Roundup: Rafael Nadal Wins French Open, Jerry Sandusky Trial Begins, & Chili Peppers Drummer Sings Hail to the Victors … at Columbus Concert
Cheryl Cole … Winnie Cooper has filed for divorce and is single again … props to my high school for finally winning a baseball State title … “How ‘depraved’ penguin sex acts shocked polar explore” … Buzz Bissinger hates Dallas … Matthew McConaughey got married to Camila Alves … “Olympic champion Dominique Moceanu discovers secret sister Jennifer Bricker her parents gave away” … here’s a photo of a possum after it broke into bakery … town in Massachusetts may fine people $20 for cursing … if you see a flashlight in Phoenix, do not pick it up, because it might be a bomb … “Missing prosthetic leg with UK logo found in sea” …
Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 6-3 2-6, 7-5 win capture his 7th French Open title. [AP]
Pirates sweep Royals, forge into 1st place tie with Reds in the Central. [Post-Gazette]
The Jerry Sandusky trial begins today in Bellefonte, PA. [Patriots News]
“We are doing what a newspaper ought to do, which is to take positions. We are very consistent — pro-conservative, pro-business, pro-military — and we are trying to make a newspaper that gets people excited about this city and its future.” [David Carr]
Jamie Moyer, 49, had a great start in Triple-A for the Orioles. [Sun]
Here’s how MLB will be testing for HGH. [Biz of Baseball]
The Making of an Olympic Sex Symbol. [NYT]
Game Six of the Stanley Cup is tonight. The Kings lead 3-2, but have lost two in a row. [Daily News]
US Open begins Thursday. [Golf Digest]
Dallas is returning to TV (TNT), and if you’re looking for a reason to watch … Jordana Brewster. [Post Dispatch]
After Pacquiao lost that controversial judgment, an NFL player texted a media member saying they were, “done with boxing.” [Herald]
I can’t imagine the Heat bringing Chris Bosh off the bench in the Finals. [Palm Beach Post]
Don Draper is not a real person. [Slate]
Fast forward to the :50 mark. Chad Smith just became a legend in Ann Arbor. [via 1000 Steps]
Lady Gaga suffered a concussion on stage when this happened.
Looks safe. [via Cartmaniak]
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- Jozy Altidore Scored Fourth Goal in Four Matches, Gave U.S. 1-0 Lead Against Honduras [Video]
- Tim Duncan Scores 25 in the First Half Against the Heat, Miami in Trouble
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June 11th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Contract the Pirates are tied for first place.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Couldn’t have 2 better guys at the top of tennis–the complete opposite to the self absorbed clowns in the NBA.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
So pumped for NBA finals. Can’t wait for tomorrow night
June 11th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 11th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Winnie Cooper has filed for divorce and is single again
While she’s attractive, I get the sense that Winnie Cooper fans are all those guys who watched The Wonder Years.
The Making of an Olympic Sex Symbol.
But enough about Lolo Jones.
if you see a flashlight in Phoenix, do not pick it up, because it might be a bomb
A BAH???!
June 11th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
i question the source…chad smith was partly responsible for californication, perhaps the worst album in the history of recorded music. why should we care what he thinks?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Can a techy person help me understand why youtube videos are not playing for me? They work on IE and on my iphone (even when connected to my work’s wifi)… but for some reason they won’t play in Chrome. Any help?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
I was almost late for work because I was glued to Nadal and Novak. Great tennis played this morning. Cant believe it ended on a double fault.
Anyone notice Nadal getting a hug from Pau Gasol when he went up into the crowd.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
nothing about Stony Brook pulling off the huge upset at LSU over the weekend? They were a DIII team in 2000, now heading to Omaha, pretty damn impressive.
huge game in Waco tonight. Arkansas-Baylor for a trip to the CWS. Wooo Pig Sooie!
June 11th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
looks like a little bitty opossum too.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Wasn’t she just up about a week and half ago?
