Oh man…am I really the only one who thought last week was pure gold?

Really disagree there. The stuff last week with the secessionist and the elderly folks and the toilet was all great. Give me more of that, please. Also: more late nights in the nail salon. But preferably less "gritty" drama like this week's, or at least no more of a ratio then we have seen so far.

I liked last week's episode the best of all of them and this week's the least (although I'd still give it a B+). So I'm not seeing the connection between them.

You may be right; I hope though that this will tide him over for a a while.

How do you mean? Can you expand on that?

There are such people, although I consider it a bad idea.

She was the one playing Stacey? If so, I'm sorry but I'm not *feeling* the love. I agreed with the recapper: "The vibrancy of Jimmy’s dialogue stands out, especially in contrast to Stacey’s strained lines." Everyone else on this show is so naturalistic with their acting, but she is the kind of actor who pulls me out…

Let's not forget that earlier in their relationship, Mike was going to kill Walt for one of the few actual noble and self-sacrificing things he did.

I have said it before, and I continue to insist that this is the wrong way to experience the Breaking Bad universe. I believe both shows are at least slightly diminished by going in the wrong order, and that's a real shame.

He was quite popular when he was reelected in '84. His popularity took a nosedive after that, and conservatives have kind of finessed things so they pretend that didn't happen. They've done a fairly good snow job, aided by people's kindly attitudes toward someone who suffered from Alzheimer's and then died. But in…

Philadelphia, Mississippi "states' rights". "Young buck" on food stamps.

It's incredibly cheesy, and not at all interesting to me. The revelation that the fate of each universe depends on which Olivia is Peter's twu wuv, was the most risible piece of nonsense ever. Instant shark jump, and I never watched another episode after this one.

Huh. So this was fairly early in the pilot?

I can't believe there are over a thousand comments and no one had anything to say about the supposed flashbacks in the pilot?!? I watched this pretty closely, and I did not see one, not even a "brief" one. And it's just bizarre to me that this was mentioned twice in the review but no one picked up on it in the…

Yup, saw the same thing!

But that show specifically said that around the Hoover Dam, the electricity will last waaayyyy longer than basically anywhere else on Earth, as it is all automated.

And BTW, there was stuff from BB that really was dropped. In the first season, there's a party with tons of Walt and Skyler's friends attending. They can't just be explained away as acquaintances or people Hank and Marie know. One of them is a really nerdy science type, and Walt talks to him in a way that strongly…

Much better would be for it not to come back at all. The whole point, it seems to me, is that he followed through on his promise (to an absurdly literal degree), and he is leading a completely boring life as a "civilian": "The fun's over. From here on out, I'm Mr. Low Profile, just another douchebag with a job and…

Sorry, I posted the above while pausing the show, somewhere in the brief interregnum between the point where he seemed to detect something in her pocket, and when she pulled that trick. Oops! I was just too damned eager to offer my mea culpa…guess I learned my lesson there. ;-) (At least it's not as embarrassing…

Nice—this is what I just thought of too—scanned through to see if anyone else did. It kills the joke, of course; but yeah, arbitrary printed money, not backed by a gold standard, is the opposite of what these people believe in.