Don’t you love it when a TV show assumes you’re such a sexist pig that the reveal of a woman rather than her husband being the one in the military can be played as a huge shock?

I think this show already had enough (too many?) characters without adding a whole slew of new ones. Sorta like slathering way too much mayo on a sandwich & ruining it. And I was already finding this particular sandwich a bit unappetizing.

Spoiler: The real baby is the friends we made along the way.

Every (well, most every) step Walter took toward evil, Jesse was walking right beside him. Peek-A-Boo is one of my favorite episodes because it takes the masks off — Walter shows he will not turn away from cooking meth even when given a clear and free out and Jesse shows that he is always going to care for kids, but…

The twist: The baby is all of us. 

His original plan was to just keep driving, to fulfill his need for speed, but it turned out no one was interested in that.

Jesse screaming into the night as he raced away from the Aryan’s compound was a pretty satisfying ending, but after all this time this has me intrigued. I wouldn’t have wanted it any time soon after the show wrapped up.  But what exactly WOULD he do as a next act? I assumed completely and utterly disappear; guess not.

In hindsight, Jesse’s role in the entire series was as a signifier of Walt’s moral decline. Every step Walt took towards evil, Jesse suffered for it first and foremost. Now that Walt’s out of the picture, it seems likely to me that an epilogue for Jesse should have him finally finding some peace.

On the one hand I’m kind of dreading this movie, because it probably won’t conform to the ending I wrote for Jesse in my head, (settling down with a nice woman who has never done crystal meth in her life, and maybe a golden retriever, and opening some kind of eco-friendly desert B&B). On the other hand, I love Aaron…

OK, this looks incredible. The music, the cinematography. I think this is the first look that convinced me I want to know what happens to Jesse. As long as they’re cognizant that we don’t need to know how any non-jesse related loose ends tie up, this looks great.

That scene is acted impeccably. The kid is really wailing on Rooker until he isn’t. Just chilling.

the film is so viscerally disgusting, with trash strewn on every surface, shit caked on every toilet, and mold growing in every jar of rubbery sausages, that you can practically smell it.

Was the audience supposed to buy him as actually appealing to women, or were the writers overusing the “can you believe a woman would find this guy appealing” joke?

The weird thing is, I’m rewatching The Critic and it’s kind of absurd how true that is within the world of the show. In the first five episodes, three different attractive women throw themselves at him.

Which is jarring, because you also have scenes like the one filmed through the VHS recorder of the kid coming home that are still indelibly etched into my brain after all this time.

Not to mention it’s quite funny in parts. For me, its routinization of murder is always very absurd, rather than something the audience actually feels.

I’d have a hard time saying Henry was as pointless as this seems to be. It was about loneliness, manipulation, powerlessness, with a charismatic lead (you seriously can’t take your eyes off Rooker) pulling a frustrated loser into his orbit. There’s a reason people still talk about it 25 years later.

“Jay Sherman . . . is . . . a sex symbol.”

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