The guy driving the van carrying Carl and Mickey is Hugh Laurie (uncredited).

>> play out a long scene in their T-bird

This review missed the not-so-subtle symbolism of the FAUSTUS poster and the red dress.

What a lot of passive-aggressive contrarian nonsense.

>> fits more snuggly in with the Breaking Bad universe

>> As the jaws of the vice tighten

The telephone is an Ericofon, a midcentury design created by Ericsson of Sweden.

The best joke of the episode was visual — Vice Dean Laybourne's office. A capsule of every Coen Brothers movie ever made: John Goodman, venetian blind shadows and scary 1940s furniture.

>> April, who's sarcastic edge
Ahem. Whose, not "who's."