“Actually having to produce content to get cash seems like a pretty normal way to do business...”

She probably was just giving a cop or an executive a Pepsi. 

“You never know with good behavior.” No matter how many wrong, selfish decisions one has made in their life, there is always room for growth. You have to accept the repercussions of your past, of course, but what solace comes out of any situation if you don’t see the opportunity for growth in it. Some people never…

I’d forgotten about that one! Mayonnaise and Miracle Whip, which is not mayonnaise, do seem to take up a lot of their thoughts on these shows.

According to the (fictional) University of American Samoa’s (real) Facebook page, Saul Goodman “donated” $5,000 to the school and received an honorary diploma.

What I mean is that, in order to do this over and over again, you have to believe, deep down in your soul, that a person’s willingness to trust you isn’t just a reason, but a justification for lying to them, stealing from them, and taking things that aren’t yours to take. If somebody trusts you, it means they deserve…

Great take.  Another example: he becomes livid at the copy machine sales managers for falling for his pitch during his interview and actually offering him a job.  That level of stupidity can only mean that they deserve to have their Hummel stolen.

Brilliant analysis.

> Jimmy’s [pettiness] is activated by its opposite, when people act in good faith and assume he is as well

I don’t think Gene is Saul but a whole new type character. Gene is far angrier, more malevolent and prone to violence than Saul ever was. He’s acting out of anger and hurt for what he feels Kim did to him and what his life has become. Saul would have talked his way out of it, Gene thinks about doing violent things

Won’t say much about the rest of your analysis, which is interesting for sure (and which I agree with to a large degree, to be clear). I will just say the thing you identified about Jimmy is, in my opinion, a basic aspect of human nature gamely teased out by this show. People can really come to resent just seeing…

Yea. Jimmy seems more like a simple,“ah ah ah Ah Ahhha!!”, Kinda guy.

True, but I’m guessing Florida Man isn’t one of those guys. He’s basically a good-natured bum, which is apparently Kim’s type. I don’t find it at all implausible that a man-child who’s never had to shop for himself, other than beer and snacks, wouldn’t know the difference between salad dressing and mayonnaise.

You can’t know what kind of ice cream to get unless you know what kind of cake it is.

Apply to a.v. club my dude. This comment could be a featured article and is way better than anything they have up right now.

Well-put.Jimmy doesn’t like people getting physically hurt: the second episode of BCS has him risk himself with Tuco to save the skater bois even though there was no benefit to him for doing so. But everything else is on the table, even if he is initially uncomfortable with it: Francesa tricking Hank into thinking…

They’ve done the reflection thing before all the way back in the first episode when he first rewatches his old ads.

The monochrome world of the post-Breaking Bad timeline gives me similar feelings to the new reality at the end of Twin Peaks: The Return. A haunting lonely wasteland that the audience shouldn’t really have access to. We have strayed beyond the frame of the stage into the place at which stories die.

I rewatched the whole series 2 years ago and it still holds up really well. It’s crazy to me that in the early seasons people thought Walton Goggins wasn’t a terrific actor because he’s incredible throughout. 

Is any show a harder sell these days than The Shield? Spending most of its run trying to get you to root for dirty cops before finally pulling the rug out, a bizarrely straight-faced anti-vaxxer sentiment throughout multiple seasons, and oh yeah, a major cast member is a legit murderer.

He’s also the cop from The Shield who SPOILER ALERT Vic Mackey kills in the pilot. Best Pilot Twist In TV History.