I'm frequently awake with the TV on between the hours of 1AM and 5AM, and it is staggering how many lawsuit commercials fill that timespace on many of the cable channels. Americans don't build things anymore, we sue each other instead.
Better Call Saul, the TV series
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The problem with the commercial was not whether it worked but whether it would repel prestige clients.
Americans don't build things it they sure as hell design things.
Americans don't build things it they sure as hell design things.
I've got a prediction for the last scene of Better Call Saul.
Charles finds him in the future and they have a moment of catharsis.
Charles finds him in the future and they have a moment of catharsis.
You mean at the Cinnabon?
In the time frame he works at Cinnabon, yes, that's my theory. That Charles and Jimmy stop speaking completely once he becomes a criminal, and after he disappears Charles looks for him and finds him for the 'full circle' effect.
Saul's line from BB Granite State was:
"If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha."
Was this just an incredible coincidence, or did Ed The Relocator arrange the job for Saul, along with everything else?
"If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha."
Was this just an incredible coincidence, or did Ed The Relocator arrange the job for Saul, along with everything else?
I like that it was proven early that Charles' electricity problem is completely psychological. It allowed us to see Charles' actions in a very different light.
It's pretty obvious Jimmy's cute number switch is going to blow up in his face. That's something that could drive Kim away permanently if she found out.
Mike is going to use the nail hose to flat tire someone, right?
It's pretty obvious Jimmy's cute number switch is going to blow up in his face. That's something that could drive Kim away permanently if she found out.
Mike is going to use the nail hose to flat tire someone, right?
No way. I mean, sure, they spent the first however many minutes focusing on the delivery truck, and even showing us how he armed himself after crossing the border. And yeah, they showed Mike tailing him and learning his route and behavior. And, well yeah, they showed us him building a jury-rigged device to do precisely that.
But come on, I dunno how you'd come to that conclusion.
That episode was intense. Mike finding out sparing a killer got an innocent person killed, Jimmy seeing his brother collapse and potentially get a major brain injury or worse.
This puts Mike's statement in the train robbery episode in context about leaving witnesses and explains why he does not hesitate to carry out a killing on Gus' orders.
Charles' collapse reminded me of the plane crash. A tragedy as a result of a random sequence of events which was initiated by his illegal self serving actions. Something he can't say is his fault but still will always feel responsible for.
This puts Mike's statement in the train robbery episode in context about leaving witnesses and explains why he does not hesitate to carry out a killing on Gus' orders.
Charles' collapse reminded me of the plane crash. A tragedy as a result of a random sequence of events which was initiated by his illegal self serving actions. Something he can't say is his fault but still will always feel responsible for.
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Still, you didn't cheer just a little when you saw the fruits of Jimmy's plan? Cause I sure did.
I was shocked at Chuck's collapse, but my ability to feel sorry for him is limited. He's a dick, and I have no problem thinking that most of his travails are self inflicted. He can't control Jimmy's actions so his mind creates an illness that does it for him, and when that doesn't work completely he goes into dick mode. Stopping Jimmy becomes a crusade with him, so much so that he wants to screw Kim over to make it happen, just because Kim is stupid enough to like Jimmy.
I was shocked at Chuck's collapse, but my ability to feel sorry for him is limited. He's a dick, and I have no problem thinking that most of his travails are self inflicted. He can't control Jimmy's actions so his mind creates an illness that does it for him, and when that doesn't work completely he goes into dick mode. Stopping Jimmy becomes a crusade with him, so much so that he wants to screw Kim over to make it happen, just because Kim is stupid enough to like Jimmy.
Yeah, I have no sympathy for Chuck at all. And hell, what Jimmy did to Chuck -- while far more illegal than anything Chuck has done -- pales next to the things Chuck did him on a personal level. I mean, in the end all Jimmy really did was professionally embarrass Chuck and his firm and cost them a client. Compare that to everything Chuck has done to not only Jimmy but Kim as well.
Sure, neither of them are saints, but Chuck is by far the worst of the two. The amount of hate he has towards his brother has been palpable for a long time, going back as far as the flashback to the dinner they had with Chuck's wife.
So, yeah. Zero sympathy for Chuck, especially since instead of just accepting that he got his comeuppance, he went out to try and gather evidence to presumably get his brother disbarred and/or thrown in jail for dong what -- despite what the law says -- was far and away less harmful than pretty much anything he did to his brother.
