“Shakespearean” bridge fog??

I realize it had to happen the way it did for a better show and also to not, like, erase seasons 1-5 of Breaking Bad from canon, but that was a fully clean break, ultimately by both of them since Jimmy (as he still was) didn’t really try that hard to convince her to stay and try to work on things instead of breaking…

Funny enough, the lion’s wife was also named Martha. (For the sharp-eyed, that’s the second time I made this joke this week across two different movies. Maybe three.)

Well - there is at least one real-world precedent for a lion (or - two male lions working together) targeting male humans to hunt and kill purposefully.  Although the reason WHY is still debated today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters

Oh come on: the documentary “Orca” tells us that a killer whale can go mad with revenge and blow up an entire town. :)

Though, on a more realistic note, I recently read about a situation where a hunter wounded but didn’t kill a tiger, which then took revenge by waiting for the hunter back at his own house! Edit: found…

Honestly I think the “sabotage Howard” arc is pretty easy to explain in terms of Kim’s character. Here’s a person who has kept herself under such tight control for her whole life. Being with Jimmy helps her start to relax that control for the first time in a long time, and it leads to her giving in to her worst…

I’m sorry, I just thought this was a horrible episode.

The philosophical stuff in the show has always been high school level though. I feel like people who watch/review the show derive far more meaning and imagine much more potential from the show than has ever actually been there. They would probably do a better job than these writers, to be honest.

The brain invading robo flies is how Hale took control. And the towers sending signals to the flies is how she kept it. It feels like there was a big piece they didn’t include about what happened to humanity between the end of S3 and the “now” of S4. It also appears they got late series GOT loose with travel times…

Any time you see Johnathan Nolan’s name show up in the writing credits you know the episode will be 90 percent turgid, pseudo-intellectual babble that not only makes itself terrible but every other episode of the season before it retroactively worse.

Didn’t humans go extinct at the end? That’s not very optimistic. Why do I care what a bunch of software routines do inside a server farm after humans have all died out? I’m not sure I would watch the fifth season if there is one.

This season definitely had an issue where, on paper, the story had been expanded from a single theme park to the entire world, but it only ever felt like it took place in a depopulated Manhattan where there were never more than 10 people on screen at the same time. They were never able to move the story to the “real…

I did not care for the ending of this season. I feel like they are telling us that sentient life can’t survive but not effectively showing us that. I guess a generous assessment is that all of the strong characters besides Dolores had to be cleared off the board for any long term human/host survival to be possible. S…

This is a much higher rating than I would have given it. And to be clear, I think season 1 was one of the best TV shows of all time, but it’s been diminishing returns since then, and of the finales, this is the worst finale. Lots of scenes not connected at all, lots of random things happening, bad pacing, leaning on…

I just don’t get it. What the heck are they trying to do with this show anymore?

It was Volcano for me. Not a ‘good’ movie, but I’ve seen it at least a dozen times, a great rewatchable. As someone who has people in their family with those demons, it makes me grateful they seem to have them under control and this whole thing makes me sad. Glad she didn’t injure anyone else, only real silver lining…

Yep!

I agree that Jimmy changed too quickly — and I think the same could be said of Kim.

It feels like we could have used 2-3 more episodes that show the change in both characters before going to black-and-white land. I never really believed that Saul was going to kill a person, so those beats didn’t 100% work for me.

Well you’re going to have a real problem getting Carl Reiner and Bernie Mac back for it.

I feel like he’s stuck in that 2012 era where edgelord comedians were having their “you can’t tell a comedian what words are taboo!!!” conniption, and he hasn’t matured past that point. The guy is literally known for the British series he created (and were fundamentally carried by all the people he’s worked with, he…