Surprise ending

Dance scene was amazing.funny,joyous but also heart achingly sad.smiling but almost tearful too.whole series and cast were brilliant.

I loved the ending - so surprising that such a tall man - not a spring chicken either - was capable of such movement. I hope there is another series.

I cried my eyes out at the end! So touching and beautyfull! And so sad!!

I did not understand the actual murder case.
So Frankie got told who his real mother is - by her angry brother Jimmy for standing her up, right? Or did Bennigan somehow convince him to kill his own mother to stop her from exposing his illegal business?
Anyhow, he got drunk. The otherwise peaceful, submissive guy unluckily always carries a gun, has access to a car from his boss / actual father and sobers up enough while driving (we see him not being able to drive even remotely straight that night) to reach Stevies position that she obviously hadn't told Jimmy about – so how does Frankie know how to find her? How does he manage to get there without getting into an accident or getting pulled over by the police, as drunk as he is?
So right at the moment Frankie’s driving by, Stevie is leaving the restaurant and crossing the street, even waiting there to call out River for not managing to confess his love to her. He wasn't circling the place since that would show up on the traffic cams. No, he managed the perfect drive-by while being piss-drunk, driving straight up to his unsuspecting mother, exchanging looks of recognition, then quickly realizing his chance, pulling out his gun, driving straight up to her, shooting her perfectly in the head and taking a turn to get away! No one has seen the car since, no camera picked him up when he was fleeing the scene and his grandmother “mummy” manages to quickly get rid of the car.

I also haven’t understood how the Stevie and the Somalian got exposed. How did Bennigan figure that out, when not even River did? Finding and killing the latter (that immediately went into hiding) before the police even knew about his existence! And what reason did Stevie even have not to involve River at that point? She trusted him to take care of Frankie in case Bennigan has her killed and surely she didn’t suspect him to go running to his boss (who’s married to a corrupt judge involved)? There was no hint that Frankie was involved in any way and she didn’t seem to hesitate to bring his father Bennigan and his business down.

While greatly delivered, I feel like River’s mental problems (rather far fetched for everybody at the force to protect him this way and his new partner Ira even letting the man drive!) and his love story with Stevie was abused somewhat to divert the viewer from a whole lot of holes in the plot.

That’s why I couldn’t believe the ending as is was and expected another twist before the restaurant scene. If he hadn’t confessed (and even that was ambiguous), how could they have even arrested Frankie? Or did Frankie leave prints, DNA or even some stuff in the car and the police ignored that evidence but magically is now allowed to use it?

The most beautiful and artistic scene I have ever watched in a series.

Gotta disagree on the ending... So many possible murderers existed and they go with the one that is least likely to have happened almost as if they wanted to throw nothing at the audience except red herrings and then pick the character that no one would expect.... Why not just say it was the janitor that you could see in the background in one shot during the credits it would have made as much sense.

I felt like I was ripped off... You watch a show like this you the audience are trying to work out who did it along with the character your following... the last thing you need it the bad guy to be someone tossed out at the end that you would have have never seen as the possible person before.