Including: a contentious claim that Breaking Bad is superior to The Godfather; the difficulties of moving house in areas with a high concentration of meth labs; and some sadness at the lost opportunity for the spin-off sitcom Three Meth Cooks and a Baby.
Including: an over-lengthy and irrelevant wittering about the separation of church and state in US and UK schools; Walt’s unfeeling use of Latin when confessing his meth-dealing to Skylar; and how another minute spent watching bad men walking away from a slow-motion explosion is a minute too many.
Including: the introduction of Mike and his Harvey Keitel-like cleaning up skills; the busiest shooting gallery either of us has ever seen onscreen; and the clever hidden Easter Egg that was a clue to the climax of the season.
Including: inadvertent spoilers to not only other film and TV programmes, but now also books; how Ethan can’t remember any of reading The Iliad at school; and moments of epiphany where we connect the dots of this strange series in real time during the discussion. Plus a round-up (over) analysis of the series as a whole – was this top quality television or not?
Including: far too much time spent discussing public health issues; whether Walt showing off his stacks of cash to his newborn daughter is an example of terrible patriarchy or just exhausted parenting; and Walt Jr’s seriously retro web colour palettes.