/Team No Tats
//still would though
June 11th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
you’re getting too old for this shit, riggs.
/have you seen if there are any updates?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Pirates sweep Royals, forge into 1st place tie with Reds in the Central.
I thought they were contracted
June 11th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
nice backup career for mr. mittens.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
/Team No Tats
//still would though
Agree on both counts.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
This being the year that the Mayan Calendar runs out and such cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012, I am not surprised by this at all.
/Go Buccos
June 11th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
During his time of the month, Dwayne Wade’s vagina requires 2 tampons.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I added the “adblock” add-on a few weeks ago. That was the last change I made. Haven’t seen any updates. Figure it’s something in the settings, but a quick look last week and I couldn’t find anything. I’ll keep researching…
June 11th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Dammit Grizz
June 11th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
The Carr piece about the propoganda rag is amazing.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Looks safe.
Russian Olympic Dive Team winter workouts?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
$20? WTF?
June 11th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
like we say in old country…”if can dive on land, can dive in sea, no problme.”
June 11th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
of course, she’s way better than becky slater
June 11th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
like we say in old country…
I demonstrate you. For big show, give me 2 pair bluejean, I dive into fire-ring of death.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Speaking of re-treads, anyone check out the Nip Slip (or basically, rip down your brasserie and show them the ta-tas) by Madonna over the weekend in Istanbul?
The way those fans screamed, you’d think they’d never seen a bewb.
/She’s scary
June 11th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
he must not have gone to the dallas guitar center then. that place rocks.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
The Belafonte > Bellefonte, PA
June 11th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I saw those things a long time ago when Willem Dafoe was buhtsecksing her in Body of Evidence.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
whenever madonna flaunts her shit like that it brings back the SNL skit of Phil Hartmann as Charlton Heston doing the Narration for Madonna’s “Sex” book.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
huge game in Waco tonight. Arkansas-Baylor for a trip to the CWS. Wooo Pig Sooie!
did you see how yall won last night? chokey gut punch from baylor.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Speaking of re-treads, anyone check out the Nip Slip (or basically, rip down your brasserie and show them the ta-tas) by Madonna over the weekend in Istanbul?
At some point she has to realize (despite what A-Rod thinks) that she is no longer attractive.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
chokey gut punch from baylor
insane
June 11th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
I bet Dirt has a good possum story.
/ pours one out
June 11th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
yeah, but he went to my high school…
June 11th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Buzz Bissinger hates Dallas
I thought the book was pretty good. Of course, I read it knowing Buzz was a self-centered asshole to begin with. He opened up quite a bit about his own mental and anger issues. This book wasn’t going to be about a solid family with Corky.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Some videos won’t play if you have ad-block enabled.
I know that is the case for Hulu. You can set up ad-block to block ads on only certain pages and allow ads from others.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
I think this is worthy of its own post.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Is there anyone that hasn’t seen Madonna’s tits?
She needs to retire, like, yesterday.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
thank God I don’t have the option to look at that thanks to the new IP overlords here at work. too early for that shit.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
MY EYES – IT BURNS!!!!
June 11th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Buzz Bissinger hates Dallas
he wrote friday night lights, so he has a lifetime pass as far as i am concerned.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Well look at Mr. Fancypants…
June 11th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
+6
Is this where we talk about the badness of Prometheus?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
and the church I went to as well! we shook hands on Christmas.
I think he had a bit of egg nog before
June 11th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
No it’s where we ask, did Don relapse wonderfully in a three way while Megan shot her commercial?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
couldn’t have been more of a routine double play for that SS in the 9th. the Razorbacks offense is so bad I figured if they were going to win they needed an inning like that. 2 HBP with the bases loaded to end it though? crazy. I was flipping out at the house watching it.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
really? didn’t like it?
i noticed some flaws after watching it. but still thought it was good, i also went in not expecting it to live up to being what “Alien” is, which is the best sci-fi/horror film ever made.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Did you drive the Range Rover, or Mercedes there?
