Just wanted to circle back here and say that I think the finale episode was fantastic. While I agree with you that Jimmy was of course changing gradually into Saul over the course of the show, I think the final episode actually addresses my main issue in a very satisfying way. It is precisely the point that BB Saul…

No, I’m feeling the same way. I understand that Kim is running from what she did, but she is not even the same character in those Florida scenes. I don’t think much is accomplished with the B&W scenes. We don’t learn anything new about the characters, and if anything we lose what would have been more information if…

I agree with you. The time jump to get to the Saul we know from BB was a let down for me. To invest in 6 seasons of a show about how Jimmy became Saul and for it to essentially happen off screen was disappointing. I really enjoyed the show on its own merits, but it is ultimately a failure as a prequel to BB because  I…

Another slip up in the timeline comes in this episode when Marion says she searches Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves dropped the "Jeeves" in 2006, while black and white scenes are after BB, which was supposed to take us to 2008 or 2009, right?

Fantastic insight. I have not read anyone else who has put their finger on this the way you have.

“Does this look...acceptable?” [knife to the throat] [Fring silently walks away]

Thank god they found the source of that song. I could not handle more disappointment after the mystery stuff that is a cure for baldness was never named in that call-in episode a few weeks back.

You are stronger than I, because I bawled through that entire Chidi-Eleanor wave analogy. It was beautiful, poignant, sad, and hopeful and I get choked up just thinking about it.

You really should not feel so guilty for judging this a disappointing episode. The show has built up slowly to this idea that the afterlife needed to be redesigned, and then just waved it’s hand said, “all done with that!” in 20 minutes. The Eleanor-Chidi stuff was just pointless and a step backwards from the great…

That finale was an emotional hit, beautifully crafted and executed. But as the initial impact fades, I now puzzle over the logic of how the multiple personalities worked and how they interacted with each other. Which should really be besides the point.

Damn, I thought I was onto something. Not the first time I’ve (mis)read too much into something on this show.

“Just the thought of getting his childhood friend returned to him is enough to pull Elliot back to the surface of his body, displacing Robot...” 

I miss the days when a movie was a movie and not an entry in a “franchise.”

This was one of my favorite episodes of this show in a long time. It managed to clarify the battle lines of what has been a confusing plot, brought the larger stakes of that plot back down to the relationship between Elliot and Darlene, and nodded once again to the way in which Elliot’s psyche can complicate the…

Norms as “pleasant fictions” is one of the scariest aspects of our current situation. When you begin to work out in your head how this is all going to play out, and what the avenues are for checking Trump when he truly strives for the authoritarian power he craves, you find little in our system to truly stop him. The…

The sports press insists that what people want in their coverage are dramatic storylines and it turns sports into a soap opera. Meanwhile, there is so much strategy and technical know-how going into on-the-field strategy that we almost never hear about. These guys work and study their asses off to execute their game…

Is it too much to hope for a semblance of a happy ending for Jesse?

Stick to sports. [sarcasm]

This Clue reboot is super gritty.

My favorite Remember Some Guys episode ever. All of these cards are from my prime years of baseball card collecting/Mets fandom. In the 1986-87 off season, I saw Tim Teufel at a public appearance somewhere. I remember even then thinking, “Really, Teufel is the best this place could do?”