I suspect they may be forced to do a cook together.  Nazi bitches better be watching that shit from another zip code.  I can see Jesse busting a chemical cap in Todd's ass as a substitute for nailing Walter.

The Entertainment Weekly cover story refers them shooting final episode with Jesse and Walt.  They try to fudge the spoiler-y nature of it by implying it could be a flashback, they are not at liberty to say, but surely that's a concession to Gilligan to keep us guessing. Jesse does not have enough resonance in…

Miller & Mister, I should have phrased it differently - everyone knows Walt cannot be redeemed from anti-hero to genuine hero regardless. But pitting him agains Nazi's for the final showdown would allow us to root for him in a way that would completely cheapen the tragedy of Walt's long moral decline in dramatic…

Circumvent, I think the new Nazis being major players at the end speaks to the truism of their trade: it's pure denial to talk of stability when there will always be more ambitious psychos who'll do anything to be king of the hill.

Absolutely right.  Making Walter the hero, including with a relatively noble death, by pitting him against easily hatable snarling Nazi dirtbags is much too cheap and hollow.  Jess and or Hank have to be around to the bitter end for maximum resonance.   I'm afraid one will have to go in the next episode - and I'm…

Most tense desert rendezvous since Se7en.  John Doe has the upper hand!

J.P., I wondered if Todd would know from Thomas Dolby also, but I think maybe it fits a scarifying cypher, that he chose a ring tone from the music of older people around him.  Todd doesn't really connect with anything directly or personally, he reflects the values of those around him who have the most power at the…

Todd will be there in the last scene where his friends and family gather in a diner, as Frank struggles to park his motorcycle, with "Don't Stop Believin'" playing as Todds' new ring tone. Cut to black.

I loved their book, but no way in h—h—hell am I seeing this after that atrocious trailer.  Netflix if and only if no one confirms it's mostly shit first.   Not to pre-judge, but why give them points for not spoofing Paranormal Activity when it pounds every other pulpy dead horror parody horse carcas into the ground…

Check out Nesmith's post Monkee catalogue with First National Band. Seminal country rock, and some proto Americana Psychadelia. Even Tumbling Tumbleweeds is f'ing trippy. Greatest album: Tantamount to Treason. If every Wilco fan heard this it would blow their minds.

Regarding Dolenz going batshit crazy, although Mommy and Daddy is a fine kitschy example, there is no finer slice of unhinged Dolenz flying of the rails into pure awesomeness as Goin' Down, which was magnificently featured in a extended Walt & Todd cook sequence in Breaking Bad's Season Five. For my money this is the…

CM, are you trolling?  You aren't seriously trotting out the hackneyed "Elvis wasn't a writer" argument against influence and innovation?  That's as ignorant as saying Marlon Brando had no influence on film or theater (including the writing and direction of it) because he didn't write the scripts.

Am I crazy to say Donald Glover should have at least gotten an audition?  He might have been ultimately weird for it, but he's got the body type, he's eminently musical, and being one of the most physically gifted young actors alive, surely he could have nailed the choreography.

Number of genres lorded over is certainly an interesting part of the argument, but by no means definitive.   For my money the Mount Rushmore of Influential 20th Century Musicians includes Armstrong, Crosby, Sinatra, Elvis, Charles, Berry, Brown, Beatles.  To not even entertain Elvis as a contender seems pretty insane…

Well I'm pretty sure they never got Jim Henson's permission. As happy as I am about the decision, I don't think he would approve, and with good reason.  I believe he was asked if they were gay while alive (naturally…) and he answered that they were friends only, and he didn't think assigning them any sexuality made…

I think it's an interesting comparison because in my view, both movies suffer horribly from over-indulgent directors emphasizing their most fetishized elements of the beloved source material, at the expense of the proper pacing, character development, and engaging dialogue that made the originals work for the mind &…

Cub, I think Ken represents that increasingly rare but positive side of the college Greek experience.  It was never for me, but there are those guys that, although they chase women and revel  in pranks/chicanery (hey, it's college,) they are decent and good humored guys in everyday life, who actually take education…

I expect NOT to see a fully transformed Don by the series end, I think it's more likely end with him at a crossroads where he finds some freedom and definite relief in not having to be a master of the universe any more.  As Don illustrates, that is utterly exhausting.

West Side Story is certainly in there.  I think the main one though is Viva Las Vegas, Ann-Margret leading her go-go dance troupe.  I always thought ZD had a little A-M thing going on, this confirms it.

I think Ken just did a simple soft shoe pantomime and Don's mind turned it into Gene Kelly. As he danced away, the sound of him dancing continued over Don's reaction, until an audio jump cut of Ken walking away with completely normal gait. The exact same thing happened with Ted's secretary when Don't imagined an…