My understanding is that the "baffling mystery" of the settlement is injured players and their families needing money now to cover medical expenses. That's always a risk with large class-action lawsuits; many people might want to go all the way and spend years fighting a negligent organization, while others don't have…

"All Good Things" from ST:TNG. Hands-down winner.

Tylenol PM. Just this once, she can take 2-3 times the recommended dose after the show ends.

It would have been cool if when Walt complained about "Mr. Magorium" Robert Forster responded "maybe I'll see if I can find a DVD with Pam Grier in it."

The "Salon" article was just wrong. Walt isn't an example of white privilege (such examples do exist, and are well worth calling out; I'm not criticizing the author's political observations, only how they relate to this particular TV show.) Walt got boned by Grey Matter; they took his ideas and robbed him. That's the…

60's as a dead age? "Twilight Zone"/"Outer Limits"/"Hitchcock Presents"/"Dr.Who"/"Trek." They started the "anything can happen on any given episode" trend, alive and well today.

And now the darkest, bleakest hit TV show in history has gotten darker and bleaker. Somebody please tell me the last episode is four hours long; 47 minutes is way too short for this shit.

Clooney, Cuaron, space shit. I'm there . . .

yeah, i hear ya, my mom was a police dispatcher and this show's realism left town a long time ago (maybe around the time a charred teddy bear — from a mid-air collision caused by a distracted air-traffic controller distraught by his kid dying who Walt kinda sorta killed — landed in Walt's swimming pool, IRONY.) These…

I love the reaction shots of the kid who plays Brock when Walt visits. "Hi!" SUCK IT YOU ASSHOLE YOU POISONED ME also Fruit Loops are yummy and sugary-sweet

Well, not the song I would have chosen, but everyone has their faves.

I liked Huell's license plate, LWYRUP

You can tell the reviewer is quite young by his amazed reaction to a breakup scene in "a family-friendly place, in the middle of a crowd." Son, the day will come when you make use of such settings yourself, to prevent the interested parties from getting all medieval on each other.

I think most of the transcripts to his Monstervision commentary (sittin' by the trailer, chuggin' a beer) are still available on his website. That's where I saw "Seconds," too. "MV" was a cool show, and JBB was a good film historian.

How's this for an ending; Walt single, teaching chemistry in some little town someplace far away, annoyed at his students' boredom, and ready to erupt at any time.

Folks: this show has never been universally genius. At best, different people can laugh at different gags, and what's wrong with that? I loved the increasingly obese kid saying "I don't know what I like better, the original or Type 2!"

If nobody's posted it in the comments (I'm too lazy right now to read them all) there's a mindblowing album by John Wayne along the same lines and released around the same time, called "America: Why I Love Her." It's one of my most prized possessions. Sample lyric, from "The Hyphen": "When someone calls themselves an…

Well, it's the first of the movies to really discard much of the book's plot. But the book was also the first of the series to discard the notion of having the central mystery be solved by attentive readers before the   end. It was the last of the movie adaptations I enjoyed, myself.

If you watch "Basterds" again, you'll note that the first music cue (after the opening credits), when the farm family first notices creepy cars driving towards their home while hanging laundry to dry, has a piano riff exactly like Beethoven's sonata played on the harp in "Django."

If you watch "Basterds" again, you'll note that the first music cue (after the opening credits), when the farm family first notices creepy cars driving towards their home while hanging laundry to dry, has a piano riff exactly like Beethoven's sonata played on the harp in "Django."