This episode was absolutely the worst ending I have ever seen. It concluded a series that was terrific until Frank needed to be buried and then the series decomposed like poor Frank's corpse. Where to start?
1. Frank's death was described so differently it was hard to know how the poor shyster died. Bed?Floor?Murdered?
2. Claire spent most of the series waving the feminist banner when she wasn't having people bumped off. The most misogynistic person on planet Earth could not have created a character more over the top and unbelievable.
3. The VP never seemed defined as principled, just horny, a schemer or a political doofus. He had no center.
4. Did I mention the writing sucked?
5. Claire's speech detailing how Jane was dead, along with Catherine and Tom sounded like a ripoff from Michael Corleone detailing how he had, during the baptism, "settled all family business."
6. Claire's all female cabinet was like a Mel Brooks' parody. Were the creators and writers on coke when they wrote that?
7. Poor Tom's body was carried around, frozen, then defrosted, used as display when needed. I suspect controlled substances were at work during that writing session also.
8. And then the baby. What a plot contrivance that had no link to anything else that was happening! When was this magic baby conceived? When Claire was not returning Frank's calls, or as he lay dying on the carpet/bed/whatever? I kept thinking that her belly would rip open, an alien would pop out and Sigourney Weaver would kill it.
9. And the conclusion!!! Doug gets killed, with no resolution to his concerns, Claire is about the push the button and start nuclear war, Bill Shepherd is looking at art books, the cabinet is looking at Claire like she Pennywise, the Shepherd boy is stuck in jail and mother Annette's assassination plan came a cropper.....nothing, absolutely nothing resolved.
And we are left with Claire, Lady Macbeth with fewer scruples, a body count that would embarrass Tony Soprano, still president, still ready to destroy the world and no justice, no ending, no resolution, just several hours of my life that, along with other victims of this dumpster fire of a season, I cannot get back.
8. And then the baby. What a plot contrivance that had no link to anything else that was happening! When was this magic baby conceived? When Claire was not returning Frank's calls, or as he lay dying on the carpet/bed/whatever? I kept thinking that her belly would rip open, an alien would pop out and Sigourney Weaver would kill it.
9. And the conclusion!!! Doug gets killed, with no resolution to his concerns, Claire is about the push the button and start nuclear war, Bill Shepherd is looking at art books, the cabinet is looking at Claire like she Pennywise, the Shepherd boy is stuck in jail and mother Annette's assassination plan came a cropper.....nothing, absolutely nothing resolved.
And we are left with Claire, Lady Macbeth with fewer scruples, a body count that would embarrass Tony Soprano, still president, still ready to destroy the world and no justice, no ending, no resolution, just several hours of my life that, along with other victims of this dumpster fire of a season, I cannot get back.