Bryce Lynch

Actually the Boston Metro Area has almost twice the population of the Phoenix Metro Area. Does anyone have number of contestants from Boston? Don't get me wrong, I am not from :Boston and a lot of the Massholes on these shows annoy me too. I'd imagine a big part of this is that the Boston people make a big deal about being from there and we are probably notice them more because of that, their accents and because of Boston Rob. I checked in the past 3 seasons there have been 5 contestants on Survivor from Boston. Two were a married couple in BvW. That is about 4 times more than you'd expect from Boston based upon population. Prior to that there had been no contestants from Boston since Boston Rob won.

In the world of The Wire finding a connection for quality heroin seemed to be extremely difficult. Avon and Stringer both failed after they lost their connection. If they didn't make the deal with Prop Joe, they would have lost the towers anyway (all of them) as they would have no income to pay for the muscle to hold them. Funny, I just realized that Omar did Marlo a big favor by .

I am not sure whether Boston is over represented or not but the city population rank is a bit misleading.The Boston metro area is the 6th largest metro area in the in US with about 8 million people. This means roughly 1 in every 40 Americans live in the greater Boston area, so you'd expect someone from there about every other season.

I suspected that Rodney's dead sister tattoo might be a fraud so I did some research. His sister Natalie "died unexpectedly" in her home in September 2011. I still think it is incredibly ghoulish for him to use the tattoo and story to "get into any girl's heart" (and I am pretty sure "heart" means "pants"). Also, him saying he found her "in cold blood" implied that she was murdered when she was not. He might give Vince a run for his money as sociopath of the season.

I agree. Omar was a criminal, but he only victimized other criminals, never used profanity and took his grandmother to church once a month. I think the jury believed him because he was so upfront and unfiltered about how he made his living. It was ironic that him buying the red outfit instead of a suit with the SAs voucher made him more, rather than less credible to the jury. It is funny that the only thing he lied about was witnessing the murder.

Nah, I think the serial killer murdered the duck. :-)

Second favorite is harder to choose. I like McNulty, when he wasn't being a drunken, cheating ahole. I liked Kima until . Bunny Colvin was probably the good guy who I most consistently liked. As for the bad guys, though she was a horrible person, Snoop was one my favorites. I always got a kick out of her. She was quirky, funny and a true professional. Her hardware store scene was one of my favorite lighter scenes. I also liked Michael because of how he cared for and looked out for Bug and Duquan and thought it was fitting that he

I don't think Stringer had much choice. His product was so weak that the junkies would travel to buy Prop Joe's good stuff. The prime locations had little value with no decent product to sell.

The duck was great. He was also smarter than Ziggy and could have kicked his butt. I hated Ziggy. If I found myself on a Baltimore corner with Ziggy, Stringer and Marlo and had Omar's 2 shot, double barreled shotgun I'd shoot Ziggy twice. I know family is family, but it really annoyed me how much Frank and Nicky cared about that loser.

Good point about Kima and the photo array. Still, I think ratting on 2 fellow officers, especially ones she was close to, is a very, different thing and something she would never do. Maybe she was getting even with Jimmy for sending her to Ikea. :)

Omar was my favorite character by far. His courtroom scene was my favorite of the entire series.

I'd probably say 1-4-3-2-5, with 5 falling way short of the others. The serial killer scheme was a bit out there, but I had a bigger problem with what I thought were other unrealistic plot points. 1) I had a hard time believing the Greek would be willing to work with Marlo. Too much risk dealing with a punk like him. 2) I didn't buy that the New Day Co-op members didn't just kill Marlo somewhere along the way. 3) I didn't buy that Beadie put up with McNulty's crap for so long. 4) The whole resolution to Lester's Levy recording was absurd. Levy had no cards at all. Rhonda had him dead to rights. His extortion charges against her were bull as she had him on tape and all he had was his totally worthless word against hers. He would have thrown Marlo and his entire crew under the bus. 5) I don't believe for a minute that Kima would rat out McNulty and Lester. 6) While I liked the resolution of it, I thought Snoop was way too transparent in her plot against Michael. "Don't bring your gun." Yeah, that's not suspicious at all.

