I guess I'm not seeing it as ambiguous. I suppose it is if you think there's a 50/50 chance someone is lying at a given time. In a story, I tend to assume what we see is what happened until given reason to think otherwise.

No, I think you're just rewriting that scene entirely. The audio is quite clear regarding the sound of the newspapers.

Being funny is really damn hard. Being sad is easy.

Ugh, that's my least favorite kind of speculation. "There's no evidence at all in the text for this, but wouldn't it be crazy if…?"

I've never thought this and I don't think there's anything in the performances to suggest it, either. Her husband was a cop killed in the line of duty for not being crooked enough. Her father-in-law then murders the guy who did it and they all move to Albuquerque. It's not at all out-of-line to think she might be…

Yeah, I see a lot of commenters making assumptions that she's lying that are not supported by anything we've seen. I have suspicions about the motivations of those who jump to that conclusion.

It's NOT unearned, though. Jimmy worked in the damn mail room while taking law classes on the side and then took the bar, what, three times before passing? Just because he didn't go to High-Faluting Name College and Prestigious Important University and he doesn't sit around in a suit sniffing his own farts all day…

Right; they were the rare exception because they were practically Dadaist. (Or, as John Mulaney said, "They seem like an ESL video. 'This is my office. Here is the door. The door is red. SHUT THE DOOR.'")

You can tell because it didn't run 45 minutes long or have Gilligan's wife singing a cover version of a song over a montage.

Yeah, I suppose you got me on the "multiple subplots" there. What I like is that being so straightforward adds so much to the power of the story— nothing elided, and no stupid backstory to explain or justify the characters, to put distance between them and us. (And I like that the Strike Team basically only does two…

No, I don't remember that being the case at all. What's your evidence for that?

See, I felt the opposite: The everyday procedural stuff offered a nice counterpoint to the crazy shenanigans of the Strike Team - a clear refutation of the idea that they had to do their jobs the way they did them - as well as allowing plots to be told in fewer beats, with less dragging out or spacing apart— and, most…

Tiger Trouble?

I feel like that was one of those things we're just supposed to overlook, like they wanted Kaylee to be older for this story and are just completely waving away the timeline.

No, when Mike was first introduced in Breaking Bad, it was through Saul.

It did look similar to the kind of warehouse one might raise chickens in for fast-food farming. (Note: I know nothing about raising chickens)

(thanks a pantload, preview)

I can only think of two serialized dramas that make a deliberate point of bucking this trend.

I'll always remember Maxim as "The magazine I bought a three-year subscription to in college that was $1 an issue, that by junior year I had come to regret."

I'm not even sure if the show is necessarily going to end; they've already been cutting back the order to accommodate their other projects. I wouldn't be surprised if it continues in 10, 8, or even 6-episode seasons, or if they go on a Curb Your Enthusiasm "We make more when we want to make more" plan.