freebooter posted:

My favourite part of the Walt flashback was the deadpan "it's like I'm with Sinatra." I remember rewatching a handful of early episodes years ago (before the show wrapped I think) and had forgotten how flat-out funny the first two seasons are in a ludicrous black comedy sort of way. Before it descends into a yawning pit of dark, evil misery in the last few seasons. It always still has its comedic moments, but even the gore and horror of the early seasons was played off in a sort of wacky way which eventually disappears.