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I’m talking about the scene at the gravesite where he comes back to Kim and tells her he was faking. I do think he has real, actual internalized grief, though. I don’t know if Chuck was the most important force in Jimmy’s life— a force, yes— but my feeling is there are many other things at play with respect to Jimmy and his motivations. This is just my personal perspective. I’m willing to give Howard more of a break for telling Jimmy that Chuck committed suicide than others here, I guess.

I don’t know, I think Jimmy may have felt stronger negative feelings about Chuck, but not necessarily more positive ones than Howard. Howard listened to Chuck, looked up to him as a mentor—and seemed to be more affected by Chuck’s death than Jimmy. Jimmy feigned grief at Chuck’s graveside and dumped his guilt in Howard’s lap. I’m not saying that Jimmy has no feelings or grief over Chuck’s death or that he hasn’t internalized them. But I do not think that all of his actions against Howard have to do with Chuck’s death.

Ok, I thought it was, like a second before that when he hesitated and kind of looked into space before seeing Mike in the doorway? But I stand corrected if that wasn’t the case.

Or frozen with fear? People react all sorts of ways when frightened or shocked. This was either an acting choice or a director’s. I thought it was a little too, too as well. Mmv Howard could have died many other ways, but I give the writers credit for choosing an unexpected and shocking way that also ties the storylines together going forward.

I think it was before that.I think Gus was remembering when he pulled a young Max out of the slums of Santiago and paid for his education.

Fit and proportion are so important when choosing clothes—especially if one is not model-thin. It doesn’t matter what style one prefers as much as it matters how the cut and fabric fall on your body. Color obviously matters, too, but if you like color, go for it, I say. Meri’s outfit is wrong on all levels. Her jacket is too dark, too small and too short. Her skirt is too long, clingy, and the wrong color print for her. And the shoes! No. Now, I’m no fashionista. I go for comfort ( preferably cotton casual) most days. But if I have to dress up, I keep those pointers in mind— particularly if I were to have a public speaking engagement that is going to be posted online.

Christine is actually related to Kody, albeit distantly.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Also, when you click on the Instagram link the video has the song, “A Man Without Love” by Englebert Humperdink, playing. Interesting choice of music— but it may not mean anything at all. I do find it interesting that Audrey is transitioning more masculine with the hormones and top surgery than I originally thought they would as non-binary. I realize that one could be more masculine-presenting while still identifying as non-binary, but as @LilyD posted above, I ‘m a little surprised Audrey took the more drastic permanent step of top surgery. At any rate, I hope Audrey is happy with their decision and their transition journey.

I think Lalo is searching for proof that Gus wants him dead because of his suspicions about Gus’ operations (the super lab, which will squeeze out the cartel ‘s meth trade)? Lalo’s intuition is telling him that Gus’ “construction project” and the attempt on his life are somehow connected. There is a lot of “willing suspension of disbelief” involved when watching the Lalo storyline. Same goes for the Saul and Kim revenge on Howard storyline. I try to not let it affect my enjoyment of the show, though. It is fun to come here and read everyone else’s thoughts about the likelihood of events happening in real life the way they are portrayed in the episodes.

My grandson has an LP boy in his kindergarten class. He never mentions anything about the boy’s stature or his (slightly) bowed legs. Our grandson lives with us so we regularly hear him talk about kids in school, how his day went, etc. I would imagine as Jackson gets older, particularly middle school age, he will encounter more teasing and bullying, but at this age it’s likely minimal. I don’t see a big deal that Zach and Tori are moving 45 min. away from the grandparents at all. They all have vehicles and driver’s licenses.

Right, I was also thinking that Howard may be taking other medications that may have adverse interactions with the animal drug. Howard may even have an allergic reaction to something in the drug. Kim and Saul are taking a big risk by drugging Howard (among many risks). On another note, anyone notice the obvious foreshadowing when they cut from a shot of Kim and Jimmy kissing to the scene where Caspar is splitting logs? Or am I reading too much into it?

I get your point, Kim didn’t ask for Howard’s advice about Jimmy. But Howard ‘s intentions, while flawed in their basis, were those of someone who thought they were helping. He wasn’t trying to hurt Kim, he just assumed (wrongly) that she needed to know about Jimmy —yes, a little patronizing and irritating—but not evil.

But Kim in turn wants to advise her clients about what they should and should not do as well? Doesn’t Kim feel the “poor”need her guidance and protection? She and Jimmy lied to her client with the pregnant wife to get him to take the guilty plea. Would Kim appreciate it were it done to her? Kim is lying to Jimmy about Lalo to “protect” him— she’d rip him a new one if Jimmy did that to her. Now, I’m not saying that Kim shouldn’t advise her clients to do the best thing legally according to her knowledge of the system. But Howard probably thought he was looking out for Kim—the hard-working, by-the-book Kim that wanted out of the mailroom. He was wrong. So, Kim resents him, doesn’t like him, OK. But the hatred? It ‘s as if she’s using Howard as the receptacle of all her anger and frustration at the unfairness in the world. And that, in itself, is not fair.

