I agree this is a flaw of Gilligan's (yes, he does have some) but don't think it wrecks this show was a mere nuisance compared to the good things about Breaking Bad.

I thought the twins were the weakest part of otherwise strong episodes. A reminder of how grating Jesse could have been if not for Aaron Paul's innate like ability.

I agree with much of what you're saying, but Mike and Gus are nothing alike except for (seemingly, in Gus's case) being decent, solid dudes.

The real difference, it seems to me, is that in seasons 1-3 the tone shifted abruptly from whacky ghetto antics to heavy drama about 2/3rds of the way through the season every year, where season 4 balanced the two modes from the start. This year is somewhere between the first three seasons and season 4 in this regard,…

As thick on the ground as world-class badasses are in Banshee, I just don't understand finding Kai's toughness credibility- stretching. Is it really less likely that the local crime boss is a tough SOB than that the sister of the Kinaho chief and a Ukranian mob princess are top level fighters?

You're perfectly free to not like it, but I don't believe for a second you actually believe it is "as dumb as tv gets."

Sort of like "mansplaining", which I thought was great the first time I heard it, but then began to be used in more and more dubious circumstances until finally a man (our dear departed Todd, actually) used it to describe a waiter telling him that the restaurant didn't have the beverage he wanted. Pity, because before…

I love Banshee, really I do, but I've got to disagree with the breathless hyperbole here. I haven't heard anyone mention it yet, but I can't be the only one who's bothered by how no one has even tried to stop Chayton. It's really hard to take Job's fear of Stowe and his mercenaries seriously when they haven't lifted a…

Amazing episode. I love how dense and surreal this season is. Like a nightmare you can't wake up from—you can practically feel the walls closing in, but the characters are either powerless to escape or, like Capone, too coked-up and hubristic to notice. Agree about Nucky's parents—both how good they are, and how Nuck…

1931 IS the year these people sank or swam—albeit they often played the string out for a few more years (Waxey Gordon, for instance, was probably saved by being imprisoned for income tax evasion in 1933—Bugsy and Meyer had already broken his gang's back (with Waxey narrowly escaping out a window during one attack) and…

Damn this is a good looking show.

The Sopranos did that twice, out of seven seasons. Boardwalk did it once. And it wasn't even what I was referring to. I was talking about the way characters make separate choices that set off chains of events
that eventually crescendo into an elaborate knot of intertwined story arcs. Nothing like The Sopranos. As Alan…

I was prepared for this to be bad, but not for it to be this boring. Why have Screech get drunk and puke at a fan event if you're not even going to show it?

This show still had fans with actual expectations? Surely you jest. I personally haven't cared since mid-season 2.

Felina hardly sucked, but there are probably at least a dozen BrBa eps that are better. In other words, I'd characterize it like you characterized the Lost finale: disappointing.

Nuck dies during the alien invasion, and his Veep Mickey Doyle ascends to rule over a barren wasteland, Mick having made a deal with the aliens to sell out the human race.

Remus finds you petty and resentful. And James Mason's not impressed either, old chap.

Simple: it's about the birth of nationally organized crime, which began with prohibition and finally reached full maturation in 1931. There is a reason Lucky is all over the trailers for the season—he's the one that put the finishing touches on, older gangsters like Nucky were the victims of his ascension, and '31 is…

The Great Depression (the inevitable hangover from the bacchanalian '20s), the end of prohibition, the Castellemerese War and subsequent usurpation of the underworld by the young turks and forcing aside of Nuck's generation…
I'm as big an underworld history geek as anyone, and was initially surprised at the size of the…

You're right, that is how they're acted. Too bad they aren't written that way; if they were it may have been a great show instead of a good one with great direction and two great performances.