I also started getting really worried for Talbot to be honest. It's funny how he started out as such a one-note character, and in a sense he still is (I'd argue not though), but he's a pretty endearing guy and he *does* actually have the best interests of SHIELD in mind.

This is undoubtedly one of the single most seismic shifts in the Trump administration so far, if not *the* biggest. My question is, what are the odds of a special prosecutor being appointed? The AG/Deputy AG has the power to appoint one (zero chance of that, sadly) or it can be done through an act of Congress. Will…

I have a friend who watched all of Breaking Bad, liked it, but thinks Better Call Saul blows it out of the water. Part of that could be due to the fact that this friend hated the Walter White character from day one, but there is certainly a case to be made that BCS was more certain of what it wanted to be from the…

Definitely a distinct possibility. I was just thinking of that old adage 'write what you know'. You're definitely right though, the characters of Better Call Saul, and Breaking Bad before that, feel so true to life sometimes that it's easy to forget this show isn't based on real events.

I suppose. One must assume that either Vince Gilligan or Peter Gould had exactly that kind of relative though, in order to have written Chuck with such deft precision.

Is there anyone out there who *hasn't* had a semi-psychotic relative? I mean, I almost take it for granted that everyone watching the show knows exactly the kind of pain Jimmy feels, but then I read comments where people seemingly just don't get it and I wonder if they were raised in the Brady Bunch.

I feel like the way in which a person views the narrative of Better Call Saul is directly proportionate to whether or not they've ever had the… pleasure… of having a Chuck in their family.

I, for one, applaud AMC for allowing Vince Gilligan to stick it to the censors and follow his artistic vision by giving us the Michael McKean full frontal nudity scene.

I really thought the thing that split them apart would happen in this episode, but I guess they've postponed it a little longer. I'm so preemptively sad that it won't work out between them, they're genuinely one of my favorite couples on TV.

Funny you should mention dying. I spent this whole episode with a funny feeling in my gut that the writers were actually gearing up to kill off Chuck at the end, having him just keel over on the stand or something due to exertion right after he finished telling Jimmy off one more time, or vice versa. It certainly…

I mean, Michael McKean is a phenomenal actor and he did a great job of making you realize how small and bitter a person Chuck really is in that final scene, which certainly elicited some degree of sympathy, but he is not, has never been, and never will be worthy of defense.

As the episode was playing out, it almost didn't really work for me. There were no real surprises, and I guessed the Rebecca thing last week (along with pretty much everyone else, I think). However, the longer I think back on it, the more I realize that was the point. Gilligan and Gould knew that we knew *exactly* how…

They're both kind of bad people (although I think it's a fallacy to claim that Chuck is even close to Axe's level of bad), and I love watching them just eat each other alive. I know Showtime renews these shows long past their sell-by date, but to be quite honest the bitter hatred between these two could keep me alive…

Tegan is fantastic, agreed. I think she gets way too much hate, she and Peter Davison had some really great chemistry, and Five/Tegan/Turlough is probably one of the best TARDIS teams ever made.

I don't quite understand your first question. As for the second one, it seems to me that they helped the mother because they knew it would get them a free meal ticket in the form of the son always making sure they had people to eat.

It made sense enough to work. Alien bugs came to Earth for some reason, confused little boy put them next to his dying mother, they saved her by transforming her into living wood in exchange for being fed a steady supply of people.

Turlough was an amazing character played by an amazing actor. Despite the fact that the show never did a lot with him, he was given two big chances to shine in "Enlightenment" (where Turlough decides to turn on the Black Guardian) and "Planet of Fire" (where he leaves the Doctor to rejoin his people). Both serials I…

Despite the fact that Emmanuel Macron's campaign was hacked the day before the election and blatantly false proof of corruption was included, his lead is still somewhere around 20 points, so even if this leak cuts his lead down by 10 or even 15% he will still win handily. This is one of the most in-the-bag political…

This felt like a big improvement on "Hide", mostly because the plot was actually comprehensible and it didn't all get solved by the power of love. Well, in a sense it was, but significantly darker than that one. Which fits, because 12 is a much darker Doctor than 11. Of all the things I'm going to miss when Capaldi…

I'm a gay man, presumably the audience meant to be offended by the cock-holster joke, and I don't give a fuck either. I mean, yeah, it wasn't the best possible joke to make, and there was a slightly homophobic overtone to it, but Colbert is enough of a supporter of LGBT rights that I feel confident in saying he just…