Misha Collins owns every scene he's in, elevated this episode tremendously.

What trash this show has become. That's the twist? Carrie was working for Saul the whole time? Ehh, this show will never reach the heights of season one. The entire season makes no sense now, if this was all set up from the beginning it should have been presented that way. All the scenes with Carrie and Saul make no…

Eric I love these reviews. Keep em coming. Nothing to add here. Solid B episode.

Great to see Supernatural back. I was hesitant about being inside Sam’s head but it
improved as the episode went on. Once we see Death I was hooked. The show went
as far as they could go by killing Sam, and his request for finality was great.
Not even Dean could save him. Then we see Dean rescue him because their job…

Yes and thank fucking god. Reviews for Supernatural at the AV Club have been nothing short of horrendous.

So does that mean you found one example of when Walt was going to hurt his family? Because if you can't then Walt Jr. can't. He has no basis of past actions to react that way. If the show had one single scene of Walt harming his family in the past or hitting Walt Jr. or anything even remotely like that I'd accept that…

They covered that. Marie demanded all copies of that confession tape. Skyler was scared and did everything Marie asked of her. TELL WALT JR!! Done. You think Skyler would have stopped at giving her the tape?

Jack - yes Skyler was complicit but what choice did she have? She tried to get rid of Walt but failed. She got the kids away, laundered money for 3 months and made Walt/Heisenberg retire. I didn't like Skyler's actions at the time (I still don't) but she was coerced into being complicit. She only went along for 3 or 4…

You're right Zach, Walt did make bad decisions that he didn't have to. Every person in the world can say that…but none of them were facing fight or die circumstances. Everything Walt has done has been reactionary. He never killed first, asked questions later. Murder was always the last resort, even for his enemies.…

VanDerTurf - The very fact that you can't come up with one single example in the entire series where Walt hurt someone in his family proves you're wrong here. That's how Walt Jr. sees it - Walt has never ever come close to harming Skyler or his son. From Walt Jr.'s perspective his dad is a meek guy but a good man, not…

I said the video implicates Walt and Skyler - Jesse and Hank knew this and didn't care. Result - it sends their kids to live with Marie or foster family or whatever. After Jesse discovered the Brock thing he should have killed Walt on his own or die trying. How hard could that have been? Walt wasn't going to fight…

VanDerTurf and MNCyGuy - he did just hear everything from Skyler (we still don't know exactly what she told him but I expect she HELD BACK quite a bit, she obviously didn't tell Walt Jr. she ordered Walt to kill Jesse like she was ordering a pizza) and he could have thought Walt killed Hank based on Skyler's…

Interesting idea but Lydia isn't a threat to Walt at this point, so why would he kill her now?

Lashing out over the Brock discovery is totally justified. And Jesse deserved vengeance. Hell, I wish he had burned the house down to set up a Face Off version 2.0 Walt v. Gus. But I can never forgive Jesse for teaming up with Hank and bringing the DEA into all of this  -  that video didn't simply expose Walt, it…

Holy shit you're right!! And that would setup Walt's return to save Marie/Walt Jr./Skyler. Knowing he'll get caught, takes the ricin and dies in prison.

Exactly. Jane was no saint. She would have definitely overdosed with Jesse down the road had she gotten the big blackmail payoff she wanted from Walt.

Tecumseh - I guess it is also Walt's fault that Jesse STOLE METH FROM THE LAB TO SELL ON HIS OWN! After Walt got him a job and made him a millionaire. One of the many valid reasons Gus wanted to kill Jesse. Everyone blames everything bad that has ever happened on Walt…it's fucking ridiculous.  Walt has done horrible…

I agree with odduck. Walt Jr. forced the issue way too quickly. He defended his dad 5 minutes earlier, than miraculously shifts his view to his moms side? Like Odduck said, Skyler grabbed the knife and Walt played defense.

Holy fucking shit! My head is still spinning.

Battlecar - great stuff. For the viewer it was sudden but they played out his run atop the empire in one or two episodes (which covered three months). This show is rapid fire. I personally would have loved to see Walt on top for a season or two, dealing with cartel or other threats while building his own…