Thank you. That's basically what I had wanted to say but I was too flabbergasted to have any words.

In all honesty they do. It's just very rare.

I have a feeling Don would be too intimidated to ever be with Joan because he's afraid she'll see right through him. And he's probably right about that.

The world has fucked her over too many times so now she's just said "fuck the world" and is only looking out for herself.

Like it or not, it's the centerpiece of Joan's character arc. She's one of the most tragic characters on the show and the Jaguar episode is the apex of her tragedy.

I don't think Roger will ever be capable of that. A tiger don't change his stripes. He's a fundamentally cruel, uncaring person and he could never share a selfless love with anybody.

They're both dark, deep, complex works that heavily feature a clash between the political and the personal, the universal and the individual. I definitely think it makes sense to compare them.

What I don't get about that is that you don't even really need to be listening that closely in order to get that it is very much not a drinking anthem. The "I am your conscience" portion very clearly *sounds* like the despair of substance abuse so even if you're not hearing the lyrics it'd still come through.

My initial impression of this album was that it was going to be less personal and more political than GKMC, but I was very wrong. The trio of "u," "The Blacker the Berry," and "i" collectively represent the most rigorous introspection he's ever done and some of the most rigorous introspection I've ever heard in music.…

Early 2000s Andre was a mashup of retro artists (especially Prince and George Clinton) and Afrofuturism. TPAB definitely sees Kendrick fusing modern hip-hop into the long history of great black music but to me it feels very different from what Andre was doing. It's darker and angrier, and it's also more… abstract?…

And also completely sociopathic.

Were any of those drunks trying to get revenge for their son's murder? I think that might be a pretty strong motivating factor.

He's definitely the best character the show has come up with so far.

Exactly. Evidence against:
1) He only wanted to take aspirin, nothing more powerful, from the veterinarian - implying that he truly did have an addiction problem.
2) He apologized to Stacey at the beginning of the episode for 'how he was' before, implying that he truly did have a drinking problem and truly was causing…

I agree with you, in general. I'm saying that in those instances you're talking about, stereotyping/racial profiling played a big role in why people thought those situations were 'suspicious.' That wasn't the case here. What I was trying to convey was that there was much more of a legitimate reason to believe Chuck…

Jello probably doesn't want people thinking of them solely as an 'old person food' and so doesn't sign off on depictions of the product that reinforce that image.

Note also that Jimmy, in general, dresses much better than Saul did. Suggesting that Saul's shitty dressing was actually something calculated to help sell the 'part.'

Well when we first see Hector he's living with Tuco in Mexico (or at least it seems that that's the case). I don't think he started living in the Albuquerque nursing home until after Tuco was dead.

I'm sorry but if you were Chuck's neighbor you absolutely would have called the cops on him too. It was really tough for us to watch because we know Chuck and we know that he's not dangerous or doing anything illegal… but think about it from her perspective. A guy wrapped in a space blanket living in a house with…

I was actually thinking for a while that this was gonna be the first great BCS episode, as everything involving Chuck with the cops and then Chuck in the hospital felt mildly devastating to me… but then everything after the hospital scenes wasn't as good as what came before. So far this show has had a bit of trouble…