Gus should have built his lab in the back of Mrs. Nguyen’s nail salon. So long as Mamma gets a taste anything goes, and the rest of the nameless employees won’t say anything or they’ll get deported. They wouldn’t expect as many amenities either. Plus, all the cucumber water you can stomach!

Jimmy started studying law to get into Kim’s pants. Now we know that.

I suppose the question is this: If you have someone working in your mailroom and after a couple of years you pay to send them to law school, at what point (if any) do you start using them as paralegals? After the first year (when they’d only be paralegals for two years)? After the second year (when they’d only be a par…

The kids would have got away with it, if not for those meddling adults!

My understanding is that it’s not “They make law students work in the mail room” but “They’ll put their mailroom staff through law school.” Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with flexible hours...

Yep. 1982.

Wasn’t “Fitzcarraldo” one of the movie posters on Jimmy and Kim’s wall?

We don’t know that he’s not helping. We DO know that it’s not a “quick fix.” That’s what I took from the exchange.

I will say that, with a firm like HHM (as it’s been presented to us), it seems unlikely that Howard would be appearing in person if it WASN’T a big deal. Send an associate. I was expecting Howard to say “I haven’t actually argued before a judge in ten years...” (not that he NEEDS any other reasons to be stressed out,…

“I love those Bavarians. So...METICULOUS.”

Agreed. Jimmy came up with an untapped market for cheap phones; he knows from experience who would want those and how to sell to them, but I’m convinced he just wanted floor traffic (at first). “Networking” for his future clientele is, as I see it, not in his mind yet.

I’ll tell you one thing: However long it’s been since Matty died (I have no clue how much time is supposed to have passed since Matty was killed, except that for Mike it might as well have been yesterday), but I would NOT want to be the first guy Stacey decides she wants to date (or the second, or the third).

I agree with you entirely. Mike was quivering with rage over Stacey “moving on” (even though she PRESENTS as that being a bad thing). He couldn’t lash out at Stacey, though, so he lashed out at Henry (he might still have called out Henry for bullshit at that meeting, if only to win his bet, but he would have had more f…

I’m not 100% convinced that the judge correctly figured out Kim’s motive for being there. She didn’t contradict him, but she didn’t confirm his assumptions either. In fact,  that he DID voice a reason for Kim hanging around the courthouse makes me suspect that it’s NOT the real reason. Foreshadowing (will Jimmy tell wh…

Lawyering aside, you might ask “Would a film buff know one of Paul Newman’s last great roles?” =-)

The letter was what Jimmy expected it to be: “You’re my brother and I love you, but I’m not giving you any money or a leg up.”

Joker: “Nihilism? Fuck me. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos..."

Are you familiar with the idea of “the Scourge of God”? Attila was supposed to have been one (and Hamlet thought he may have been one). The idea is that, to loose His wrath upon the world, God sometimes gives damned men (maybe women, too, although I’m not familiar with any women who’ve been “graced” with that title) po…

I haven’t checked all the posts for the last week, but there’s a difference (in terms of likelihood) between somebody who’s LOOKING for Saul Goodman and som9ne who merely RECOGNIZES him. From “Gene’s” perspective, though, either is very dangerous.

It’s the snakeskin boots.