Wait… you mean tv and real life aren't the same thing?! I for one seriously hope it's incest AND that it's done in a mind-blowing manner, just because the *yawn* attitude about it bugs me.

So Ricin only certain human tragedies are worthy of your empathy and the rest are cliches?

I'm very interested in her relationship with her father. Incestuous, anyone?

The Prediction's comments are very smart, I bet s/he's right.

Bonnie & Clyde better watch their backs. They are messing with the WRONG MAN! (seriously)

Oedipus kills his father & marries his mother.

To be sure we are headed towards hell. I wonder if there will be a redemption. At least I feel pretty certain that we'll get treated to a bit more comic relief. The delicious thrill of transgression, though, is over.

There are just different levels of talent. A more masterful novelist is able to create a world in which no matter what the characters are up to/how alien their life experiences are, their humanity resonates. I am not one to believe that art is purely subjective. I'm agreeing with Tasha that there are problems with…

Maybe it's because of my own extremely Gothic childhood, but I found the Binewskis to have an authentic family feeling. The circus served as an allegory for the incest, doomed-from-birth, shaped-by-parents'-dysfunction, daily horrors that feel normal to large number of children. It was cozy in its own way, and…

When I think about Geek Love and The Tin Drum side by side, "revulsion" comes to mind. As in, exploring the feeling in my gut when faced with something for which I have no frame of reference, something that opens its mouth and tells me "I am human." Then I look at the revulsion and realize that I'm recognizing…

I very much fear that a sequence of events led by Walt's psychopathic naivete and Jesse/crew's stupidity is leading to the deaths of Walt Jr. and the baby girl. But not to Walt or Skyler's deaths, that would be too easy. BTW Skyler is a total slut.