I humbly disagree, I felt that black panther was middle of the road as far as mcu movies go on almost all accounts and even below par on certain things like the cgi fight scene near the end.

I admire your passion, but Black Panther was exceedingly average.  The script is nonsensical, the villain is stock(though the actor really did lift up the material) and the cinematography was great.....but not David Lean great.  It deserved it’s audience, but I scratch my head at why people thought it was unique.

Good point, and I can see a way that this does bring attention to films that set out to do different things.

Yeah this is bullshit. Turning the Oscars into the MTV Movie Awards does neither any favors.

For a bit of context, this is actually something of a return to the original Oscars, which offered two Best Picture awards, one for Outstanding Picture, and another for Best Unique and Artistic Picture.

Good comics are great students of human behavior. They have to know what buttons to push to get the response they need, especially on stage. That toolbox applies well for dramatic acting as well.

I really liked how they skipped the actual funeral and immediately cut to Jimmy and Kim driving home. The story’s not about Chuck, anymore, or churning out the standard scenes of the coffin going down and tearful eulogies. Lesser shows don’t have this level of gorgeous restraint.

We should have Banks at the start of each episode sitting in his car, waiting for Walter on that fateful day. As he waits, he starts to reminisce about his past. We then flash back to his days in Philadelphia, where we see a young Mike (a younger actor) transition from Vietnam vet to idealistic cop to dirty cop. We…

Also great to have Donna’s amazing reviews back.

maybe she’s still there in the BB timeline, though, and Saul just keeps her out of it? maybe the final b/w segment is him coming home to Kim?

i know that’s stupid but damn, i want them to make it. 

Last season cemented Kimmy (Kim + Jimmy . . . I’m gonna’ go ahead and coin that name right now) as the most supportive and optimistic in the BB Universe.  It’s going to be rough. 

Howard isn’t perfect, but at his core he’s a good man. To even tell Jimmy and Kim that he thought he was responsible for Chuck’s possible suicide, takes a lot of courage. Then Jimmy just casually tells him it’s his cross to bear. Cold-bloodied.

The worst part of waiting for that shoe to drop is how they’ve made it more and more heartbreaking the more they’ve shown us about the character and who she is to Jimmy. It would have been sad enough after season one, but at this point, it’s going to end up being one of those episodes I never rewatch because it hurts…

So glad to have this show—and these reviews—back for another tense and heartbreaking season of one of my favorite shows on television.

Worth noting that this episode did something no one’s ever even tried before, which is to give us an hour of Bob Odenkirk without any of his usual charisma or charm. He’s grown so much…

It’s always a pleasure watching Mike work. He’s so patient and methodical. He takes it all in stride and adjusts. Nothing rattles him.

The tension in that cold opening was THICK. It was a work of art in itself.

So good to be back after such a long wait.

Sarah wants to be “cruel to old, white men”. My father is 85, white, suffers from dementia and is in a nursing home. Do you want to be cruel to him too Sarah?

The only thing more disgusting then the racist tweets of Sarah Jeong are the people trying to justify and excuse her racism. Pathetic.

And yet old white men don’t get to use the satire defense. Oh well, more gender and race privilege for her I guess.  It’s a shame someone that bigoted is tolerated by the left.