I was fascinated with this show for a while, in a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God kind of way.  The "but-for-the-grace-of-God" part is that I think I must be really low on any OCD spectrum, so there's never been any acquisitive phase for me.  But I've had periods of depression where stuff starts to accumulate:  not…

I only watch dramas wearing comedic underwear.

And only on AV Club do I look at that string of words and immediately say, "NOPE."

As a doctor, he could have cured people using only the healing power of laughter.

You know, @avclub-c2b1b8ce8d74964b7ca641283ddc2e8b:disqus , I'd have said that too—but rewatching Ozymandias before tonight's episode, it struck me that Todd had a real (if muted) reaction, something that even looked like a sniffle, to the rawness of Walt's despair at the death of Hank.  After which you see him…

More like clear eyes, full clips, amirite?

Keep riding that hobby horse.  Nobody cares.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus , I had the same thought—he decidedly did leave the child-murder out.  I kind of think there was a deliberate bit of play with that—when Jack storms out of the building immediately after, with Todd following, you don't know at first what he's intending.  As if to solicit…

@avclub-b3d29f8f22c60a4b2c5fc2b1691c1d62:disqus , I'd like to think that too—but even if, it's still a stunt, and kind of an embarrassing one.  And coming after that wrenching phone call to Junior, just that much cheaper.  God knows, Cranston retrieves the moment with his reaction—of course he does, he's Cranston—but…

Charlie Rose is one of those anointed non-journalist journalists whose only genuine affect is smarmy self-satisfaction.  He fits perfectly in a Washington where agreement with the conventional wisdom of the powerful is considered a mark of intelligence.  I doubt that he has had a single independent, much less…

I don't think we've seen the slightest indication that Skyler knows Lydia's name, what work she does, anything about her other than Walt's "she's a former business associate."

I have the feeling that the existence of other human beings is even more an abstraction to her than it is to Todd.

That's not a downgrade, it's up from "Triple Sell."

I'll be impressed and horrified if it's just 75 minutes of Charlie Rose interviewing Walter White.

Ggrdbl essy,, horsfelwe,,,

I'd honestly have been happier with almost any other way of spurring Walt out of his hidey-hole.  And the fortuitously-come upon TV interview, we're going to go with that of all things?  A Charlie Rose interview, no less, that milquetoast NPR Establishment suck-up?  One of the few times I've wanted to accuse the…

"Walter, there are people who say that your activities as a meth kingpin call for some pretty harsh punishment.  How would you respond to that?"

The three of them had a patent, which Walt sold for a few thousand to vacate his share of the business.  No real details, as I recall, but presumably the intellectual-property basis for what the company went on to be.

Yeah, in a different (corporate) register, but it's pretty clear that there's no bottom to Lydia's depravity, either.

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