He had a chance to return too, to work in Grey Matter again. He saw it as a charity case, but he did co-found the company.

I always had a general feeling that if I or anyone knew Walter in real life, we’d avoid him like the plague, meth empire or no meth empire. I like that that’s the note he comes back to reinforce heavily, and I’m as much of a sucker for antihero badass worship as the next guy.

“In the pilot she’s written to be so emasculating of Walt”

Since this article refered largely to the premise that Aubrey Plaza resembles the character in a picture on a magazine cover, might I suggest including the picture? That’d be groovy wouldn’t it?

Oh, thank god, I was terrified Goldstein wasn’t going to put himself through a grueling, ultimately unsustainable and unhealthful training regimen purely for the gratification of seeing his eight pack for a 5-second shirtless scene.

“he’s navigated onscreen situations as dicey as being lost at sea with a tiger”

Wait. I’m totally confused here, and I’m not being snarky about that. I’m being genuine. The writer seems to think Dev Patel played the protagonist in Life of Pi (“he’s navigated onscreen situations as dicey as being lost at sea with a tiger”), but that wasn’t him. (He was way too old for the role at that point.)

It was, but the fucking picture didn’t load. Bloody Kinja’d!

Sally didn’t need to channel her past experience to fly into a murderous rage—contemporaneous events (i.e., getting mercilessly strangled by a stranger) and a will to live were sufficient reasons for her violence. Labeling her actions homicide is just lazy in my opinion.

“As with Cousineau, Barry has poisoned those around him, brought out their greed or violence or capacity to accept evil.”

I don’t know that I buy the notion that Barry did much to elicit any particular problematic behavior from any of these people. Cosineau was, as we learned in some detail last week, infamous industry…

Howard was never truly a dick, though. Sure, he was pompous and a bit overbearing, but he literally let Jimmy assume for, what, years(?) that he was the one holding up his advancement at HHM, not Chuck.

I’ve been arguing for weeks that Howard isn’t that bad and people consistently call him a douchebag for reasons I can’t understand. He’s a little smarmy in his professional life but the way he interacts and treats people outside of work consistently paints the picture of a kind-hearted person.

Wow, it’s the perfect storm of something that is completely diametrically opposite of who I am as a person, what I believe in, what matters to me, and what interests me.

Brent Simon had a job to do, and that’s to review this movie on its own terms. In that respect, he’s done his job well enough. But beyond that, there’s also a responsibility to address a film outside the vacuum of its opening and closing credits. Who made it? What kind of people were in front of and behind the camera?…

Fuck Mark Wahlberg and his racist past, his insistence that he’d have personally stopped 9/11, his inclusion of an antisemite in a religious movie, and his creepy shift from racist underwear model to guy that wants to preach to you.

You know, it occurs to me that if you don’t think that a celebrity’s response to something is particularly noteworthy, then you have the option to simply NOT REPORT ON IT. This weird sort of unearned condescending snark may be Barsanti's trademark, but I'll be damned if I can understand why it's something that the GMG…

Why can’t Jezebel fix these slideshows so we can see the whole look without scrolling. You can either see the head or the feet, but not both. Seems pretty obvious that the photos need to be resized. 

I actually don’t want her to. I love that episode as a completely perfect, almost entirely standalone episode. It’s 38 minutes, so you can go back and throw it on any time like a favorite Simpsons episode. Just incredible.

“The intelligence and wounded sensitivity Thatcher conveys in her eyes don’t sync up with Lewis’ more hardened stare”