I, too, liked both leads a lot. Beharie came across as a kind of normal person, not humorless, but common-sensical, and Mison gives a little whiff of (more likeable and more conventionally handsome) Sherlock. At first I was excited to see both Clancy Brown and John Cho, then "waaaahh waaaahh" the sad trombones of…

I've actually begun to believe that he is, in actuality, a 52 year old spinster cat-lady and hoarder, and this is how she acts out. In small, vicious little ways, like paper cuts.

How do you know if someone unfriended you? I've got a Facebook account I check about every two months because it bores me so much, but I've always wondered this.

I'm not dismissing this idea out of hand, but one thing that strikes me is: why tell Jesse about Jane, then? That was pure spite, wasn't it?

He said, "You'll never see Hank again" and "Hank crossed me", but never said "I killed Hank". I wouldn't normally quibble like this but all along Walt and Skyler have both been very very particular and careful about their language.

Totally laughed at that.

Stupid, maybe, but I thought Skyler might off Marie at that point, too.

I've read through these pages and you are indeed the first! Kudos!

"I was expecting extravagantly fantasizing see(ing) Jesse warg into those vultures."

I think it'll top 5000 for the finale.

Hadn't considered this, thanks for that contribution.

This is an interesting line of discussion, I'm particularly struck by both @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus  "Why did he decide family first?" and @avclub-ec6e411553d04950c3225c1fbdc8d116:disqus's  contention that Walt has more capacity for evil.

I was thinking about that today too. Usually I see shows well after they've aired, and I miss out on the community-cultural qualities of experiencing something big at the same time everyone else does. This is one of the times I'm "there" while it happens.

I've noticed that people sure are cranky after this episode. There's usually a few assholes around these threads but I'm seeing some commenters I've enjoyed a lot in the last few years really get dickish today.

Walt rolling that barrel did literally make me guffaw.

Well, I don't have the excuse of any autism-spectrum conditions. The episode was so wrenching for me, though, that by the time the phone call came, I could only glance at the screen. When you're just listening, after being dogpiled on with trauma after trauma, it sounds real enough.

That seems slightly off to me. From what I've seen of Todd, he is above all polite and rather solicitous, in incongruous ways. I see him more on the side of protecting Jesse's health with safety gear all the while knowing he's going to kill him in, say, a month or so. He's an utter sociopath but he doesn't appear to…

Yeah, that's just not going to happen. A lot of us are in denial, is all. No way Walt comes back to "save" Jesse - he doesn't even know he's still alive. I highly doubt that Uncle Jack knows, either. I think this is Todd's own little personal thing he's got going.

Interesting. At that point, I had NOT read the books, and I was surprised by his death. Still there was just some indefinable way in which Hank's death was far more tense, shocking and upsetting. Maybe because they let us go a week during the firefight? Maybe because BB is a contemporary show, and GoT is fantasy? I'm…

I'm going to agree with @persia2:disqus , and also say that this episode was so harrowing for me that a lot of the time I simply couldn't look at the screen directly. So, the phone call - for me - SOUNDED extremely real. It wasn't until I rewatched it that I realized he is weeping, most particularly when he talks…