No one will ever tell you they want to see less Breaking Bad, but the decision to split the season into two 8-episode chunks is what I'm praising. Given that Vince Gilligan had a 5-season arc planned from the beginning, this was probably for the best. Walt's rise would've suffered from pacing issues since you can only…

Walt's truncated rise never bothered me because we essentially covered that ground in the first four seasons. The only barrier he's had from Day 1 has been distribution, and with the death of Gus and Lydia's Czech scheme, I didn't feel like there was much need for an extended rise sequence.

Wrong, Brax. Dexter hasn't had a surrogate oncologist yet. Or a surrogate President of the United States. There's enough material here for 376 more seasons.

There's a popular theory in some psychological circles that success and desperation don't change a person, but free them from their inhibitions to become a purer form of who they are. Walter White had choked on his repressed nerd rage and beta-male masculinity for decades, disrespected, bullied, and ignored by…

In hindsight, the decision to break Season 5 into two parts was a masterstroke on the part of AMC. The season broke exactly where it needed to, setting the stage for the final act without letting us know how it will play out. We've had plenty of time to mull over the pieces and players, we have enough clues to make…

I will retract every bad thing I've ever said about this show if, in the final episode, Trinity flies down in a flying saucer, waggles his eyebrows three times, then jumps into a giant robot.

Yeah, if the whole Zach Hamilton arc had been in, say, season 6, it might've been a workable thread. It would be interesting to see Dexter let someone into his private life so they could serve as some sort of surrogate figure for a normal human relationship, and in the process Dexter could grow as a character by…

No, in this scenario it's that guy working with Bane in the Dark Knight Rises. In 16 hours, he will go yell at the 7-foot tall masked terrorist because he is completely confident there will be no repercussions. But for now, he's playing Angry Birds.

It wasn't even that he was evil, it was, and this is verbatim because I'll never forget it, "There's no darkness left in me." Not only is she completely free of lingering PTSD or guilt from taking half a dozen human lives, but she apparently doesn't even have run-of-the-mill grumpiness anymore either. That Lumen!

Deb's downfall was sole dramatic saving grace of the show and until last week, everything was pointing in the direction of her finding redemption by finally catching and killing her brother. (On a big-boy show, she'd just have him arrested and follow due process, thus learning from her experience with LaGuerta and…

I think Dexter's fundamental weakness is that it had an idea that would be brilliant in the right hands, and these weren't the right hands. Clever writers could find more unique and novel ways for a serial killer to circumvent police procedures beyond hacking his co-worker's computer eight times a day. A more…

The moment I realized this show had no stakes was when Dexter killed the final Mega Man boss of the season and Lumen was instantly cured of being raped and tortured hundreds of times, having commit multiple homicides.

(edit: Nevermind, I fixed the problem with the original post)

By now, it's no secret that Dexter has so completely broken Joshua's spirit that he's incapable of writing a review that doesn't sound like every sentence is punctuated by a long, sad sigh. But this sentence:

It's similar to those inconceivably complex securities bundles that crashed the global economy. Man of Steel is promoting IHOP which is promoting Nokia which is promoting Major League Baseball which is promoting Bank of America which is promoting Con Agra which is promoting the Illuminati which is promoting The Smurfs…

Instead of telling a linear story, I hope Season 6 hedges its bets "Who Shot JR?"-style by shooting every episode as the ending in a separate timeline, allowing us to see six different ways for the series to end. So in the first episode Hank shoots Walt, in the second Walt Jr. garrots Walt, in the third Walt goes to…

I'm not saying she's as bad as Walt, I'm saying that if he had just quietly lived out his days making peace with his own mortality Skylar White would still be a selfish, unpleasant person. Just on a much smaller scale.

I like to imagine whenever someone is about to have sex with Lindsay Lohan the Bane music from Dark Knight Rises plays and then a SWAT team rappels in from the roof to skyhook the poor dude to safety.

So now Pacific Rim itself can evolve from an original vision into an established franchise designed to sell toys and video games.

Anyone who defends Skylar on the grounds that she's just responding to her impossibly evil husband needs to rewatch the first season. She's shrill and sarcastic and sanctimonious in pretty much every scene, but the hands-down worst moment is when she learns Walt has terminal cancer and pretty much responds with "But…