Liked for "absinthe dribbling down my chin" - nice line

"Anyone care to joint me" is my new favourite out-there saying.

"Anyone care to joint me" is my new favourite out-there saying.

Saw this during a short visit home with my father, knew nothing about it. Sorry to buck the trend,but we thought it was catastrophically bad. Everything about it is bad - the pacing is leaden, the dialogue ludicrous,the camerawork and editing so amateurish they're distracting, and I swear to God, if it hadn't been…

'ere Casper, what you mean Germans bite?

Far too late to comment on this (generally excellent) thread, but I just have to post anyway to say how totally amazing those two posts by Cookie Monster were. This thread may be my favourite of all time.

I'd agree with the notion that s1 of Breaking Bad is the weakest. That's not to say it's bad, it's very good. Commenters are right that the first episode is immediately scruff-of-the-neck gripping, and the show is already introducing the major element of what ordinary people can do and the real, inescapable moral…

On the subject of the Bourne books - they're dreadful. Avoid them.