Fair. Let me amend: the best thing to happen to this show this season. Possibly even better than Gaby Hoffmann.

Ray and Marnie is the best, most unexpectedly dynamic thing to happen to this show in a long time.

I definitely think the ending with the "magic" line was meant to be ironic to some degree—it just came off as melancholy, especially given all the crap she went through this episode. I interpreted it more as saying that she's much more wounded and vulnerable than men think she is and than she likes to present herself.…

Aye. I personally prefer the mythic, the iconic, the classical, and that's what Breaking Bad is. But stuff like The Wire—daring, subversive, challenging, even confrontational at times—is equally important. The Wire is uncompromising art clearly anchored in the political space that birthed it, Breaking Bad is an…

Breaking Bad is so good it makes other shows look worse. It's a black hole of artistic brilliance. Mad Men is an excellent TV show, Breaking Bad is a monumental cultural event.

People will be watching this show hundreds of years from now.

Apples and oranges. The Wire is more sociopolitical and dense, Breaking Bad is more universal and accessible. In the moment, we might respect The Wire more for being more artistically subversive, but Breaking Bad will outlast it.

I don't know, I think Walter White is all that's left. That wasn't Heisenberg talking to Skyler on the phone. That was an emotionally shattered Walter doing his best Heisenberg impression for the protection of his family. It's a horrible irony that every vaguely noble thing Walt has attempted this season has been…

This is just a case of reality being unrealistic - we've been conditioned by film and TV to think that it's a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than it really is.

This was the first episode that I would really say was more horror than police procedural, and it pulled it off with aplomb. I also love how much mileage they're getting out of Will's plummeting mental state - the initial reveal of his messed-up clock sketch was chilling.

Totally agree, I was quite surprised by the B grade here. Fromage is the most entertaining episode so far, but I thought this was the best. The killer-of-the-week tied in beautifully with Will's character arc and, maybe I'm just a sucker for tragic horror, but Will talking to Georgia under the bed was one of the most…

Moreover, does anyone actually think these new episodes are going to be something other than disappointing?

Also Kim Possible and Totally Spies.

Which I don't really understand, because we've seen pretty much everything at this point except for a few crucial square inches.

You guys should definitely do weekly coverage for a while! As ridiculous as we all know it is, for some reason, I'm sort of cheering for this to succeed. Odds are good that it won't, but we can hope, and I'd definitely be interested in following it for a bit.

That's clearly the Holy Trinity of 21st century horror. I'd say they're all roughly equal, and great for essentially the same reason—insane fucking intensity.

That's clearly the Holy Trinity of 21st century horror. I'd say they're all roughly equal, and great for essentially the same reason—insane fucking intensity.

And Silver Linings Playbook is a serious awards contender, so it's really weird that they left it off. Surely they just forgot it.

And Silver Linings Playbook is a serious awards contender, so it's really weird that they left it off. Surely they just forgot it.

Is it weird that Calvin and Hobbes is one of my all-time favorite works of art? I can't name another piece of fiction that gets me so excited at the prospect of life. I honestly think that if every politician and CEO and religious leader had a framed copy of that final "It's A Magical World…" strip in their office, we…