I didn’t say it was her job to change him. I don’t blame her for leaving him at the time, when she was traumatized by Howard’s death. But Jimmy was too and that he denied it fits into his character; he also denied his feelings and culpability in Chuck’s death. Maybe Jimmy and Kim had to split. Taking decisive action…

“....and a lion driven mad by the poaching of its entire pride.” I’m no lion biologist, but I don’t think that’s a thing. On the other hand, I hope the lion feels guilty over not saving its dead wife (male lions don’t stick around the matrilineal pride), like Elba does with his, and the two can bond over that at the…

Agreed. And why after she leaves, Jimmy gives totally into his worst impulses and becomes Saul. She’s not to blame for that (we don’t want to continue the “Bad Fans” misogyny the earlier show suffered), but you could legit read it as mistaken and selfish on her part even though its understandable.

Great interview with a superb actor who just finished playing one of the best characters in 21st century TV. But, and this is trivial and doesn’t matter, I don’t really buy her explanation for why she submitted for a Best Supporting Actress Emmy. I’ve anecdotally heard doing that would increase her chances of winning…

I saw Das Boot, In The Line of Fire, The Perfect Storm, and Outbreak. The first two are classics; the last two are enjoyable flicks. I never got around to Air Force One (a “star-driven action thriller” is a “very narrow genre?”), The Neverending Story (great Lionel Hutz joke, though) or Troy ( wanted to read The…

Another masterful aspect of this show, not often discussed, was the quality of the writing. Both in dialogue and in images it said what it needed to say and nothing more, but both had great depth. In the dialogue, we didn’t get the characters explaining all they were thinking and feeling, in terrible heavy-handed,…

Plus he’ll return to lawyering again by giving out so much in-demand legal advice to the prisoners. And indulge the Slippin Jimmy side once in a while by doing some minor prison hustling.

Because I’m not a professional fiction writer, I might have had Jimmy’s world break out into glorious color when he saw Kim in prison. (Did anyone else initially think that because of her hair and identification as a lawyer that we had a significant time jump of Jimmy spending years in prison?). But, I’m glad Gould…

I’m very glad the show ended on a redemptive note. Saul was so despicable for these last episodes that I felt whiplash from the Jimmy we had seen all throughout the series up to the majority of this final season. But of course Gould and Gilligan had to take him to his Breaking Bad character. So by really rubbing it in…

It’s 10:52 pm on a Monday night in SoCal. Not that it matters, since I didn’t read it, but I think this is the earliest review of an upcoming episode I’ve ever seen posted on the AVC.

Don’t forget that at a party they both attended, he told Winona Ryder, of Jewish descent, that she was an “oven dodger.”

Yeah, I’d agree with that. Wish it would stop with the portentiousness though.

All excellent questions. I’d add:  How did Charlotte take over the world and why focus on the mind-control tower in the city when there must be millions of those things in every city? You raise my same objection with William. A few episodes ago he was curious about what humans were like, how they saw themselves and…

So the show is what it is, but this season especially, it did squander its stories. I’d love to see a show about AI struggling with their consciousness and how good and bad human they were. Like Roy Blatty in Blade Runner but as a series. Westworld could have been much more thoughtful and soulful. Instead why should I…

Another pointless, incoherent twist at the very end (the show can’t help itself) with Dolores/Christina having that whole part of the city be a simulation just for her? Was she even real? How did she see the “real world” of the people going crazy, as well as Caleb, if nobody saw her and she was in a simulation? Were…

I finally figured out who the target audience was for this show during the episode: 13 year old boys who think their mind is blown with the realization that civilization is made up of savages who will destroy themselves. Yes, how profound, to discover man’s bestial nature. Not extremely trite and discussed for…

How tragic. I liked her in Six Days, Seven Nights. Never saw Wag The Dog which I was meaning to catch up on before all this. I never had mental illness or addiction problems (unless junk food is an addiction). While she could have hurt others in her driving and crash, before this grim turn of events, I empathized with…

Yeah, an extra few episodes might have been better. I know the writers originally planned for Jimmy to turn into Saul in that first season, but they liked and were having too much fun with Jimmy and Kim. Without the endpoint of the character in Breaking Bad, and if the show hadn’t existed at all, this story would…

It’s a hoary reference joke, but I still laughed at the unexpected Last of The Mohicans’ speech Oliver gave to his dip.

Because I have never rewatched Breaking Bad and don’t remember how morally terrible Saul was, it’s been quite the character whiplash this latter part of the season to have gone from Jimmy to Saul to Saul as Gene. This episode, he was at his most despicable I’ve seen in this show. So it makes sense that Gene would…