"Pete Campbell is very often right, in irritating fashion."

One of my favorite subgenres is the "breakup of a circle of friends," maybe it's so hard to get right (great examples: the Scott Pilgrim comics and The Last Days of Disco). And that's why I love this ending so much. If F&G had to come back for another season, you know they'd all be hanging out together again. But…

On a somewhat unrelated note, Freaks and Geeks always makes me think of the first Real Estate album - partly because I listened to it around the same time I was watching F&G for the first time, and partly because they share a very similar bittersweet, lonely vibe.

"Alan’s self-loathing—the fact that he, too, likes sci-fi and comics, but the Geeks were mean to him back in fourth grade—feels a little too neat to me, as if it’s meant to explain all manner of things about him but doesn’t quite get at who he actually is. "

I always liked the fact that Lindsay is the one who gets Ken and Amy together. By the end of the series, she's had a huge impact on the lives of all of the freaks - I wonder if she was inserted into this plotline so that would be the case for Ken as well.

Roger Ebert probably had more of an impact on my life than anybody whom I've never met in person. I found one of his review anthologies while babysitting for my neighbors, and reading it made me start thinking about the movies as something more than just a time waster.

When I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons because my mom thought it was too offensive. But my sister and I always managed to convince her once a year to watch it with us and see if she had changed her mind. I clearly remember this episode because it was one of the annual picks and she didn't like…

Okay, at the risk of earning the wrath of all of the theater geeks out there, can I just say that I actually like Depp's version of this song a lot? (I will freely admit that I am in no way a musical expert and I might be a terrible judge of such things.) Len Cariou's performance sounds flawless, but that's my problem…

That final conversation between Dream and Shakespeare is one of my favorite bits of dialogue in the whole series and a perfect cap to The Sandman's dominant theme. It's about why storytelling is so important to us, and it expresses it in a way that isn't cloying or obsessed with any abstract "the power of imagination"…

Ah, good call. I feel ashamed to admit it, but I didn't even think of possibly spoiling anyone. I mean, hopefully that wasn't a big reveal, but I'll keep that in mind for the future.

I got to see this show early via my job, and I'm surprised that Todd didn't mention how stupid it is when it comes to online interaction. I seriously don't think I've seen a movie or TV show so steeped in "The Internet is Magic!" bullshit since the mid '90s.
For example, at one point, we’re told that Carroll was given…

Everyone's got different tastes, but I do think it's in the same weight class as Topkapi or Rififi. It's not as epic as the former or as tragic a noir as the latter, but it's got two outstanding lead performances, a great love story, sharp dialogue, some surreal James Bond/'60s pop-art touches and one of the best…

Everyone's got different tastes, but I do think it's in the same weight class as Topkapi or Rififi. It's not as epic as the former or as tragic a noir as the latter, but it's got two outstanding lead performances, a great love story, sharp dialogue, some surreal James Bond/'60s pop-art touches and one of the best…

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This comment is very relevant to the discussion at hand.

Dammit, you're right - they must have lost the rights. I watched it a couple of months ago on there, so it's possible they'll get it back eventually.

Dammit, you're right - they must have lost the rights. I watched it a couple of months ago on there, so it's possible they'll get it back eventually.

How are there 15 comments already and none of them have mentioned that the original Gambit is a fucking awesome movie - possibly one of the best heist films ever - and that it's available on Netflix Watch Instant?

How are there 15 comments already and none of them have mentioned that the original Gambit is a fucking awesome movie - possibly one of the best heist films ever - and that it's available on Netflix Watch Instant?

Just thought I would point out that there's a 
Cradock Marine Bank in the background of a season 5 Breaking Bad episode (uh, I forget which one). Possibly other BB episodes as well?