Chuck was so far out of the picture when BCS started that Howard was trying to use lowball offers to take the M out of HHM. Nobody at HHM reported to Chuck anymore. It wasn’t his company, and numerous scenes through the years made it clear that the partners followed Howard’s lead. Authority in a law partnership flows…
No, Howard has a little more going on than that, which is what makes him an interesting character. But he’s a guy like Gale who doesn’t want to ask hard questions despite having the freedom to do so.
Another way to look at it is that HHM is the kind of place where it takes a crazy turn of events for it to even dawn on Howard that Christy Esposito has the deck stacked unfairly against her by Howard’s committee.
Yeah, it was kinda Columbo meets Hercule Poirot in a movie of the week. Clever, but wildly unprofessional. I wish we’d seen the judge give him both barrels in her chambers.
Mike clearly needs to join a Fight Club. He’ll get all the therapy he needs.
I love how everyone referred to Jon Hamm by his full name every time.
At first I thought Larry David agreeing so quickly to having an actor shadow him throughout the day seemed a little out-of-character for the increasingly crankier-every-season Larry, but I guess you’d have to be completely ego-less to not be flattered at the notion of Jon Hamm playing a fictionalized version of you.…
This was the first episode all season that felt like classic Curb. Having Hamm play shadow Larry made the show get back to basics–both the appetizer and lazy Susan bits were exactly the sort of scenes that have been lacking this year. I wasn’t sold on Larry hooking up with Cheryl’s sister but they made it work, and I…
My favorite thing about the writing is that they never really use the short cut of random chance. Saul ends up getting picked up by Nacho because his promotional stunt was the catalyst for a crime spree that ends with Domingo getting arrested. It’s never predictable but cause and effect is always plainly laid out.
She could still have been pulling a Jimmy without lying. Putting on a show and trying to win the guy over with flair.
He was also Maurice on Northern Exposure
That was my first take too. But the alternative is that it was truth but thrown back in her face as if it were a con. Which would turn Kim’s world/moral compass upside down . . . when her lies are believed and her truths are dismissed.
I may be forgetting Kim’s backstory, but I got the feeling that her story about blue toes was just another grift. The old guy clearly thought so.
My issue isn’t so much that I like the Gus/Mike/Nacho plot less than the Jimmy/Saul/Kim plot but that the two stories intersect so little they might as well be two different ABQ-set shows. I’m intrigued with how this episode ended and if this can lead to the two shows being better integrated I’d be happy
Wiggum would have said something like “Well, there’s your problem. Someone stuffed sugar packets in the drain pipe!” then proceeds to dump a couple into his coffee.
“It’s called “He Laieth on High” and it’s about a big baby duck that gets his head stuck in a stewed tomato” kills me every time.
Your first two paragraphs are 100% correct, and yet...’sfunny cuz it makes me laugh.
I think the hardest I’ve laughed all season was at Lenny Turtletaub’s description of Bojack: “He does Secretariat, disappears for a year, resurfaces to do one episode of a reality show about butts?” I just thought, oh yeah, those would look like EXTREMELY weird career choices to an outsider.
I don't think it's supposed to be the "right" position, but I think that it's a much, much more offensive and obnoxious position than it's treated as.