No opinion on the appropriate musical selection, but in the previous episode Gabriel mentioned the passage of the Boland Amendment banning assistance to Nicaraguan Contras, which would place that episode around Christmas 1982. (According to Wikipedia, Boland was signed by Reagan on Dec. 21.) So this is… early 1983? I…

Upvoted for malapropping "preys" as "prays."

Oh, Hamlin definitely sets off the douchemeter in a lot of ways. He seems smug and calculating. But I don't know if that's due to anything his character has actually said or done, or due to prevailing stereotypes about slick big city lawyers in general, which Jimmy obviously feeds. I think it's to the writers' credit…

He's hip, he's "down."

And the fact that Chuck's behavior was erratic, to put it mildly.

Proto-teabagger wanting to pay in fake currency? Happened to me.

I mean, he told the cops straight up, "don't bring in your tasers," and then somehow they're supposed to not tase him? That's like telling someone not to think about the proverbial pink elephant.

It's the same actress that plays Peggy's mom in Mad Men.

In that situation, when you're desperate for cash and the client is insane, it's smarter to get what you can while the getting's good.

Thanks for the note because I had no idea what the hell was going on here.

I've seen commercials advertising reverse mortgages that seek to reassure the olds that's it not some kind of shady Kenyan prince Obama trick by specifically mentioning they were enacted by President Reagan.

Is he? I don't think we've had any insight at all into Hamlin's motivations — Jimmy is suspicious of him, but so far that's strictly out of self-interest because Jimmy and Chuck stand to profit from Chuck cashing out. If you're not looking at him through McGill-colored glasses, Hamlin has said all the right things and…

I don't know about the house in this episode, which looks like a shithole, but in Breaking Bad virtually all of Mike's money goes into a trust for his granddaughter. ("Holy shit, this 7-year-old girl is the muscle behind the entire Fring operation!") He doesn't spend anything on himself or his living arrangements.

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True, even in the middle of the night in a quiet neighborhood it's unfair to assume anyone has criminal intent until your neighbors are actually robbed and/or dead.

I think Urban Rustic/Baristawave is very in right now for people trying to reach a mass audience. It's the go-to backdrop for every commercial aimed at people < 30 years old, which is a pretty reliable barometer for what's "in," even if those people have largely moved on to the next trend by the time the last one gets…

If you played this song in the presence of impressionable children you should be sent to prison.

I've heard of The Lumineers but never heard the song being hated. (Thank god.)

To Portland, really.

"The fervor over that show was obnoxious."