Christ alive, Titanic is not better than LA Confidential.

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There's a special level of "underrated" for artists who are massively popular and have therefore generated backlash, but are actually pretty bloody amazing when you strip back the hype.

I'm not a fan of huge stadium gigs, except for Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney. With the former, it's a giant party and he's running up and down the stage for four fucking hours, for Christ sake!

I remember when I was 12, my dad took me to see Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds show at London's Royal Festival Hall. I was still a bit young to fully appreciate the gravity of both Brian's return to live performing and just the notion of seeing goddamn Pet Sounds live, but my dad said it might be the only time we might get…

Was there not a new Abe's Odysee a few years ago that was basically just an HD remake? Now that's nostalgia.

"Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor."

Sound design at the start of the scene actually made me think Chuck was gassing himself to death.

True, I don't think she's ever said where SHE is from, but there was definitely a scene in a previous season where she mentions family in Nebraska. There were a few comments after that episode on here, if I recall, that mentioned it as a potential story thread if Gene got any longer narrative.

It's possible. She's said she's got family in Nebraska, Gene's in Nebraska… if she departs the show by essentially escaping Albuquerque, it could be that he tries to look her up.

I think there's too much animosity between Kim and Howard for that to work. And I think Jimmy's name change will have more to do with how his name is being smeared across the region, and he needs something new once he starts practicing law again.

I do find Mike's story and all the forays into Gus/Salamanca a bit tedious - it's very much the "waiting until all the things you know must happen will happen" kind of prequel plotting that BCS has masterfully avoided in Jimmy's story.

I don't particularly want to see the seedy years of Saul Goodman in the immediate run-up to him meeting Walt and Jesse. What would be interesting is BCS building up for another season or two Jimmy's descent into representing drug dealers, Kim likely leaving him, etc… we reach the point where Jimmy turns Saul and…

I think we might be done with Howard now too. Jimmy's not got any further beef with HHM (and the Sandpiper thing goes back into the mist) so if Chuck's gone there's probably no strong tie to HHM in terms of narrative.

Maybe, though I'd doubt it given how they were talking about this being a natural ending to Chuck's part in the narrative. It's almost like the opposite of the Jon Snow cliffhanger* - there you had a very explicitly shown stabbing, bleeding out, showing-your-murder kind of 'death' in order to misdirect and provide a…

It quite openly became a romantic relationship at the start of season two, though I did also notice that was played down very hard this season in favour of their professional relationship (though I think we do see them lying in bed together on a couple of occasions)

Chuck's gone. Michael McKean and Peter Gould in an interview with Matt Zoller Seitz talk openly about it being clearly his death, that they had a wrap for McKean, though that they'll probably want him back "for flashbacks" and such.

Gosh, there's some right terrible takes in this.

I know how the writers write Gus and how GE plays Gus too well not to think that the cogs in his brain aren't turning when Hector nearly collapses and he shares that look with Nacho. I wonder if he realises even a little of what's behind that, and if that'll come into play at all in the final episode.

I really loved Secondhand Lions when I was younger. Dude was the face of good kid actors for years, happy that he seems to have ended up sane. Sure, you could make a fat joke but I'm sure it's better than the mental health troubles that Jake Lloyd or Amanda Bynes have had to deal with.