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I think that's because to some extent, the tough thing about Norman is, he's had many scenes and reactions of being good, sincere, honest, and true. We "know" he will only end badly and that the better angels of his nature will not win out, and yet we don't know it. We keep rooting and hoping for him to escape his future, which is both a great and terrible situation in which to place showrunners and an actor.
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Oh, how I do love Nestor and Vera, so many things are always going on in their scenes together. What I love most is that they make it funny every time, I don’t understand that/how it’s never slapsticky, and maybe it is in bits that end up on the cutting room floor though I doubt it, because their veritable nonverbal body language is funny. Taking second position to quiet, smoldering longing. I too am not anxious to see any relationship hurried along primarily because I suspect that some day Norman would kill or get him killed, but it’s also interesting choices to me that IMO, Romero wants to be a (step)father so badly. I think they/Nestor actually toned it down this season because 3.1’s interaction with Dylan wasn’t fatherly at all, but last (?) season roadside-stop definitely was; Romero interrogating Norman, etc.
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I don't think Chuck was acting suspiciously as a public feint or blind, because he went to the back (court)yard for his display. I should think if he'd wanted to be seen or make a big show, he'd have gone to the front yard where he already knows he has a nosy neighbor waiting for him. I still wouldn't put it past Chuck to be hiding because he wants to avoid some big HHM legal requirement, but they're being pretty slow unpacking that plotline if so. I should think in a scenario like mine, they would at least have wanted to seed the ground with mentions of some big case that's nowt to do with those Kettlemans, that Kim and/or everybody else is running around doing side work on, which could be done without trumpeting its possible connection to Chuck in advance. I guess it could be some legal action that's not yet seen the public light of day.
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The job assignments -- that was the other thing I wanted to comment on. Thanks for the reminder kj4ever.
Who is doing the gardening? It seems to me that Rick might be more productive gardening or farming. This constable thing just seems a little bit silly. Since, as has been stated previously, there doesn't seem to be any justice system set up.
Why isn't someone studying under Pete to be a nurse or something? At least Herschel tried to teach others the medical skills that he had because it is important that more than one person be able to do the job. That is except for the Grady doctor -- he didn't want anyone taking his place.
Well, "the nurse" would thus logically have been Beth but - yanno. I guess maybe it can/could be Maggie.
But I see other opportunities that are also making me scratch my head and wonder if they will ever be addressed: they can mysteriously run and grab fresh still-drinkable beer (unlike whiskey, it has an expiration date and does not get better with age, lol); and will Kirkman ever address the fact that sooner or later "medicine runs" are also useless, as pharmaceuticals have expiration dates and likewise will not get better with age? They need a new herbalist too. Eventually they'll run out of useful pills-and-booze anaesthetic unless they make more.
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So well put. Odenkirk is amazing, because I badly want these things for him too. I found it absurdly touching in both the scene where he shows Kim the new office, including the corner office, and gently makes his invitation to her to join him, and the scene at the end when he goes back to the office for one more look, alone. So painful. The actress who plays Kim is good too, and I like her unexpectedly low voice. I think Kim genuinely cares for Jimmy, but she just isn't madly in love with him, and maybe she senses the scammer (Slippin' Jimmy) within him, and that aspect of him pushes her away. At any rate, given where they are in their respective careers, she isn't willing to risk hers by publicly acknowledging how close she is or has been with him. And I get it, I don't know if I could risk my career for a man I am fond of, but not in love with, who works and runs his law practice out of a closet in a nail salon. It's fascinating that at least so far, he's willing to accept whatever she is willing to allow, and only gently makes overtures to get her to see him. It's his nature, he's not a thug or a heavy. The pitch to her to leave her firm and partner up with him was too much, I knew as soon as soon as she went into the corner office what he was going to suggest, and I cringed because there was no way she was going to accept. But Jimmy made the proposition in a surprisingly low key, chivalrous way, and he was so quietly hopeful but sad. Oh Jimmy.