Good episode. Loved the scene with team Kettleman and Jimmy's HHM imitation scheme and the "rescue". The scene where Chuck went to get the paper was good too. It really brought home how terrified he is of EM fields. The one thing I hate is the Kim character. I find the show unbearably boring whenever she is on the screen.

I just rewatched it. I didn't see anything sinister about Walt. Skyler wasn't as negative as I remembered either. The Walt in that scene was totally different from the "nerdiest old dude" from the beginning of the series or "the devil" from season 5. He was relaxed, confident, optimistic and almost cool. I think it was because Skyler had not yet "crawled up into his @$$". :-) I do think that Walt Jr's cp probably changed both of them though and might have had a lot to do with Skyler taking up residence in his rectum.

OK, you're getting gross now. Can we get back to discussing zombie guts, grimy hair and beards and eating worms and dogs? :-)

I could buy the Skyler on the rebound part. But Walt had a job at some sort of lab, in the flashback where he and Skyler (pregnant with Walt Jr) looked at the empty house at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane that they ended up buying. The realtor asked if Walt was working on giant space lasers and Walt jokingly replied that he would bring that idea up at the next staff meeting. Walt seemed very confident and optimistic about his future and thought the house was too small and that they should stretch their budget to buy something bigger. Skyler seemed more cautious and worrisome. I have always suspected that she held him back from taking risks in his career and convinced him to embrace the security of the teaching job.

Well then, enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ria37d9mInY

So, do we all agree that "Team Kettleman" has the 2nd most annoying answering machine message in TV history, trailing only George Constanza's "Believe it or not, George isn't at home..." song?

How about Skinny Pete hires Jimmy to sue Jane Margolis for doing his tattoo exactly as he wrote it out, and not correcting his obvious spelling errors.

I think that is mostly accurate. I'm not sure if it is considered BB canon, but the actress who played Gretchen said in an interview that she came from a very, wealthy family and Walt became very intimidated by her family's wealth during a 4th of July weekend with them, and left her. Too bad Walt didn't have a lawyer like Saul back then. He could've slapped Gretchen with a sexual harassment suit or something. :) As for whether G&E screwed Walt, I think it is a bit unclear. I'd imagine with a part owner of such a small company leaving so abruptly, under emotional circumstances, the terms of the $5,000 buyout might not have been crystal clear. I could see Walt thinking he still retained rights to the patents. He clearly expressed that he thought they ripped him off in his lunch with Gretchen, though she said something like "You can't possibly see it that way.". What I find more convincing is that in Felina he tells them, "Cheer up beautiful people. This is where you get to make it right.". I think he was in sort of a post-Heisenberg state at that point, and was thinking much more rationally, yet he still believed they had wronged him.

Not a con man? He hired 2 con men skateboarders to pull an auto accident con game on a potential client, to try to get her business. Maybe Jimmy is trying to become a legitimate lawyer, but he definitely still has plenty of con man in him.

I think the best way to handle Jimmy/Saul as the lead character would be sort of the way Jerry was handled on "Seinfeld". I believe he described himself as sort of the ringmaster of the circus. While Jimmy is an interesting enough character to build a story line around, I think what can, and hopefully will, put it over the top will be all the clients, cartel members, parking lot attendants, etc. he ends up dealing with, their stories, and Saul's reactions (legal and illegal strategies and wisecracks, movie references, colorful metaphors, etc.) to them.

I found it interesting that Abraham smacked the possibly poisoned water out of Eugene's hand. Why is he still so protective of Eugene? Force of habit? You would think he would force Eugene to test water and food, after all he put them all through with his lies. Also, why did Eugene volunteer to do "quality assurance"? Was it because he was the weakest and couldn't deal with the thirst any longer or because he wanted to find some way to contribute to the group after all he had done?

I think it was before he met Skyler so it would have been early 1990s at the latest, and probably much earlier, as Walt Jr was born around 1992. I think the other poster was thinking of a flashback showing Hamlin drawing up the deal to screw Walt, back in the 1980s or early 1990s.

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