RIP to Howard. So smart, he put all the pieces of Slippin’ Jimmy’s con together in no time. He had it down cold. To the point I almost thought he had Cliff convinced to keep fighting through the deposition debacle.

He wasn’t fearful. He insults Lalo by saying “he was in the middle of something” when lalo was trying to speak. Not knowing who Lalo was Howard made a fatal mistake.

Howard was never truly a dick, though. Sure, he was pompous and a bit overbearing, but he literally let Jimmy assume for, what, years(?) that he was the one holding up his advancement at HHM, not Chuck.

Sound Guy is in athletic clothes because he played the “Frisbee Dude” that Saul is posing with in the second set of photos. I loved how the showrunners kept just enough of the details from the audience that you couldn’t see the whole con until it spooled out in the conference room.

Fabian fucking owned it.

I bet you could relax in a truck stop shower if you spent a day in a New Mexico storm cellar.

I don’t understand why so many seem to view Howard as a dick.

I also appreciate how emotionally the scene shows Kevin’s maturity. Season 1 Kevin would not have been able to step in during the photo scene or handle Rebecca this way.

Toe heads become no-neck football players.  You’re thinking of tow heads.  The word “tow” in that phrase is what they call flax drying in the sun, and flax drying in the sun turns whiteish.

I find it a little weird that Sophie is even at this wedding. They had Kate and her patch things up in a previous episode, but does Sophie even live anywhere near Kate? How did they get from “OK, we’re cool with each other” to “We’re close to enough to merit a wedding invite and fly across the country for each other”?

I wondered if it’s not state senator? Did they clarify that?

I’m not sure if the stopper is a sign that Kim is alive, or if it’s a momento like Marco’s ring to remind him of Kim. The thong could be hers for all we know. But judging by the big box of viagra and the minoxidil (erectile dysfunction and male-pattern-baldness), more likely casual sex with much younger women,…

Thanks! I think Vince got a little carried away with this premiere. Everything about Nacho’s situation and Gus’s plans concerning him in that Motel was confusing as fuck. So I checked out your link to Donna’s recap looking for clarity, and turns out she was just as confused about it all herself!!! I really hope the…

I mean, it probably wasn’t Kim’s, given what we know about her fashion choices and personality. Most likely it belonged to some other special lady with whom Saul shared a bath.

I sometimes wonder if people from other countries really care about cultural appropriation. My mother-in-law, for example, is from India and is in many ways still traditional. I suspect based on many of her previous actions and comments that many things deemed cultural appropriation wouldn’t bother her. She’s not…

In 1973 that song felt like a revolutionary anti-prejudice anthem. My cousin and I were scandalized when my aunt made up her own verse: “Just because I scalped the other kids in the class. What’s the matter with those people? They’ve got their brass.”

I agree and a lot of the time meds and therapy work great in conjunction.

I’ve done some contract work and I don’t think LW2 should involve HR. LW2 doesn’t work for the company; she works for the temp agency (I’m assuming she’s a W-2 employee of the agency, not a 1099 independent contractor. I’ve been both.) Good staffing agencies will check in both with their temps and with the people…

I agree with you - I think involving HR, especially in LW2's position as a temp, is risky. I wouldn’t object to trying to work with HR to get some certainty around the transition to a permanent position, but anything beyond that (talking about not fitting in, saying you were under-trained, and especially talking about…

I don’t know about the party—HR probably doesn’t want to run interference on outside activities—but the LW should definitely bring up the fact that she’s running from behind since she wasn’t fully trained and would like to arrange a meeting with her coworkers/boss about exactly how they want stuff done. Getting all…