No, that’s pretty stale as well. People were claiming that the scandals and open bribery of Warren Harding in the 1920s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and the combination of Watergate/loss in Vietnam/OPEC crisis in the 1970s meant that the US was likely to either become a dictatorship or break up into smaller…

The thing is, people have been claiming the imminent collapse of American/Western culture for over a century. It’s getting to be a tired trope at this point.

No Cock Ring

His good side was revealed to the audience, but has it ever been revealed to Jimmy and Kim? Much of the time we witness Howard’s goodness, or that his cruelty towards Jimmy was largely Chuck-inspired, Jimmy and Kim are not around. So while we may perceive him as better than they think, they’ve had very few reasons to…

I don’t think I’d excise any full seasons, but I think some of the earlier seasons could’ve done with some trimming. BCS, especially in the middle seasons, felt to me at points like they wanted to get to a specific event at a specific time (generally the end of the season, although with “Chicanery” and Chuck’s…

That moment of Kim turning the car around at the end of the last episode was the most genuinely worried I’d felt for her yet. I have an academic friend who once said something like “Drama is about the moment when you choose, and that choice determines the rest of your life.” Kim turning the car around felt like that…

Though remember that the last episode makes it perfectly clear that Kim has a perfect opportunity to do something which will help a lot of people and fulfill all the good intentions she claims to have without sticking it to Howard... which she turns her back on just to see the plan to destroy Howard go through. At…

Can we talk about how Jimmy and Kim had no qualms about burning the elderly clients and Main as collateral? They’ll land on their feet, as it was put, but they did screw a lot of people other than Howard along the way here.

I get the feeling everyone here missed that, including the folks responding to your comment.

The showrunners have already said they’re ready to move on from “scenic Southwestern vistas ravaged by meth” (not an exact quote but close) and move on to something new.

He was a lawyer - it makes sense that he would have a good game face even when he’s not 100% behind what he’s being told to do. But regardless, being a bit of an asshole now and then doesn’t necessarily make you a bad guy. Everyone has bad moments. Unless we have wildly different interpretations of what that means.

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.

Definitely the most well plotted one I’ve seen. Most rely on cheesy flashbacks and fake outs ‘But what you didn’t know, was this!’ where they’re tricking not only the mark in universe but the audience as well - which just falls flat and empty.

Here every bit of their scheme happens, or is hinted at, in front of us…

1. That may have been the best long con I’ve ever seen. (If there are any other shows with similar schemes on this level, I’d love to hear ‘em)

Man, writers did no favors to Patrick Fabian. 5 minute, half expository, monolog while acting drunk. That had potential to be very cringey. But he pulled it off. 

The revealed back in season one that he wasn’t an asshole, and it’s like some people forgot.

Three possible spinoffs:

I’ve been arguing for weeks that Howard isn’t that bad and people consistently call him a douchebag for reasons I can’t understand. He’s a little smarmy in his professional life but the way he interacts and treats people outside of work consistently paints the picture of a kind-hearted person.

I repeatedly see comments arguing that Howard didn’t deserve to go out in any sort of BrBa fashion, but was still a privileged douchebag lawyer. As I think about it, I really believe he is a prisoner of the circumstances he was born into, and every decision he makes or “douchebag” persona he puts on has always been an…