If true, everything up to this point is such a brilliant misdirect and playing against what we expect. We want Walt to try to redeem himself and save Jesse, and who could root against killing Nazis? So dark, so dark.

I'm a bad person for being on Team Walt again, but the last two minutes won me over. He's going out in a blaze of fire and glory and it's going to be beautiful to vicariously live his self-righteous anger and wounded pride lashing out. Just beautiful.

How badass would it be (and by badass I mean pretty low but funny) if he went back just to kill gretchen and elliot, and not jack?

Maybe it's my inner hermit, but I loved Walt's New Hampshire place.

How is it not *more* suspicious to talk the way Lydia and Todd did, with their backs against each other? I guess they can deny that they were together or something, but come on.

Dude! I was hoping for Jim Beaver and got Robert Forster! Kickass!

Tony Hale deserved the shit out of that. I feel like he sort of got overlooked on Arrested Development because of all the other funny people.

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus The roles of Don Draper and Walter White are just so above and beyond Jeff Daniels' that it doesn't make any sense and shouldn't even be a question. You just have to be so superlative to pull those two characters off, I don't think it takes quite the same skill for The…

Yeah, I don't think Hamm or anyone else has a shot next year, because they're competing with Cranston in Ozymandias, a performance so incredible that the Emmys will be rendered meaningless if he doesn't win.

He deserves it so hard. It's such a joke that Chandler and Daniels (and even Lewis) have beaten him. You can't bitch for losing to Cranston.

It's fucking obscene that Jon Hamm didn't win. Cranston is amazing but this is the first time they're up against each other I'd give it to Hamm-the episode he was nominated for was just so, so good.

Yeah, Hamm was nominated for last season's finale, and he *brought it*. The episode Cranston was nominated for was good (Say My Name) but this is the first time that those two were up against each other that I would give it to Hamm. Plus, this I think this is, like, his fifth nomination (to be fair, he has two more…

A show that used to be my favorite (in 06, pre-Mad Men and Breaking Bad), goes out with a whimper. Sad.

Very true re cast. Man, that reminds me, I went the entire show thinking Dean Winters was eventually gonna get shanked…

Nah you gotta go the full nine. Take a dump, excuse yourself, drive home and have a panic attack and crash your car. Then if your friend comes over and asks if you are ok, you beckon him inside, close the door, and punch him in the face.

Huuaaagggh!

I know the Sopranos was far more successful and popular. But I feel like its HBO brother Oz deserves some credit in any new golden age discussion

I read a spoiler that Quinn becomes Dexter? Or at least he performs a Dexter-style killing this Sunday? It actually had a decent stretch last season at the beginning and towards the middle and…they shit the bed. So much wasted potential on that show, it depresses me more than Hank being executed by a neo-Nazi.

I have an album called Atomic Basie that I really like-is there anything else in that vein you'd recommend?

It really is a hangout album. So pleasant for grilling and catching up with work on a Sunday afternoon/evening. Always puts me in a good mood.