The first Sunday in November is the week after next, for goodness' sake. The only way it could be sooner would be next episode. So it's the one after that. Not a month away.

It was to give Kalinda a long-range incentive to allying herself with him. "Stick with me and you'll go places." There nothing very revelatory about saying that some day (who knows when?) he'd be setting up his own firm.

Right. Thank you.

I would think that about 100,000 or so other citizens of Albuquerque were also roaming at large for the same exact time that the nursing home exploded and the laundry meth lab burned down. Walt was hardly the only one. Why in the world would it make Hank suspect Walt?

No.

What were they trying to say about her relationship with her father? What was she about to tell him on the phone?

It's only been about a year or two since Foreman was a junior doctor, a resident or some such,. working under House. There's no way in a million years he'd be Dean of Medicine without putting in a good 10-15 years gradually establishing senorioity and a reputation in medicine and medical research. Just plain silly.

"The actions of a few monstrous Germans"? A few? You (Erik Adams) really know nothing about Nazi Germany, do you? You should be very ashamed. I'm sorry, but your shocking ignorance is spoiling this otherwise decent review. You should go away and read a few books, and just not comment until you educate yourself. Not to…

Some viewers on Sepinwall's blog noticed that the document that Saul's secretary is shredding is a school schedule. So one of Saul's guys could have slipped some crushed berries into something in his lunchbox, for example, in Brock;s backpack or locker. Or something similar. Maybe we'll find out eventually. Jesse will…

This is very good, shoe salesman. There's no point bemoaning that we can't figure out exactly what happened - we're not given enough information to do so. That's deliberate, and the reason why people have been coming up with so many "solutions", most;y kooky and implausible. But you have given excellent re reasoning…

If FOX were smart, they'd reply that previous seasons have all been paid for as per contract but, yes, for this 24th and last season they will accept Shearer's suggestion. I.e. no residuals for previous seasons, since it was not in the contract and all the actors' work is long done and paid for, but for the 24th…

Thanks. All those reasons sound plausible. I expect someone (AMR corporation, whatever that is) owning the name and possibly wanting to extract  fees for it would play a big part. I think you could manufacture "romance" out of any bygone name, but the longer bygone the better, I guess. I'll take your word for it that…

Given that there can't be much mileage in product placement for a
product that is defunct, I wonder how they decided to make it about
Pan Am rather than TWA.

Todd, you say:

Who's Louis?

Apparently the fight had body doubles for Cranston and Paul. And some people expected that we could tell that easily "from the different shape of their bald heads". Not me.

Salamanca is a surname, a family name. Eladio is his first name. "Don" is not a first name, it's a Spanish honorific, sort of like "Sir", bestowed on important people, such as head of a family, head of a criminal family, etc. Although we haven't been told in so many words that Salamanca is Don Eladio's surname, it…

Actually it was Gus who offered Hank a drink. Hank just accepted, in order to get the fingerprints, unlike Walt Jr. who declined. So 2% more original - just sit there and the criminal will offer you a drink with fingerprints as part of his friendly cover story.

As with most channels, BBC America has both a standard and an HD version. It sounds like TimC was watching the SD version. The HD channel looked beautiful. The HD channel, like some other "cheaper" basic cable channels such as AMC, has only one HD feed - the eastern time zone. So if you're not living in EDT, it shows…

I'm guessing it ends up something like 10 + 6. One "slightly shorter" season, then a half-season the next year. To Gilligan, if he wanted a single season more of 13 episodes, this is still the same ball park, that he can work with easily. For AMC, they get to have two season for the price of about one.