#madelyn clone

Some of my biggest grievances with this season were the amount of screen time Big John got and Sarah’s storyline with Topper (both of which resulted in a serious lack of group screen time of all the pogues, which is the beating heart of the show — and this lack of group scenes was easily my biggest issue with this season).

I understood why they did what they did with Big John, but I honestly feel like he could’ve stayed dead. I don’t think he added enough to the storyline this season for it to be worth bringing him back — his scenes were boring, he didn’t have many qualities for viewers to root for, he was super mean to John B for most of the season and (sadly) the actor was average. There could have been another way for the pogues to dive into the treasure hunt together.

I was annoyed with the Stopper storyline, not only because we’ve done this before, it’s a waste of time, it feels OOC for Sarah, but because episode 5 showed us how Topper can be involved in the show in a great way, without being a love interest for Sarah. He was a great unexpected ally for the Pogues and Austin North provided such great comedic relief in that heist episode — I’d have loved to see more of him in that sense, rather than the (predictable, dull) route they took instead.