I like it too, though I would think and suggest that Kim is mostly overcautious. I would call her smart to be overcautious, though, and wouldn't swear to her level of feelings - seems like she could be doing something different in her off hours, like actively being places where she could find a more suitable man if she's at all into that kind of thing; heck, even Jimmy went out on a date to a bar - but the part that strikes me the most touching is, he's so clearly engaging in old-fashioned courting behaviors, with whatever he has at his disposal. The painting-toenails thing, designed to please her - we know he thinks even her "not-cornfields" office is mean and foul, and there might even have been a comment about how it doesn't have a window. So, he saves up a wall of windows for her, like the best piece of candy out of the See's box, and even with taking Jaul's projected clientele into account, it's just Not Done. Possibly half the people crossing the threshold, and most certainly any fellow lawyers, would know that's the best office, and clearly the masthead partner should take the best office. In fact, it's possible accepting the office would make for an uncomfortable situation with her, with people assuming left and right, oh, she's gotta either be the brains behind the outfit, or she's putting out. ;) In a way, it's like he unfurled an engagement ring for her, so not surprising she'd be taken aback.
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Yeah, I don't see Jimmy as lazy at all, and it never occurred to me that his worry about Chuck meant Jimmy doesn't want Chuck to get better. Jimmy busts his ass prospecting new clients, and he spent hours poring over law books looking for the loophole that might get the Kettlemans off the hook.
Did anybody else notice that the book opened to "Electricity" before Jimmy paged to "Embezzlement"? I thought for a moment he was researching Chuck's condition.
Yes! "Electricity" was such a fabulous touch. In fact, I think your two points mesh together specifically because that's clearly what they want to tell us (I'm glad, because I was seriously wondering why they did that and wondering what primary/alterna-reasons other folks would have to describe it). I think it could only be really nice shorthand to passport that Jimmy has spent hours researching legal precedents (WhateverTF they could be, lol) on electricity to be able to argue with Hamlin on Chuck's behalf.
Worst case scenario, Jimmy has Chuck's hand-me-down expired lawbooks, and Chuck did his own research on legal electrical precedents/code back in the day, because this is or is not a fake condition to Chuck, which he is putting on wittingly. (Which I still find a fine scenario!)
Oh, and regarding how Mike tricked the Kettlemans with the money in the truck, I didn't realize Betsy was scolding the kids until I read it in a review.
Yes, it was rather late/early for me, and thus I'd like to thank everyone who pointed out WTF was up with the money and the toy truck! I thought someone of TPTB just wanted to be mysteriously creepy.
Also, ETA, is it now the done thing for everyone in-universe to call them "those Kettlemans"? I thought this episode Kim picked up said elocution from Jimmy but couldn't be sure it was a verbal tic; but if it is, that's pretty funny, like they're "that darned dog" or something.
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To me that's kind of disturbing and it's a sign that he's way too comfortable with threats. Mileage varies.
I thought it was more because little boys, left to their own devices, are deliciously bloodthirsty at least about fictional stories. If you're that kind of boy, Carol's tie-you-to-a-tree threats could very well sound like a Hansel & Gretel adventure story. Because Sam may be sheltered and untried in the ways of the ZA world, and thus maybe it can be an adventure story in his mind; and/but whatever else he is, he's got gumption in the bargain. He's not scared to rummage around a stranger's home, and he doesn't bat an eye at stealing the chocolate either. If anything, if we were applying modern non-ZA psychology, we'd say and assume that Sam was a kid neglected by both parents, because those are the kids who will chitchat and bond with anyone. You want a kid who regards strangers with suspicion first and acceptance later. And I clearly don't think that's the story they mean to tell us, what with the owl garage and all it seems more like Jessie is meant to be Bohemian Bonding Mom, but it would make for a twist.
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Sam is awesome. Carol has terrorized him and he adores her, I LOVE that. Kids know when you are a kid person!
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They also did the twin/mirror image thing standing in Ava's living room (?) too. Hands on hips just so, and facing in the same direction to boot. Like a kick line.
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BB-playground-Kaylee then strikes me as a small-Kaylee, if she's meant to be 10. Both girls look 7-8 to me. My guess for why this Kaylee looks so young is because VG is estimating future scenes with her and Mike and they need room-to-grow for the young actress. Either that or her schooling and working hours are less complicated than a smaller, younger child.
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Wikipedia (yes I know, but still) says that coffee IS what Mike was drinking at the bar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Eight_Snub
I can't say where it occurred that we found out in BB, but when it was revealed that Mike was an alcoholic last night, I did get that smack of "Ohhhhhhh", recognition, for whatever that's worth.
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That is interesting, but I don't think it carries the gut-punch that hearing it from a near-stranger like the Kettlemans would. Because I think that Mike and Jimmy will spend so much time together and get along so well, partly because they have recognized each other. Both are very, almost freakishly, intuitive students of human nature. Also, dare I say it, even both "good people who do bad things, with what they think are the best reasons and intentions". I can totally understand and back-door a panicked interpretation like "OMG! He can smell the Slippin' Jimmy ON ME!", but I think it would be a stretch to assume that Mike is thinking that far, and I'd even have to rewatch to be sure whether or not I feel like Jimmy reacts like he has it in his mind. (Of course, I'm a person who left BrBa thinking of Mike as primarily a Good Person, so it's possible I'm very suggestible in the wrong direction, lol.)
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Yeah, it would be too much planning to expect Mike to be a lifelong fake-drunk, concomitantly with his being a completely complacent graft-taking corrupt cop. If he'd been in on a corrupt-cop multi-year sting, then I might buy multi-year fake-drunk.
Still takes a lot of willpower, though.
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It's a brave show that will sideline its main character for the majority of an episode so early in the season's run. Great hour of television.
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There's probably also some "pleasing my friend Kim, who is a Good Person and knows how good people should and would act", in his parroting of the Elder Law lines.
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Re: the EMT's, I thought one of the things I learned from "Cops" marathons (lol) is that the most frequently occurring criminal scenario is: routine traffic stop winds up rousting hardcore or panicked amateur criminals with outstanding warrants and similar when their licenses are run, who pull guns and shoot the cops dead. This is actually supposed to be why policemen act like such hardasses and repeatedly bark at everyone, no matter how benign-looking, to stick their hands out the car door/glue them on the steering wheel in said routine stops.
At least, that's what I heard.
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I also think that Markham's feigning ignorance or old age re: Art, and earlier on, Arlo Givens, is a front.
Oh, clearly. No way is Arlo getting exempted from a Rogues' Gallery of Harlan villains; that would go against the entire point of Arlo; or even, God forbid, of Raylan. Clearly we're going to find the equivalent of Avery and Arlo digging coal together (logical spec not spoiler). In fact, it's (Arlo) so clearly a lie, you almost wonder why a man as smart as Avery bothered telling it. Would've been better to play off your recollections of "that old rapscallion".
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I don't know about Chuck's likely death, at least not soon, just basing it cynically on folks saying elsewhere that "Doctor" is kind of a nothing role for Clea Duvall.
Unless, I thought, Dr. Clea (forgot her show name) winds up treating Chuck or at the very least, testifying (for or against) Chuck in some kind of HHM lawsuit.
They're really kind of laying early groundwork for this like whoa, "my good friend Kim", who works for the enemy, inadvertently winds up being there when the doctor proves that electromagnetic impulses Chuck doesn't know or think about won't hurt him. It's also a good chance for Jimmy to "save", or at least try to, the brother who once saved him, with his silver tongue. I'd be sorta surprised if an HHM lawsuit against Chuck didn't make its way into the plot.
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Chucks problem is most definitely psychosomatic. The question is; psychosomatic of what? Slipping Jimmy? His law firm which looks all kinds of shady? Chuck despite his batshit crazy looks to be a deeply honest man surrounded by crooked lawyers. I'd go a little crazy too.
Yes, my mind is running along similar lines, because of the amount of lawyers who hate their jobs. A staid, less secretive reason is, if the law is what was driving Chuck nuts and he's exaggerating/not fighting it, because he doesn't want to see the inside of HHM anymore.
I don't know if BCS will turn out to be that kind of show, but the mystery/show mytharc reason would be, something is going on at HHM that makes it smarter for Chuck to get outta Dodge.
That said, if the latter were the answer, I'd be surprised to find out Chuck was happy to have Kim there without tossing her a warning-bone also, so maybe not.
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Vince Gilligan mentioned in the most recent podcast that because BCA exists in the BB world, it's his job/burden to make sure that the development of Jimmy McGill to Saul Goodman is consistent with what we've already seen, as BB fans would accept nothing less. This includes any bits of business that were considered throwaways at the time. For example, he mentioned that at one point in BB, Saul mentions that he has 2 ex-wives. Does Jimmy have any at this point? How does he get there?
That's awesome. I was SO wondering this, including whether or not they were going to tell us that one of them is (will be) Kim. Thanks for porting it over.
Where did Jimmy get the intel on Hamlin's suits & shirts? (Hamlindigo's no doubt common knowledge 'round HHM, but Jimmy had a cheat sheet at the tailor.) Kim Wexler? A profile in the media? Did Hamlin boast once in front of Jimmy, and he remembered it or wrote it down for future reference?
I continue to think that's "Mailroom Jimmy"'s doings, as I speculated on an episode thread, but wouldn't it be interesting and fascinating if we get a scene where Jimmy mentor-coaxed it out of Hamlin? I'd like for them to have had a relationship. I also kinda think Patrick Fabian's acting it as if they did, not as if Jimmy was 100% some peon.
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Why ARE Joey's teeth so yellow, contextually? Has anyone ever hinted and I missed it? Is she shown/described homeless, bulimic, a smoker, other?
Adannaduru was pretty good but I think she needs to use her middle name. "Adanna Elizabeth Duru" (or whatever), would actually be an improvement for me. I think it seems closer to "your name is over before we even start saying it", than "wow, this is short and punchy!"
Katherine is very cute but her song was not good. Aside: She really needed some foundation makeup. Also, if Keith thought she did so well what was up with that hilarious facial reaction he gave towards the end of her rendition? It looked like "Holy God, listen to this terrible meandering pitch".
Shi’s rendition was the one I came in on in real time and, ech. I was expecting some kind of fright night from the other performances when I went back, which I think actually made everybody else look better than they heretofore would have. I thought, "oh, this is the self-indulgent trainwrecky episode where Ricky doesn't interfere or suggest that anyone has chosen "not singer's songs" so that they can "show improvement" as the season wears on." Speak truth to power, Harry, and climb out of Rihanna's butt; "Umbrella"is a great song. It isn't, however, ANY "singer's showcase song" Sarina Joi would've come off almost as indifferently singing it.
Shannon's rendition was almost as bad. She is very wholesomely pretty, though.
I liked Jax (and really got the point of Jax for the first time), before she went uptempo. Then she lost me. Still one of the more interesting performances in the show.
Tyanna struck me as flat also, I think the song was not in her key...? [ETA to take it back, I paused to do dishes and realized after the fact, that JLo had said the song was in the wrong key for Tyanna. More grassy-knoll fodder indicating they're trying to avoid saying "you're off pitch"?] -
I think I would care about Mike if he weren't "MIKE", because I find Jonathan Banks a magnetic actor with great timing - you can just tell when he's about to say something ironic, wry, or (to me) laugh-out-loud funny. I anticipate it and I feel cheerier.
That said, I don't think the show is laying too heavily on the comedy; though I can understand how others might, when I watch I continue to get a heaping helping of well-handled tonal pathos along with the humor.
I am likewise assuming that Jimmy had some kind of job at HHM when he was first thinking about wanting to be a lawyer ("go straight"), and Chuck's speech kind of implies it was the mailroom, heh. Making hand deliveries as a mailroom clerk would also fit with how Jimmy knew about Hamlin's taste in suiting - though having made handwritten notes at the time seems a little unlikely, and I saw it speculated that maybe it was Kim; she's neither his secretary nor, it seems, his lover, so not sure how she'd know any better than another male would.
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It's irritating to see Ava fall back into some old habits, but is it fair to excuse all the epic self-destructiveness & dumb-assery Raylan & Boyd have been guilty of while dismissing their leading ladies as whiny bitches? Ava's characterization seems as consistent as any of the men-folk. (I'm a little defensive because I'd sure be more like Ava than Katherine or Loretta if I was being squeezed like that. Let's just remember that to survive in Harlan, you have to become Arlo, Bo Crowder or Mags 'I'll kill any 13 year old in my way' Bennett.)
Meanwhile, watching the man who went toe-to-toe with Danny Crowe wigging-out in the mine makes me love Carl even harder!
And, lest we forget, last night it sure does seem like Limehouse might have decided to take himself a turn ratting out Ava (whom he likes) to (as far as he knows) her white-supremacist boyfriend just 'cause, so not really catching a break from the misogyny factory... Though I liked it better when it seemed as if Ava was poised and ready to become Helen.
I also think Carter's acting would look better if she wasn't juxtaposed next to the likes of Goggins and Olyphant. I quite liked her fighting back tears at the first sight of her uncle.
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Pretty sure also he said $580, but that's instructive too because that's another potential thing that could happen to gum up the works - you have to know to choose a mark that has that type of money on them, and doesn't have to or try to drag you to an ATM or similar.
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Dylan: The Other One
in Bates Motel [V]
Max Theriot's big wet eyes and tremulous lips crack me up, I can't help it. I used to sit and watch the show thinking "how can you be so mean to your tender little grownup son, Norma? It's like taking it out on a Keane painting." I likewise hope against hope that Dylan survives, I particularly love how he is with Norman. He could easily scapegoat and be mean to Norman because of Norma's favoritism but he does not, which shows some greatness of mind.