I didn’t take that to mean that he had worked in the mailroom, just that he was friendly with the guys there for some reason; but you may be right.
As soon as they found the wallet I shouted “SCAM!” Only I thought Jimmy was going to be the one being scammed. I thought of this scene from The Sting.
Yeah, there’s some sort of metal pole stuck into the ground just outside the front door. Jimmy made a point to hit it on his way in.
Did anybody get this before??
:smack::smack::smack:
The short con in the alley is a very old one, and I picked up on it as soon as they picked up the wallet full of money. As soon as Jimmy-Saul took off his jacket and headed out to “save” the worker, I realized that it was another scam, as there is no way his character would have taken that risk in a real situation.
S’all good, man. I think Gilligan sandbagged an entire audience. :smack:
Did anybody not get it?
I never got it
I thought he just picked a Jewish sounding name
why does he care so much if his brother sees the paper and realizes it was a stunt
I didn’t get it at first but at some point during the original run of BB it hit me.
I think he feels that his previous bad behavior is at least partly to blame for his brother’s emotional problems. In a previous episode he adamantly and repeatedly (and untruthfully) told his brother that he wasn’t backsliding. This was connected to his brother’s using the space blanket (which presumably indicates a worsening of his anxieties).
Looks like a fair percentage of people didn’t get it, which I find a little surprising.
I thought it was so obvious that calling attention to it would be labouring a very weak joke.
Just caught up on the series. Episodes were starting to pile up, and I was only semi-interested. When I started to think “maybe I’ll just skip this series” I decided to just give the pilot a shot.
Holy crap, this show fucking rocks. Totally hooked from halfway through the first episode.
This actually makes me suspect they DIDN’T intend it from the beginning, but it’s a nice touch either way.
I got the impression, from Jimmy not-so-discreetly reading off a crib sheet what sort of suit he wanted, and the subsequent scene with his ladyfriend being questioned (“he even copied my suit” “aren’t you two still friends”) that perhaps Jimmy had had a conversation with her to find out how his adversary was dressed. And she probably didn’t realize the import at the time. But maybe not. I’m not sure it matters. (As an aside, I had thought he was trying to find out how Hamlin was dressed for a similar ad…but it seems as though they’re trying to say he wears the same suit all the time. That’s pretty strange. Is it a hint that the big firm is in shaky financial footing?)
Jimmy is an extremely likeable character and we all (me, my husband, and my 13 y.o. son) eagerly look forward to the next episodes.
Why does anyone anywhere care what their family thinks of them?
Because he wants his brother to think he’s building his brand based on doing good work.
Also, another vote for never catching the name thing.
+1
Because that’s Slippin’ Jimmy behavior. He’s back to his old scams, and that’s what his brother made him stop doing in favor of a lawful, hard working legal practice.
It looked as though the harness rig was retracting itself as Saul was “pulling” the guy up to the ledge. Not being familiar with safety harnesses, it seemed like maybe all Saul had to do was take enough weight off of it–220 lb guy, give whatever effort woudl take 20-30 lbs of stress off of the line, and let it do the rest of the work. Sound plausible?
Agreed. That scene elicited a rather joyous laugh from me. It was an amazing bit of cinematography with the change of perspective to the elderly neighbor lady.
I liked the use of Brubeck’s Unsquare Dance in this episode. Seems a fitting tune for Jimmy.
Yes, that’s what I had assumed was happening, too. We see Jimmy/Saul grab the guy and then sort of reach back–we don’t see him bracing himself in such a way that he could plausibly have lifted the guy. (I figured that the ‘reaching back’ was to turn on the machinery that would retract the line.)