//Stereotyping…
June 11th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Is this where we talk about the badness of Prometheus?
Bad meaning bad or bad meaning good? I could see that movie going either way as far as the storytelling. It looked visually awesome.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
The Belafonte > Bellefonte, PA
June 11th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
For those who haven’t seen it, it’s worth the extra money to see it at the IMAX. Should dominate the visual effects categories at the Oscars.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I was flipping out at the house watching it.
i was too, but probably with more remote throwing and over cussing.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Prometheus was fantastic.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
And yet Guy Pearce’s old man makeup was horrendous…couldn’t they have found an actual old person for the role? I’m sure Wilford Brimley could use the work
June 11th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
It seemed like there was a good movie to be made there but for me it just kept missing its punches…definitely a visual achievement though
June 11th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Can someone tell me what the point of this article was?
Also, if someone can point me to an example of why people think Tom Scocca is a good writer, I’ll gladly read it.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Found it odd that Wilford, when he filmed Cocoon, was only 1 year older than Tom Cruise was for last year’s Mission Impossible flick.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Interesting read on Prometheus – huge spoilers though so better if you’ve seen it already.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
i think they could have gone with a crew size of around 12 instead of 17(the other 5 were redshirts for the hanger scene), the feeling of claustrophobia in the ship and in the structure on the planet was missing. shots of the creatures and engineers were too wide and long.
visually stunning, fassbender was incredible. the story did feel like the first half of a longer arc.
really enjoyed the hr giger stylings, it did feel more like a sci-fi/action rather than a sci-fi/horror, but that’s a product of the hype more than anything else.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
A minor part of the film. Charlize’s hotness more than made up for that fact. And the scene with David looking at the universe or whatever more than made up for any technical flaws I thought. Can’t imagine the engineering that went into doing that scene.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Prometheus was really good, not great. It wasn’t Alien and anyone going in thinking that would be severely disappointed. The visuals were some of the best I’ve ever seen in a movie theater and the story was very creative and fun. You only had to have seen Alien (not the other crap that followed for many years) to geek out with the space jockeys serving a central part of the plot.
Spaights wrote this to be a straight Alien prequel and Lindelof was brought in to make it something larger, which he did, and that’s why there will be another one or two. It was Scott basically dictating to Lindelof what he wanted changed/updated in the script.
Noomi Rapace was fantastic as Elisabeth Shaw, but Michael Fassbender completely stole the movie as David.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Liquidate Bob Arum.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
RogerSterlingAssCheeks.GIF has to be somewhere on the Internet today.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
So did everyone watch the Mad Men finale?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Nope. Comment 64 has nothing to do with me watching the Mad Men finale. Ha.
Yes, absolutely loved that cut to black.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
There is a car parked in my spot at my office. Anybody know where I can find a tow truck driver?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
i thought it was a good ending to the least creative season of the series.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Going to San Diego this weekend. Anybody got any San Diego advice?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I assume there will be a post but at this point I’d rather watch Sally and Glen talk on the phone that see another version of the same Draper fight over acting
June 11th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
I think I’m misreading this. What do you mean?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
I seriously hate Megan. I wish her mom would be on the show every episode and continue to call her an ungrateful bitch every two seconds.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Started watching this via Netflix yesterday and thought it was too slick and stylized. Probably because I’m comparing it to the Wire which I’ve been plowing through this week as well. I need to give it a few more episodes, but it left me at “meh”.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
I thought it was the most creative and ambitious season of the series.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I thought the finale was average at best until the last 15 minutes. I laughed out loud when Pete got punched the second time, Don in the office looking at Megan’s reel, Don & Peggy in the movie theatre, and the vintage DD final scene.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I don’t think next season will end well for Pete’s marriage. The apartment in the city will be his undoing.
