What we read while scoring on Hope Solo…
- Breaking Bad finally returned from its long hiatus last night, with a stellar season premiere. In preparation, Bryan Cranston sat down for interviews with The A.V. Club and Alan Sepinwall. Sepinwall also interviewed Aaron Paul. Meanwhile, Vulture counted down the ten tensest moments in the show’s history, and broke down Walter White’s moral decline. That moral decline has, according to Chuck Klosterman, made Breaking Bad even better than The Wire (we wouldn’t go that far).
- Speaking of great television (and continuing Monday Medley’s recent run of oral histories): a brief history of Friday Night Lights, which concluded its run on NBC last Friday (as John S wrote about).
- 17th century guides to ladies’ decorum are sure to be entertaining.
- Tyler Cowen opines on the level of consumer surplus we get from the Internet.
- Louis C.K. was surprised by his multiple Emmy nominations. And every adult from Modern Family (even Ed O’Neill this time!) was nominated.
- Scott Tobias looks at the current state of Conan O’Brien’s career.
- What’s the deal with that crazy Sarah Palin documentary?
