The "I did it for me" line was genius. Loved how he was sort of hiding in that scene. I read the New Yorker piece from a few weeks ago and Gilligan said that they didn't start writing towards Walt's "I did it for me" attitude until they saw that come out in Cranston's acting. Al...

A. Kingstone wrote:Entirely satisfying finale.

The writers of Dexter can only look and weep.

It is really fucking hard to end a series well. Especially one like this. The anticipation was through the roof and it still managed to be satisfying.

Thanks to y'all for the good wishes. My first full day of retirement was awesome. Got up at 9:00am, made breakfast, watched a little tv, read the paper, did a load of laundry, watched a little more tv then took a shower (4:00pm). Right now I'm having a brandy while waiting for my fellow retiree Tom...

You're the man, Jimmy. Have fun. We spend a lot of money on food and booze and other things but we save too so I'm hoping to join you in the not-too-distant future. Maybe Step 1: leave the rat race for an easier job where I'm not pressured to make that much money and can work less. A buyout would su...

His sister is the best thing on the show. She was good and it was especially evident when in contrast to the actor who played Quinn (guy in blue striped shirt). Dexter should have killed him years ago just for practice. That actor was in a couple of episodes of Justified and was even worse in that.

I've never seen a single episode of Dexter. I hear that it follows the standard Showtime model of diminishing returns and overstayed welcome. Should I watch it? If so, should I watch it all the way through or stop at a certain point? I never loved Dexter. Never couldn't wait until the next episode....

Speaking of Dickey, if anyone here has Netflix and hasn't seen the documentary Knuckleball, I cannot recommend it strongly enough. Even my wife thought it was fantastic and she's not much of a sports doc fan. A must-see for baseball fans. One thing that really amazed me was the stroke of luck that ...

Chazro wrote:So last nights series finale (after 8 yrs!) of Dexter was lousy, I mean textbook lousy!

Oh, that was bad!

Maybe Dexter can come out of retirement to kill the head writer.

The Master , and Django Unchained But seriously, is it just me that finds Tarantino's treatment of black people a little (or a lot) wrong? I love Pulp Fiction but even after all these years I can't past QT's use of the N word, meaning the use by his character in the film (well, for that matter, I c...

That asshole behind home plate waving like a desperate cab flagger with the needless hope of 'being on television'. Why can't I reach into my TV and strangle him? Technology fails me. If you manage to acquire some magical super powers that allow you to exact revenge on these assholes, please shove ...

I'm still stinging from the revelation that the twerking girl who caught herself on fire was a Jimmy Kimmel hoax. I mean, it wasn't so hard to tell it was a fake but I just wanted to believe.

Good overview, Tom, but if that deal ends up being struck I don't think it will be because Obama handled it deftly. He's painted himself into a corner and if he gets an out I think he should feel like he won the freaking lottery.

My favorite part of the flight is when we finally pull up to the gate and everyone in the plane wants to be the first one off the plane. Joanne is right with the crowd. I have no desire to be pushed and shoved by the herd. I sit until the plane is almost empty. I try to explain to my lovely wife th...

Geez, Tom. Are you talking about some type of plane that I've never seen? The seat reclines like 3 inches. On the long list of reasons to get pissed off at people during traveling, that's the one that gets you?

I had absolutely no enthusiasm to see Lincoln but didn't have any better ideas so we watched it. I liked it quite a bit. DDL is a freak.

Scott, is there a case when you think intervention would be appropriate? Do you think we should have intervened in Rwanda?

Jimmy Cantiello wrote:My first inclination when I saw that photo was to start looking for Waldo in his red and white striped shirt and knitted hat. Just sayin'.

I'm almost sure Zelig is in there somewhere.

Not sure if it's her accent so much as her delivery. It's never been said on the show but I've read that her character has Asperger's Syndrome, which makes her 'quirky'. I think she great and her and Ruiz (this actor's doing especially well, he's a long-time Spanish telenovela star) are one of the ...

Watched the first couple episodes of The Bridge last night. I think it was walto that brought up earlier how good some foreign actors are at doing American accents. If you want to see the other side of the coin, check out Diane Kruger in this. So far, they haven't said that her character wasn't born...

I liked Bernie too.

We watched the first half hour or so of Cloud Atlas. We got tired and went to bed but I can't think of one good reason to pick it up again. I just didn't give a shit.

A few years ago I decided to stop getting pissed at other drivers. I used to flip people the bird sometimes when they cut me off or came flying up behind me and tailgated me very aggressively, but I decided it just wasn't worth it. One time a guy cut us off, my wife was driving, and I reached out to...

I'm not your guru, walto, but I'll give my 2 cents. Especially after what happened over a decade ago, I get nervous when the government starts beating those drums. 100,000 people have supposedly been killed in Syria and I saw the ghastly videos of kids shaking, skin peeling from chemical burns. I th...

I think there's a hole in this board without a politics/current events forum. The current crop of people here is, for the most parts, the same group that was present during the last year or so of JC and I don't think we had any real problems there. In fact, the biggest problems on that board over th...

walto wrote:I'm with stone. She mugs too much.

I don't know, walto. I still say she looked pretty good in the shower...so my story is: Some people mug in real life. Until proven otherwise or until she looks less good in the shower, I'm saying that the script says she supposed to mug.

The actress who plays the Bronx? character is using a terrible accent, the one who drives the white van. As for the lead, I can't stand her, but maybe that's the point? I don't know. The actress with the Bronx accent is really Australian, believe it or not. The accent she uses keeps reminding me of...