So in the event of a situation like Chuck and his partners, if Chuck was declared mentally incompetent would the firm have to buy him out, or could they just continue paying him a silent partner’s share?
Best episode yet.
The cinematography when Chuck goes to get his paper was perfect. The contrast between the frantic, bright, loud, quick cuts from his POV versus the neighbor lady’s calm reality was hilarious. Add that in with the snapping breadstick scene from a couple episodes ago for the cinematographic highlight reel.
Grounding oneself, in the context of electricity, would mean connecting yourself to electrical ground. In this case (in Chuck’s mind) presumably to drain off any static electricity. You ground yourself by touching something conductive that enters the (literal) ground, such as a water pipe.
And that he would even have money…and they he wouldn’t just walk away with the money from the wallet (assuming it was real)…and that a cop wouldn’t show up. There was a whole lot of assumptions in that scene. Still fun to watch though.
Was the billboard thing a scam? I guess the ‘took you long enough’ and the handshake should have given it away, I didn’t even catch that.
Anyways, that brings back something else. When the cops catch Jimmy and throw him on the ground he mentions that he has bad knees. Back in the first time he shows up on Breaking Bad he said the same thing when he’s tied up in the desert. On the podcast one of the members on the panel (Kelley maybe) said that’s probably from playing Slippin’ Jimmy all his life.
Of course, back in the days of Breaking Bad, it was just a throw away line, but they said they’re trying to go back and grab most of those throw away lines/loose ends and clean them up. The bad knees/Slippin Jimmy thing makes perfect sense, and it’s nice that they don’t rub it in your face, it’s just there for you to notice.
I don’t get why people think Mrs. Kettleman’s some sort of mastermind. Especially after this episode she seemed just as dumb as her husband.
I would have preferred the billboard bit to have been real and see that as another chip in Jimmy’s desire to be legit. Chuck could have seen it in the paper and thought it was a scam and that would lead to good drama.
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I don’t get why people think Mrs. Kettleman’s some sort of mastermind. Especially after this episode she seemed just as dumb as her husband.
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She’s stupid enough to offend somebody who can crucify her if he chooses (the “you’re the kind of lawyer guilty people hire” line). Whatever happens to her at this point is on her, no sympathy.
I loved Saul’s dressing down of Nacho about what a bumbler he was (being seen by the neighbor, having blood in his van, not having an alibi, etc.). It also seemed not to have been lost on Nacho. It shows that Saul has the better criminal mind, he’s just choosing not to use it at this particular time in his life.
Don’t feel bad. I didn’t catch it at first either. It was only when they showed Hamlin saying “this had to be a publicity stunt” that it hit me and I thought back… “you took long enough”… handshake… :smack:
I think this is correct and it seems to be driving towards a point when Jimmy/Saul will see the light. Essentially, he is starting to realize that criminals are idiots so it may be better to defend guilty people, particularly since he seems to be much better at understanding how to get away with things that most criminals wouldn’t get away with. We are seeing his evolution from Jimmy to Saul in not just an external sense, but also in his internal view of himself.
The space blanket, I think, equals a tin foil hat. It’s a plausible visual device meant to let the viewer know that Chuck’s issues are mental.
As someone who has actually hoisted people vertically, I knew immediately that Saul could not possibly have lifted that worker back onto the work platform. The worker weighed at least 220 pounds. It’s simply not possible for Saul to have saved him. Now… attach that worker’s harness to a tripod & appropriate pulleys, then, yes, absolutely. But, as portrayed, nope.
Vince takes liberties with plausibility- remember when Jesse climbed out of the cage?
I did say they’re terrible at crime :-). But I think she’s the manipulator, I think she put him up to steal the money and he’ll be the fall guy that goes to prison. I think she thinks she’ll still end up ahead in the end. I have nothing to back that up of course, just how I read her character. She’s the one who does all the talking, is manipulative, and a schemer. But no, I don’t think she’s thought her plan all the way through to the end and I think Saul / Jimmy will take advantage of that in the end.
So do you think Jimmy ever worked for Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill? He obviously knows the people well enough to know what kind of wool their expensive suit is made from and has whatever relationship he has with the she-lawyer, but is far from beloved. I’m wondering if he worked there but was fired when Chuck got sick, or if he Chuck refused to hire him either because of his past or a dislike of nepotism but he came around a lot over the years.
I liked Jimmy checking out the orange “Saul” shirt in the clothiers. While orange isn’t my color at all, I have to admit I like Saul’s “conservatively flashy” look better than Jimmy’s.
I’m already loving this show as much as Breaking Bad. And that means a lot.
This is what I hope this show is going to explore: the question of why someone who can display genuine intelligence and competence (for example, in his argument against killing the skater-brothers) can’t seem to make that aptitude translate into success in the legit world.
(Of course it may be that the show’s focus will turn out to be something else entirely. At this point I’m happy to go along for the ride.)
Someone in the AVClub comments posted this article about a town in West Virginia that can not have Wi-Fi or other electrical signals because of a government telescope nearby, so a lot of people who claim to be sensitive have moved to the town. It’s an interesting article.
I wonder if by the end of the series if Chuck will have moved off somewhere, to either some made up town with no electrical signals or to the middle of the woods somewhere.
That was hilarious and sad. It’s so real to him, but he just looks crazy to anyone else.
She’s not “a” mastermind, she’s “the” mastermind out of the two Kettlemans. She said something about how “we, I mean he earned that money” while he stood meekly by. I don’t think she had thought this far ahead.
I’ve wondered about that, a big law firm would have a lot of junior lawyers wouldn’t they? Or maybe he did some law-related lower job type thing. From his visit on the first episode he either used to work there, or has been by so many times to either visit his brother and/or Kim.
Also, the suit fitting and him checking out the bright color shirts was great. I was wondering about his list of the very specific things he wanted for his suit and shirts, I had assumed it was from a description in GQ or something that someone had recommended to him. It was funny to see that was to copy Hamlin exactly.
I was a little surprised of this as well. It is related to a common scam, but the watch thing is a twist. I’m guessing this is young Jimmy based on the hair - so $3000 might have been the right price back then, but I doubt most people know the value of a Rolex. And even today - I doubt most people have $500+ dollars in their wallet.
I certainly wouldn’t expect that if someone had a Rolex on their arm - that it would be a real one, but perhaps I would if the person had $1000 I’m their wallet.
I knew as soon as he found the wallet it was a scam, and I’m willing to suspend disbelief as I like this show a ton :). Guess since almost every thing else I guess about the show turns out to be wrong - I was happy to have guessed this one right.
Was the big guy in the alley the same guy who fell from the sign? I couldn’t tell if that was the same guy or a new accomplice.
I was looking closely at the sign guy, expecting it might be the alley guy. But if so, he was wearing padding in the alley–the body sizes were definitely different.
(Remember, too, that supposedly some number of years have gone by, as well as a change in city. The alley guy might not have accompanied Jimmy/Saul to Albuquerque.)
Not the same guy
I thought it was established in the first or second episode that Jimmy worked in the mailroom at HHM. Didn’t Chuck say something about not putting Jimmy’s pals in the mailroom out of a job by suing the firm?