Although predictable I felt that the Tommy Darmody storyline was pushed upon us without thought of what it did to the previous storyline. In the first episode Tommy is eating mush and sleeping in a crib yet ten years later he kills Nucky, so it does not work from a continuity stand point.

Pointed out earlier in the thread but worth repeating, it tarnishes the heroics and efforts of Richard who buy far was one of the most interesting characters and storylines. Richard saved Tommy and left him with a family that not only take care of him and steer him down the right path, but would not share his father’s past even if Richard told them.

Gillian could not give Tommy any information about Jimmy and Nucky when Tommy came of age. It took the women seven years to bargain for a piece of paper, an envelope and a stamp. You can also understand the reasoning for mail not permitted to leave the asylum.

It would have been move fitting to end with a 1941 flash of a broke, penniless, lonely and broken Nucky being apprehended by a young hot shot IRS agent Tommy Darmody. This would be a testament to the valiant efforts of Richard.

A short season, but some of the series best scenes.