Not being familiar with any non-OJ Ryan Murphy work, I thought lindsayfunke had spouted a hilarious non sequitir in mentioning the "minotaur rapist". I honestly can't tell if your comment means that this was a real thing in another show, or if you're just playing along with her excellent joke. I don't even want to…

Devil Without a Cause led me to re-examine my longstanding policy on ba-ing without da ba.

I grew up on Koontz and Saul, because my parents saw me reading King and thought I liked "horror" and not just "all books". All I remember about Koontz is his creepy, almost fetishistic interest in identifying guns by name brand. "Steve Everyman took out his Heckler & Koch and pointed his Heckler & Koch at the bad…

I like a lot of his performances in this genre, but that one is the best. It's both hilarious and actually sounds good as music.

I always make fun of people who didn't instantly know that, say, "Nothing Compares 2 U" was a Prince song ("It's been seven hours and fifteen days"? Who but Prince could possibly measure time that way?), but it is infinitely *more* obvious that "Love Yourself" is an Ed Sheeran song, and I had no idea. Every Ed Sheeran…

I've always thought Eddie Rabbit was a strange name for a country singer, but a great name for a rabbit.

From this season so far, it appears she's too late - Nacho has already left town. :)

She's adjacent to that criminal world right now, though, and I hope she doesn't end up any more involved in it. I think it was brought up on Talking Saul after the premiere that, so far, Kim is completely insulated from the Mike/Gus world. I hope that continues.

Not sure if this is a date or just a coincidence, but when Jimmy appeared before the judge, his case number began with "2003".

I agree with you that if this were real life, there's a good chance that the Kim comes out unscathed. When I worry about bad things happening to Kim, it's not because I think women can't land on their feet—-it's because, in Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan employed a scorched-earth strategy where every single character…

And she was one of the voices in Herman's head in that show about Herman's head. I forget what that show was called.

You know, it's funny, I'm the Jimmy of my family in some ways—-I certainly don't have his charm, but I am a fuckup and my older siblings are successful and always trying to look out for me and get me mailroom-like jobs. This is probably some twisted part of why I like Chuck as much as I do—-low self-esteem and wanting…

Oh, Walt and Jesse are often hilarious together. No argument there.

You are the best.

Wait, I wasn't in the fanbase at the time, and via spoilers, my opinion of Walt was poisoned (you know, like Brock) going in. Did fans feel joy at the Walt-Jesse partnership, in general? There are a few times when their loyalty to each other can be very sweet, and that could be what you're referring to, but when I…

[i]IIRC, the BB meet-ups were typically more remote[/i]

Everything bothers me, so I was stoked after the first four words of your comment. And…yes, moderately.

Random thought: I was raised on way too many crime shows ("The Godfather" and "The Sopranos" are great, but even they had strong elements of this) where characters are very streamlined by their roles within the crime family. We see the world through the don's eyes; the consigliere isn't a person, just the consigliere.…

As someone who rarely understands what Mike is doing when he is doing Mike things, I *love* that feeling of belatedly figuring out why Mike is doing something.

I think it's one of those contextual things. In "Breaking Bad", Mike *feels* like a guy you root for because he's cranky with Walt and because he has a code and because he garrotes a guy once, and that's cool. Stepping back, though, Mike is just a human being who could be the villain of a completely different show.