Prelude, plays like a Civil War movie. Graphic, violent, touching, and a tiny bit sadistic. Bradley Cooper plays a Gemstone ancestor and he carries the Episode. His scheming, unscrupulous crook who lives for the money goes from belonging to the trash of humanity to finding his idea of honor and redemption.

This show has managed to survive — through COVID, through strikes — and we were able to still tell the story we wanted to tell and end it on our terms and wrap it up in a way