I think Walt knew what he was doing and had to let the police believe Skylar was a hostage in an abusive relationship.  But he also has the Heisenberg pride, and it's grown to include a kind of evil wrath, as exemplified with Jesse.  And I think a part of that call was Heisenberg memorializing himself as this monster…

The kid she sleeps with in the movie is 17.  The age of consent in Connecticut is 16. The whole movie has a conflict that the assistant principal (Bell's best friend) will have to turn her in to the authorities for statutory rape.  It is very lazy writing.

I can see it being some explanation of the events in the press where Walt is portrayed as some kind of a crazy white power meth chef, which will explain why took the pseudonym of a famous Nazi scientist.  They will either have a falling out, and "Walt 52" is preparing for a huge battle with them or they will have to…

Agree on Objects in Space.  Disagree on Fly.  I love that episode, but "Cornered" with Walt's nuanced "I'm the one who knocks" speech, takes the cake.  I love Mad Men and that speech could have been fine as a "Don Draper's authoritative voice of God" knock-off monologue.  But Walt delivers it with personal conviction,…

I think everyone saw one team pull that shit, so they voted for the other one.  Then we found out the other team was doing it worse.  So 1% voted for Gary Johnson and the other 99% gave up and thought twice before ordering anything online that might be flammable, while having a Facebook friend named Muhammed. I assume…

Jubal was the best villain to hit the Firefly universe.  He was reminiscent of Tom Cruise in Collateral, but I think he was much better, even given his limited screen time.  Side question: Does Tom Cruise's religion think Firefly really happened or will happen in the near future?  If so, that might be the last push I…

Wash had to die because Joss is racist.  He wanted to show how interracial marriage always ends in tragedy.  That's why he cast Browncoats (i.e. the Confederacy) as heroes to begin with.

You better stay away from him.  He'll rip your lungs out, Emperor Jim!

Johnny blew his brains out when he mistook Lisa for Uma Thurman in this clip.

I could see the spinoff being a hoax now.  It would add to fan shock when Walter kills the shit out of Saul.

The Sixth Sense has some well-structured scenes, but it was a bit of a hack job.  As a kid, I was totally blown away by the twist.  But it has actually been done just like that a number of times before.  I know the episode of the Twilight Zone with the hitchhiking woman has the same dead all along structure.

The Sixth Sense has some well-structured scenes, but it was a bit of a hack job.  As a kid, I was totally blown away by the twist.  But it has actually been done just like that a number of times before.  I know the episode of the Twilight Zone with the hitchhiking woman has the same dead all along structure.

Gus-splosion worked because it was set off at the intersection of three rivals strongest psychological urges.  Gus was driven by the same pride and ambition as Walter.  Hector was a real bastard, but he prized family above all else.  Walter capitalized on what he knew about both characters (a lot about Gus from…

I could actually see her being killed in some horrific way by the Czechs.  This show has never actually seen anything violent happen to a female character (well sorta Jane), and all of the emotional baggage with her kid would paint Walter's (soon to be) new enemies as something awful. She could also later be a sign of…

@Scrawler2:disqus That username would likely keep you on the NSA's "no fly list" for the next decade.

If this show has some kind of Scarface-esque, everyone dies in explosions, extravaganza, climax ending I will be very disappointed.  This show certainly contains some of the same pulp elements, but it is exponentially deeper, more character driven, and more intelligent than that cheesy, cardboard "gangster epic."

I imagine a number of those "viewers" are people who just left the TV on after the show.  The article said Talking Dead usually gets between a quarter and a third of the viewers of Walking Dead.  I could see at least 10% of Walking Dead viewers falling asleep on the couch before the episode is over.

Even adjusted for inflation, I would guess that the combined budgets of every John Ford Western did not reach anything close to $225M.  I would love it if someone would research that.

I his (slight) defense, he did make an argument for how The Hold Steady handles this trite kind of nostalgia in a better way, with all the nasty bruises and whatnot.  He just wants hoodrats like Holly in place of prom queens.  His attacks on "American Pie" are indefensible however.

Definitely Don's best pitch and one of the greatest monologues of all time.