Yeah, I’m not saying the cab driver is not significant (it’d be kind of weird if it was just effectively a replay of the same gag they already did with the soldier in the mall back in a previous season).

Gilligan and Gould have confirmed in interviews that the Breaking Bad character we’re going to see this season is “Lalo,” who Saul mentions in his first appearance in Breaking Bad. I believe it’s implied that he’s someone from the cartel, so probably not the cab driver.

Especially considering he picked him up at the hospital. Probably worried about his mental/physical well being.

Yeah, in the short term he’s glad to accept Howard’s version that it was being forced out of the firm that caused Chuck to snap, so Howard is responsible, but he knows deep down that he was the cause of that (he tipped off the insurance adjuster to Chuck’s condition and outed it publicly at the hearing, which both led…

Although Jimmy was directly responsible for the insurance issue in the first place (he tipped off Chuck’s issues to the adjuster). He’s just happy that Howard feels guilty.

Yeah, this is like trying to definitively prove whether the top fell over at the end of INCEPTION. The fact that it’s ambiguous is the whole point.

But then why does Nick tell her he loves her *after* that? They’re clearly setting up a Chekov’s gun there. I don’t believe he’s just going to step aside and that will be the end of that storyline.

Yeah, it’s weird how they basically never leave Boston or mention anything going on outside of it. It seems basically impossible that they could’ve simultaneously overthrown the entire contiguous 48 states and yet their government seems to be comprised of a couple dozen officials. It’d be more believable if they…

I assume he’ll be Nick’s new superior since the first one was killed in the Rachel & Leah Center bombing and the replacement was removed from his post by Serena and June, attorneys at law

The fireplace thing kind of gets to the weird neither-here-nor-there approach the show has to the state of the infrastructure in Gilead. At times it seems almost like they’re basically living an Amish style existence with no electricity or other conveniences (like central heating — which would explain running the fire…

Yeah, the show has gone to that well too often and too recently — only to have it basically erased at the start of the next episode every time. You can only end on the lead character staring down the barrel of the camera and declaring their intent to kick some ass but then not actually do anything so many times before…

I felt that they were setting that up too. Or that she will inevitably choose Luke and that will drive Nick to stop helping her or possibly foil an escape attempt of hers at some point.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty clear. Wasn’t the fact that she arranged for Nick and June to hook up an admission on her part that she knew that Fred was really the problem? If there was a scene where they implied that Serena was also sterile I forgot about it, I guess.

I think that was almost supposed to be like a moment of bonding, she was trying to crack a joke to let out some of the tension in the room. Of course it wasn’t her fault, nobody would’ve assumed it was.

I didn’t really understand why the letters would’ve had much impact, let alone suddenly turning Canada from maybe striking a truce with Gilead to kicking out their ambassadors. Isn’t “Little America” already filled with people who have the exact same sort of horror stories to tell? Like Moira? It doesn’t seem like…

It does feel like a bit of a jumping the shark moment, similar to retconning Boba Fett’s escape from the sarlacc pit just because he’s “cool.” It throws the whole franchise into comic book “no death is ever actually permanent” territory.

That’s totally fair as far as your own head-canon, I’m just saying it’s silly to expect the actual new Star Wars movies to pretend that the prequels didn’t happen.

I’m not saying they’re great, but the idea that the prequels are non-cannon is really fucking dumb.

I was just thinking about The Village the other day while watching The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s kind of the same hook, even though that doesn’t become clear until the ”twist ending”.

I figured that sketch must’ve been a Mulaney joint, he also makes a joke about ordering lobster at a Greek Diner in the “Oh Hello On Broadway” special that’s on Netflix.