Does anyone else hate improv? I should be more specific - improv games are terrible. I quite enjoy something like Harmontown, where it is more natural, and people are having a conversation and occasionally do an extended bit when it comes up naturally. But improv games… come on…. it's just playing on the audience…

The drop in quality will have them salivating to shower it with awards.

Remember when this show was good? Then remember when you discovered that this show was never good?

That's quite likely. But wouldn't it be crazy if it was somehow Walt being interviewed?

I hope the last sentence of your post, with its triumphant exclamation point, was indicating that you know how obvious your speculation is. Not that I didn't enjoy seeing it all laid out. And you're very much correct - this show saves its surprises for moments, details, small reveals. It is actually quite predictable,…

Yeah, the end of Crawl Space, especially the cut to Marie's phone call, is the best thing that has ever happened on television. And this is coming from a HUGE fan of The Soprano's ending.

I'm kind of disappointed that I was spoiled. It's always so fucking exciting when a show opens up to the real, big world. He ruined our holy fuck moment. :(

He has a terminal illness, of course he is going to die… Breaking Bad always follows through on what should happen, more so than it 'surprises' us.

Good, a flashback that lasts a whole episode, there's something aesthetically viable. I can't wait to dive into Joss Whedon someday.

Good point prostars.prosky. Everyone else in this thread is speaking to surface level issues with flashbacks and not understanding your original point. You're pretty fucking smart.

Well I'm very disappointed that you're only mildly disappointed.

Wow, the pain of the nostalgia of that Muppet Babies theme song is going to make it hard to sleep. Thanks AVClub.

I agree, good points, but I think the more fundamental problem with flashbacks are that they de-whole the work. They split the viewer into a new movie, and it's nearly impossible to get that singular feel and singular momentum back. If you're going to start a new movie in the middle of your movie, you have to get the…

It was actually quite representative of the feeling of losing a loved one. It's like the experience of holding someone and their body going limp, except five thousand times as visceral. I laugh at inappropriate moments all throughout this show (which the writers most certainly encourage), but this time, they hit it…

Absolutely. Last season was way fucking better. I loved the fuck out of last season. This show was, for that one season, HANDS DOWN, the best comedy on the T.V. Now it is pretty funny with some cool, wacky moments - i.e. a return to normal True Blood.

Until I see her taint, she's a prude actor not willing to sacrifice for her work. Come on actor playing Jessica! This show is high art! Give it your all!

Gooey Nora is my new favorite character on the show.

Flashbacks are terrible in everything. The only movie to ever pull it off elegantly is Once Upon A Time In America. If you're sucking us out of the present and into a new dimension, you absolutely must commit and go whole hog. You can't have it be a "flash", where someone is staring longingly at some object of memory.…

…. use your big brain and think this through. No one gives a shit about Borgias and 30 Rock isn't plot driven. Unless you're planning on cutting off the Internet, or killing all your friends, this is a very ill-thought out thinking out of shit.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus That's really interesting, cool to hear. I can't imagine they are going to be solving the mysteries of Gus in a single flashback, or in a single dream appearance though. If anything, they will be deepening the mysteries. But maybe they'll slide something in there…