Preachin’ to the choir here! I’ve been complaining from day 1 that neither Bernard nor Stubbs ever actually does anything. What is Bernards purpose in this season?

The same thing that happened to the white horse that Arya rode off on, I guess...

The best part of the episode, aside from the multiple Ed Harris’s, was no Jesse Pinkman! Seriously, he has NO business being in Westworld. Terrible Mis-casting!

Hands down, the best line in the episode: “Therapist” James Delos to William, asking him to not interrupt the OTHER Williams in the room, “It’s not always about you”...🤣

Yes, Jimmy was definitely off his game due to the PTSD. I think that was the whole point of him losing an easy case in court, and being mocked by the prosecutor. That scene really had no other point, other than to show Jimmy’s shaky mental state at that point.

Damn, that’s a spot-on analysis!

I wouldn’t say that TD ever claimed he was “inspired” by Jules, he merely mentioned him. His main inspiration, according to him, was the fact that none of the other Saul / BB villians ever displayed any real humor or charm. He decided to be unique in that regard.

That probably makes the most sense, although Victor would have to hang WAY back in that empty desert. Everyone thinks that Nacho called Mike, but I don’t know when he would have had the opportunity to do so, with Lalo sitting right next to him all the time....

So that’s 26 minutes of commercials then......Insane!

That damn Victor! And let’s be honest... If everything went perfectly to plan, there would be no dramatic moments in the show.

True. A great way to lean into that story would be to scatter a bunch of empty beer cans around, graffiti the hell out of the car, and shoot it up a lot more. That would really sell it!

Yeah, that sounds about right. Plus, did Tyrus and Victor even know about Jimmy’s Car being in a ravine somewhere? Did Mike remember to tell them? He was pretty out of it and exhausted by that point himself.

The only problem with that story is, it doesn’t explain how his car got in the ditch. I still prefer my original prediction of what the cover story should be: that the bandits got greedy, started arguing about the money, and ended up shooting each other in the fracas....

That’s a lesson he takes over to the Breaking Bad World also. I don’t recall the episode, but when talking about Walt, he tells someone that “he doesn’t believe fear to be a good motivator”

That was Victor, who works for Gus. The same guy who got his throat cut with a box cutter by Gus in Breaking Bad.

Kudos to Kim’s excuse to explain the Bullet Hole in Jimmy’s Car. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility that’s some yahoos shot it up for fun, then pushed it into a ditch for laughs. How many times have we all seen road signs that were riddled with buckshot?

I found it very uncharacteristic of Mike to miss the detail of Jimmy’s Car in the ditch. They cleaned up everything else, but left the car there? That seems a little sloppy to me.

Christ on a cracker, what is it with AMC and their endless commercials? They would show a single scene, then cut to what felt like 10 minutes of commercials, single scene, more commercials, Etc. The actual running time of The show must have been 20 minutes!

This latest wounding of Dolores, which didn’t faze her in the least, supports the theory that her initial shooting and “nearly dying” was an act to get Caleb on her side. (I always thought it was highly suspicious the way she recovered instantly the minute the two fake cops showed up to kill her.)

What I love about Bernard is the fact that he is so darn HUMAN - insecure, afraid, uncertain. (As opposed to Super Dolores, who is always smarter, faster, stronger, and 10 steps ahead of everybody else)