And someone looks directly into the camera and tells us the series is over

When Walt made that pros and cons list for killing Krazy 8 back in the first season, he listed "Judeo/Christian Principles" in the cons column.

Yeah, it's awful having multiple thoughtful essays on a hugely influential and significant TV show that just ended on a website about pop culture.

I think it's also significant that the only time he was really able to pull off one of his schemes without causing a ton of collateral damage (beyond what had already been caused by earlier actions) was when he finally gave up on trying to escape with his money, his family, or is own life intact. I don't know how much…

Well, they are worth billions, but they'd probably be better off just burning the money Walt gave them and giving their own money to Walt Jr — if they truly believe the "hired killers following you everywhere forever for a one-time payment of $250,000" story.

If anything I would have hoped that Breaking Bad and/or Mad Men would have shown AMC and other networks that interesting shows that are not police or court procedurals can become popular. Sadly, that appears to be asking too much.

Eh, the "crappy video" thing has been so done to death, and done better elsewhere - Tim and Eric nail that sort of thing perfectly.

I also really wanted to see the top of the coil, as Dennis stated in the review. I wonder if that was a "found" piece of playground equipment or something they rigged up just for the show.

Yeah, the title card gags are almost always great. They rival NewsRadio for best smash cuts out of the cold open.

I can see the concern that once he attains a certain level of fame he might become concerned with his "likability" and not want to come off as such a sleazy weirdo — I don't think it's going to happen, especially since Charlie Day is one of the creators and principle writers of the show, it's not like his personal…

Yeah, I don't think Mac is actually gay (unlike, say, Tobias on Arrested Development, who clearly is), he just has a third grader's conception of "manliness" that has a lot of latent homo-eroticism - which is in constant conflict with his sense of Irish Catholic homophobia.

Have they introduced the Chris Hardwick "Talking Mad" after-show yet?

Apparently these people have never heard of "Pumps And A Bump".

You don't have to capitalize "black," it's just a color. Also, there are sensitive black people. Stop that.

@avclub-a2a54b1f4d576fb949cd5e6a41b389e1:disqus I don't think it's fair to call it narcissism or to claim she's making Walt's diagnosis all about her. She wants her kids to have a father, and not just let him give up and die without seeking any kind of treatment.

Yeah, people who hate Skyler are the same sociopaths who want to see Walt "win" with no repercussions — I assume it's the same dopes who have Boondock Saints posters hanging on their walls, they want the badass action (which Breaking Bad does do very well) and gloss over the show's actual thesis, which is that Walt is…

Yeah, the argument is basically that the secondary characters were all somewhat one dimensional at the very start of the show and have been deepened since, which is true of pretty much every television show in the history of the medium.

Gilligan is not going to give out any real information though, so they have to fill the time not taken up by commercials and clips somehow.

Although she seemed genuinely awestruck when Gilligan said the pitch for the show was taking Mr. Chips and turning him into Scarface, which any self-respecting fan of the show has heard about a thousand times by this point.

It's "put lie to," not "put lye to," FYI.