First of all, calling a TV show "literary" as a comment on its quality is precisely what's besides the point. For a series to be good, it should be "serial", not "literary". Just as a movie should be cinematic, and a video game gamey. Or ludic, I suppose. The mark of a good piece of art is the consciousness of its own…

Every time you say "this is as bad as it gets" in the context of this show, you're in for a kick in the teeth soon enough.

Jesse mentions he told them everything about the tape in the scene where Todd brings him up to cook. "I told you everything about the tape. Just go to his house and get it."

The problem is this: you can only hate a controlling, dominant wife if she doesn't have a controlling, dominant husband. And it has nothing to do with husbands and wives, but partners. I think hating Skyler to some extent is justified, but for the same reasons you would hate Walt. Those sad rationales by which both of…

Not to push you guys into ever deeper pits of despair, but are any of you terrified of what the Aryans will do with the information that there is a tape incriminating Lydia and Todd in the Schrader home?

I was horrified at first, but at one point as they were rolling over the suitcase, I started laughing nervously. The hilarity of that scene comes from realizing that it was always coming to this, and you knew it, and it still takes you by surprise how horrible actually seeing it is. The phone/knife shot, btw? Skyler's…

The moment he falls to the ground reminded me of the scene in "Crawl Space" after Fring threatens to kill his family in the desert, a moment of absolute powerlesness (or at least, like in this episode, you think it can't get worse, but it quickly does). It also reminded me of the scene in "Hermanos" when Fring falls…