We just saw him turn into Saul. Tonight. Bob Odenkirk was on the BCS podcast last week, and he said (paraphrasing) for him the clear distinction between Jimmy McGill and Saul Goodman is Jimmy does underhanded stuff and runs schemes, but in the end he wants everything to work out okay and will try to make sure no one…

What manipulation? She sat down and asked him to tell him what to do, and he refused. Everything else, that's just circumstantial. He never told her what to do, and it'll all probably come out and he'll look like the terrible person he is, but they'll have no leg to stand on legally trying to cut him out.

Wasn't a binary scenario. They could still have done that without reducing them to tired, trope-y cartoons. They have literally written a rapist as a more sympathetic character than women who choose to join a sorority when they're 18 years old, away from home for the first time.

I have friends and family who were in sororities and was in a fraternity (very briefly - wasn't a good fit for me). It's a ridiculous caricature of what Greek life is like. There are many many flaws with that particular system and value set, but to reduce it to a bunch of blonde bimbos is cheap and lame, and the show…

I feel like this season so far has been Kohan regressing to the impulses that doomed WEEDS. Over-the-top craziness, moving from comedy to cartoonishly zany, essentially discarding groundedness in any way shape or form. I still believe S3 of OITNB was the most creatively interesting and triumphant. They stuck to slices…

It was really stupid. Like, they manage to craft deeply empathetic characterizations of even the most despicable characters on the show, yet all that craft goes out the window when it comes to sororities. It was a cheap, shallow portrayal. There's lots of fucked up things about the Greek system they could have…

I give it a "V" for very, very good: http://www.vulture.com/2017…

I'm late watching this episode so maybe no one will see this, but the fact that Janine was telling the truth about Warren kind of had something click for me that the show has been hinting at in the past few episodes…

You might find this interesting, it's from an excerpt of a conversation between Margo Martindale and Ann Dowd that Vulture did:

I'd love to hear other's opinions on this, but I am back to conflicted about how they are handling the Moira storyline. Last week I said the lack of a Moira-centric episode was a huge waste, and to some extent I believe that still.

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Yeah this is a really good point. He is undoubtedly a prick, but if I was in his shoes I would probably just default to "fine, no hours then" after hearing a bunch of bullshit for months on end. Not crediting Jimmy with the hours for something he never told him would lead to said consequence was a pretty douchey move…

I don't know if I agree if they lost realism, per se. Neo-Nazi criminals are very, very real. It's practically a prerequisite of any reasonable-sized prison to have a faction of neo-nazis. Given the fact they sought out that company for its moral flexibility (if you remember they were using the pest control as a front…

Best show on TV, imo. I strongly believe that. Although I haven't caught S3 of The Leftovers yet so I can't say it's authoritatively.

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Appreciate you suffering the fool, it was a very gratifying and thought-provoking read.

That is one moment I loved about the last episode - the white guy hunter going like "shit's fucked up, right?" Like, everyone else is SO far past that, but since he's a bystander he's still only intellectually engaged and not in full-blown survivor mode. Just some naive fuckin' white chode that all of us cishet white…

That pesto line killed me. That woman was a giant in her field, and now she's been reduced to a black market merchant and she is in like the BEST possible job she could have? Reduced to using her world class talents to seduce some flunkie who is one of the best potential paramours simply because he's not actively…

For me it was "you have a few good years before your pussy wears out." What a fucking brutal line, and delivered with such sterile rationality, looking on the sunny side even. Horrifying.

It was a huge bummer and IMO an artistically wasteful choice to reveal Moira's time apart through one scene of pure expositional dialogue. I would have much rather seen that episode than the one I just watched. In past episodes I've been trying to if not to defend the way race has been handled in a hamfisted way, at…