#Don’t love that they gave Dee basically zero material which is a running theme for the season

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I keep thinking that Celebrity Booze is an objectively shit episode that I mostly like because they’re dangling Breaking Bad actors in front of me and I’m easily amused and then every time I watch it I’m like No this is good actually

And a big part of it IS like meta humor in how they’re using their guest stars who are most well known for starring in a prestige crime drama  like. The commitment to the bit of only acknowledging Malcolm in the Middle and the premise that these guys are this famous in-universe for their Malcolm in the Middle role.  Referring to them almost exclusively as ‘Malcolm’ and ‘Malcolm’s dad’. And then also casting the fictionalized versions of these actors in a weird ambiguous abusive situationship so they can perform a secondary narrative function of paralleling and the shows own ambiguous abusive situationship. Like you get Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston and that’s what you do with them. Extremely funny choices I love it.