I could ALMOST take it as him satirizing people like your father. Until he gets to the line about rape. THAT ISN’T HAPPENING! Men are not claiming to be trans just to get into the toilet and accost women! IF it is happening, its something that’s been happening LONG before trans women asserted themselves and demanded…

Garden variety lawyer skullduggery, but certainly not villainous.

I was surprised that I actually teared up when Howard was killed. The more I saw about his life, the more I realized how skewed Jimmy and Kim’s view of him really was. He was never the villain they thought he was. But, as Bob Odenkirk says about Jimmy, his big flaw is that he can’t let things go. Neither can Kim.

The white guy was also referred to as Earnest (or “E”) in one of the previous episodes too. He was also the white guy in the boat telling the ghost story in the boat.

Dismukes pretty much took over his ‘young guy’ role on the show already, right?

One thing I read Odenkirk said about Jimmy is that he can’t let things go. And when someone is like that, they can morph the initial offense into a HUGE thing it never really was.

I was curious if they even mixed in Seehorn’s voice, it was so close to her adult voice.

My bf and I are very hopeful that the only reason we hadn’t seen Kim in BB is that she was ‘vacuumed’ by Ed and is somewhere living happily as “Blanche” or something. Maybe even in a town nearby Saul??

Honestly, I think it was shot that way to keep Aaron looking as racially ambiguous as possible. That NONE of his white friends seem to know he’s of mixed heritage demands that we keep from questioning their obliviousness even after the reveal of his father. I checked out the actor’s IG, and that (very, very handsome)…

I can see your point about the disjointed feeling. But, I have really enjoyed it. I like that its nothing like anything else I can get right now (that I know of) and that he’s shooting his shot with playing with expectations and genre. (It reminds me how people used to argue about the value of the Sopranos episodes…

Also, it’s really quite interesting how PoC are usually characterized as introducing race into conversations that aren’t about race. Hmmm...

Regarding Needful Things...how about this...now with the internet, the antagonist can get people from one state/town going to another state/town to do a random bit of mischief that leads to a larger showdown? Make it bigger with the same theme?? Possible??

I have to disagree with your police work there, Lou...er, Bryan. I picked that film to make a rhetorical point, not as a specific example. But to say that films with black leads/casts (or other PoC) get easier treatment from critics because of ‘woke’ (which isn’t a real thing other than mainstream shorthand for people…

If the cast members’ skin color mattered that much to reviewers, Soul Plane would have been an “A”. Interesting, and in my opinion very wrong-headed, to think this bad review/letter grade is some kind of softball review to not look prejudiced. I really don’t think PoC are THAT sensitive that every review needs to be…

Seehorn’s lack of nominations is a shame for the Emmys. How dare they!

They excel at unique camera placements.

It does feel like a capitulation to the awards season/extending advertisers to milk the profits. I don’t think it helps the actual storytelling.

Yeah, saying ‘he said, she said’ implies there were no other witnesses. It’s more like he said, THEY said.

Which awards equal free credits for assault and predatory behavior?? Six Tonys and three Oscars equal one free rape, and if you throw in a Grammy you get to murder someone?

Exactly! If this had happened on the set of his ‘Dracula’ back in the 70s, it would be known as ‘Fired for Fucking Up the Job, Frank!’