, ever. FX is really having a renaissance in serials similar to HBO and AMC in the early aughts. Each episode has it creeping close to 'Chernobyl' on my top 10 limited series of all time. The attention to details. EVERYTHING. GOAT.

Let this define what penultimate episodes should look like. Praise. More praise. Why bother with other words? Good night, and good luck.

That sums it up. It's got hype action. A hero's journey. Underworld lore. Crime Families. Hippity Hop style. And it's French. Like the creator went to the Luc Besson school of storytelling. All style, some story, over-the-top amped fun.

I wouldn't downgrade it 'Fast and Furious' style, but there is definite camp. Maybe if this show does gets multiple seasons, they will end up stealing tanks to take up to space.

It's not that real, grime spot that sells tasty cheese by the slice. It's not dressed up like it's a sit-down with courses. It's Pizza Hut and we're hungry. Thank you, may I have another?

It doesn't take much to be better than M. Night Shamalot; faithfully represent the original material, pick some substance over style and leave the foolish gimmicks back in 1999 where they belong.

It also doesn't take much to disappoint a bunch of stans, bunch of folks' childhoods encapsulated in each precious episode, looking for that 1:1 recreation of their memories. And everyone wishes television (streaming) had the same resources as WB Discovery and can hire award winning directors like Craig Mazin working with the original creators like Neil Druckmann--every change meticulously chosen to add more depth to 'The Last of Us.' But Avatar's original creators bailed on Netflix's vision, you know, creative differences. Netflix isn't exactly known to incubate great talent into the world, they're highly successful if they can put out a third season or series in the highly competitive numbers game of subscription services.

So appreciate what good we got, it's better than the film adaptation, although not what the original creators would've made live action but still better than what they did to our precious 'Cowboy Bepop.' Just remember, lower expectatioins, Netflix is a hybrid technology company pretending to be a media company, unless you forgot they got started with trading DVDs.