The last piece of the Friedken brothers’ origin story comes together when we flash back to the night Vince dropped a bowling ball on his dad’s head to save his mom. Vince has carried this event like a home-cooked original sin through a lifetime of gambling, addiction, crimes, and misdemeanors. Was it necessary to wait until the second-to-last episode for this reveal? Hard to say on a show with a story that feels slightly mismatched to its episode count (like many a modern streaming series), though that usually indicates some information has been withheld to keep the audience in artificial suspense.

Regardless, Big Dick’s death sets us up emotionally for an adrenaline-fueled two-episode final act directed by Justin Kurzel, who is a seasoned executor of cold-crime-genre action suffused wi

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