I picked up a book my high school girlfriend had checked out for a paper about Nazi human “experimentation” under Mengele. To this day it makes me sick to think about. It really was like he would just think “hey, I wonder what would happen to a human if we did X, Y, Z.” The Holocaust was horrible enough, but there…

As a couple of recommendations - Netflix has an excellent series on Auschwitz from the BBC. Also, if you’ve not read it, Primo Levi’s “Is This a Man/The Truce” is one of the most evocative and oddly uplifting accounts I’ve ever read - both of the life of the camp itself, and an extraordinary journey home afterwards.

What’s wrong with Woody Harrelson?

The Babe.com story in no way requires a years-long retreat from public life. Most people in the #MeToo world agree with that. The sum total of allegations against Ansari is one shitty date where he was a pushy horny asshole. That is not sexual assault or workplace harassment. Men should be held to a higher standard…

This rant was considerably longer and more annoying to read than Barsanti’s brief aside. How about you leave us alone and just let people talk about Steven Spielberg movies?

Did Scarlett say anything about her favourite filmmaker (i.e. the guy who made Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Christina Barcelona)?

Starred for your parenthetical.

You know who I wish was a fictional character? Donald Trump!!!😜

Damnit Jesse YOU PUT HIM IN THE BATHTUB?!!?!

It’s easy to forget just how FUNNY the first season was, given what the show became. Not that it ever entirely abandoned humor, but obviously as Walt grew more competent and the stakes spiraled out of control, there just weren’t as many opportunities.

A lot of credit is due to Breaking Bad’s editors as well for defining the look of the show. For example, I remember Gilligan saying on the pilot commentary that he really had no idea what he was doing while filming the first RV cook montage, but in editing it was transformed into one of the show’s trademark visual…

I’m actually rewatching it right now as they’ve been marathoning it on AMC. It just happened to be on when I turned my TV on this morning and now I’ve been stuck watching it since. Watching these episodes a second time (it’s the whole Gus arc currently), and thinking about what came before and what follows, I came to…

I’m assuming that this is focused on directors for whom Breaking Bad was a particular turning point in their careers otherwise there’s a serious lack of Adam Bernstein on this list. He started off directing They Might Be Giants videos and worked on on Oz, Scrubs and 30 Rock before Breaking Bad and has worked on Fargo…

My wife loved this show and had desperately tried to get me to watch with her. But from the way she described it (“It’s about a dad with terminal cancer who tries to raise money for his family by selling drugs”), it just sounded too depressing to me. So I kept refusing.

Man, do I wish MacLaren had directed Wonder Woman instead. What a talent. Patty Jenkins did fine, but visually she just imitated Zack Snyder’s style, and I think Michelle could have done a lot more if WB let her.

MacLaren did an amazing job at the cartel compound in Salud. Possibly my favorite action sequence in the entire series. From the cartel dropping like flies into the pool, Mike taking out Cartel Mike with the wire, how they cut the part with Jesse firing the pistol during the getaway, and Gus Fring in ultimate badass…

This is worse than doing nothing. If people could be trusted to discern good media from shit media, we wouldn’t be in this problem in the first place.

Unrelated, I think that the Onion needs a fake comment section at the bottom of articles.

I’m gonna take Krang’s advice and check out Predator.

It’s almost impossible to imagine this sequel working, given the context you’ve described, but I was wrong about Twin Peaks and Evil Dead revivals so perhaps I’ll be wrong about this too.