Maybe so! I like this point of view because I like Mike, but I keep thinking about how in Half Measures/Full Measures he recommends Jesse be killed. 

That was my impression in earlier seasons but on a rewatch there’s a subtle erosion of morality for Mike that mirrors Jimmy. He may have been a dirty copy, but prior to last season’s finale, he was never a murderer of innocent people (as far as we know) and had gone out of his way to not kill even people who…

You’ve been here about 11 or 12 years now. Not since the beginning, but a good long while to read a website daily. You don’t know where to go that’s better, but you just find this site exhausting now. It used to be funny. It used to be clever. It used to be a reliable source for finding weird, interesting shit that…

I’m actually a bit disturbed by how these articles always erase the involvement of Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman, the two African-American executive producers of the show. The show may have been terrible (we’ll never really know), but I don’t think erasure of people of color is a great way cover this…

Point taken, impossible to see it from your perspective. Words can’t express the sorrow in your people’s plight. Evil exists.

I would very much enjoy a sequel, David Byrne and the Sack Lunch Bunch.

This is just bizarre. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Honestly, I was sold after the opening credits announced it was brought to you by ’The Mill and Belinda Goats Foundation and Viewers Like You.  Well, Not You.’

They goddamn better. 

Hot take: everyone has been taking Star Wars way way way way way more seriously than they should have been since about 1993 at least, if not earlier, and everyone should shut up about it for a few years.

I am slightly annoyed the fact that the reveal of who Lube Man is was not only pointless to the plot but it wasn’t even revealed in the show. Why include Lube Man if he doesn’t contribute anything to the plot at all?

When Trieu started monologuing, I knew for certain that her plan was going to fail. If only her dad had cared to impart a little fatherly wisdom.

Well, now that HBO has quietly put Confederate to bed, how else do you expect them to clumsily handle the topic of racism?

This seems very much like a bad faith argument from Wilde. 

Either you don’t understand what “live” means or what “podcast” means or both.

Right, but all of the best genre pieces have elements of subversion baked into them. Sundance Kid subverted the Western, The Shining subverted horror, and 2001 subverted sci-fi -- yet all are held up as pinnacles of their respective genres. It’s the difference between goodness and greatness. 

“This doesn’t sound at all like something the Veidt from the comic would do”

Bring back the audio commentary, you cowards!

I agree with everything here. And, “The Fly” is one of my favorite episodes. So much of Breaking Bad’s power came from its cliff-hangers and moving from episode-to-episode in a rapid-fire way. That was all perfect the first time. To me, it’s like a really great action movie/thriller. Love em in the moment, but don’t…

I was literally shocked to see Breaking Bad at number one. I like the show quite a bit. But, I feel like the appraisal of the show has changed of late as the luster has worn. For example, I have tried re-watching BB on at least three different occasions and its always a struggle (first two seasons, in particular).…

There are plenty that rival it, but for me nothing outright tops the “With or Without You” montage from the series finale of The Americans: