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10 minutes ago, msrachelj said:

oh damn. i was going to  try to find it at the liquor store just because i love the bottle!

You could always opt for Clase Azul Ultra, but a fifth is more than a house payment.

https://www.claseazul.com/clase-azul-ultra

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1 minute ago, Bannon said:

Jimmy is capable of both empathy and feelings of guilt. A person can do the most awful things imaginable, even multiple murders, without being a sociopath or psychopath.

So he'll waste every opportunity that he had, alienate everyone close to him, wind up in isolation, will spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder, but hey. At least he doesn't hit all the clinical criteria in the DSM-V. <wink>

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3 minutes ago, Bryce Lynch said:

The writers might have made Kim be from Kansas, near the Nebraska border, for a reason.  But, in BB, Saul did not choose Nebraska, Ed the disappearer chose it for him.  

When Ed took Saul's photo and loaded it into a Nebraska driver's license program, Saul asked, "What's in Nebraska" and Ed replied, "You, from now on."  

Synchronicity.

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1 minute ago, Bannon said:

I don't think nonsociopaths develop into sociopaths. If you are capable of empathy, regret, and feelings of guilt at some point in your life, I don't think it ever is completely extinguished, even if you do awful things.

Maybe psychopath is more apt for Jimmy.

• Superficial charm and glibness
• Inflated sense of self-worth
• Constant need for stimulation
• Lying pathologically
• Conning others; being manipulative
• Lack of remorse or guilt
• Shallow emotions
• Callousness; lack of empathy
• Using others (a parasitic lifestyle)
• Poor control over behavior
• Behavioral problems early in life
• Being impulsive
• Being irresponsible
• Blaming others and refusing to accept responsibility
• Delinquency when young
• Criminal acts in several realms (criminal versatility)

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59 minutes ago, Bannon said:

Jimmy has flaws wider than the Rio Grande, but he's definitely not a sociopath of any kind. A sociopath doesn't feel so bad about his Sandpiper client being alienated from her friends that goes through an elaborate ruse  to expose himself, at great financial cost, so she can be on good terms with them again. 

Of *any* kind? I'd offer that he's one in the making.

On a tangent to that, I'm really taken by the reminder of the constant jeopardy that he's in at the top of the episode. He got where he is, losing his practice and managing a Cinnabon in Omaha, through a series of decisions that led to that outcome.

(I also note that "Gene" is not in Nebraska by accident. That's Kim's home stomping grounds.)

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13 minutes ago, Bryce Lynch said:

I wonder how passive aggressive Chuck was before his illness?  He seemed to be beloved by his colleagues and staff (though they might have been kissing up a bit) and founded two charities, according to his obituary.  

The dinner with Jimmy & Rebecca sheds at least a little insight on that. If he had his way, Rebecca wouldn't have been allowed to form her own opinion of Jimmy, and he was stage-managing everything ("I'll give you the Carol Burnett signal") as he had convinced himself already how the night was going to go rather than letting things play out. Instead, she's charmed by him and ends up cracking lawyer jokes at Chuck after Jimmy left.

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7 minutes ago, Bryce Lynch said:

Jimmy made a life a running cons.  Chuck ran a con to catch a con artist, which is usually considered cool and heroic in most fiction.  

Yet the noble Chuck McGill can't bring himself to tell Jimmy that their mother's dying words were for Jimmy. He took that to his grave, effectively destroying himself in his efforts to destroy his brother. Tragic, yes. But whatever sympathies I find for Chuck are tempered by having insights into his temperament and motivations. He's passive aggressive, self-centered, and not particularly self-aware. Of course, it doesn't help that his brother's a high-functioning sociopath... that'd probably drive anybody crazy after a while.

I don't know that we'll ever find out more details about the stalemate between Howard and Chuck, but there are certainly elements of extortion ("give me my way or I'll bankrupt the firm that you and your father built") in their relationship. I wouldn't attribute that sort of behavior to a nice guy.

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1 minute ago, Bryce Lynch said:

I don't buy this for a second.  Jimmy was a born scam artist and he loved doing scams.  He could control himself for a little while, but he would always go back to his first love.  He had good management at D&M and a spectacular compensation package, but he hated it, and preferred to make squat cobbler videos.  

As Chuck told Kim, "He can't help himself."  

Neither can Chuck. He's a Jedi master in manipulation and passive-aggression.
Maybe Jimmy has earned some grief for running his scams, but Charles Lindbergh McGill is just a more respectable con artist than his brother is.

26 minutes ago, Bannon said:

We just see it differently. I recall Chuck being offended at finding out that Jimmy had obtained a legal degree. I think Chuck really wanted to Jimmy to fail, despite Chuck the law firm partner being naturally enthralled to have a major class action caah cow like Sandpiper dumped in his lap.

Chuck was going to "let justice be done though the heavens fall," even if he had to engineer the circumstances for that to happen.

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12 hours ago, Pat Hoolihan said:

Zafiro anejo tequila makes an appearance. That is the tequila that in BB Gus poisons and gives to Eladio. It is a purely fictional brand, made up by the BB team because they failed in getting product placement. It is supposed to be extremely expensive, and so it was an extra special gift to Eladio.  Was Kim's obtaining a bottle a part of a previous episode? I sort of vaguely recall it but I'm not sure.

Jimmy bought a bottle as a celebration for the settlement / payout after he ran that long con involving Irene and her friends at Sandpiper.

Zafiro Anejo was also the brand that "Giselle" and "Viktor" scammed the investment guy into buying at $50 a shot.