I don't think there's anything about how things played out with Mike (specifically in terms of his willingness to let Walt ferry him the go-bag) that can't be readily grounded in what we know of his character and his dynamic with Walt: but I'd rather discuss an overarching point that comes into play here.
H. Maddas
hmaddas
I don't think there's anything about how things played out with Mike (specifically in terms of his willingness to let Walt ferry him the go-bag) that can't be readily grounded in what we know of his character and his dynamic with Walt: but I'd rather discuss an overarching point that comes into play here.
They've got a second one at Belmont and Sheffield now. Gotta say, from the description at least the Heisenberg sounds pretty awesome …
They've got a second one at Belmont and Sheffield now. Gotta say, from the description at least the Heisenberg sounds pretty awesome …
They don't know that Jesse has any involvement with the Fring operation. Hank's always figured him as a low-level methhead dumbass, useful possibly as marking a path to the real players, but that's it. The scale of Fring's business being what it was, and the investigation having gone international now, some dipshit…
They don't know that Jesse has any involvement with the Fring operation. Hank's always figured him as a low-level methhead dumbass, useful possibly as marking a path to the real players, but that's it. The scale of Fring's business being what it was, and the investigation having gone international now, some dipshit…
The DEA confiscating Mike's money isn't what changed the game for him, though. He went to Lydia's fully determined to kill her: collaborating with Walt, scraping up money to pay off the names, nothing of that was on his radar. The Fring money was gone, his carefully vetted guys were starting to blow, but that…
The DEA confiscating Mike's money isn't what changed the game for him, though. He went to Lydia's fully determined to kill her: collaborating with Walt, scraping up money to pay off the names, nothing of that was on his radar. The Fring money was gone, his carefully vetted guys were starting to blow, but that…
It was phenylacetic acid that the cartel chemist synthesized.
It was phenylacetic acid that the cartel chemist synthesized.
Gustavo Fring, Gustavo Fring
He'll make you laugh, he'll make you sing
He likes to run, and then the … box cutter … with the person …
Gustavo Fring, Gustavo Fring
He'll make you laugh, he'll make you sing
He likes to run, and then the … box cutter … with the person …
Thing is, the whole episode was an exercise in joke-telling, a virtuosic technical exercise at that: the entire extended date scene functioned basically as sort of a shaggy-dog story, all of it for the payoff of that very last bit of dialog—"We're going to go out again, right?" "Yeah, sure." Which could practically…
Thing is, the whole episode was an exercise in joke-telling, a virtuosic technical exercise at that: the entire extended date scene functioned basically as sort of a shaggy-dog story, all of it for the payoff of that very last bit of dialog—"We're going to go out again, right?" "Yeah, sure." Which could practically…
Possibly the most surrealistic thing about the episode (car-crunching earth mover, scar-displaying motorcycle salesman and all) is that a girl clearly that much smarter than Louie and with that little tolerance for passive-aggressive bullshit should have spent six months dating him.
Possibly the most surrealistic thing about the episode (car-crunching earth mover, scar-displaying motorcycle salesman and all) is that a girl clearly that much smarter than Louie and with that little tolerance for passive-aggressive bullshit should have spent six months dating him.
"Is it just me, or is the lobby full of Negroes?"
"Is it just me, or is the lobby full of Negroes?"
As is typical of Mad Men, Megan's mother calling the actress-dream a "phantom" is a bit of misdirection (though late in the episode it rounds satisfyingly back on itself): this episode isn't about Megan, or about female aspiration in general. The phantoms are all around Don in this episode, whose main burden is to…
As is typical of Mad Men, Megan's mother calling the actress-dream a "phantom" is a bit of misdirection (though late in the episode it rounds satisfyingly back on itself): this episode isn't about Megan, or about female aspiration in general. The phantoms are all around Don in this episode, whose main burden is to…