Bryce Lynch

In this case I think I'd give him a pass because the 2 old people happen to be rather annoying, overbearing and a bit crazy.

I am not sure there is more to the story with Kim and Howard. He never seemed to mistreat her before the commercial. I think he blames her for him being embarrassed in front of Davis & Main, and as far as he knows, showing loyalty to Jimmy over him by "covering" for him. I also think he is still using her as a scapegoat for Chuck. He seems to be intimidated by Chuck and I think he might not want to be OK with Kim until Chuck is.

The coffee was about making it seem like a casual, "heart to heart talk" between colleagues as opposed to a senior partner dictating to an associate. He also apologized to her for asking her to make the coffee and explained why he couldn't. Occam's razor says crazy, not sexist. I think the writers wrote it so his request would be awkward. I have seen that gag in other shows or movies before "How about some coffee?" "No thanks." "I meant get me some.". It was a play on that with Chuck coming across like a stereotypical sexist boss, due to his "illness". But Kim clearly understood the situation. She had apologized for turning a light on moments earlier.

But the available evidence shows that he asked her to make the coffee because he is batpoop crazy and thinks he would suffer from an acute, possibly life threatening attack if he attempted to operate the coffee maker.Kim knows about his "condition", so while her initial reaction might be to suspect sexism, she would quickly realize it was an electricity issue. Do you think if the genders were reversed and Jimmy was a promising associate romantically involved with Chuck's former con-artist sister (Slippin' Kimmy) Chuck would have overcome his pathological fear of electricity and made the coffee?

That's the thing, just because someone "feels" something is sexist, racist or whatverist, it doesn't make it so. But, it is becoming the standard under which we operate. I "feel" like your comment about Chuck was insensitive and offensive to the mentally ill and electromagnetically challenged and you should be banned from the forum Of course, I don't really believe that, do you see how "feelings" standard can work?

It is possible that Chuck is sexist and a weasel. But, he didn't ask her to make the coffee out of sexism.Clearly his goal was to engage Kim in a "heart to heart" talk about Jimmy so he could warn her/poison her against him. The coffee was merely a vehicle to that conversation. He asked her to make it, not because she was a woman, but because he is so nuts that he could no more operate an electric coffee pot with his "condition" than he could if he had no arms.

Combo's mother brings the Crystal Ship to the mechanic who later repairs and buys Walt's Aztek. She asks him to change the oil and to try to disable that annoying buzzer that goes off whenever she leaves the keys in the ignition.

If I am Mike I would much rather deal with a furious Nacho than a furious Hector. My guess is Mike makes a counter proposal for him to do some security work for the cartel

While it came across like "Fetch me some coffee, woman!", I don't think he intended it that way. I don't think he even wanted coffee. It was just an excuse to have a conversation with Kim so he could trash Jimmy to her. He was being a weasel, not a sexist.

Hector reminded me of Vito Corleone the way he approached Mike in a not overtly threatening way, talking about his nephew's faults and trying to "reason with him" and of course offered a carrot in the form of $5,000. I think the stick may be coming next week and Marco and/or Leonel might be carrying it. BTW, is it too much to hope for that we might see Tortuga?

I don't mind the pacing, I just don't find Kim's character or storyline to be all that interesting, especially compared to Mike and Jimmy's. I actually like season 2 more than 1 so far. This episode was OK and the final scene made it totally worth watching, but it wasn't as interesting as the rest of the season, IMHO.

Chuck genuinely believes in his "illness". Remember the scene where he nearly got arrested for stealing his neighbor's newspaper? He was completely terrified to leave the house and "felt" the em field from the power lines "attacking" him. I do feel he believes it is now more under control and he will feign an attack from time to time to manipulate people.

Walt's final birthday breakfast was at Denny's with a different waitress.You recognized the diner and waitress from Madrigal when Lydia met with Mike to propose killing his 11 men so they wouldn't rat either of them out. Mike had obviously been eating there a long time. When Lydia tried to pretend she had just bumped into him and called him "Duane" to hide his identity, the waitress said, "Anything else, Mike" and he said, "No thank you, Fran." I wonder if Hector brought his own Stevia. The scene mirrored the BB scene in many ways. I believe it was the same booth and at the end one of the characters got up and left a bill on the table to pay the other persons check.