I also wonder what the future will hold for Elisabeth Moss in the show.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Two completely different shows. Aside from a large ensemble cast with a few similar basic themes, there is nothing alike about them.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Fighting over Megan’s acting career…seems like Weiner cares about that storyline a lot more than I do
June 11th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Agreed. I’ve just found the Wire more compelling thus far.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Megan really wants things both ways. She seems to be want to be this bohemian artist who wants to make it on her own one minute and then, hits up Don for a gig in a commercial.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
The kibosh is about to be put on that, I think. If we come back to season six with Don balls deep in some 21-year-old aspiring actress who happens to know Megan, then that’s what’s gonna go down.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Wander around the Gaslamp Quarter chanting “L.A. Chargers”.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I agree. Also, I don’t hate Megan, I can very much empathize with her on the whole step-mother thing. However, her depression over her acting career was a bit much.
Love, love Don at the end. That look…
June 11th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Outwardly, The Wire does more than Mad Men and does so with a more deliberate pace. Inwardly, though, Mad Men has better characters developed with that slower pace.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
plot wise i think it was good, not great, and they used symbolism like a wreckingball when it was much, much more subtle in the past.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Happy birthday to the greatest quarterback to ever play the game, Joe Montana!
/nods at Ballz
June 11th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Also, when Peggy looked outside her hotel room and saw the two dogs going to poundtown I thought of the scene in The Shining when the guy in the bearsuit is fellating the dude on the bed. I then laughed at how bizarre that scene is,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI — It’s not really NSFW, but it’s completely whacked out.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
I view the Megan story line as a way to contrast Draper’s marriage to Betty. Betty kind of lost sight of any ambition and sort of stopped trying (a stay at home Mom with a nanny? really?).
Don doesn’t want that for Megan. At the same time, he’s doing things that he perceives will help his marriage (giving her free reign to pursue acting) that will likely end up killing it.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
So does this mean that Mad Men is now over? Please let that be true.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
I will go ahead and strongly disagree with that statement.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Scaled to the roof of apartment building trying to quell the onslaught of Croatian nightmares transmuting into reality. Pounded Guinness up there somewhat crying and listening to Beach House. It did not help. This morning I showed up at work 20 minutes late with beef jerky and gatorade still bleeding from the climb. The elevator was out and the first new email I received was the Hydro bill. The fates are hilarious.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
So, Don has a lazy wife and gets bored. Then he gets an ambitious wife and gets bored. Then we get a cut to black after he’s basically propositioned. He’s a dog. He’ll always be a dog.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Go ahead all you want. I love The Wire and think the character development is great, but I believe Mad Men’s characters, especially its central ones, are better.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I’ll just have my wife make a big sign that says Chargers to LA.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I don’t think he gets bored with the ambitious wife.
I think he loses her to the world he helped her get into in the first place. Kind of like how he lost Peggy to that other ad agency.
And I agree…..I think he gets back to doing “Don Draper things” again next season and goes on a tear.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I’m nearing the end of season two in the Wire and just started Mad Men, but I’m leaning this way as well. Though it seems the Wire has a couple of recurring characters that haven’t developed much to this point.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
See, I think the reason why I loved this season of Mad Men so much was because most of the concepts were pretty literal to the audience. When you watch the Wire, you don’t have to “think” about what the characters actions mean in regards to the plot. In previous season of Mad Men there was a lot of “interpretation” points in the story telling. You had to kind of figure it out for yourself what things meant and I’m not a huge fan of that. I loved this season because everything was pretty much straight forward.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
if that happens i just hope there something larger happening along with it.
there’s also part of me that thinks
June 11th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
And by “losing her” you mean “can’t control her,” right? Because that’s sort of how I view it. I think he’s bothered that he can’t keep her under his thumb and that her dream isn’t his. He would’ve been happy if she was there at the office every day with him, but she’s off doing her own thing and that eats him up, no matter how hard he tries to push it away. I think he reached a point last night that he’s now either given up or is straight bored with trying to keep her under his thumb, and that resulted in the final scene.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Me too
June 11th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
You have my bitter, bitter tears. Is that not enough?!
