2.01 Switch
2.02 Cobbler
2.03 Amarillo
2.04 Gloves Off
2.05 Rebecca
2.06 Bali Ha’i
2.07 Inflatable
His Girl Friday, one of my favorite movies. It’s one of the movies I try to get people to watch when they say “I don’t like black and white movies”.
Vince has always liked older things like that. He’s mentioned getting some of the music from XM’s 40s station.
I’m interested to hear (I’m sure they’ll talk about it in the podcast) how they pulled off the opening scene. Best I can figure is that it was a drone camera that started at the beginning, swooped up over the wall into the USA(?) side and into the garage. I think the first cut was when someone walked in front of it and they switched to a handheld or stedicam to follow the guy into the truck.
That was an amazing shot. I’m always impressed with the creative moviemaking techniques they use to tell a story on this show. Still have to watch the final 15 minutes, but I quite enjoyed the scene with the “veteran” at the air base. Cheese!
I find myself liking Howard more and more as the series goes on. He seemed like an arrogant money-grubbing douchecanoe at the start, but the more we see of him the more he seems to actually care about people around him. From his conversation with Kim it sounds like he actually doesn’t really like the life he’s in and really envies her striking on her own, and kind of regrets doing what his father pushed him to. He’s a much more sympathetic character than he seemed.
I think Jimmy may setting up for him and Kim to split up in the season finale (it’s 10 episodes, right?). He went way beyond shady antics like faking to get a ‘war hero’ onto a base for an ad, he abused Chuck’s trust to actively sabotage some of their filings for Mesa Verde which is way worse than anything we’ve seen him do so far, and he did it for Kim’s sake.
No idea exactly what Mike is planning, I think the nail hose is going to be used to stop a car (lay it on the road, tires hit nails and go flat), but I’m not sure what his next step will be. I’m surprised he let Kaylee help with it, I’d expect him to compartmentalize more.
It’s hard to hold the document altering against Jimmy. There’s so much hurt and back-stabbing from Chuck, and it was an emotional reaction because he hates Chuck so much now, and loves Kim.
As for Mike’s spike strip, will he use it on the smuggling truck, or use it on Hector? Might this be how Hector ends up with brain damage and in a wheel chair?
the cold opening was cool and shot well but it was 6 minutes of wasting time that didn’t have any significance to the plot
Bravo Vince
I once felt that about the Madrigal episode of Breaking Bad too, where the senior business guy electrocutes himself, but it turned out to be relevant.
I have trouble believing Kim is stupid enough to go into business with Jimmy. It’s incredibly risky, both due to the risk of giving up a well-paying job to start from nothing, and because of Jimmy’s illegal and unethical behavior. It can’t end well.
Kim thinks she’s being smart and avoiding that by just sharing office space with him and not actually partnering with him
still probably gonna blow up in her face
Hows the thing with 1261 and 1216 going to work? Someone sends something to the wrong address, it gets delivered to the bank anyway, because postmen aren’t stupid. Someone from the bank points out the error, HHM find they have the right address on file, eventually they work out ALL of Chuck’s copies, but nobody else’s, has the wrong address. 2+2 together they figure it’s Jimmy, (possibly thinking at Kim’s request/with her consent.) Information gets shared around and Kim is in a ton of shit.
Mad props for one of the smallest details: When shooting the POV of binoculars, we see a single circle like how they actually work in real life instead of the two circles side by side like how everyone else in movies and tv (incorrectly) does it.
I think the address was for a new branch as part of the Mesa Verde’s expansion, so that could involve property titles being incorrect or sending inspectors/construction to the wrong site.
Yeah I just figured that it wills screw up all further proceedings if the address is wrong, and cause a lot of headaches and waste time for the client. Nothing really to do with losing mail.
I really liked the opening, it was really well done. It could have been shorter or quicker to just convey the plot, but I like the stylistic flourishes on the show. I also liked Jimmy’s scam to get the footage with the film.
