I actually didn't even realize that was Alicia Silverstone until her name flashed onscreen, at which point I took the trailer back to the beginning to watch again. She looks great though! And Vamps looks, like badideajeans said below, like a great fluffy dumb movie. Fun fun fun.
As a fan of Cheers, trivia games, and other nerdly pursuits, I would also TOTALLY play. And I would probably ask if we could make a theme night of it with Simpsons and Seinfeld and Friends trivia. And I would probably bring hummus.
Amendment: Ladies and also often men love John Stamos. John Stamos is for everyone. For some reason there were no men around at the time of the aforementioned anecdote.
Oh man! Ladies do love John Stamos. Anecdote: I was on an airplane the other day (#humblebrag) and this lady asked the people around her whether we had just seen John Stamos walk by. And EVERYONE WHO HAD OVARIES freaked the fuck out. Including the flight attendant. And then the lady who made the initial comment clarified that no, she was just joking, it was just some random dude with a yogurt cup. (???)
Speaking of people who are always like "LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME," I do wish that Jay Pharoah would relax and stop mugging for the camera all the time.
What about that sketch with the private investigator caricature artist? It was going pretty well, and then BAM it was over. It's like the writers realized that the whole Internet (or at least the Internet people who watch SNL) griped all last season about how they don't know how to end sketches, so they just started cutting them off prematurely. That's still not the right way to end sketches!
I do love Jessica Lange, but I think the fact that American Horror Story won any awards ever is scarier than anything in that entire series.*
*Except for Dylan McDermott masturbating and crying.
I felt like the sketches were a lot shorter than usual this week, which is a nice change from the seemingly-interminable-but-actually-five-or-six-minute sketches they were doing last season.
The puppet sketch was so perfect. Wish they had led with that instead of the disgruntled sex therapist.
The "Goon"/"go-od" joke in the Ryan Lochte monologue... oh my god. Oh my go-od.
I hated Cecily Strong's bit, but maybe just because I'm tired of the hilarious premise that Latinas are oversexed ninnies with hopelessly out-of-date gender roles who aren't smart enough to take anything seriously. I can't believe she allowed that to be her introduction to a national audience.
I thought Tim Robinson was funny. I thought Aidy Bryant nailed her two-second walk-on.
I watched the series premiere of that show! It left me dumbfounded. What I remember most is that they used to play sexy Latin music every time that one girl--who was playing a TEENAGER in HIGH SCHOOL--walked down the hallway. Oh my god, that show. It was like what would happen if a bunch of high schoolers wrote and directed their annual school play and a Hollywood Bigwig happened to be in the audience because his car broke down across the street and he said, "I'm going to make you kids famous! Bring this play to the small screen!"
Thanks for clarifying, KajusX. I don't think the writers are lazy. I thought this one plot point in this one episode could have been handled better. I never thought it was a big deal though, and I know I've said that I'm being nitpicky because I think the writers are so good.
And man, I wish I hadn't used that word, because now I'm having to defend what was to me a pretty lukewarm criticism in the first place.
Well, my point in that (somewhat flippant) comment was that I'm not saying Mike the Character is making stupid and inexplicable decisions in the context of the show--which I felt KajusX & Chainsaws was suggesting with "I think it's strange when these criticisms get volleyed at Mike"--but rather that Mike did have options other than Walt that the writers did not explore, likely because of time constraints and the need to get characters in place for the final episodes of the show. It was specifically a reply to that line; I did read and understand the rest of the comment, thanks, because I am an adult with a good grasp of reading comprehension, but I didn't have the time or the energy to comment on the rest of it, because I am at work, which shouldn't even matter, because I shouldn't have to justify the length (or depth) of my comments to a stranger on the Internet who insults my intelligence.
Breaking Bad has had four fairly (and very pleasantly!) meandering seasons so far with ample room for characters and plots to develop organically, which has spoiled its viewers. This season, in contrast, obviously has an endgame in mind, and sometimes certain plot developments--such as getting Mike and Walt in the same isolated place, where Walt can kill Mike without anyone else knowing--feel rushed and too coincidental to me. Hence, lazy.
So to summarize:
1) miss lonelyhearts and Messica each had differences of opinion about a show they love with strangers on the Internet who also love the show, in a space where discussion of said show is almost always civil, even friendly and enthusiastic.
2) capt clown decide to insult miss lonelyhearts AND Messica personally for politely voicing their disagreement.
Okay. I think acknowledging that Mike had at least one solid option (Bill Burr) that the show didn't even mention suggests a small failure on the part of the writing. It's believable, when you lay it all out, that Mike would have let Walt bring him the bag--desperate times, desperate measures; Mike had nothing left to lose; etc.--but I think the viewer has to do a little too much rationalization to arrive at that conclusion. I'll concede it was more rushed than out of character.
I don't think Walt will even tell Jesse! Why would he? Jesse already thinks he's never going to see Mike again. I think Jesse might find out about it on his own and THAT will be the final nail in the already-nail-covered coffin of Jesse's loyalty to Walt.
I didn't think there was anything in the pictures that we saw Hank look at, but weren't there many more photos that he presumably hadn't gotten to before his boss told him to pay attention? The music was so portentous! And I think that would be a great reveal and such a great reaction shot for Hank, staring irrefutable evidence of his meek nerd brother-in-law's involvement in the biggest drug ring in Albuquerque in the face. In the teethface, even.
Not sure I want to argue, but I am curious about your reasoning. Do tell!
And I get your point about coincidences and the clues the writers throw us. I didn't have any complaints about Gus's "spidey sense" last season, but right now I have some complaints about Mike's character this season. I should mention though that I'm aware of how nitpicky I'm being, and it's just because Breaking Bad has been so consistently solid and well written. Mike's acting out of character to advance the plot this season doesn't make me question whether Breaking Bad is the best series on TV. I still think it is, by far.
Does anyone think there might be a photo of Walt in that folder Hank was looking through in his meeting, and that's how he'll crack the case? With Mike off his game as he has been this season, it's not farfetched to think he might have led a DEA tail to a meeting with Walt and Jesse.
Good episode, but I think all of the machinations the writers employed to get Walt and Mike alone were completely unbelievable. Mike's not an idiot. Why would he let Walt bring him the bag? He not only hates Walt; it's also well established he doesn't trust Walt. He knows what Walt's capable of.
I guess those are the perils of having an established endpoint. Sometimes things get too plotty.
It was as low a blow as Walt bringing up Jesse's addiction. "Because I'm not locking myself in a room and getting high." UGH, Walt. He's so disgusting. I wonder if AMC will give me money to replace the TV I broke by punching Walt in his smug teethface.
But yeah. "Gale and all the others," was what he said, Gale being the one person Jesse killed (on Walt's orders, no less!) and "all the others" being all the people Walt has killed.
It seemed to me like he felt bad leaving Walt there in the first place--he apologizes when he's zip-cuffing him, like he still has some respect for Walt and feels he's subjecting Walt to some huge indignity. So maybe he thought he'd be adding insult to incapacitation if he had someone guard Walt? Clearly not GOOD logic, but maybe some logic.
I pretty much upvote all of your Breaking Bad comments automatically, because I like what you have to say, but by the time I reached the end of this comment I wished I hadn't been so thumbs-up-happy because let's all just pretend for now that Jesse never dies.
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