/ Sobs
June 11th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
I’m just glad I got on the computer this morning and didn’t see a bit about a string of house fires across Canada whose owners all have Croatian sounding names.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
This is how I watch TV, too. I don’t watch closely enough for deeper meaning or to hold up TV as “art”. I found myself rooting for a satisfying wrap up to the Wire’s first season, for example, and disappointed when they had to settle on the case’s resolution. But if I’m working too hard watching a show I’ll tune out quickly.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
She makes me wag.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Gaslamp District is cool. Check out Old Town for Mexican Food.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
The sniper got kaiser.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Fuck you, True Blood, for saving Tara. I should have bailed on that show, but Jessica’s sweet, sweet boobies keep me coming back for more.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
The arcs of all the four children from season 4 are better than anything Mad Men has done. And I really like Mad Men.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Episode full of WTF … I’ll watch for Jessica every time.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Do you think it was straight forward because you’ve had over four seasons to understand these characters, their actions, their mannerisms, etc. so that you know what they’re going to do in given situations?
June 11th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
“You’re done when I say you’re done.”
Who said it last night?!
June 11th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Seconded on all points.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Was too drunk to blow up a fish and chips. Yesterday was my finest/worst moment.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
comment fail
there’s also part of me that thinks he won’t return to his ways of old
June 11th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
WEll, shit, I screwed up that quote.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0BuC2OrVIU
June 11th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Saw Prometheus yesterday on IMAX. Looked great. Thought the acting from Fassbender, Idris “accordian” Elba, Theron and the main gal.
The gapping plot holes were a little bit too much for me, though. And for a movie talking about the whole “why we’re here?” thing and making first contact with aliens, it just didn’t feel big, you know?
That said, I’d recommend somebody see it just because of how fucking beautiful it looks as a movie.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
She’s dangerously close to giving Kate Upton the boot in my top 5. Jason Stackhouse, you lucky son of a bitch!
June 11th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Those story arcs were great, but I disagree.
I don’t think “Mad Men” and “The Wire” are the type of shows you compare to one another and have it be a fair comparison to either show.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
But it didn’t ask “Why we’re here?” It asked “Who created us? Where did we come from?” That might sound like splitting hairs to some, but it’s something completely different to me.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
So he just rolls in and those other two girls just throw themselves at him? I buy it.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
i can agree with that. i was thinking about it this morning, and i think it’s intimated they have contacted life on other planets before since they have trillion dollar space ships capable of traveling long distances in deep space with cryogenic freezing with possible near lightspeed or faster than lightspeed travel.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I think that’s Lumbergh’s. Just have it towed.
Breaking Bad season 5 premiere only a month away!
June 11th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
How much misery can one non-African* country take?
* slash south american, central american, asian……life sucks everywhere always regardless of logic or meaning until you get drunk enough to bleed alone on a roof listening to beach house.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Kind of on the fence about seeing this movie, but since Lindelof had a hand in it, I’ll give it a shot.
/Team Lost
June 11th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
hell yeah!
but then it’s only 8 episodes and 10 months of waiting for the next season.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
One of my fave parts of Prometheus was the hologram/time-space imprints of the space jockeys. Like… that’s the type of shit we should think about when exploring outer space. The physics are different. The civilizations are probably more advanced. That was just so cool.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Gotta love those sorority whores.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Agreed. This is why white athletes should always be compared to other white athletes, and so forth. The Wire is like The Cosby Show in many ways, while Mad Men is clearly Cheers.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
No, I think it was straight forward because I didn’t have to interpret signals or analyze the presence of props to figure out the true meaning of what each character was going through at that given time. The storytelling was in the acting this season. Also, I think many of the characters have changed over the course of four seasons. Obviously Don in season 4 isn’t the Don of season 1 in more ways than just the cheating aspect.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
After it ended I was a bit annoyed at little being answered before remembering the Lost guy wrote it…made perfect sense then
June 11th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Such bullshit that they do this. I get it….but it’s bullshit.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Another thing I really enjoyed about Prometheus was WHY the Engineers were hostile. If we’re their creation, and they put those star maps on Earth for us to come find them, then why would they want to destroy us?
