It definitely can serve as a deflection from facing one's self and an excuse not to have to engage others in a genuine way.

There are so many levels of irony with your comment that I'm just tickled and delighted.

Using such a smooth delivery with such specifics makes me wonder if he's used that line before, perhaps to an ex-Marine book warehouse employee in Texas.

Sheriff, you were the best damn part of that miserable movie. RIP

Chuck does have a solid argument against Jimmy's use of "ends justify the means": we have seen how that can lead some characters to commit immoral acts (RIP Jane, near-RIP Brock).

First, your metaphor is delicious. Kidding aside, it's really astute.

I hate Chuck sporadically, but in scenes like their fight I can definitely switch sides to empathy, having known how hard and frustrating it is to love someone with either addiction or behavior problems.

But the same question in BB applies here: was Walt at heart evil and it was unleashed, or did circumstances warp his true nature (I'm for the former hypothesis).

And that he hid that real him behind 1st season's helpless, concerned Big Bro facade makes it even more chilling.

Best-deserved end? Having to be all alone with himself, with the knowledge that he created his own prison, built with bricks of hubris. Nothing worse than finding out who the real you is.

Me too. I'm 45yo and my brother won't let go of the image he has of me when we were in our 20s. Yes, I was difficult but I have changed. He gets to feel superior to me by keeping me in the role of the fucked-up sibling, and he somehow gets something out of feeling that way.

Yes, it was a nightmare growing up with a brother like that.

You Greeks had it good - us civilians drank Keystone Light (if we felt adventurous it was Mickey's big mouth). Except for that time I made a drink that tasted like tootsie pops, that was the shit.

The best kind of tv disassembles - without our awareness - our preconceptions and cynicism, for sure. And Anderson's performance is proof.

Upvote just because I'm deliriously happy for you that you'll experience BB for the first time.

The eyes in that scene! Like you said, Krazy-8 had the naif look, Tuco's were predatory/dominating, and Nacho's were hooded - wary and observant.

Gilligan et al. really know how to do emotional violence: that scene between Jimmy and Chuck was as brutal as anything George RR Martin could conceive… (we won't mention the Mike/Tuco scene *shudders* They also get physical violence right).

Sometimes Highmore's accent slippage had brought me out of past scenes, but I think here it lends an unsettling "offness" to his Norma/n channeling. He doesn't caricature Farmiga, he wears her like an ill-fitting Mother suit - it's so well done.

In all fairness, sometimes you have to bloat uncomfortably before the relief fart [to put it a little less eloquently than you].

I love that Kurt Vonnegut's asshole liked your comment!