This would have been a lot more interesting without the gratuitous putdowns of JW, who hasn't stopped creating in multiple formats since the White Stripes ended. And yes, the videos with Gondry were awesome.

What I'm saying she signed up for is defending Jimmy knowing that that in itself is going to bring her under suspicion, but she does it anyway. It's the defense against Chuck's demands she signs up for, not the demands themselves.

I think folks who want the pace to be faster just want to be watching a completely different kind of show. This show gives us the kind of cinematic depth you just don't get elsewhere on TV. I just roll around and revel in it. (And Breaking Bad often took its time, to great effect, too.)

I'd watch.

That could well be true, but she has enough experience both in the law generally and in the NM legal community in particular to know how her actions may be viewed. In other words, if she comes under a cloud of suspicion, it's one she's aware of and voluntarily signs up for. I think she knows what she's doing, but we…

That's where I knew him from! Damn, this show is full of moments like that!

I had to feel during this scene that they deliberately intended our minds to drift to pizza . . .

Saying Kim's career is going to be jeopardized through no fault of her own assumes that Kim is unaware of what she's signing up to do, which I don't think is giving her enough credit. She knows the score perfectly well.

A lot of the Chuck hate simply comes from the way he's written, performed, and shot (in the gloom). Our emotions are being guided that way.

I think BCS stands alone. Obviously there are all sorts of resonances if you've already watched BB, but the show still makes perfect sense if you haven't. Those who've seen BB may know where/how these characters end up in the BB universe, but we still don't know how they get there, via the BCS universe. And nobody…

Cranston and Gilligan both said he's not appearing in this series.

I wouldn't take Howard's role in that scheme too much at face value. Just going by earlier episodes.

I think the root of the issue is simply that we've never seen Chuck as an initially sympathetic figure. Walt when we first met him was a totally innocent family man with an awful diagnosis. That made it possible to continue to locate the humanity in what/who he became.

I like that the show is its own thing and has an entirely different pace and approach from BB. I love BCS, just differently to the way I loved BB.

And Howard turned out to be a good guy after all at the end of season one, so . . . I agree, I don't think he's in Chuck's corner on this one.

It's strongly implied that the whale in Moby-Dick does NOT die. It does however kill everyone else except Ishmael.

And that's why I now like him. He tries, bless him.

I don't know, I think the different focus and pacing of BCS gives it its own reason to exist. Just like in real life ,people have meaning even before their lives go in other unanticipated directions. I like both shows for different reasons, I guess, and BCS way more than I expected to when it started.

Ah—that could explain it. I was thinking he was going to sweep up something the bagman had "dropped," and didn't see how that worked given that Jimmy didn't apparently see anything.

I thought the reveal of the sign was the best part of the episode—I know it has no significance in the BCS universe, but all the BrBa viewers excited by the FRINGS BACK anagram would have got a total thrill at that point. Well, I did, because I was so engrossed in the scene I didn't see that detail coming, dumb as…