@RedScarab:disqus  Possibly more like Hank and Walt team up to take care of the Jesse problem if he decides to reveal Heisenberg, considering how much it would ruin both of them.

I think Jesse might be a more legit threat to Walt than even Hank. Walt has leverage over Hank; he has none over Jesse.

I think so too.

One of my favorite details of the episode.

@avclub-40e592f4e1ef7450ddf54a124038f866:disqus Spoilers, if I'm right:

His comment that Huston let actors sometimes block their own scenes when making Fat City brought to mind that scene in Boogie Nights where Dirk is being interviewed in that documentary and he says "Sometimes Jack lets me block my own sex scenes too. I mean, I can't think of any other director that allows an actor that…

Bergman was always funnier than his reputation suggested. "Fanny And Alexander" is often funny and joyous and I think "The Seventh Seal" is an out and out black comedy.

Bergman was always funnier than his reputation suggested. "Fanny And Alexander" is often funny and joyous and I think "The Seventh Seal" is an out and out black comedy.

I like "September".

I like "September".

That's a great point on the Meadow thing.

That's a great point on the Meadow thing.

I take issue with your limiting characterization of satire as merely ridicule, as if drama is somehow more noble. Satire is about exposing the hypocrisies and immorality of the age, and I think it's often much more valuable than drama.

I take issue with your limiting characterization of satire as merely ridicule, as if drama is somehow more noble. Satire is about exposing the hypocrisies and immorality of the age, and I think it's often much more valuable than drama.

Except in satire what the storyteller is often doing is depicting and chronicling the era, and the society that surrounds the characters.

Except in satire what the storyteller is often doing is depicting and chronicling the era, and the society that surrounds the characters.

The Sopranos is satire, not drama, though.

The Sopranos is satire, not drama, though.

On the audio commentary to "The Blue Comet" Arthur Nascarella tells a story about the table read of "Made In America" and after it was over, James Gandolfini asked David Chase why he ended it that way, and Chase replied "I didn't want to show that crime did pay, and I didn't want to show that it didn't pay".

On the audio commentary to "The Blue Comet" Arthur Nascarella tells a story about the table read of "Made In America" and after it was over, James Gandolfini asked David Chase why he ended it that way, and Chase replied "I didn't want to show that crime did pay, and I didn't want to show that it didn't pay".