Oh wow… I will probably regret taking this bait, but really, there are so many things wrong with that argument.

Isn't this just a roundabout way of saying "indie movies usually don't reach a large audience, but film critics who watch indie movies are more likely to have seen them?"

She really is great. In her early appearances I felt like she was kind of rehashing Tilda Swinton's role as the super-anxious executive in Michael Clayton— there's a great scene in that movie that would've fit well in Breaking Bad, where Swinton is trying to tell a hitman to kill someone, but gets so lost in…

I'm surprised that anyone is taking the question of who spray-painted on the wall as any kind of significant mystery or plot point. It just seemed to me like what the local kids would inevitably do if there was an abandoned house in their neighborhood that was associated with the wildest true crime story they'd ever…

I thought the implication was pretty clearly that Walt's secret had been exposed in a big way, and that the house had been not just vacated but ransacked pretty hard by the DEA.

I don't think your first sentence is quite right— that is, "super-shots with fifteen vaccines" were not the original focus of the vaccine/autism scare. The fraudulent article by Wakefield in 1998 came first, and that was about the MMR vaccine, which is a combination of only three things and had been around since 1971.…

What is "moving like someone who had undergone chemo" supposed to mean? Chemotherapy doesn't make you constantly debilitated all the time; you feel like shit for a while, then you start feeling better, then you do another round and feel like shit again.

You know, it is actually possible for people to be good in some ways and bad in other ways. Yes, we all know it is bad for Skyler to be in denial about what they've done. And yet she's still doing something admirable in that moment. The show is full of contradictions like that, and it's silly to get on a high horse…

The air freshener bit was such a perfect glimpse of what Walt would've been like as a non-criminal businessman: an annoying control freak who has a mix of really good ideas and clever-but-pointless ideas, and will put a lot of energy into them but needs someone less excitable to keep him on track. In other words, not…

@avclub-d8c4b9a46ef46a0b3dae8a1e1279a8d8:disqus I don't think "honor" is the best word, but I think it's pretty easy to see a kind of strength of character or principle that Fring and Mike have and Walt doesn't. They're not saints, but they have some basic ground rules for how they make decisions and they tend to…

@avclub-f16faf5d680d7b88e2e157c1c137c497:disqus I'm not sure a "standard-issue pothead" would have ended his story with a disemboweled Chekhov vomiting blood.

@Meander061:disqus Then you might appreciate The Fall (the British cop show, not the Tarsem Singh movie), in which a diminutive serial killer is married to an impressively robust blond nurse.

@avclub-410987637793620466d1b0732bd7ed6d:disqus I love Robert Patrick— I'd be happy to just watch him hang out drinking beer for 20 minutes of every episode, and occasionally turning into a wolf just so he can lick his balls a couple times and fall asleep.

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus Since Willa's defining character traits are that she thinks vampires are really cool and is rebelling against her vampire-hating dad, her gothiness seems pretty much what I'd expect.

@avclub-7e1d54dc51f639d711387188468d01d9:disqus But… if it made no sense for Todd to describe that event the way he did, then how can that description of it be a spoiler?! In your first comment above, you were talking as if anyone who read that description would clearly know what it must refer to, because nothing else…

@thecortexiphankid:disqus Walt confronting Hank about the bug was particularly great because of his scene with Jesse. I can't imagine that he had any real plan, beyond "Just keep bullshitting and being fake-outraged, until Hank starts thinking there's no way a person could lie this much, or at least gets so weary of…

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus If you haven't read the Algis Budrys story "Rogue Moon," go do so now. It takes the idea that the transported person is a separate person (but sharing partly the same mind) and combines it with a crazy horror scenario where the same guy keeps going further and further…

I somehow didn't recognize the house until he did a full pan around the kitchen/dining room; up till then I was thinking he had just found an area with a lot of foreclosed homes to hide out in or something. It really is an incredibly disturbing scene, after spending so much time there. Children of Men is a good…

Jesse's not stupid, but I think by the end of that scene he'd partly convinced himself to believe Walt, or at least put himself in a kind of Heisenberg uncertainty state where he's waiting for something to make him able to fully believe or not. He knows Walt can be full of shit, but I don't think he's ever caught him…

Oh, I can totally imagine Badger finding TOS reruns somewhere, watching it high and getting into it as a crazy cult show. I think he would find TNG too boring.