I see your point, but what else is he going to think? There isn't any other reasonable scenario for Walt to imagine other than imagining they lied about killing Jesse so they could partner up with him to make more money instead. It would have been a BIGGER leap to think "oh, they must have enslaved Jesse."

@avclub-c1bac1d55ebcc415d61552acbfbb219d:disqus That moment was pure David Lynch. The whole scene was: Nazi compound being blown apart by a robotic machine gun, the massage chair still whirring and massaging a corpse or two, the sound of blood gushing like bathwater, then a tinny, distant Groucho Marx singing "Lydia…

She is, but she's also exceptionally irritating, and took her holier-than-thou attitude to really insane levels, so it keeps us from feeling too sorry for her.

The song started up and I just nodded, yes, of course, this is how it has to be, the universe is in order.

IF he gets away. No money, emotionally and physically scarred for life, and the cops might be looking for him. But Badger and Skinny Pete have some cash and would help him out, and even though Jesse confessed to killing Gale on that recording, surely the Nazis, as stupid as they were, destroyed that. Everyone who knew…

I thought he was going to run the hell over Walt. I gasped as he drove past, thinking I was about to see a nasty Robocop-esque death.

@DesertDweller79:disqus Commenters spelling names "Skylar" and "Jessie" or "Flinn" didn't bother me too much, it was the somewhat popular bloggers who did it. (Not the AV Club, obviously, but other smaller sites.) One site would have some pretty decent feminist cultural critiquing on the role of women playing opposite…

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus I didn't think it was tacked on in the least. The look on his face was the exact "rictus grin" look he had when he came out of the CT scan back in Season 4. Freaked me the hell out at the time, so it wasn't something I was likely to forget.

For years I've been waiting for a Gray Matter showdown, and every time I'd mention it here I'd get responses from people telling me it was over and done with and nobody cares. So I was both happy to see it AND gloating while watching tonight's episode, not gonna lie.

@avclub-664039300563ec7e08ded6cc14df0421:disqus I give it a pass for no other reason than my husband didn't even see Walt in the coffee shop until he was about to sit down with Lydia and Todd. It was very Edgar Allan Poe, hiding in plain sight, plus all those calls about sightings were spreading the police thin. (Was…

Of course. I never implied the characters themselves were "dumb," but that these characters routinely make stupid mistakes — Walt himself says keeping Gale's book was stupid. I'm working within the narratives Breaking Bad has provided, using the script's own words.

Really expected more love for AMC allowing a second censored "fuck" this season. Think we'll get a third? We can always dream!

Unless the Nazis took him, which I think is possible. We'll know next week, I guess. I'm just wondering how else they could effectively hold his life over Jesse's head unless they knew exactly where he was at any moment? Once Brock gets into the system they may not be able to find him quickly enough to use him as…

I ain't even gonna lie, the second they showed up I thought "Ha, screw everyone else, the three of us who said it would get referenced again were RIGHT."

But that's how everyone goes down in this show, by doing something stupid. Hank going renegade instead of bringing the DEA in, Walt leaving the Gale souvenir in his house, Mike and his series of poor judgment calls after decades of being a badass, Ted not paying the IRS, Skyler choosing to stay instead of taking the…

You have to admit, getting James Gandolfini for this episode would have been quite a coup.

I agree, it's highly likely he'll weasel his way back into the fold — maybe kill Jesse so Lydia "needs" him, similar to why Gale was killed? I can't see any other way he can effectively get to the Aryans. Maybe he'll exchange his meth for Lydia not killing Skyler, though one would assume that since it's been a few…

@avclub-ef062084a1c4a3584af1d4f8e514ea50:disqus It wasn't bullshit at all. Grey Matter stock had plummeted and The New York Times ran an article suggesting the reason for that was because of the business being founded in part by Internationally Notorious Criminal Walter "Heisenberg" White. Rose would have been an…

I was so glad to see Gretchen and Elliott return, where we got more insight into the kind of people they are: More concerned about appearances than anything else. Not so much the continued edging out of Walter despite his obvious contributions to the company, but the drug treatment centers as a PR thing rather than…

I don't want to be That Guy, taking a joke seriously just to make a point, but here I go anyway: I'm a critic and holy shit if I was paid in gum I would go up a tax bracket. We reviewers, we don't get paid much.