Sad to say, but I’m starting to find this show actually boring. I think the Chuck-Jimmy relationship was the heart of the show, and Chuck’s death has really left a hole. The show can still dazzle with its craft and design, but too much of it is now in the service of simply the origin story for Breaking Bad. Do we…

Before they had seen the movie we had started listening to the Mulan soundtrack with my daughters, and listening to those songs out of context from the movie was a challenge. Why do the retrograde, misogynistic politics of the period get distilled into such catchy songs? My girls are listening to the men sing about…

There is no way that a bank the size of Mesa Verde with those expansion plans would have a single lawyer. They would need the resources of a massive firm, and the plot centering on her acting as a sole practitioner rings false and seems like a misstep by the writers.

I agree. I have very little interest in Fring himself, since his path isn’t that complicated or interesting at this point. Breaking Bad did a good enough job establishing his roots and what he was about, I don’t think this show has much to add. Mike’s story in the first two seasons was compelling, but at this point…

Each time I read Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart’s name, in my head it’s in the voice of Howard Finkel introducing him in the ring. It’s amazing how much all of these guys are etched in my mind. RIP to the Anvil and Nikolai Volkov.

Thank you so much for this. I still have no idea what kind of fucking noise “tsz” is supposed to sound like. Also I’ve been changing the brown hats to yellow hats when I read it forever, and the one time I read it as written, my daughter was quick to correct me. “Those are yellow, Daddy!”

When Fallon first went on the air I remember thinking that his enthusiasm for the show was genuine and refreshing. Now it is all just so forced and embarrassing, I can’t even watch these clips without squirming.

To the different-sized pours recommendation, can I also add “and bartenders/servers who don’t give you shit for ordering a smaller-sized beer.” A place I frequent for lunch offers three-sizes, and the smallest size is perfect with lunch on a workday, and I swear each time I do it I have to deal with my server…

Wishing you all luck in finding a new home. Hopefully wherever that may be will mean pulling the site out of Kinja and making it navigable again. 

He didn’t even have to read another article. He just had to read a few comments on Twitter.

I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell you are trying to say in this story.

This story is not “via Indiewire.” Indiewire merely wrote up a summary of the interview in Vanity Fair. So this article is a repackaging of an already repackaged piece. I realize this is the state of internet reporting now, but at least try to send your readers back to the original piece so that the people/publication…

Guys going one-on-one while everyone stands around watching is not really the product of data-driven basketball, is it? I mean, this shit was pretty standard back in the 1990s.

The greatest one chord song of all time.

Despite Scott’s often pitch dark lyrics about struggling with depression, I have often found myself latching on to his songs that actually did promise some kind of respite from the pain, to be found in connecting with someone. “The Twist” and “Old Old Fashioned” on Organ Fight and “Living in Color” from Mixed Drinks…

“While I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth”

I’m just crushed by this. Suicide took a family member just weeks ago and now this. I’ve never listened to an artist who could articulate the internal battle with depression so clearly, that instinct to withdraw, still yearning for connection with people, yet confronted with the truth that other people can’t solve the…

Goddammit. This makes me terribly sad.

I was also surprised to see them drinking Pilsner Urquell at the World Series viewing party last episode. I wouldn’t have figured that was a beer available in the US at the time. Or maybe it had just started being imported around then?

I think the other dialogue that is key to the scene is what Philip says to Elizabeth: “I didn’t say she can’t do it. I said she shouldn’t do it.” When Paige says to him that it’s ok that he’s “not into” what she and her mom do, she says it with such a tone that says, “You can’t do what we do.” Elizabeth has framed…