But unlike an abusive relationship, there is no attempt by Sheldon to control Amy's behavior, nor is there even a hint that she will suffer any harm by leaving him. That's what keeps it from being bleak and disturbing.

This is probably the worst AV Club review I've ever read. If you're not even going to put forth the effort to be attentive to the show you are reviewing, then why even bother writing a review? This seems like a completely mailed in review, simply because it's the last regularly scheduled review. And I don't see…

More nagging troubles in this episode.

But - Jesse had already put together the ricin cigarette gambit, back in "End Times." He bought Walter's story and discarded that possibility, and I'm sorry, but his terrible guilt IN NO WAY provides impetus for him now to disbelieve that story. Huell lifted his weed because, of course he did. Saul likes getting…

The lawyer getting caught didn't sit well with me either.

The lawyer getting caught didn't sit well with me either.

Donna's insistence on docking episode grades for "stagey dot-connecting" seems kind of odd, given that the major event to affect the back half of season 5.1 is, once again, a random occurrence used to create drama and tension between the characters.

Donna's insistence on docking episode grades for "stagey dot-connecting" seems kind of odd, given that the major event to affect the back half of season 5.1 is, once again, a random occurrence used to create drama and tension between the characters.

I just realized that this episode kind of flubs he interrogation scene. Gus' story about Gale asking for money could very easily be checked by prying into Mr. Boetticher's finances, records that APD and the DEA already no doubt pulled, especially once they found out he was involved in manufacturing meth. I guess…

Yeah, that scene was necessary to explain why Gus is so intent on torturing Hector with details of the deaths of his friends and family while the man sits infirm in a wheelchair. Shoddy analysis by Donna on that point.

This was the best episode of the series up to this point, with the possible exception of Full Measures, even with the middling Ted/IRS plot taking up a bit too much screen time. The A- grade is flabbergasting; everything from Jesse acting confident and in-charge in the face of the cartel's best and most condescending…

Jesse's malleable intelligence reaches its height in this string of episodes. I hate to point this out, but Jesse is rather poorly written. His intelligence seems to vary quite a bit over the course of the series, changing to make him capable of whatever smart or dumb thing he needs to do to serve the story.

I've read these episode reviews several times, and watched through these episodes a few times, and I feel confident now pointing out that the Walter/Jesse relationship is assuredly not one of father and son.

This is a great episode, but the attempt to retcon an explanation for why Gus wants Walter's meth badly enough to put the whole enterprise at such huge risk bothers me even more than the total lack of logic in Fring's decision to hire Walt on in the first place. I REALLY don't buy that Fring would bring Walt on board…

I feel this is a very succinct statement as to why Breaking Bad is not nearly as great as all the praise given it would indicate.

People don't seem to understand the difference between morality and conscience. Having a conscience about some of the things you've done wrong doesn't make you any more virtuous for having done those things. It might make you more virtuous if it causes you to do something to atone for the things you've done wrong,…

This episode really sets up the second half of the series. It's an excellent episode for a "moving pieces" episode, but I'm not a huge fan of the contrived plot device of Jesse just so happening to sleep with the sister of the 11 year old kid that shot Combo. I think Breaking Bad relies a bit too heavily on…

This episode, and much of Jesse in season 3, would have been a lot easier to take if the show had ever given us any reality to the Jesse/Jane relationship. It is central to Jesse's outlook after her death, but I just don't buy his claims of loving her based on what we saw. She was a one-dimensional character, not…

Beyond Walt, there isn't much depth of character development in this show. And even he doesn't get that much. Everything that happens to everyone in this show pretty much boils down to "Give in too much to doing the wrong thing, and you'll pay a price."

It's the laser that whirs like a drill!