Author: Saint Clare of Assisi

So this one has some crazy shit and some some not-so-crazy shit. First the shit of lesser craziness… Picking up where we left off last week. Today is Jesse’s 16th birthday and Walt and Skyler were supposed to give him a car, but Walt is nowhere to be found. Walt, it turns out, is recovering [...]

You can’t un-cook your books, Ted.

We open the week with a closeup of a glasses frame sitting on a floor next to Walt’s shoe. A couple drops of blood fall next to the glasses. Then Walt’s hand pops into frame to pick the glasses up and the lens pops out of them. Uh-oh. More on that later. The first story [...]

It’s just like Mitch Albom’s classic, but with more meth and murder

One of the fun things about Breaking Bad is that two of the biggest characters, Walt and Gus, live lives that suggest they have fascinating backstories, but we don’t know those are. Well, this week a pretty big chunk of Gus’s backstory gets filled in. That’s pretty much all I need for an intro, don’t [...]

Donuts, a tete-a-tete, and dog murder

Happy Monday, Breaking Bad-ites. Here’s the minicap for Season 4 Episode 7, which was called “Problem Dog”. So far Season 4′s been mostly “the gang deals with the emotional consequences of the assorted shit they’ve done”. This week is much the same, but we do have a little fun and suspense injected in. It’s also [...]

…Walt will be offended three times.

Hey guys. Breaking Bad, Week 6 is here. Let’s get into the short version… The week starts, once again, inside a refrigerated Los Pollos truck. Like a couple episodes ago, the truck’s full of buckets of Los Pollos batter, and hidden inside those are the meth supply. But this time, instead of Mike protecting the [...]

Just tweak Walt and Jesse’s father issues and they’ll do whatever you want.

The week opens with Walt speeding through traffic. He’s trying to figure out what the hell happened to Jesse. Right now he’s barking orders to Saul over the phone, but his voice is inaudible over the din of the traffic and the city. Then, he calls Skyler…to tell her he’s thinking about her. I’m done [...]

The final showdown, without anything actually resembling a showdown

As The Lie continues expanding, Walt and Skyler make time for some marital boxin’

Despite their best efforts, Sea Shepherd doesn’t manage to lose the mothership.

OK, I admit, I just watched Week Four of BrBa, so it’s still really fresh in my mind, but I’ve also barely had time to digest it. My first reaction though was, my god, what an episode! The week starts with Mike. He’s sitting inside a refrigerated Dos Pollos truck—Gus smuggles the meth out of [...]

To open Week 9 of our ten-episode season, the Gojira has just come upon the Nisshin Maru. It’s the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet. If Sea Shepherd prevents it from loading whale carcasses onto its slipway, all whaling operations will come to a halt and the campaign will be over. Sea Shepherd has been [...]

Skyler engages in a bit of subterfuge that would make Colonel Hogan proud

Bill Burr is not happy with the acetone levels

We’re all very tired

Jereth Cutestory would have a field day with this

For the thousandth time, Walt learns he’s not a criminal

It’s hard to find whalers, even if someone tells you exactly where they are

Hey guys! Welcome to the brief summary of season 4, episode 2. Let’s get to it… The week starts with Walt. He can’t let go what happened to Victor last week, and he’s terrified for his own life. We find him in a dingy hotel room meeting with a shady-looking gun dealer, the person you [...]

Wile E Coyote does not catch the Road Runner

Gus goes all Mr. Slate on Walt and Jesse

Makin’ stuff up and callin’ it real

You guys. Breaking Bad is back for Season 4! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be handling the ‘gasm’s first season of BrBa coverage. Since we haven’t featured the show on the site before I’ll be filling in backstory as we go along. For now, though, a quick run-through of the Season [...]

Well then. Here we have something incredibly rare in the reality TV landscape: an episode about something that actually matters. Nobody dies on Hogan Knows Best. But this week on Whale Wars, the Sea Shepherds undertake a search-and-rescue operation to look for some Norwegian sailors who have gone missing in the Antarctic Ocean. The worst [...]

Rescued and thawed

Nothing changes. Don’t read this recap.

In which multiple references to Indiana Jones are made

The first ever reality show bottle episode

Today’s lesson: anger the machines, get whales killed

Hey, Whale Wars warriors. I don’t know about you, but I’m really digging the fourth season and its fantastic satirical streak underlying everything. The show drove home the point that Sea Shepherd’s morale was at an all-time high coming off their successful third season, and then proceeded to show Sea Shepherd fucking up in a [...]

Whalers pull the ol’ Harpoon Ship Switcheroo and a Animal Planet slogan contest!

Last week, when Sea Shepherd was zeroing in on the Japanese whaling fleet only one episode into the season, I was worried that we had a kind of Whale Wars on our hands. Sea Shepherd knows what it’s doing. It’s even badass. Had the show somehow become about a bunch of people…succeeding? It didn’t sound [...]

In season 4, Sea Shepherd breaks out its most shocking weapon yet: competence

The return of the Wars!

A season finale demonstrates how to properly burn your bridges