Also, while Jimmy is slick, Chuck is downright cold. He risked his health (or believed that he was risking his health) just so they wouldn’t lose this client that they didn’t really need and who they hadn’t had for very long. This wasn’t about HHM, this was about sabotaging Jimmy.
It doesn’t seem crazy to me. We know it’s not going to end well since this is a prequel, but from Kim’s perspective she is making a risky but not absurd move. It’s not an uncommon dream to want to be your own boss. And she is smart enough to not completely tie herself to Jimmy, but to save expenses by sharing the office. And while she does know that he colors outside the lines at times, she doesn’t know how much. I like Kim, in that she’s not totally passive and just reactive to Jimmy, but has goals she’s working for.
I was wondering about that. Would there be multiple copies of all that stuff? It is a fairly new client and fairly new deal with the expansion I believe. If all that was going to result was Chuck and Howard being upset and someone having to make new copies of all the pages and wasting time I wouldn’t think Jimmy would waste his time and risk getting busted doing that. It seems like it could mess things up a lot before it’s caught. And Jimmy was very smart in just switching the 6 and 1, since that’s not an obvious deliberate screw-up, I’m sure it’s a fairly common innocent mistake. I hope someone with more experience with the law or banking could speculate on what this will mean.
Yeah, I could see that people in the offices look over the documents and they all look correct, and then construction people start going out and go to the location on the documents and start building or doing whatever out on site, not knowing it’s the wrong site. Eventually it would get noticed, but money would be wasted in the meantime. I don’t know how often in real life that construction happens at the wrong location, but occasionally you’ll hear about demolition happening at the wrong location, oversights like this can happen.
One of the key things about lawyers is that they exist to make sure all the eyes are crossed and teas are dotted. That was sort of what Chuck’s whole pitch was about, in a way. What kind of confidence will Mesa Verde have if the address, even if it would be just a typo, is wrong on all of the documents?
But of course, I don’t think this will play out exactly as Jimmy had intended.
If one of Jimmy’s stunts on her behalf (and without her knowledge) got Kim in trouble/risk of being disbarred, do you think he’d man up and take ownership?
I wondered if Mike letting his granddaughter help might have anything to do with the fact that
1- he’s doing this partly for revenge on them threatening her
2- he needed a second set of hands and she doesn’t have fingerprints in any database
I hope we get to see the commercial with the public masturbating “non-verbal war hero by appointment” guy. I’m guessing Jimmy has some other gems in the same ad.
So does Chuck just have a psychosis or do you think he really does have allergies to electricity?
I think he’s kind of like a dog in this case (an actual, real dog). If he thought it would make her proud, he’d tell her. If he thought she’d be mad and he thinks he could hide it, maybe not. WE know she’d be mad, but he doesn’t always seem to judge her correctly and she seems to throw out a lot of mixed signals.
If your dog brings you a dead bird and you praise it and tomorrow it brings you a rat and you yell and it, what’s it going to do with the squirrel it just found?
It’s in his head. That was shown in the first season when he was in the hospital and the doctor turned the power to the bed back on and he didn’t notice.
Yeah, it could blow things up for HHM, but still also get Kim blacklisted somehow. If Kim makes an enemy of HHM, I could see them making it hard for her to get any clients. I don’t think Kim did any work on the Mesa Verde papers, since even though she brought them in, Howard was still mad and she was still in document review a while longer. But even so, HHM wouldn’t be able to get back at Jimmy very easily, so Kim would be the easier target.
I think Jimmy would try to step up, but I don’t know if Kim would let him. Both out of anger, and wanting to do things the right way.
I don’t think Mike cares about fingerprints, because it’s not like Hector would be calling the cops if he or his shipments are attacked.
I don’t think Chuck is really allergic to electricity, because I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing. And if it was, I don’t think the walls of his house would protect him from it. Whatever it is, he does strongly believe that he has it, and does genuinely feel sick from exposure.
Then why did he wash the hose while wearing gloves, after he had drilled all the holes in it? No other reason than to get any fingerprints off.
They showed Mike washing the hose and come on guys, he ain’t gonna use his grand daughter’s fingerprints as some kind of false scent trick.