Exactly. A quick Google search would have explained that. And the music bed Turner created for the poem is quite gorgeous.

Jesus christ this show

I apologize, I was watching it sober.

"I'm just havin a chatty pee in here." Goddamn I miss this show.

Yes, it is. I was referring to it apart from that.

All I could think of is Odenkirk's character in the Ronnie Dobbs musical sketch from Mr. Show when Goodman said that.

Did anyone else see Saul's "You have to understand, deep down he really loves me" line as an homage (albeit quite dark) to Odenkirk's Mr. Show Terry Twillsteen character in the great Ronnie Dobbs musical sketch? Or am I just that big of a Mr. Show nerd?

This episode broke my heart in about 12 different ways. These writers, man. They are the players, and we are merely the shuttlecocks.

This episode was the tipping point for me. I'm sold. Not only are we not inundated with red herrings all season, but the bad guy's back story is logical (in terms if the writing, not the guy's choices, of course). I love that this plays on the whodunit much the way "The Fall" does (although that series gives us the…

I'd argue White derived pleasure from blowing up Fring. Season 5a bears that out.

Walt was likable. I suppose he's now likable to a car wash patron who has zero knowledge of the person he actually is, but there's little genuinely "likable" about him now—unless one considers incessant lying, threatening, and manipulating to be likable features. Gilligan himself pitched this narrative as "Mr. Chips…

The video jarred me; but based on many of the reviews I've read, the behavior White displayed not only against Hank and Marie, but with Jesse, and most of all, the manipulation of Walt Jr.— it appears to be more of a cumulative "straw breaking the camel's back" than "this one thing". Similar to Jesse's monologue in…

In all fairness, the AV Club is not the sole website for Breaking Bad discussion….although I'm sure we'd prefer it be.

If you read Anna Gunn's op-ed in this week's NY Times, sounds like there are some that are doing a bit more than rooting for exemplary writing. There's definitely a contingent who want pure evil to win, and for less intellectual reasons and more personally aberrational ones. I didn't have a dog in the fight for the…

That's exactly what I thought as well, although I figured that probably wasn't possible.

Honestly, I would be concerned about people still "rooting" for the sadistic piece of dog shit, at this point.

I'm pretty sure I broke my previous record of repeated "oh shit"s within a 5 minute period when Jesse busted into Saul's office.

FREE JESSE

Exactly. I had known it was coming after reading a very poorly spoiled article on Norris, but I didn't know how or when, and I certainly didn't expect it to start because of Walt's obsession with having the upper hand. That was a great bit of character flourish that made the scene work so well, when the conversation…

I understand the ending is controversial to many, but it made sense to me. I mean, how much emotional battering can a person take before she finally allows her worst to get the best of her? The raw effect of Holder moaning regret in the background was perfect; the past two episodes showed that life (or hope) is…