Depending on when you were a kid, the mortality rate for children dying from accidents (falls, fires, drownings, being hit by cars or trains) was likely three or four times as high as it is now. And that rate is the lowest of all in more affluent neighborhoods. The "helicopter" parenting so many people like to roll…

Seemed abrupt, how they went from Gretchen refusing to even talk to Walt as she drove away, to their sitting in a restaurant together.

Well, it is about death. And there are sad/depressing elements to it. But overall, I would say that it makes the subject easier to come to terms with, rather than harder.

I remember a lot of fans of the show started complaining about it going downhill just when I thought it started going from "really good" to "masterpiece". So, YMMV.

Great finales, agreed. For SFU, though, my actual favorite episode is at the other end of that final season: the season premiere, "A Coat of White Primer".

At one time, SFU was the next big thing in premium cable (it was literally HBO's next drama introduced after The Sopranos, and I believe it aired after that flagship show on Sunday nights). But people have seemed to lose track of it in discussing the Mt. Rushmore of TV dramas, and I think that's a mistake, and a real…

Except Stan was legit investigating Oleg.

Have you seen Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under? Those are my all time top two.

Utterly disagree.

I floated this whole notion on some other boards I frequent, and couldn't find a single soul who found the Saul-as-rapist idea remotely plausible. Something weird in the water over here, I guess. One response:

BTW, your supposedly "nano-thin line", if you read the link I posted, is the line between "illegal in many states" and "illegal in two states" (maybe—I can't find any cases of this sort prosecuted even there). Misrepresenting oneself as someone's husband in that way has a long history of being prosecuted as rape, and…

Only if "nebulous" has flipped its meaning and come to mean "precise"!

In any event, I have yet to see anyone produce an example of what Jimmy did being prosecuted (much less earning a conviction) for rape. All the examples seem to involve medical misrepresentation, or someone pretending to be a woman's husband or boyfriend.

Depends on the jurisdiction.

What Jimmy did could only plausibly be defined as rape in two states—TN and AL:

But something like what Jimmy did is only remotely plausible as a prosecutable rape in two states: TN and AL.

What "quite a bit" does it say?

If he very effectively disguised himself as Kevin Costner such that Costner's wife or girlfriend fell for it, and the legal standard of the "reasonable person" test was satisfied, such that a reasonable person in their position could not be expected to see through the deception, then it might be something in the…

"Girl Drink Drunk" was the funniest thing ever! "Don't…disappoint me, Ray."

This is a tendency in premium cable shows, and I don't have a problem with that. Nor do I mind quieter episodes in general (earlier in the season, I said I'd be fine with a lot more scenes with just Jimmy and Kim hanging out late at night at the nail salon). But I find this episode disappointing more for scenes that…