It's more complicated than that. Michael Richards' whole career was basically 'Seinfeld' and the incident happened after that show was off the air. It was pretty easy to blacklist Michael Richards because there is not really a huge demand for Michael Richards once he stopped being Kramer. It isn't like Jason Alexander…

The sentiment that they 'knew they were already defeated' comes through pretty clearly from Derogatis (the person who has actually had contact with the families of these girls) in the article that is the subject of this post. It is also pretty clear that the girls in question had their lives wrecked far beyond what a…

I am on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. My least favorite opening song of any show I regularly watch. I hate it so, so much. I fast-forward through it every time.

I agree with this. She is the weak spot in the show so far, for me.

We are the same, she and I.

I think some people (including some people in this thread) will feel like Walt got a 'happy ending.' I totally understand what those people mean, but consider the following:

Responding to InActionMan:

I love that Walt gets to give money to his family but gets no credit for it. Instead, his family seems to be getting charity from Gretchen and Elliot, the very idea that was so anathema to him that he would rather cook meth instead. If he had just been willing to take charity from them in the first place, none of the…

Replying to "Pops" - it is not just how white people thought of whiteness, it was what the prevailing understanding of whiteness was, including how black people understood it. Everyone was aware that there was a hierarchy of whiteness, with so-called "Nordics" at the top. And anti-semitism was unfortunately very…

Chalky didn't beat him up. Chalky sat back and watched while everyone else in the cell (all of whom owed Chalky favors) beat him up.

Could be, but I definitely took it as anti-semitism. In the 1920s, Jewish people were not often lumped in with white people in general. White was a much more complicated category then, prone to be split into a bunch of subcategories that occupied different spots on a hierarchy.

I have no idea how that is supposed to be an indictment of "Hip-Hop Culture."

Eh, I see what you are trying to say but I completely disagree. As others have said below, Walt revealed in the first half of Season 5 that he checks the stock price everyday and his regret and bitterness over how that turned out is one of the driving forces behind who he is. I would have been surprised and…

"He does nothing to make him take the step down that road to returning until he sees Gretchen on Charlie Rose" - Actually, he called the DEA, identified himself and left the line open so that they could trace it, essentially turning himself in. THEN, he saw Gretchen on Charlie Rose.

It's not clumsy and absurd, it's fictional drama. Would you rather the Nazis killed Walt last week and the show end on that note, with no loose ends tied up? Do you think anyone would like to watch a show like that?

Jeffrey Wright is a goddamned boss. He played that character perfectly. I am guessing his Afrocentrism is real and his religious posturing is bullshit.

I think she was dead as soon as he got the money he was looking for, but yeah, Dr. Narcisse is definitely not the one to try to pull that old 'protecting the virtue of white womanhood from the Negro savage' bullshit with.

Ignore me if you like. There was nothing passive aggressive about my reply. I literally did not understand what the second part of your response was about or what it had to do with my post, which you were responding to, so I ignored it.

I don't necessarily agree. If you are judging a television series as a singular work of art, then a lackluster concluding season that doesn't live up to the four great seasons preceding it should be judged more harshly than a shaky first season while the show was still finding its voice. The arc has to count for…

Jack doesn't have any idea what the DEA has on Walt, just that they have something. Since he (Jack) is not currently in prison or being pursued, he (Jack) might reasonably assume that they don't have evidence that Walt paid Jack to have 10 people murdered inside of various prisons. Adding 10 murders to whatever they…