“Inertia.” I’ve been covering Breaking Bad for most the season, but for the finale, Nick and I decided a conversation would be worthwhile since we had intended for us to alternate coverage...
“This whole thing could’ve been avoided.” I was a little underwhelmed by “Say My Name.” It’s unlikely that Breaking Bad can be legitimately bad — it’s too well-oiled at this st...
“It’s like you’re eating a scab.” “Buyout” is not an exciting episode, but you don’t always need excitement. I’ve long maintained, across many posts here, that pacing is important...
“Give me a break. You guys were going to murder me. I thought you guys were professionals.” After Lydia mentioned the train tanker of methylamine, my first thought was, “AMC must’ve wante...
“Life is good, Skyler.“ It’s really not. But that’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? I have to imagine that this week was flush with blog posts re-considering long held prejudices and grudges ...
“Just because you shot Jessie James, don’t make you Jessie James.” Skyler says less than fifty words the entire episode, depending on whether or not you count non-lexical vocables as words....
“There’s no better reason than family.” When it comes to Breaking Bad, I’m always changing who I root for. I’ve steadily stopped rooting for Walt (and as this season has progressed, IN...
“Yeah, bitch! Magnets!” Oh. That’s what breathless anticipation for next week feels like. The finale last year left me a little disappointed. There wasn’t a cliffhanger in the traditional...
“I musta saw it on House or somethin’.” I sat still for a long time after the episode ended. Not blankly, not cursing the skies for ending this season of Breaking Bad and making me wait mon...
“I don’t know when or how, all I know is it’s going to happen.” Good grief, how intense were those last 10 minutes of “Crawl Space”? It was a pretty wild episode, but those last 10 mi...