Dessert

I haven’t seen any posts about anyone other than the victims of the week dying this season. Who are you talking about? My understanding is that all of the regulars are still alive.

They could easily have named this episode “Death Wish”. Saul looking into the grave he avoided in The New Mexico desert and seeing Gene says it all. Life as Gene is a living death for Saul/Jimmy. Something about the mall scam and, finally, the phone calls to Kim and Francesca sparked an explosion of pure self-destruction on his part. He’s chewing off his foot to get out of the trap of “Gene”. His insistence on carrying out that final con made no sense. When he smashed that window he knew he would be caught. He wants it to be over.

Brett Watermen recently posted on Instagram that Restored has even renewed and new episodes will start airing soon.

My ideas for Carol Burnet: 1. She replaces Robert Forster as the vacuum repair contact. She was his partner & was working with him all along. 2. She’s related to Kim in some way. Is Kim’s mother still alive? I don’t remember.

I don’t think it’s character assassination at all. It’s an extreme example of behavior that she has displayed throughout the series and completely in character. Win is complex with some wonderful qualities, but when something goes wrong, she tends to strike out in a nasty way. She also holds bitter grudges. In this episode, when Fred told Joan that Win is quick to anger, but quick to forgive, I thought “this man doesn’t even know his wife”. When Joan left, Win blamed Fred and Morse, of all people, for not finding her. She did nothing to try to find Joan herself. Surely she she knows some of Joan’s friends. She could have enlisted their or Sam’s help. When Fred lost their retirement money - lending it to his brother without even asking her - she was rightly furious. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she divorced him. Instead she chose to react with at least a year of cold, bitter nastiness. In fairness to the writing, this is probably not an unrealistic depiction, but very ugly. Of course, she’s terrified because Sam is missing, but attacking Joan and blaming Fred was horrible. No wonder he wanted to stay at the office. Fred said, in Fugue, that his family is what kept him moored. I think he’s losing his family. Maybe Morse’s music is a more dependable anchor.

This surprised me, too. I volunteered at a battered women’s center in the 1970s and I don’t remember anyone discouraging a victim from talking to the police. Actually, it was difficult to get the police to take wife beating seriously.

Sorry. I don’t get the love for DeGuello. I found the ending overly sentimental. I find the depiction of Morse’s journey towards his ultimate destiny compelling. It’s frustrating, because I want him to be happier, but know that will not happen. For all his flaws, he’s a decent man. On the other hand, I don’t think older Morse was completely miserable or a failure as a human being. There were many things about his life that he seemed to enjoy.

Morse is deeply depressed and at the beginning of a yearlong bender. He’s not doing his job. That’s the point.

Yes. Maybe they’re not all criminals. Some might be people who need to escape from criminals. Could be fascinating stories.

Everyone except Jesse seems like small fry compared with Saul. I don’t think the writers will go against Jesse. They’ve let him start over. Saul probably had other criminal clients that weren’t mentioned in Breaking Bad. i could see a spin off series about the Disappearer. Of course, they would have to use a different, maybe younger, actor. They could show how he got started and then do some kind of anthology series about different people who need his services.

I’m hoping that someone - either Jimmy or Kim - will wind up living in Belize; not the euphemism for death Belize, but the actual tropical paradise. He might turn himself in and enjoy running scams in prison and filing lawsuits for other inmates. Maybe he could turn State’s witness and avoid prison, but I don’t think there’s anyone left for him to testify against. I could see Jimmy becoming a celebrity, advising people how to spot cons and having his own podcast. He seems born for some seedy spotlight.

I think so. I follow Brett Waterman on Instagram & he’s been working houses that are probably for the show. Plus, he went to some event for the Magnolia Network.

I could be entirely wrong, of course. If something does happen, it will depend on if and how quickly Lalo is killed. However, Mike’s operatives will know within hours that someone else is following Jimmy. They’ll have to decide what to do about it. There are many ways their finding out could come to haunt Howard. Someone could get killed. If the PI has shady drug connections, Howard could be framed. Gus and his organization could decide to threaten or use Howard in some way - giving him a glimpse of the criminal underworld that he’s completely unprepared for. I’m leaning towards someone getting killed.

I think the thing that happened in this episode that doesn’t bode well for Howard is his decision to have the PI follow Jimmy. Mike’s men are already watching them, looking for signs of Lalo. When they see this guy, they may think he’s working for Lalo and do something to him, or even to Howard.

It reminded me of the opening of the series Get Smart. (I’m very old!)