Now there's a fuckin surprise

I remember I was visiting my parents, and it was just me and my father on Saturday evening. We picked this movie at random after dinner-I want to say it was Cafe Tu Tu Tango, and we walked passed the theatre on the way back from a coffee and browsing the music section at a really awesome Borders (RIP), it's bizarre…

@avclub-9645f62edbc61f2e1cf4d8a69cc3d014:disqus Nirvana hasn't been my favorite band in almost 20 years, and I rarely listen to them anymore. But Cobain is my hero for evangelizing his favorite bands-Meat Puppets, Pixies et al. Bands I probably would have found eventually on my own, but they were all before my time…

@avclub-1bff29d379c95b69d676d00c2b1c1d39:disqus I think that's fair. I think Nevermind was inarguably more important commercially and culturally. But creatively? In Utero by a landslide in my book.

Nevermind was my gateway to Nirvana. I wasn't really at high school age until a couple of years after Cobain died (actually, around the time that great Foo Fighters album There Is Nothing Left to Lose came out). Nevermind was the only Nirvana I listened to during my Nirvana period as an angsty teen. Looking back as an…

I just wanted to stop into this old thread to say that you must be me. I have those two next to each other on my shelf, and when I finish Gravity's Rainbow around this time in 2019, I'm moving on to those two.

Clyde Phillips is no Vince Gilligan or David Chase, but he made 4 pretty good seasons. He's responsible for all the unironically watchable ones, and that's…something. I think there's only so much you can do with the premise-and only so much Showtime will let you do (nice way of saying their shows are mostly dogshit).

The Dexter having a family theme was a compelling one, pretty decently executed. And Lithgow (along with Hall, though he's been phoning it in for a while now) is always great, even when he's given dogshit. The ending entailed actual consequences, which was a nice change of pace. But on rewatch, it's kind of a boring,…

The best thing about 4 is how much Lithgow elevates his part. It just suffers, like every other season, from too much filler, utterly inconsequential non-Dexter stories, among other things. For the first few seasons, the writers always managed to come up with intriguing themes (second season Dexter possibly being…

@avclub-0c5bbcfff0edb0dee7693ee7f8f09369:disqus Yeah, present me would advice past me to stop watching after Season 3 and just skip to the finale. But I generally stick with shows out of built up goodwill.

I thought the finale was good, but I just do not get why it's the best ever. Showing how everyone eventually dies (I mean, and how they had lived) packed an emotional punch, and it wasn't as contrived as I thought it would be, but I just don't think it's so good that it deserves the hyperbolic plaudits it gets.

I don't think he cares. I'm pretty sure he made a shitload of money from the show-like mid-8 figures shitload of money. He may never have gotten that Emmy (though he really did deserve the nomination the first couple of years). But financially, he's having the last laugh over those comparatively poor AMC n00bs.

Yeah but HIMYM is and has always been a laughtrack sitcom. It's a candy show, without much pretension. It might not be good anymore, but I still never expected high dramatic art from it. It's just a filler show for when I want TV, and would prefer something funny, and happy, and that doesn't suck me in for days on end.

But even if he doesn't go after Gretchen and Eliot, that scene *is* still huge. He pretty much turned himself in on the payphone, and as he's waiting for the cops to inevitably show up, he changes his mind and decides to head back to ABQ. How is that not huge for the finale?

@avclub-c70044e2a75b836382fdcd39520ff0ab:disqus I think Lydia's way too smart to shoot someone herself. She's good at insulating herself, she's not going to execute someone herself.

@eric827:disqus I'm of northern european descent through and through and dairy still kills me. My ancestors are a little better with dairy but it's still quite common for adults, even of northern european descent, to lose their lactose tolerance.

Yeah silver lining-thank god Spacey didn't win. Newsroom is kind of watchable, and I do have a reserve of goodwill for Sorkin after The West Wing and plenty for Daniels though he's definitely weak on the show.

@DonkeyLeaps:disqus You kidding? The federal system is backed up to all hell. Walt'll be sitting in the can for three months before he's sentenced.

Most unrealistic moment of the episode: Charlie Rose asking a hardhitting question.

@avclub-cd01e5786d65f27654ca570edef28c69:disqus At this point I don't think Walt is going for redemption. Wouldn't be surprised if he goes for Gretchen and Eliot-that would be hilarious-we want him to try to redeem himself, save Jesse, and he just goes out killing them. That would be so darkly, brutally funny.