User Reviews

Not sure what the other reviewers watched...they didn't even get the facts right. This was the perfect episode to honor all of the characters and give them the lives they wanted and deserved. People don't stay exactly the same...neither should these roles.

I had hoped the series would end with everyone walking up to nosy busybody Angela and slapping her fat face and telling her they were moving out of Boston to get away from her.

Having seen the entire series, I can honestly say that this show would have been 100 times better if Lorraine Bracco had been in the cast as an occasional recurring character. She has the most annoying and obnoxious tone. She always seems to be talking down to, or guilting everyone. If she had only been in this show now and then, she could have reminded everyone of how annoying "Ma" was whenever she made a guest appearance, and the other shows without her would have been a lot better. Sad that she lasted the entire series.

R&I started as a smart savvy detective story. First they degraded the supposedly intelligent ME into a shallow ridiculous fashion-shoe collecting bimbo; then this last year the whole show skipped what made it interesting and turned it into a soap-opera. Too bad -- obviously changed the people in charge. This last show was the WORST. I continued to try to watch, since I had been watching for years, but it became painful. This show had no intelligence or substance - just sappy; shallow; nothingness. Too bad.

I've seen this happen with other shows. Maybe the good writers get bored and move on? Maybe they just run out of ideas? Maybe they back-fill with people who think Hollywood priorities match those in the real world? But intelligent professional women who have worked hard for multiple degrees don't dress in stiletto heels & fancy clothes to crime scenes. The show became too ridiculous to continue.