Good point about Chuck, Sr. That could well be how the money disappeared over the years. So you think Rebecca snuck off the reservation for a little dirty damp and deep? :) I doubt it was with Jimmy as Chuck would never have forgiven him for that. In the timeline, Jimmy meets Rebecca when he is already semi-reformed after Chuck rescued him from the Chicago Sunroof charges. Maybe she had an affair with a guy who likes married women and works at his father's fabricating company. It could be the cause of his divorce. :)

The bedroom scene reminded me of Skyler and Walt in the pilot. If it was Chuck's birthday he might have gotten a handjob. :)Rebecca is just Jimmy's type, classy with just the right amount of dirt. :)

I think Chuck is jealous of Jimmy's sense of humor and natural charm. He assumed and hoped Rebecca would hate him, but she liked him. Then, when he tried to be funny himself, it fell flat, though his lawyer joke might have been the funniest one.

I am thinking Mike will cause Tio's stroke with an injection (possibly prepared by his vet) much like he finished off Leonel in the hospital.

Same diner, waitress and booth from where Duane...I mean Mike met with Lydia in "Madrigal". Hector was a slightly less finicky customer than Ms Rodarte-Quayle. :)

Weakest episode this season. More Mike, less Kim please. She is just not that interesting. The last five minutes and the preview were better than the rest of the episode. Looked like one of the cousin's boots at the end of the preview. I wonder if Jimmy will help Mike cut the deal on the gun charge. That is one quibble I have. NM is an open carry state. A permit is required for concealed but not open carry, so Mike wouldn't face any charges, assuming he isn't a felon. The Beachcomber was a BB callback. Walt stayed there after Skler kicked him out.

It is the best time of the year. The NCAA college basketball tournament. The first 2 days (Thursday and Friday) there are 32 games, so there is pretty much basketball on all day on 3 or 4 channels at a time. CBS even takes over TruTV, so you get to hear the announcers sheepishly do promos for "Pawn Stars". This! First they passed on "What country is Switzerland in?" and now this.

I was born in the late 60s and grew up in the 70s. When I was growing up it was considered extremely rude (beyond rude actually) for white people to call people the n-word or to refer to them that way. Black people seemed to use it much less frequently as well. However, it was perfectly acceptable and not shocking at all to SAY the word if you were describing someone else saying it, or when reading it in literature. Nobody ever called it the n-word back then. It was used by bad, racist characters on TV programs, even family shows like "Little House on the Prarie". It was never condoned, but it wasn't considered a dirty word that could not be spoken on TV. I don't know when it became the ultimate curse word I would guess it was around the start on the 21st Century that saying "the n-word" became common. I recall the actual word being said on NYPD Blue in the mid 90s. I can see how it would be jarring to those who grew up with people saying "n-word" rather than the actual word when testifying and such.

It might not have been explicit, but I thought he looked weak and incompetent interrupting the prosecution to put Rosa Freaking Lopez on the stand. I do agree that his weakness hasn't been shown much. But, I think what he allowed to happen during the defense case was probably far worse and we have not seen that yet.

I agree on King, mostly. I do get that the jury became desensitized by seeing it over and over again. I also think that slow motion can make insignificant motions look like "resisting". It reminds me how in the NFL almost nothing is a "catch" anymore as the replays show tiny movements of the ball and it is wrongly, IMO, interpreted as the receiver not having control.Still a horrible verdict. But that jury was criticized more than the OJ jury and IIRC correctly there may have been a week of rioting, looting, arson, assault and murder in response to the verdict. Totally disagree on the Martin case. I watched the trial closely and there was not a single shred of evidence to dispute Zimmerman's version of events and a great deal of evidence to support it, and his version was a clear justifiable use of force case I watched the OJ case very closely as I was out of work at the time. While there is no doubt in my mind he did it and I would have voted guilty, I could understand why the jury found him not guilty. The main reasons were the justifiable distrust of the LAPD, chain of custody issues, Fuhrman's perjury, the newness of DNA evidence, some evidence that strongly suggested the bloody socks and blood on the rear gate might have been planted and the gloves not fitting. The defense did an amazing job exploiting and exaggerating the importance of all these things and also appealing to the jury for a sort of "make up verdict" on the Rodney King case and to punish the LAPD.

I think the trial probably would have turned out differently because back then DNA was this mysterious, confusing thing that jurors didn't really trust or understand. Today it is what jurors trust most.

From what I recall of the trial, Ito was not so much a buffoon as he was pathetically weak. He allowed the lawyers (particularly the defense lawyers) to get away with murder (pun intended) during the trial. He had no control over his courtroom and allowed the jury to hear testimony and comments by the lawyers that they never should have been allowed to hear.