Unfortunately, I knew the split second I read that sentence that someone in the comments section would be responding like this. Because if there's one thing the AV Club can't NOT do, it is for some reason start passing moral judgment over how people watch Breaking Bad, dying teenager or no. Oh, AV Club.

You're all right, LaRusso!

Did The West Wing do that? I always just remember the inappropriately peppy end credits music, which was fine for any episode that ended on a warm or funny or patriotic note, but unfortunately they played it no matter how sad or dark the episode's final note was.

Ha! I'm firmly in the camp that Breaking Bad is TV's best show…  but yeah, I barely even bother wading into that comments section. There's just too damn much! It's like a novel's worth of text every week!

I really strongly disliked this. It bored me absolutely to tears. I'd put it up there with Cult, Zero Hour and Do No Harm on my list of my least-favorite TV pilots of 2013 so far (and I've watched pretty much all of them). However, as it seems to have snapped a lot of people out of their trance-like devotion to grim,…

Everyone involved in that should have been pissed about the way they cut down the theatrical cut, especially Ridley Scott. I watched the director's cut and was utterly astonished how much better it was. It went from a movie I didn't give a shit about to my #1 movie of 2005.

I'm sure as shit in that boat. And I'm dreading the possibility of critics trying to make The Americans into The New Great Drama That You Are Obligated As a TV Fan to Respect and Love and Pay Attention To after Breaking Bad and Mad Men end.

Digimon is now streaming on Netflix!

Try watching the first few episodes of season 3 and see if it appeals to you when it's firing on all cylinders. If not, then quit, but if so then go back and restart. (Some big things will get spoiled for you this way, of course, but it's that versus not watching at all, so whatevs.)

I didn't mind Michael J. Fox as his son (indeed, it plays a pretty crucial role in the plot). But him as his daughter is, as you said, probably the low point of the trilogy for me.

I haven't read any of the others. I'd like to someday maybe, but every time I get that urge I just end up pulling out and rereading my (ancient, beaten-up, pages-falling out) copies of the Song of the Lioness again.

Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet, which is a four-book medieval fantasy series about a girl named Alanna who disguises herself as a boy so she can train as a knight at a military academy-type school and then her knightly adventures after. I adored those books as a kid; read them over and over.

If you'd asked me between 2007 and a couple years or so ago I'd have said Shaun of the Dead over Hot Fuzz, but I've recently switched over to Hot Fuzz myself. Or, I'll put it this way: I probably enjoyed my first viewing of Shaun more than my first viewing of Fuzz, but Fuzz has a lot more rewatch value to me.

I guess this is a little against the grain, looking at the B- community grade up above, but I found this half-season both quite moving and well-constructed. (For example of what I mean by well-constructed, the Liam stuff, which I dreaded being stretched out forever when it first came up, was explained and played out…

That was hilarious.

Also, the mere fact that the show has a full-on opening title sequence with a song with lyrics and everything feels charmingly retro in 2013, when 95% of new shows seem to just have a quick title card.

ABC Family is the new CW, CW is the new Syfy, Syfy is the new, I dunno, TNT or some shit.

I've been mispronouncing John Teti's name this whole time. (Cool story, bro.)

"I Appreciate Breaking Bad On a Much Deeper Level Than You"

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus Don't let these dudes get you down, Spartacus is in my top 10 favorite dramas too! So is Breaking Bad! Friday Night Lights is my all-time favorite though.