I have never read/heard anyone describe where the paranoia comes from before — in print or aloud — so my like goes to seeing that explained in public.  'Cause that's exactly how it works.
I still didn't like the recognition in the show, because they didn't set it up very well — callback to previous leaps of paranoia…

Like, but only if this was meant sarcastically.

I may quibble about the definition of camp vs. "classic BB stuff" but I very much agree with @avclub-298673367c6de609ae5970ce1e699c50:disqus .  Even after laughing myself silly during the big confession, and being seriously worked over when Walt hugged Jesse, this was big melodrama.  I loved it all - except when Jesse…

I'm so glad an early poster mentioned this.  That is exactly how I felt.  From the first "Hank was behind the whole thing" to the end . . . I was just laughing at the audacity of it all.  (To borrow a word from DB.)  Holy MOG, that just left me in stitches, it was pure ownage and the worst depiction of how far Walter…

As good a place as any: though Thursday afternoon at work is a trick time to chime in, I'm always happy to read the reviews — and particularly the comments — later.  Without fail, I can always expect some quality Python quoting, and it always triggers the memory of the original voices.  And it always makes me smile,…

Same here.  Read a Talking Heads bio that left a bad taste in my mouth for years.  Took me a while to get back into them.
Sometimes, it's better to not find out how sausage/art is made.

Larry's dad makes a weak Google Glass joke in the final episode. That one definitely qualifies as shoe-horning in current things.  (I just don't know if it's that pop-culturey.)

I have a very minor dissent about the scenes where Pipe chats with the voice in the wall.  I say minor because it's related to only one other pop-culture thing that I can recall.  Piper chatting with her neighbor in solitary had me instantly recalling that same sequence in V for Vendetta (graphic novel, not movie.  I…

This is one of those things that makes this show more relatable — perhaps that's why Piper is the focus?  You don't even have to ever have been imprisoned to get it.  
Right now, I'm ending a day where everyone in my family had it pretty good — but not me — and that disconnect taints everything.I hope I've removed…

Yeah, just reading the headline made me laugh out loud.  The article itself was nice delicious snark-cake inside.

It is also one of the scenes that hooked me into the show, too, as it was really grounded.  It got an emotional response from me, more than just "this is exciting shit!"  Granted, much like many things in drama, it is probably due to the fact that I could really relate — having dumb but well-meant discussions about a…

And in closed captioning.  Even better, Pornstache is only referred to as "Pornstache" in CC.  Always makes me smile.

Not by me.  I love that album to death, and as much as I love many other individual songs of hers more, I've played TFA from beginning to end more than any other album of hers, and more that most albums I own, period.  The songs are catchy; the arrangements aren't mind-blowing, but they fit the material.  (And it…

Counter-point: this would be the 1st Louie C.K. related project I would avoid.  (Though I guess it's technically going to be the second, after Blue Jasmine.)
I guess I could always hope that he would have a good influence on Allen.  Or I could congratulate him on working with someone he looks up to.
But since that…

@DonkeyLeaps:disqus Never stated or implied that Sal was bad.  I merely meant all the other negative portrayals of gay men in media, and how Bob's character skirts being yet another version of the same.  Sal's character is probably what got T&L's hopes up about how Bob was being written, as Weiner did a really good…

I haven't checked in on Mad Style since the season ended, but I do have a feeling that they really liked their interpretation of his character up until the "amoral fraud" reveal.  To be fair to them, it was nicer to consider that Bob was a golden boy type of gay, rather than yet another gay man doing bad things to get…

On other parts of AVC, this issue comes up (for me) a fair bit.  Well meaning fathers not wanting their children to make the same mistakes, but yet, through their delivery of the lesson, end up imparting the age-old "fear of dad" — as if that was the failsafe way to teach.
And it sucks to realize when I'm doing it,…

They import a fuck-ton of wine, so much so that it's cheaper to order wine/buy bottles for home use than it is to buy soda.
Plus, as noted above, fuckable citizens.  (And cheap/free contraceptions; state-paid abortions; etc.)

I guess that's a reasonably priced for NYC thing.  All of those things would be $10 in Boston, D.C., etc.
But Bartender's Choice is an awesome entry on their menu.  I often order like this, after I test the bartender on their basic skills, and I'm glad to see it in their menu proper.  And $13 for random drink is…

Definitely not — not because there's anything really objectionable, but it certainly is (potentially*) very dull.  Most of the issues being grappled with on the screen are very internalized things, with occasional burst of outrage or sadness.
It's very much like Peanuts, in that respect.  If the eight-year-old in…