Flawless episode. Yeah, I said it. Milch, who had Alzheimer's while in production, made the finale his viewers deserved. Deadwood is one of the greatest TV dramas of all time (I rank it above Breaking Bad and Mad Men) rivalling its HBO siblings The Sopranos and The Wire.

The shootout sequence was probably the most exciting the series has been since the Season 2 premiere "A Lie Agreed Upon." Towards the end, viewers are reminded what this series was all about: community. How we're all dependent upon one another and we prosper when united. Of course plenty of this finale (because so many Twin Peaks fans call the series a "long film" I'm gonna go ahead and refer to this as the show's finale).

You could call it fan service, but these characters are now aged and crippled from the previous time we saw them and they each represent Milch's current state, someone who wishes for one last hurrah before its all over.

This is a beautiful piece of TV.