To spend so little time in this review on the cultural and religious dynamics at work here is criminal, when that's the goddamn crux of the episode. No mention of the post-credits Israel conversation, or the Jewish tutor who's essentially a main character in the episode? You say you're asking "so many questions" and…

“I must concede that this comedy program has made me laugh.”

Great stuff as always, dude. Good Lord.

This. This. This. I gotta go back and read some of the critiques here about Joe Pera for I fear they probably took him very seriously.

Fake Angela yelling “You’ll never have something real!” (paraphrasing) at Nathan right before breaking character to run the ‘scene’ again was just! The whole fake fight scene was incredible.

not to be too literal... but for me, it feels kind of clear that the viewer is intended to mainly relate to Nathan as author/filmmaker, with the emotional draw being (as he described in this episode) the absurdity of modern life, as heightened and illuminated by paradoxical meta performances. even though that scene…

I’m getting the sense you don’t realize that the Nathan Fielder we see is a comic persona developed by Nathan Fielder the creative mastermind.

i would hate hate hate her as tomb raider, but i would love ‘untitled aubrey plaza action/adventure/heist movie’

Yeah getting some Ike Perlmutter vibes from this guy.  100% he thinks all black people look alike and doesn’t like women superheroes because they don’t sell toys 

How can we NOT think that as The Flash continues to be allowed to move forward despite the absolute insanity surrounding Ezra Miller?? Like, it’s not even subtle, so I AM saying it. This is some racist and sexist bullshit.

Listen, I’m not saying Zaslav is racist or sexist, but canceling Batgirl (with Bab’s being played by a WOC), Static Shock, Supergirl, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ black Superman movie DOES make me cock an eyebrow.

I loved the Jesse scene, and I’ve heard some criticism that Aaron Paul feels like he’s playing a parody of Pinkman with these cameos, but I think he’s slipped back into the role with ease.

I think it’s clear Kim wanted to escape herself

Apply to a.v. club my dude. This comment could be a featured article and is way better than anything they have up right now.

i started re-watching the series and that would have been season 2 jesse, who pretty much said yo that much.

To riff on your take, Kim hasn’t really survived in her Florida form.  She’s already dead inside.  Coming back to ABQ and trying to make things right is bringing herself back to life - even if that life is behind bars.  

Something I just realized after finishing this episode: Jimmy is always at his most vengeful when people attempt to hold themselves accountable. Note how his true rage at Howard started when Howard confessed that he felt responsible for Chuck’s death. When Kim comes in to sign the divorce settlement, his performance…

Subconscious self-sabotage, possibly. The kind of behaviour Saul Goodman would have berated a client over.

I thought Jeff just panicked. But, yeah, Gene was much sloppier on this job, between the B&E, the actual theft, and just hanging out having a whiskey at the guy’s house. To the point where I started to consider that he was planning to get caught for some reason.

They’ve done the reflection thing before all the way back in the first episode when he first rewatches his old ads.

Well I’m glad my prediction of Kim not having died of cancer didn’t pan out (it was a Vince episode and he has form of extreme darkness) but didn’t see it being that phonecall is what starts her attempt at some form of absolution or restitution, although I guess it could’ve been driven by finally having enough of…