Yeah, Cain won't literally kill Abel in this version, but the same seething jealousy is there, and you could argue that Chuck's behavior "kills" Jimmy McGill and gives rise to Saul Goodman.

So a little more like Cain and Abel.

Haha. I grew up around the areas filmed in True Detective, so I do have a certain personal attachment to it.

I am extremely familiar with True Detective; this speculation strikes me more as along the lines of imagining Cohle and Hart were going to encounter actual demons.

Well, the Suey Park scale is a measure of the degree of superficiality, willful misunderstanding, and all-around bullshit behind an accusation of bigotry.

So, like, a comedian told some mild jokes in poor taste four to six years ago? Where does this rank on the Suey Park scale?

No shame in that! Philouza was a genius!

lol okay

"Friend Zone" is usually used by dudes who think hanging out with a woman all the time and acting like her friend means she's supposed to read your mind and know you want to ask her out, and thus take the initiative to accept or reject that idea herself.

Friggin' Todd.

I kinda think this is the function of a lot of higher education, to give people who can only succeed in that kind of environment inflated egos.

Ooh, this makes me want to see your "Most crushworthy Bob characters from Mr. Show" list.

Sure, I would think so. But that doesn't mean the first job Mike ever takes is going to be Gus, or that the nursing home Saul visits will also be the one Hector Salamanca was in, etc.

" When Jimmy got his bar exam result and went to see Chuck, that scene
played out as if Chuck was a complete stranger, barely mustering any
emotion at Jimmy."

Forte has said in interviews that he wants the audience sympathies to shift from episode to episode. So sometimes, you'll be rooting for Phil to succeed; other times, you'll be rooting for him to fail. Mostly, I root for him to be less miserable and selfish, whether that means his current plan must succeed or fail.

Chuck and Walter are the ones driven by ego and pride, not Jimmy.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe Jimmy would ever talk to Chuck again after this.

Interesting, but implausible. I think people are trying way too hard to tie the flash-forward to Omaha into the events of the series. The consequences of becoming Saul Goodman are that eventually he has to disappear and become a nobody who manages a Cinnabon in Omaha. That is the story— why do people keep thinking…

"I think they were showing he was just someone getting over on being a
man-mountain. A lot of times, huge guys like that are gentle and just
let people's perceptions of them do the work."

I think there's really something to be said for Chuck resenting / feeling threatened by Jimmy. He mentions Jimmy's "charm" as though that's a negative trait. It's an ego thing; the big brother needs to view the lesser brother as innately inferior, and Chuck's taken this idea so far as to actually sabotage Jimmy's…