The sad part is that you almost know for a fact that Jimmy is going to expose himself because of his compassion and blind love for his brother, thus allowing Chuck to win yet again.
Fuck Chuck.
Sure, neither of them are saints, but Chuck is by far the worst of the two. The amount of hate he has towards his brother has been palpable for a long time, going back as far as the flashback to the dinner they had with Chuck's wife.
So, yeah. Zero sympathy for Chuck, especially since instead of just accepting that he got his comeuppance, he went out to try and gather evidence to presumably get his brother disbarred and/or thrown in jail for dong what -- despite what the law says -- was far and away less harmful than pretty much anything he did to his brother.
The sad part is that you almost know for a fact that Jimmy is going to expose himself because of his compassion and blind love for his brother, thus allowing Chuck to win yet again.
Fuck Chuck.
I have sympathy for Chuck's position. Remember Chuck spent his childhood watching Jimmy steal from their father, and pulled strings to keep Jimmy from the sex offender list for shitting into a car with young children in it.
Chuck's passive aggressive sabotage of Jimmy in season one was terrible but is it really worse than what Jimmy did to Clifford Main? Jimmy's actions have continuously exposed other people to horrendous legal and sometimes mortal consequences. I blame Chuck only for not being more honest about not supporting Jimmy. Everything else is just him acting as an ethical professional.
All Jimmy really stands for is anarchy and his own entitlement to have what he wants.
Chuck's passive aggressive sabotage of Jimmy in season one was terrible but is it really worse than what Jimmy did to Clifford Main? Jimmy's actions have continuously exposed other people to horrendous legal and sometimes mortal consequences. I blame Chuck only for not being more honest about not supporting Jimmy. Everything else is just him acting as an ethical professional.
All Jimmy really stands for is anarchy and his own entitlement to have what he wants.
Fair enough, but for all that greed and chaos the problem is Jimmy is simply the more likable brother. Chuck may legally be on the side of right, but that doesn't give him carte blanche to be a psychotic asshole about it.
His problem is he doesn't see what we all know because we all watched Breaking Bad: Chuck doesn't have to dig himself an early grave stopping Jimmy because Jimmy will eventually get his. He is hiding under a fake mustache in a freaking Cinnabon because there's no way he could have managed to be the kind of flim-flam artist he was and get away with it forever. Hell, if Chuck really wanted to teach Jimmy a lesson he could simply have not saved him from the Chicago Sunroof incident. Being a convicted sex offender both in and out of jail teaches you to behave real quick.
But Chuck's ego won't let him leave Jimmy to fate or his own comeuppance. He's treating it like He's Batman and Jimmy's the Joker. "Nobody can stop him but me, and anybody who gets in my way will suffer." This is wrong, and the wrongness of it is causing Chuck's mental breakdown, and if he keeps it up, both brothers will suffer horribly.
His problem is he doesn't see what we all know because we all watched Breaking Bad: Chuck doesn't have to dig himself an early grave stopping Jimmy because Jimmy will eventually get his. He is hiding under a fake mustache in a freaking Cinnabon because there's no way he could have managed to be the kind of flim-flam artist he was and get away with it forever. Hell, if Chuck really wanted to teach Jimmy a lesson he could simply have not saved him from the Chicago Sunroof incident. Being a convicted sex offender both in and out of jail teaches you to behave real quick.
But Chuck's ego won't let him leave Jimmy to fate or his own comeuppance. He's treating it like He's Batman and Jimmy's the Joker. "Nobody can stop him but me, and anybody who gets in my way will suffer." This is wrong, and the wrongness of it is causing Chuck's mental breakdown, and if he keeps it up, both brothers will suffer horribly.
Chuck is a jerk, but I do enjoy Michael McKean's performance. Jimmy and Chuck's relationship is sad and tragic.
^^^ Who were also the two tech-heads from "Used Cars" that hacked the White House transmission. LOVED that movie!
Definitely, you know you're doing a great job when you're making a sleazy, ambulance chasing, criminal shyster look like the sympathetic hero.
Yep, it's amazing how much of an asshole Chuck is, yet despite that he's pretty right about Jimmy. So it's kind of a chicken and the egg thing: was Jimmy always "Slippin' Jimmy" and that's why Chuck acts the way he does, or did Chuck's attitude towards him turn him into the person who will become Saul Goodman? Either way it's damn fine television.