Curse Giancarlo Esposito and his charisma. Gilligan should have learned from "Breaking Bad"—-and maybe he did, and is doing this to BCS intentionally—-that if you have a roomful of brilliant actors giving tours de force for 43.75 minutes, and then an out-of-focus shot of Gus in the background for a few seconds in the…

HARK! THE ONE PERSON WHO UNRESEVEDLY LOVES CHUCK IS HEARD FROM!

Upvoted for the last thing you blocked out. <3

I'm with you. I love where the Mike stuff is theoretically going, and I could watch Jonathan Banks do anything, and I admire the quality of his acting while he's…lurking behind some random nameless guy hanging out in a random sewer?…but I'm much more interested in "talking" scenes than "doing" scenes. If there's no…

Yeah, definitely, exploit the guy's mental illness! *That's* cool! Fuck Chuck, having a mental illness! I hope that guy gets what's coming to him!

He was also the implicit subject of one of the greatest Breaking Bad soliloquies of all time, when Mike and Jesse are arguing about how to rescue the bucket of meth from Tucker (TUCKER! TUCKER! TUCKER! TUCKER! TUCKER! TUCKER! TUCKER!), and Mike says to Jesse, "You are not the guy! You are not capable of being the guy!…

I love username-comment synergy, and this comment is definitely streets ahead.

I've seen it suggested a million times that maybe "Saul Goodman" comes into existence because Jimmy McGill gets disbarred, so Jimmy McGill just changes his name and then starts practicing law again in the same city (apparently with the same admin assistant) and with the same face and same style and same cheesy…

Funny—-I'm looking forward to the effect Gus has on Mike's story, but am worried about whether he (as on Breaking Bad) will end up completely pulling focus from the rest of the show. Gus will be great for Mike - it's Chuck/Kim/Howard/Ernesto/Erin I'm worried about here. See? You don't even remember Erin, do you, with…

Damn you, Walt Whitman!

Hi! Okay.

I don't think either of us is well served by future conversation on this. Take care, and good luck.

Yeah, when you watch them simultaneously, it feels like the shows are full of tiny echoes like that - hard to say if they're deliberate or if they're just being written and produced by the same people, writing for characters in the same universe, and if similar verbal tics/etc. are therefore organic.

And more qualified presidential candidates!

Survivor or anything else.

I'm a huge Survivor fan and would be amazed if this were not exactly what happened.

Thank you for phrasing it that way and not saying, "Is that show still on?"

Okay, I'm pretty radically leftist in a lot of ways, and am very active in both real-life and online communities fighting oppression. People I have heard of who have thought that transracialism was a thing:
1. Rachel Dolezal
2. now, you.

Yeah, I wasn't calling you out personally or anything. There's just a difference between "this film with its $200 million budget has an implausible plot" and "this director doesn't know where to put the camera", and it's interesting to me that people differ on which is a more important marker of low quality.

No, it's less wrought than A Single Man. Still significantly overwrought, but not *as* wrought.