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I predicted last season that Walt would go out with an office-resentment style mass shooting at Grey Matter. While the main purpose of the Charlie Rose interview was to spur his original belittlement and cause him to step into his final phase of belittlement (hence theme song, the Fates aligning, etc.), I still think

Oh, because that's a joke people say. I get it.

You should take another peak at his short film, then de-excite yourself.

They always gave Pierce the best lines. Chevy is hilarious.

i.e. two seasons

Ghosts are things that come after that are diluted. Some things that come after are diluted in a bad way, meaning that the reduction that took place took out too much. Sometimes that reduction makes prominent elements that are the most important part of what was being reduced. GET A FUCKING BRAIN NOOB FUCK FUCKER FUCK>

It would have been perfection if it wasn't that close to those big of events. You shouldn't have been able to get into the ironically upbeat nature of the song if you were properly horrified at what just took place.

I said Skyler haters. You can be a Skyler disliker. Read charitably.

Best part is that Walter is putting on a show for the police. Not even Walter, after all he has done, is as evil and fucked up as the Skyler haters.

Wow, I'm looking through the top responses, and no one can admit what they just saw. Complete detachment from everyone. A few breakfast jokes, a few impassionate "atta boys" to Vince and Bryan, one or two recognitions of formal elements of the episode…. where's the emotions fella? Cat got your tongue? Or have you been

I love that the Skyler haters were finally given their scene. Walt's whiny, maniacal mocking of her protestations of immorality, illegality, and the fact that someone could get hurt, followed by a slimy "you bitch." Yes, that is what they sounded like, I agree Vince.

Anyone who wasn't crying the entirety of the episode, rocking back and forth in their chair, neurotically twisting their hair, and tapping their foot, is either, a) not human, or b) watching the show with their friends. And yes, this says magnitudes about the state of sociality and aesthetic athleticism in post-modern

Someone willing to be hyper-uncommercial and self-conscious about it. Come on AVClub. Let's hear your best snark about this.

If they knew something was going to happen and they stopped it, they'd be the biggest fucking heroes ever. If they knew something was going to happen and they didn't stop it, they might get a war they wanted. It would be a political no-brainer to stop the terrorist attack.

Wow, so we're snarking in favor of corporations now? Wage slavery for all! That's what it takes to be hip in 2013!

YES, and half the reason it's so good is that it's what reveals to us that Jesse is still in town, and Saul got one over on Mike, and Jesse is okay, and things are about to get good, etc. Always makes me giddy.

distancing yourself from something that is visceral and out of control b/c of a neurotic desire to project your thoughts onto the situation, thus naming it, and thus exerting control over it. neurotic desire comes from our society's obsession with giving the illusion that everything can be under instrumental control

You know what, I think you got it.

I thought it was really bad acting on the part of Aaron Paul. Something about the way he was saying the words he was saying was off. It was like it was prerecorded or something. Weird.

If a drop of Walt's cancer blood comes anywhere CLOSE to Hank's dead body I will stop watching and burn the DVDs I already own. Oh! I mean, good idea, poetic.