They do well with the Kim & Jimmy part but the cartel part often feels contrived IMO. The really bent themselves out of shape to keep Gus alive/ keep the Salamancas in the dark.

No. She hasn’t and given her alcoholic mom it’s pretty likely she burnt out on caretaking early in her life. (Ask me how I know).

How old is Kim supposed to be? I assumed she’s the same age as Rhea Seehorn, give or take, and Rhea is 50, so it would be a miracle if she rolled up with four bio kids. But she would be a great step-mom / adopted mom (if she wants -- I love that Kim and Jimmy never discuss children).

Personally, I don’t buy for a second that Mike in BCS would keep working with Gus. He absolutely hates Gus’s entire crew. He thinks he’s much smarter than everyone and he can’t stand the convoluted way they do things. He has some respect for Gus, but not much. I don’t see him staying out of loyalty and I don’t see him…

Yeah, Kim is the potential sociopath on this show. Not Mike or Gus or Lalo, or any of the men who kill in cold blood... Kim... right.

Jimmy isn’t bothered by Kim being able to lie convincingly. He’s bothered by a) seeing how he’s corrupted her and b) the way she is honest about her dishonesty. Jimmy convinces himself he’s a good guy. Kim doesn’t do that. And, so, when Jimmy seems Kim being honest about her dishonesty, so to speak, he’s confronted…

She’s punishing herself.

Yes, god forbid a female character who occasionally does bad things not get punished...

Jimmy isn’t doing it because he has a conscious. He’s doing it because he’s soft. He and Kim are both lying. He just doesn’t have the stomach to lie in a more matter of fact way.

Yes, Kim does bring out some of Jimmy’s scammer impulses, but she also channels them for good. She’s good for him, overall, but he is bad for her. Still, she’s not the first person to say it’s not you, it’s me... erm, us.

Yes, this argument is beyond stupid. The Hunger Games is so obviously inspired by gladiatorial combat. There’s even an area. It shares way more in common with gladiatorial combat than Battle Royale. The only thing the two movies share is teenagers killing each other, but any media directed at teens and preteens is…

You see attractive women with ugly or only moderately attractive men all the time. Assuming that is what you mean. It’s a bit less cute when the moderately attractive man is an author-insert character, but it’s not really far from reality either.

It is a bit classist in the angle, but I think it’s true for everyone really: no one is really fulfilled completely by their job, even if their job is a highly desirable one, say writing and directing films. Doing something for money changes the dynamics so it’s no longer yours.

Everybody you know, maybe. Everybody who comments on Reddit and the AV Club, maybe. But lots of people don’t have HBO and/or don’t watch much TV.

My dad has never watched GoT and he does, reluctantly, watch a lot of Marvel movies (cause he loves movies but not TV).

Plenty of people watch Marvel movies because they’re…

So any movie that is not a superhero movie is “anti-blockbuster counter-programming?” Okay...

I think it’s pretty clear he views women as objects for his amusement.

I’m as straight as an arrow, so it’s possible I’m missing something. And I’m for diversity in casting, as a general rule. But I’m not really a fan of expecting actors to out themselves for their roles. If an actor wants to talk about their sexual orientation, great. But it’s really none of my business.

It doesn’t really matter if she was the victim or not. She didn’t defame Depp in her op-ed, because she didn’t accuse him of abuse in her op-ed.

None of that states Depp physically abused her. In fact, none of it suggests anyone abused her, ever. It’s all about how people reacted to her saying she was abused. Even if she lied about being abused, her statements in the Op-Ed are categorically true.

I am not a lawyer but I am a writer. I understand what words…

It’s not an issue for me that he found her behavior off-putting, but the language he uses is very telling. She’s too emotional, so not trustworthy, wheras Depp is stable, thus trustworthy. It’s a few notches away from “don’t trust those crazy women.”