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"\n\nChances are you didn't watch the Big Love series finale last night. If you gave up on the show a season or so ago, I don't blame you. It sort of lost its organizing principle some time after Barb was excommunicated and they changed the opening credits from this to this. To echo another weakness of the show, heavy-handedness, things started to float.\n\nStill, for the few of us that held on, the writers reminded you every so often it was worth it. Buried in every season are two or three scenes which you can't shake from your mind\u2014scenes with such clear dialogue and perfect cinematography that you have to manually reconnect your bottom teeth to your top after viewing.\n\nThere was one such scene in last night's series finale. Insider's knowledge: There is no other item we have to cut from GQ.com 10 Essentials more often than the Mini Cooper, simply because it can't appear in every slideshow and at least 40% of tastemakers we interview are die-hard fans. This scene reminds you just how warranted that praise is. In the context of the episode, the car is this symbol of hope and independence and change for three of the show's central characters. It's the one saving grace in their otherwise FUBARed life. It's also just about the best advertisement for the automobile's slick and sexy design that I've ever seen.\n\nUPDATE: The rest of this scene in all of it's hair-tossling glory can be found below:\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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