You'll probably actually get a lot more out of it as a 25 year old, as much of the wordplay and abstract stuff is lost on younger kids.

I was just thinking the same thing the other day, it's only a matter of time before Tim Burton announces that he's making it. The only reason it hasn't happened is probably because the book is basically unfilmable, though that can only stop them from excising all the wordplay and turning it into a 3D rollercoaster for…

That was cool, though it would have been nice to include a few more clips from between the pilot and the finale.

I don't know why they don't lead in with Michael J Fox since he's easily the biggest name in the block (and would probably do the best job holding onto the "people who leave the TV on after Wheel of Fortune" crowd) and then shift to the lesser known shows, and end with Parks since it's the most "stable" show they've…

Well, Ron is a libertarian, so you'd basically just have to make him turn out to be a religious nut who wants mandatory school prayer or something and he'd be upset.

Yeah I don't think it really works. It's one thing if you have a loved one go overseas for a year or something. But you're going to shift to another "best" friend eventually if your current one moves 6 hours away, no matter how many halves-of-a-heart lockets you give each other.

I would agree that Chris is incredibly one-note and I won't miss him. Rob Lowe has some classic moments on this series, but there's only so many laughs that over-pronouncing "literally," being a health nut and pointing at people can provide.

It seems premature to call her a complete monster or claim the show never gives her comeuppance based on this episode. With the elliptical ending, it seems pretty clear that this is effectively part one of a two parter, with her coming to terms happening in the next installment (Ben's reasonable reaction at the end…

Yeah, his horror over the prospect of the wrong grass type for Pawnee's climate isn't exactly a "classic gay stereotype," the stuff that made him funny was pretty specific, and the rest was essentially just Billy Eichner playing himself.

It's also great that he's charismatic (enough to get himself elected as mayor of a small town!) and not just a generic awkward semi-Autistic loser.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Joe Lo Truglio's "Oliver" sing-along was probably the highlight of the episode for me, though there were a lot of other great moments. Andy Samberg's face when he was pretending to be an oak tree also got me just by how he slowly contorted it more and more until it was totally absurd.

Her delivery of that line was one of my favorite things she's ever done on the show. Also, Nick's muttered "Let sleeping birds die" in that same scene was great.

Did anybody else get the feeling that the Ron plotline was created solely to shoehorn in Microsoft product placement? In the scene where he makes the Vine, everyone's conveniently flashing their Windows™ logos toward the camera.

Yeah I always thought that was basically the joke, that everyone thinks it's highly esteemed just because it has a French name.

Agreed. I don't think Walt is "redeemed" or anything in the end, I don't think his death was supposed to be tragic — the show was purposefully thrilling and engaging when it wanted to be, but it also definitely has a larger thesis than just "watch this cool dude do badass stuff until he dies."

Ah, it does? I couldn't recall the exact chronology. I knew he had retrieved the ricin because Marie mentions Carol seeing him leaving the house but I was thinking the meeting with Lydia and Todd was pretty much the last thing he did right before going to meet with the Nazis.

Skyler also told him that the Nazi's threatened her into not mentioning Lydia to the police, so Walt had cause to assume she would have Skyler/the kids killed eventually if left to her own devices. Of course, he already had retrieved the ricin when Skyler told him that, but he hadn't necessarily decided who to use it…

I don't think anyone would argue that the show wasn't fun to watch - it clearly was, and it wanted the action scenes like the fulminated mercury and the train robbery to feel exciting and cool - but if that's all that it was, Walt would have gotten away with it indefinitely so we could keep watching him have…

"Something like a loving God allows for Walt's final attempt at redemption before death."