She would not. I got the impression that *Walt* hardly ever spoke to his mother. He mentioned to Skyler that he hadn't even called his mother yet. If I had cancer, I'm pretty sure my mom would be one of the first people I called, so their relationship is obviously estranged. I doubt Skyler had spoken to her in years.…

Did Dexter seriously talk about how "sturdy" the LaGuerta bench was? Wow. My brain must have had a defense system that erased that from my memory.

Wow. The…"worst" doesn't really apply with this show, so I'll go with "least great"…season of Breaking Bad (probably the first season, mostly because it was interrupted by the writers strike and ended in the middle of an arc) is much better than even the best season of Dexter. I mean, it's no comparison. So to suggest…

So true. With Breaking Bad, I park myself in front of my TV at 7 p.m. sharp (thank you, cable operator, for using the East Coast feed of AMC), and I don't get up until 8:05 when Low Winter Sun forces me away. With Dexter, I usually watch about 10 minutes before starting to read the review and the comments, even though…

@avclub-3ace65196976c11850236932fc33bc9b:disqus Well, you just started the third season. If Breaking Bad was only two seasons, I wouldn't be banging the "best show ever" drum either. It wasn't until the end of the third season that I started seriously considering whether it would become the best show ever. By the end…

That would presuppose writers who know what they're doing.

Goodfellas or Casino?

As soon as Harrison announced that he combed his hair, I immediately awarded the episode an F. I knew that nothing could change that grade, and nothing did. The only bright spot is that I was laughing hysterically in every Harrison scene. It's like the casting director went out of his or her way to cast the worst…

@Juan_Carlo:disqus I agree. I think if his cancer had been cured, and he could expect to live another 20 years or so, he may have kept her.

So to recap: Hank and Gomez are dead. Uncle Jack & Co. make off with most of Walt's money (admittedly $10 million or so is still a lot). Jesse is nearly executed, except that Todd keeps him alive under the ruse of torturing him when he really just needed a guy who could improve the quality of the product (Todd is…

It's been a couple years since I took my contracts class in law school, but I see no reason why a prenup protecting his income from her would be unenforceable (obviously, subject to whatever Texas laws and courts have to say on the matter). For the most part, prenups deal with financial issues. If he was making all…

I think the biggest problem with Sons of Anarchy is Sutter's inability to follow through with what has to happen when he writes his characters into a corner. Great TV shows (I don't want to name names here to avoid possibly spoiling anyone) sometimes create a situation in which one or more characters just have to go.…

I'm with dygitalninja. The Good Wife is a CBS procedural too, and it's also much better than Dexter. Elementary was *much* better than I ever thought it would be. I've been a Lucy Liu fan since Ally McBeal, so I gave it a shot on that basis alone. It was maybe fifth or sixth on my list of new network shows to watch,…

It's true. At this point, it's like rooting for an NFL team to go winless. If it's going to be this terrible, they might as well go all the way with it.

Completely agree. I couldn't stop laughing. I have no idea who the kid playing Harrison was, but he turned in an anti-Emmy performance. I know he's a kid and all, but even by child actor standards, that was atrocious. Then again, he's really no worse than the writing or much of the other "acting" on the show. Oh well.…

I agree that in a vacuum (i.e. not a reality show), Natasha has been better. But then again, so has Jessie. But I stopped taking reality cooking shows seriously once Tom Colicchio announced that contestants wouldn't be required to make a dessert in what was allegedly a "four-course meal" in the final of one of the…

Yeah, Gordon Ramsay saying with a straight face that the trophy was more important than the cash was funny. It reminds me of every time Donald Trump claims that any future success from a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice is due to his or her time on the show. Or basically anything else he says on that show.

Ok, I admit I was a bit too snarky in my response. I apologize. And that category would be easier to get into. The one thing about the scream that I'm not sure about is that I'm not sure how much of that was actually his performance and how much of it was the way the scene was shot and how much of it was sound…

True, though I give 24 a bit of a pass on that front because it was an action show that I don't think was ever meant to be taken as super realistic. High-speed collisions into the side of particular moving cars is a big part of the reason to watch it.

An Emmy? For one scene? You're aware that there's this guy named Aaron Paul, right? And that category is so loaded that Lange doesn't have any chance at even getting nominated, let alone actually winning the award. Though I suppose he could submit for guest actor, I guess. Either way, I didn't think he was *that*…