Seriously, does anyone else think the musical montage has gotten out of hand? They used to be a rare, once-a-season thing, and usually cool as hell - a virtual music video set in the world of the show. Then it was a couple of times a season. Then every episode. Then it was the last episode of Sons of Anarchy, which worked in two.
It went from cool to useful to overworked to cliche in about four years, to the point where I groan as soon as I hear the soft-rock guitar start riffing.
As a show-ender, they maybe have the occasional place. As just a filler somewhere in the middle to show off the director’s lack of originality…
They should have been outlawed after one of the first (that I recall) - the searing montage late in The Shield set over Dropkick Murphys’ take on “Amazing Grace.”