I mean, I found my niche.  There are some real upsides.  But the fundamentals of the work in a firm (or as a solo or mid-sized, probably) are just frustrating.  Even after you make partner, you’re forever worrying about billable hours, generation, credit, etc.  It’s a haul.

Wait, gotta do my due diligence.  Can you shoot lightning bolts from your fingertips?

I think a lot of Jimmy’s choices are coming out of a place of self-defense. Kim’s too. I think Jimmy’s reaction to Chuck’s death was set in motion before he died. Remember, Jimmy’s last interaction with Chuck was when Chuck told a self-serving lie - “You’ve never mattered all that much to me.” Jimmy heard that line in…

This is why we drink, right?  As someone who is geographically estranged from my close friends, my only social life now is my immediate family and my colleagues.  (So CoronaLife really blows.)  Jimmy and Kimmy’s lives totally make sense to me.  Being a lawyer sucks.

Haven’t started the show yet (planning to binge soon) but I’m a giant fan of the book.  Can anyone tell me how close/faithful it is just to set my expectations?

That was my second thought. My first was of Ned Beatty talking to Howard Beale in Network (which Jimmy quotes early in the show, talking to... Howard.)

Watching him eat the curly fries was some high quality callback, verging on fan service.  

It’s not phrased weird at all! (Although, I admit the graphic obscures one half of a butt. So I suppose, the AVClub is conspicuously running seven halves of butt.)

So, one thing I’m somewhat obsessed with in watching this show is the “disappearance” of Jimmy McGill. From the jump, we’ve watched a performer who has trained for years (in conartistry) to slide into the con and commit. (And it’s Bob Odenkirk doing it, so it’s like a double joke!)

From one view, Jimmy/Saul is a…

If you also had a fake family attend your hearing, you can be my new God.

Was I overreading, or did Gus briefly pause to inspect whether the team cleaned the fryers well enough?  This writing... inspirational.

That was some ACE retconning for Herr Schuller - the SuperLab was the bane of his existence to construct.  He feared that his embezzlement/misappropriation would be detected and ruin him for years.  Then it doesn’t happen and the lab is built and is hugely profitable!  Then the lab explodes and he’s discovered! …

What about He-Man?

This was a good article and the movie sounds heinous.  But I also am amused that it feels like an excuse for the AVC to run a pic or eight halves of butt for a whole day.  

Sounds like a reddit channel.

That’s becoming the Netflix Doc house style.  Selective editing and hinting that there’s a person who is totally innocent and in prison or totally guilty but free, and then imply corruption, etc.  Netflix docs are so much worse than their scripted series.

I mean... of course?  I’m a feminist but I find this article confusing - this was a (somewhat indulgently lurid) series about a bunch of lunatics.  The people are all (with maybe three exceptions) extremely gross.  Misogyny is one of many, many sins of these weird people.

Holy shit, did HE kill James Lipton? Jimmy Fallon will be next!

Wait, do you have to be called “James” to be a celebrity shill?

I agree entirely on the MV storyline.  I can only explain it this way - this is the season Kim and Jim go off the rails, so the risk and brazenness will jump.

Having practices for several years, I disagree.  It’s more accurate than most shows I’ve seen, with keen and accurate insight into how law works.  I’m particularly impressed with how they handled the dynamics of small/solo firms vs. big ones, what business development looks like, how solos get stretched out of comfort…