congrats, sonia! will miss seeing your reviews here. i've enjoyed hearing your take on homeland, and your write-ups of friday night lights season 1 were terrific too.

not saying there wasn't some great stuff after this, but how perfect would this have been as a series finale?

may be getting the numbers wrong, but: "if michael gets a new chair then pam gets michael's chair, and i get pam's chair, and then i'll have two chairs. only three to go."

nice touch: the shot of Julie in the stands as the fight's getting started, her lips sort of pushed out like she's saying "shhhhhiiiiiit."

a visit from 2014 to say: best. username. ever.

nothing to add, really. just wanted to say that these write-ups have been terrific, sonia. great work!

fantastic. also, not the only time michael gets pissed at dwight for dropping a that's what she said. remember at the doctor's office in "the injury"?

minor characters don't have to be caricatures. look at the sopranos, a show that thoroughly develops its central character and his inner life. if one show was ever a character study, it was the sopranos. but the minor characters, even the extremely minor characters—i.e. the guy who runs christopher's intervention in…

seeing this two years later. super informative, and very brave of you to share. thank you.

seeing this two years later. super informative, and very brave of you to share. thank you.

oh, go to hell macfarlane. just… go to hell.

i don't think you're wrong that there are moments where characters other than walt are guilty of excessive pride, but i'm think the difference between the things you name that other characters did and what walt did is that those other characters were acting on principle. jesse, for instance, when he decided not to…

how long capitalism has been around is irrelevant. besides, i'd argue breaking bad is very much about america's winner-take-all capitalism in particular.

can i just say that i'm completely sick of "best tv show ever" discussions. i really don't see what's gained there. it always ends with slighting a bunch of great shows without gaining any appreciation for the one you see as the best.

"nothing to say about out world"? breaking bad is as much about capitalism as anything else. walt is america.

agreed. he wants no part of that money. another thing i like: jesse, by being todd's meth slave, got what was coming to him and then some, which, now that he's free, i'm sure he can appreciate a bit. he would've been even more miserable had he gotten away with it. remember: "if you just do bad stuff and nothing…

"the finale gave him victory on all fronts."

all of the above?

my understanding is that letting himself be placed under arrest by hank would lead to a trial, while confessing/turning himself in would lead directly to him being charged.

we're talking about two different things here—surrendering himself to hank and getting placed under arrest is not the same thing as 'fessing the way saul was suggesting he do (which he didn't do because he has the ego to believe he'll figure out a way to achieve his goal of getting the money to his family).