Eh, I just don't think the lie that started it out is really THAT much of a contrivance, and it doesn't require any cliche that is specific to "women in business."

Yeah, I really hope the show doesn't try to make us think she is a wronged party who deserves sympathy here, because she is just the worst. (The fact that even Bos votes against her at least gives me hope that the writers know how stupid she's being.)

That's what I'm saying: There's already too much plot/crazy twists and not enough character development, while the guy I was replying to seemingly wants to excise those precious few character building scenes that don't directly contribute to the already over-stuffed plot.

Pretty sure you're the only one "frustrated" about the paint scene not having a larger "point."

"stuff like Joanna getting paint dumped on her seem pointless for now."

When Roose Bolton legitimized Ramsey, pretty sure he did it with a document from the King.

As a book reader, Blackwater was disappointing to me. Simply because the scale of the book battle that you can see in your head just can't be duplicated with the TV show budget, even the expanded budget they had for that episode.

Called it the moment we met the acting troupe and saw that the target for assassination was a "nice lady" (and that there were actors in that troupe famous enough for people here to recognize immediately) Well, not quite 100% on the prediction, but close enough:

Calling it now: Arya can't go through with killing the innocent actress. Possibly kills the jealous younger actress who contracted the Faceless Men, possibly not. Either way, joins the acting troupe, since she now has had the best acting training anyone could hope for. Acting troupe is how she makes her way back…

"Jimmy, unlike Walter, is actually a good guy"…. Just because he's nice to the people he likes doesn't make him a "good guy."

"She made a genuine pitch that Mesa Verde received well, and Chuck pulled some sleazy reverse psychology BS"

""But you're the one who made him this way." I just don't buy this.

I've never watched this show, but that's exactly how I felt about Dexter. Quit near the beginning of the Edward James Olmos/Colin Hanks season. Would occasionally see decent reviews of later episodes…..and then reading the review of the finale, with all its lumberjack greatness, left me feeling completely vindicated.

If you honestly believe that such a happy ending (even if just temporary) would happen in the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe….. you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Oh, I don't think Jimmy would actually think Kim would be cool with it. Just that she's the one person who Jimmy would actually feel guilty enough about lying to, that he could actually admit such a thing.

"Kim brought Mesa Verde to HHM. Even when she was in doc review, Howard made sure she was at every meeting with that client."

But more recently, she decided she'd stick with him and share expenses, no matter what "sort of shady shit" he wanted to do. Keeping their practices separate so his shady shit wouldn't COMPLETELY destroy her career, but still sort of giving him the go-ahead to keep on doing the shady shit.

Paige obviously wanted to stick with Kim. But the CEO clearly wasn't convinced. Because if he was, he'd have never scheduled a meeting to let Howard (and Chuck) convince him otherwise.

SPOILER WARNING FOR PEOPLE WHO AVOID WATCHING PREVIEWS.

"If the Mesa Verde people were aware of Chuck's condition and that he was
primarily responsible for their account, they would have gone with Kim."