Jesse: deals with grief and sense of guilt by convincing himself he's a bad person and selling meth to recovering addicts to prove further his point
Kim: deals with childhood trauma and stress by defaming and scamming people compulsively
Watching the show for the n-th time I find it a bit of a stretch. Mike's origin story in S1 is one of my favourite episodes, it's so well written and adds so much depth to his character.
(I also like how he asks a taxi driver to get to the shady people of town.)
He then takes on odd jobs to make ends meet and eventually Gus recruits him. Which is fine still. To me the turning point comes when he is forced to kill Werner. Something tells me that Gus would not really be able to recruit him a second time after that.
He was a disillusioned cop, but not a mercenary. He served in two armed forces that we know of, each time out of conviction to make society a better place I guess.
Why would he choose to become Gus's hitman? Why would he be okay with killing so many people? (I think he has the highest kill count of anyone we know of in the two series.)
Personally I could picture him as a private investigator or something like that, but not an enforcer for a drug empire.
I’m probably biased but if I was married to Jimmy I’d let him give me enough kids to populate a small city. It always baffled me how they never seemed to have very much sexual chemistry.
Even after mid-rewatch - I mean their jobs and position in the cartel arcs. Can someone dumb it down/ELI5?
Like I get it there's team Gus and team Salamanca, and Bolsa basically... calls the shots and oversees both? And why did Gus sell him out in BB?
Also don't quite understand Eladio's role here, he also calls the shots on something hence the title, but what exactly is his role here?
I never see anybody talk about this this. I've heard of famous people using look alikes as decoys. Gabriel pulls it off so well, Kim even fingers him as the guy she's supposed to shoot. When she does, the look he gives her is priceless.
Edit: added his name
I absolutely love that Jimmy's superpower is his ability to solve any problem with nothing but brute force and spite.
Currently rewatching and got to the episode after Jimmy messes with all of Chuck's Mesa Verde documents. Chuck figures out right away what happened, but it's absolutely insane for him to tell Kim, "Jimmy broke into my house and stole all my boxes of paperwork and brought them to a 24/7 copy shop where he copied and altered all the addresses using glue and an exacto knife, and then swapped them back a week later, so you should tell your client to fire you and hire me again." Because it would be absolutely insane for anyone to do that.
And like I feel kind of bad for Chuck in that scene (or would if he hadn't been such a piece of shit to Kim earlier) but it's AMAZING that Jimmy is so good at what he does purely because no reasonable person would put in his absurd level of effort.
I love Mike. I work in maintenance and I appreciate his practical rules-based approach to life...and crime.
I made a motivational sign for myself that I keep in my shop. I found the cherry on top while cleaning out a unit.
Mike gets it done.
She was just the receptionist but somehow made it her problem to stop Jimmy from giving those elderly folk legal representation, just to be a karen.
In season six, episode seven Howard tells Cary Anderson to rotate a dropped or shaken soda a few times while it stands vertically on a hard surface. He mentions that former partner Charles McGill taught him that, and that he was compulsive about rotating his sodas.
This actually works. I have shaken a soda can for at least ten seconds and then rotated it ten times (probably could do it less) and it did not explode. It also works for bottled drinks as well. I have yet to try with an alcoholic beverage but I’m going to assume it will yield the same result.
This proves that Howard was a good person. He kept the firm from being disgraced by Cary’s clumsiness, AND he credited this find to Chuck, when he could’ve snatched all that centrifugal glory for himself./s
If Chuck was *ten (sixteen?) years older when Jimmy was born, I’m assuming he would’ve taken his award winning personality on the road while he was in middle and high-school way before James knew the hysterical glories of the shaken soda. I feel like he might’ve experienced a lot these kinds of pranks from his peers.
*I give such a vast age gap because according to fan Wikipedia Charles was born in ‘44 and James was born in ‘60 and according to some redditors who follow the their time line a lot more closely they’ve surmised a ten year gap.
We see in the scene with her and Howard together that she does not care about or love him, so why is she pretending to be sad at his funeral? Also, since she didn't care about him, why was she mad at Kim about the lies they spread?
This is the night before the big plan to destroy Howard and move the Sandpiper thing along.
They're sitting outside of HMM offices the night before D-Day. Kim holds two glasses while Jimmy opens up the wine. Jimmy pours the first glass and takes it for himself. He gives a second glass to Kim.
Surely Mike was sympathetic to Gus after he needed a "Soldier" to take his revenge and Mike had his reasons for going against Salamancas, but still it wasn't convincing especially after what Gus made him do to the German contractor. He was also pissed for Gus stalking him but eventually saving his life in street from getting beaten up by punks, he wanted to Gus stop tracking him.
Also whatever work he did for Gus wasn't surely not a "good thing" as he bragged to Walter in BB "we had a good thing"
A lot has been written here about Jimmy and the way he influences people’s lives around him.
But do we have actual psychologists with a take on Jimmy?
Hello guys! What do you think: Chuck's death it's Jimmy's or Howard's fault? And why? And I have one more question: What pills did Chuck take in his last episodes(I'm don't understand why he took them)?
Just finished season 3.
Howard is a much more likable character than I remember him being on my first watch. The only thing that could make him seem remotely “bad” was how he handled Chuck at the end of his time at HHM, but even then, Chuck was extremely difficult to deal with given everything going on.
Just wanted to share because it caught me off guard how good he really seems this time around. I’m wondering if what I know about what happens in the future is affecting my view to an extent.