It’s because humans have reached an evolutionary point that we’re so advanced that we can take their star maps and then go find them. It’s like when a father has a son that he keeps beating in basketball over and over again until one day the son has grown big, strong and smart enough to beat his father.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Pisses me off to see them adopt the Hollywood policy of stretching profitable material out as far as possible in order to maximize revenue. Harry Potter ending? Hmmm, two movies, please. Twilight? Two movies, please. Hobbit? Two movies, please.
I mean I don’t blame AMC — all their new shows suck and it makes sense to keep Breaking Bad around as long as possible. But it’s a dick in the ass for the fans.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
despite the great TV shows that AMC has, they have no idea how to run their shows.
splitting up seasons, cutting episode time, cutting budgets, difficult negotiations, delayed season premieres, the killing…
June 11th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Haven’t we been in the business of denying “unsavory” aspects of natural human (mostly male) sexuality like forever? I’m sure if someone asked a pengiun it’ll probably attribute bad behavior to the environment or society or that video game all the chicks are playing now Grand Theft Antartica.
We tend to believe nature and natural must be good so when its not good it can’t be natural because our current idea of goodness had to be something that exploded into the universe with the big bang.
/end divergent rant
June 11th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Again, Lindelof wrote what Scott dictated him to.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Love it, and I’d expect nothing less from DL. Though I have to laugh at the people who still think everyone on Lost was dead from the start.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Won’t lie, I was somewhat disappointed in the finale. I guess in terms of major happenings the show kind of shot its wad in the last couple of episodes, so I should have seen a rather pedestrian finale coming. I kept waiting for the elevator shaft to come back into play, then I read the Weiner interview in the NYT yesterday where he says that doesn’t happen.
I’ve liked Megan much of this season but last night she was too much for me. Enough with the whining already; you knew it was going to be hard.
Does Draper fall off the wagon? I’m undecided.
Also, wWe skip commercials but I did catch the Breaking Bad promo. We plowed through all four seasons of that earlier this year so I’m excited for that to start.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
“Penguins: More like humans than we knew before.”
June 11th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Exactly. Understanding where we came from, who created us and why is an eternal question that makes us uniquely human.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:42 AM
I gotta be honest… I just watched seasons 1-3 of Breaking Bad and the first 3 episodes of season 4 in the past few weeks. I enjoy the show but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as good as all the people raving about it. Maybe it’s because I haven’t experienced week to week since day one but I feel like there are way too many episodes that completely grind the plot progression to a halt. Great acting, and I love a lot of the secondary characters (Gus, Hank and Saul) but I find my attention slipping away during many of the episodes.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
We like to refer to those as the “Skyler White” episodes.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
man, that fucking bitch drives me crazy. She wore the same fucking cuff bracelets during the entire season 3 and it made me mental. She’s wearing them with t-shirts, with dresses, with sweat suits. What the fuck, bitch?
June 11th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
lol. The best way for that show to end would be Walter….”getting rid” of her. Or Flynn/Junior/whateverthefuck beating her to death with his crutch.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
She’s probably a fucking Croat.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
This explains why they’ve allowed Lori to continue living on The Walking Dead.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
this.
fassbender’s david was phenomenal. thought the “engineer” chase was quite hamfisted tho.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
So after his next rape, the Penguin Ben Roethlisberger can just say, “It’s my nature.”
June 11th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
i can agree with that. i was thinking about it this morning, and i think it’s intimated they have contacted life on other planets before since they have trillion dollar space ships capable of traveling long distances in deep space with cryogenic freezing with possible near lightspeed or faster than lightspeed travel.
That’s a possibility. They could’ve used a throwaway line to say, “Hey, we’ve found bacterial life elsewhere in the galaxy.”