IFPTD?
(stay in all caps now)
IFUPSG
Those boxes are heavy. He deserves a tip :D.
At least the tip.
And now we know, it wasn’t Mike or Gus who made the call, but new Victor (scroll to the bottom of the article).
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/breaking-bad-thirty-eight-snub-death-by-stereo
You kidding? That was Chekov’s flirtation.
Vindication!
Knew it.
Also bad news for Walt. Mike may be able to let the issue go, but new Victor is certainly going to tell Gus what happened.
Without knowing about the gun I suppose you could make a plausible case that he just wanted to talk to Gus.
Hmm. And (per that article) his name is Tyrus. I wonder if he’s going to be a major character or a Skinny Pete style backgrounder.
I’ve seen them even bigger than that. One local place (long since out of business) called Giant Pizza had one that was so big they had a warning not to order it if you had a compact car, because the box wouldn’t fit in your back seat.
I’ve got a big package for you… well, actually 200 small packages…
Credits are a huge deal to people in the industry and that sort of thing is out of the hands of the writers (and even the producers). Usually credits are negotiated up-front in the actor’s contract down to the nitty-gritty details of when their credit appears, for how many seconds it appears, what font size will be used, where on the screen will it show, what order are they in the sequence, etc. (remember Hollywood is a union town). And if someone is credited in an episode, whether they appear on-screen or had anything to do with making the episode at all, you can bet your ass they got paid for that episode.
So yeah, you can’t make story/plot judgments based on that.
Sometimes you’ll see Special Guest Star when the actor is nowhere near as big as others who’ve been on the series. ER did this a lot: fairly big names like Harvey Korman and James Cromwell would just appear in the credits, but Mickey Rooney and Glenn Howerton [before Always Sunny) got ‘Special Guest Star’. I understand that is negotiated- seems a bit silly, but I suppose there’s some logic somewhere.
Indeed - I noticed an interesting credit phenomenon a couple months ago when we were at the Arclight cinemas and they had an array of posters for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie from many different countries.
The Israeli poster had the exact same image as one of the American posters, but it was a reversed mirror image. Wondering why this would be, I saw the answer in the actors’ names listed at the top: because Hebrew reads right to left, Johnny Depp’s name had to be on the opposite side of the poster (so that people read it first, as per his contract), and so the entire image was flipped too in order to keep it consistent with the way the English-language version was seen by us normal left-to-righters.
Anyway sorry for that little derail but I found it interesting.
I don’t see Marie and the therapist getting it on, but her asking him to live-in might be a plot point. If I remember right, Hank doesn’t know that Walt is paying some of Hank’s medical bills, doesn’t know about the “gambling winnings”. (Does he?)
Anyway, if the therapist moves in, Hank’s gonna want to know who’s paying. If he finds out it’s Walt, he’ll start asking questions about how Walt can afford it.
Hank knows where the money is coming from and the gambling cover story.
How do you know this? I haven’t seen it mentioned in the show.
I can’t remember the scene in which Hank is told, but I do remember a scene where they’re playing a card game by his hospital bed (Marie says knock knock instead of knocking), and when Jr. wins, Hank asks him as if he’s been playing with his dad. As if he picked up card counting tricks.
I checked the recap at TWOP. It was Marie who said that to Junior.
I’m pretty sure Skyler told Marie not to tell Hank about the gambling. Ordinarily Marie would blab, but in this case, Marie knows that Hank wouldn’t accept Walt’s charity, so she’s keeping quiet.
Yeah, you’re right, it was Marie. My bad. Hank then asks if Walt is working, Jr says that neither of them are working, and Hank wonders how they’re swinging that.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t catch that Marie was hitting on the therapist, but that she saw that he had such a positive affect on Hank so she wanted him around more. Marie does seem frustrated with Hank, but not to the point of cheating on him. Not yet, anyway. Right now, Marie’s overriding goal is to get Hank walking again so things get back to normal, and she thinks relentless positivity is what’s needed.
I can see how it would get under Frank’s skin, but it’s better than doing an Althea Flynt…