So, Kings this week woke up, rolled over, and was like, “Shit, I’m late to finale!” and shoved three episodes’ worth of plot into this week’s episode.

Good news: this week’s episode was really exciting and featured some good acting! Bad news: we had to wait TEN EPISODES for this.

I wrote it up at Tor.com, and extra thoughts are under the cut as per usual.

David made facial expressions. I KNOW, RIGHT?

- David giving Michelle the old, “Don’t even BOTHER to explain!” just made me want to scream, because I hate that trope so fucking much (JUST GIVE THE PERSON TEN SECONDS AND SAVE THREE HOURS OF MISUNDERSTANDING, PLEASE GOD), but on the other hand, if Michelle wanted to explain something to me, I’d probably tell her to piss off, too, so I was stuck in the middle on that one.

- I’m still pissed about Katrina missing out on all this awesome plot just because they killed her. Can you imagine how she would feel watching Silas go down, realizing Jack was a pawn in someone else’s scheme, but she’s still queen? Uncle Cross’s coup would have lasted about three seconds before she stabbed him through the heart with her heel and then told everyone to sit down and get to business already, and then Jack would be king instead of David, the World’s Most Boring Man. *sigh*

- The badass Thomasina is welcome back (sooooo welcome, you have no idea), but it just highlights how often characterization falls by the wayside in this show when they have to shoehorn some plot in.

- David acted! I clutched my pearls.

- David and Jack finally hugged. Remember in the third episode when Jack and David were hitting the nightclubs and Jack was doing a lot of Meaningful Staring and it looked like it was going to be a great, strained relationship, and then for eight episodes they forgot they had ever spoken except during unrelated commando missions? Yeah, me neither.

- We still do not know what Macaulay did. WE STILL DO NOT KNOW. At this point, it has to be a Death Ray or something for it to be worth the delay. (If it is a Death Ray – well done, show!)