Jimmy and Mike's relationship is super interesting when you consider the sort of nonchalance of their relationship in Breaking Bad. (He's really just Saul's trusted P.I. by all outward appearances in season 2. Then the last interaction they really have is in season 3 with Mike breaking his leg to get information out…

Let's be fair here, though. Chuck did that in response to Jimmy exploiting Chuck's mental illness to make him look like a complete, bumbling fool in court. (When he knows how much pride Chuck has and how much he's struggling to reintegrate himself into society.)

He broke into his brother's house at the very least and verbally assaulted Chuck.

I love how well integrated the Breaking Bad references are.

The motion comic was awesome.

I doubt they'll ever confirm or deny whether Jimmy was stealing from his dad seriously or whether there was some secret noble objective at work.

That's not necessarily true at all, though.

Honestly? The worst thing that either's done happened at the end of the last episode of season 2.

Who says Chuck started it and why does that matter, though?

Why does that need to happen…?

I don't think it was quite that clean.

The issue with Huell is he was introduced in Breaking Bad. As in, Saul hired him during Breaking Bad.

Anyone else catch the pretty blatant reference to Manchurian Candidate?

If Peter Morgan was writing it, she would. :p

Everwood had some minor LGBT themes (though Everwood was on an hour later so it got away with more stuff). Buffy had a lesbian. That's about it as far as I remember.

I think because the show really only has two prominent writers it's really obvious when an episode is written by Daniel Palladino and when it's written by Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Emily/Lorelai stuff was what I was here for. I couldn't care less about what was happening with Rory. And the scenes were well written and realized but I think there was something a bit restrained about the performances for what the situation was.

I loved, loved, loved this episode. Probably my favourite of the season. I think Edward is a fascinating character and really has a sense of Shakespearean gravitas and turmoil to him.

>>>Elizabeth’s time as a mechanic gets a shout-out here, which made me very happy.<<<

To be fair, I doubt there was really much to write. This is probably pretty faithfully adapted outside of the prologue.