Have EITHER of you actually seen it?

Gross, dude.  There are other sites for spankin'.

I wore a fair number of embarrassing-in-retrospect outfits, but I was such a low-visibility nerd that mostly it got ignored rather than laughed at.  My worst clothing decision was undoubtedly dressing myself as a member of the SS for Halloween when I was a high school freshman.  This was before Schindler's List and…

I did the fedora thing briefly.  A leather fedora, no less.  I also had a wide-lapel leather trench coat I bought at a garage sale.  God, I was a tool sometimes.

You look like Herbert West: Hipster Re-animator.  This is more or less a compliment.

I haven't rewatched those first two seasons since I initially saw them, but I remember them pretty well and feel like they were substantially better than what we have now.  More tense and compelling, better-plotted, etc. and Dexter was a more interesting character as well.  However, I do remember thinking that the…

It's always nice when a show defeats your expectations, as long as they can still tell a good story from that point forward.  "Breaking Bad" has always been good at this (though of course they've never totally blown up the paradigm by, say, outing Walt publicly as Heisenberg mid-show).  "Lost" was pretty good at it;…

That's kind of expected since their personality types and interests are diametrically opposed in every conceivable way.  Weirdly, I could see myself being friends with both of them, but they'd still hate each other and I'd be the uncomfortable guy in the middle.

Gee, thanks, Sheldon.

It's kind of depressing how the show used to go so far out of its way to show how Dexter WAS very careful, and the last few seasons they increasingly don't give a shit at ALL.  The only occasional nod to it is in the kill room ritual, which we barely see anymore, and when we do, half the time the person in it doesn't…

He noticed a mismatched piece of molding in the cabin interior and wanted to cut a new piece to length, DUH.

As recently as season 5 this show was generally more thrilling than not, even when it was stupid.  What the hell HAPPENED? It really does seem like they're allergic to tension and stakes of any kind.  Dexter used to always be shown juggling his personal life, lying to everybody, and covering up his killing; now if…

They sort of mumbled an explanation for that into their sleeves.  I THINK the idea was that she was going to hold Deb hostage and coerce Dexter into making her husband disappear.  This also allegedly explains why she didn't kill the guy herself - she didn't want to be perceived as a murderous gold-digger, and somehow…

Lumen was better.  There, I said it.  Dexter's need to protect her made more sense (especially given Rita and Deb) than Hannah, which they've never sufficiently explained other than she's pretty and Dexter can be himself in front of her.

It gets compared to Breaking Bad because in many ways Breaking Bad feels like all the lost potential of Dexter, realized.  The subject matter isn't identical but the basic structure (antihero who kills people and has to hide his secret life amidst increasingly dangerous stakes until it all goes off the rails forever)…

Hall was legitimately great in the first couple seasons.  Somebody described it as a Russian nesting doll of a performance and that is about right.  Unfortunately the character has gotten a lot less interesting over time and the show has gotten much worse too, and Hall has often been guilty of phoning it in.

Quinn's a terrible character - bone-headed and the center of multiple time-wasting sub-plots.  However, Harrington has always seemed like a fine actor to me (he's good at playing a bad character - I've never felt his acting was the problem with Quinn), and he was better even on "Justified" in a one-off role - very…

And sometimes it's THINKING ABOUT SHIT FOR A FUCKING SECOND, GODDAMMIT

Great opening, and it could well have been the final shot of the show for all its thematic resonance: Walt, this is what Heisenberg did to your home.

Posted this up above - I think it may be Walt's way out, if he ends up needing one (i.e. if he ends up in custody).