Or maybe not every single law firm in the entire US uses FedEx to transfer files. Maybe even moreso when the two lead attorneys are family and can just take care of it on their own.
Or maybe they take a little bit of artistic licensce here and there for the sake of some drama and/or sibling rivalry.
Listening to the podcast (FTR, haven’t caught this one yet), they put an incredible amount of work into keeping this as realistic as possible.
Last week one of the writers spent a few hours at a law library, on her own time, on the weekend, just to make sure all those documents that Jimmy copied, that no one will read are correct are all necessary for what Mesa Verde is doing.
On a regular half hour sitcom type show all those documents would have been, literally, in greek or latin. Just a bunch of random words that look like words but are meaningless. If you paused one of those shots, and read those documents, they’d all hold water with Mesa Verde’s expansion. IIRC, they also called in TWO lawyers to help them. All for a bunch of papers more than 99% of viewers would never even think to look at.
They do this for every single show. If Jimmy picked up the documents by hand, either it’s something that’s more commonly done than you realize or, as I said, they took some artistic license because it was necessary to move the show forward.
Keep in mind, if it wasn’t this, they would have just found another way to get Jimmy, Kim and Chuck in the same room and I’d hardly call it lazy writing.
There was a moment at the beginning of the school scene when we only see Jimmy’s face reflected in his car’s mirror where I thought it was McKean, not Odenkirk.
Absolutely! People die from blows like that all the time. That’s why Jimmy’s “Call 911” lines are so powerful. He knows he might have just killed his brother.
When we see Mike watching them after his heist, we see Hector taking some sort of pill while obviously agitated about the heist. If he’s got some sort of preexisting condition like hypertension, it’s entirely possible that freaking out over losing a whole lot of cartel money might push him into stroke territory.
Concur!
But he’d have double checked it against the documents he had at home, which contained the forged address. Until the con was revealed, he would have had no reason to think that those documents were different from the versions on file at HHM. Jimmy only returned the correct versions after Chuck had already left for the hearing.
Something I just caught, I’ll spoiler it because even though it’s just speculation, it has to do with the episode titles and it appears to be too coincidental to not be true. Has anyone noticed that
The first letters of all the episodes this season form an anagram that says FRINGS BACK!!?
Good points. But remember, In Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan also took considerable liberties with the science, like Mercury fulminate as an impact explosive and hydrofloric acid eating through all those various materials, as was demonstrated on Mythbusters. Vince didn’t do so hot in Chem in high school himself. So it’s not beyond the pale that they might take some artistic license with the legal system as well for BCS.
Right. Cobbler is the ‘C’ in “Fring’s Back.” They’ve been talking about this on Reddit and the recap show I listen to.
Note: I also listen to the Kelly Dixon Insider podcast but that one is 80% production and 20% story (which is fascinating) but the recap show is 100% story. (And one of the guys is an attorney.)
I see. So an anagram then. Perhaps. I believe if you play Stairway to Heaven backwards you’ll hear “my sweet Satan.” And in Strawberry Fields Forever you’ll hear “cranberry sauce.”
Why did you say ‘no’ then post confirming exactly what I said? The episode you quoted ‘a month from now’ from skips through several months on Walt’s boring New Hampshire stay and Jesse’s slave time shortly after that line. It’s perfectly consistent with what was said that Gene scenes are taking place a month to six months from the quote, which puts the Gene scenes inside the BB timeline before WW finally goes on his rampage, like I said. It’s possible that the Gene scenes are set a year or more after the disappearance, but it’s consistent with the show and what we’ve seen that they actually take place while WW is still alive, not long after the show.
My first thought watching the episode, and just to tease out what you are implying: Kim knows if she has to disclose/report Jimmy, she will lose Mesa Verde