Yes, Kim is the most intriguing character this season, imo, therefore the discussion here does tend to focus on her more than the others. We have been given plenty of background on Jimmy, we know what motivates Mike and Gus, and Lalo is a straight-up psychopath/sociopath. I couldn’t help but say, “yep!” When Kim was recounting to Cliff what HHM has given her. She seems to take that help for granted, or even resents the help she got. Also, yes Kim had a rough childhood— but she has brains and beauty. Who is to say that some of the pro bono clients she helps aren’t going to view her the same way that she views Howard, et al? She is a pretty, blond, white educated woman who will be telling them what’s best for them, what they should do— something Kim herself hates others to do to her.

Sehr interessant… it is amazing what they can di with cgi these days— It really looked like they went to Germany (or somewhere else in Europe).

Both Jon and Kate have their faults, but when Kate basically threw Colin away, that put her in the “monster” category for me. Colin may have serious issues and needed help, but Kate didn’t visit him regularly nor try to find a way for him to come home for visits on occasion. She wouldn’t even tell Jon where he was.

I remember reading that book too sometime ago. I was dissatisfied with the outcome, so I came here to see if Candy was worth watching—but I’m thinking probably not. Candy should not have gotten away with self-defense considering the amount of blows she inflicted on Betty even after Betty was incapacitated, imo.

I didn’t catch that it was an alternate location, the episode was so dimly lit—but that makes sense.

Well, that’s the explanation they gave in the show— it was in season 5, episode 1, “Magic Man.”

Lalo was told by Gus that the gigantic underground space he showed him was a cooler for his chicken. I would imagine that the equipment and machinery for cooking and storing meth and the ingredients for production would be very different than for keeping chicken cold. Maybe Lalo is looking for other guys/companies who worked on or supplied equipment for the project to get proof? Actually all Lalo would need to go to Hector or Bolsa is proof that the space is not being built for the chicken business to arouse suspicion and investigation into Gus’ activities.

Oh Lalo, you psychopathic wily minx, how did you find Werner’s widow? The Lalo scenes were the most interesting parts of this episode for me. This character can be so charming, so gentle and sweet with the little dog—and yet you don’t know if he’s going to murder someone in the next minute. The boxing match was kind of comical— but it didn’t really advance the story. Even before Kim said that something else was coming, you knew the match didn’t end things. And Kim— still a bit of an enigma. She wants to be Robin Hood, but her actions may result in unintended and undesirable consequences. She should tell Jimmy about Lalo. She is actually not protecting Jimmy by withholding this information, imo.

The thing that bugged me about the show, (even though I generally liked it,) was that no one on the panel seemed to be permitted to say they knew the answer and that’s why they voted bs or not. I mean, if one knows the answer to a question and the contestant gets it wrong, it doesn’t matter how good of a bullshitter they are—I’m voting bs. So it can help a player by how much trivia he/ she knows— even though one can win a lot of money by bs-ing. Also, the last panel players should have some incentive to be accurate— such as a cash prize of $500 or $1000, for the most accurate.

My pet peeve about the term “gaslighting” is that it is sometimes over-used to justify one person’s perception of an event over the other’s. Just because one party’s interpretation, perception, or opinion of an event or statement differs from another party’s does not necessarily mean “gaslighting” is happening. My adult daughter has used this term on me recently when she quoted me as saying something I did not say. I repeated my original statement verbatim back to her and said I was confused as to why she interpreted my statement differently. She then accused me of gaslighting her. I felt as if she was using the term to shut me down and discredit my own recollection of a statement I had made only a few minutes before.

A couple of things in this episode sort of took me out of the moment— when Saul was taking the “Patients Only” sign out of the ground and sticking back in, I thought, no way would that happen irl. That dry, hard ground would make it next to impossible for Saul to get it far enough down for it to remain standing for even two seconds. (I know—nitpicking — but it bugged me.) The other thing that I noticed was the coloring of Bob Odenkirk. It may have been the lighting but even when he was in the “Howard” disguise he looked a little off—particularly his lips. I couldn’t help thinking about his heart attack. This episode was a tad too slow for my taste. Saul has already embarrassed Howard with sex workers — why do a repeat? I did enjoy the walkthrough of Gus’ lair, though. I, like Kim, want more. More Kim, more Howard, more Lalo. I hope not too much is rushed in the series finale.

Good article, but for me, the jury is still out on whether Kim is “our hero” or not. I’ll have to see what the rest of the series brings.