What about, to take two very recent examples:

How has Jon "taken over an ancient system", or tried to change it in any meaningful way?!? That has not happened on the show yet at all, complete projection from reviewer.

So… Malvo vs. Chigurh? Who comes out on top?

Hey bluehawk222, thanks for explaining how all women fail to understand things!

Hi Twix! Welcome to the AVClub! Let me be the first to welcome you with the following sentiment: you're a fucking terrible person!

Yeah, being concerned about a self-evidently problematic aspect of a generally really well-done show and expressing it in an articulate and sensitive way. The horror!

AHA!

After seeing the first two episodes by not-totally-legit means, I was so wowed I went ahead and renewed my HBO subscription. This show is so damn good!

Yes yes yes. That was, without a doubt, the scariest thing I've ever seen on celluloid, making Winkies look like something from the Muppets by comparison.

It was The Tread Wedding

“Ozymandias” – the episode that finally makes me feel unafraid to say this definitively:

And that's why you don't yell [instructions to neo-Nazis]!

If any of you are curious (I know I was), the piano music playing during the long honeymoon montage was a take on Chopin's E Major Etude "Tristesse". http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Does anyone have any expectations that a revelation involving Jane is still awaiting explosion? Sure, Jesse's already totally anti-Walt now, but I can just see a final confrontation between the two in which Walt goads him somehow by dropping the Jane-negligent-homicide thing on him.

Exactly. This may be the first thing to get Walt to finally admit to himself that, hey, maybe I'm, you know, EVIL.

One thing I loved about this episode is the pitch black irony of having every single character—except Walt—expect him to murder Jesse.

Once again I arrive at a list like this with high hopes only to be disappointed. Would it kill the AVclub to either reflect the limited scope of this article in its title, or, for once, include like a token piece of Classical music? The link, and often direct collaboration, b/t the visual arts and music is often…

TVW, I love your writing, but this is a pretty unsophisticated analysis. For online TV criticism "Shakespearean" is trite and overused, and "Greek Tragedy" is getting up there too. Is there really something so essentially *Shakespeare* about this show? Could better comparisons be drawn to other Elizabethan tragedians?…

Now that's what I call a Face Heel Turn!

Can we stop saying this season is such a dramatic improvement over the last? I recall a lot of us really enjoying the unadulterated wackiness of season 5, and the AV club review grades bear this out. It's lazy criticism to keep doing this.