Sounds to me like another a recruiting effort for that new gang, the Banana Boys (all the good colors were taken).

Nobody picks on my man Johnny Appleseed. Nobody.
You mess with the Apple, you get the Banana, beotch.

Sure, if they don't actually empathize with the group they mocked, it's a hollow gesture. But I'd say it's wise to make the gesture even if they're just beginning to empathize. The expelled SAE member may need years of maturing and reading about Jim Crow, lynchings and Civil Rights before he fully understands how vile…

Are you married? You quickly realize in a long-term relationship that the more it's "dragged out of you" the more rancorous the dispute will be. Even if you don't think what you said was that bad or rationally hurtful, you have to mean the apology to the extent that it still hurt the other person's feelings. And yes,…

Old crotch?? ::sets aside cane, slips off suspenders, peers down front of slacks::

Come on—would it have killed them to show us Walt Jr. thumbing through while taking a dump? Or Skyler while sneaking a smoke? Even then, it's just hard to imagine Walt letting this book be anywhere but locked away or buried in his closet, not on a shelf or in a drawer where either of them would see it…

The cars were risky but can also easily be justified by Walt's dying of cancer and wanting to see his son happy. Bugging Hank's phone became a logistical necessity. You're right that he's become cocky and perhaps even complacent, but I'm still objecting to this twist in terms of how damningly incriminating that book…

Couple points— sure it sounds nit-picky. But the writing on this show can be so good, a B-level turning point feels like a big step down. I had a similar distaste after the plane crash ending season 2, but that twist, while certainly implausible, was not an arguable betrayal of any main character's tendencies.

I'm with you in disliking the book as the fatal loose end. Esp. after Walt even looked at the book's monogram earlier this season. The W.W. reference was the closest Hank ever came to suspecting Walt; seeing that monogram should have made Walt shudder and run to burn it. It's almost implausibly uncharacteristic that…