Yes. You should check out the article you just commented on wherein writer Donna Bowman mentions that very thing.

Sure, Kevin was foolish to let his pride and bullheadedness get in the way of taking the win-wins Kim offered.

It’s actually a pretty good way to torch a restaurant. The investigators won’t find any accelerant and the source of ignition is the first thing you’d expect to find in a chicken joint—a chicken.

Correct. The frozen bird into the oil would cause a boil-over and flash fire but wouldn’t blow the place up. The gas line is what did that.

...And it’s not the man Kim vowed to have and to hold.

This one’s a B for me. I wanted to see how Jimmy was going to pull off Lalo’s ridiculously impossible request, and Mike just walks in and hands him the answer easy peasy. A rare shortcut for a show that’s usually good about putting in the legwork- as evidenced last week by all the great pieces it took to put Lalo in…

I saw Daniel Fienberg’s tweet about his favorite shot of the series being in this episode, and I was looking for it. Was it the shot of Kim sitting up in bed when Jimmy tells her his day? The shots of Mike reading to his granddaughter in a blue bed? Maybe it was a comedy shot, of Gus turning that chicken plate around,…

She’s not wrong, but she doesn’t include how self-serving that advice was. Sure, Kevin was foolish to let his pride and bullheadedness get in the way of taking the win-wins Kim offered. But Kim implies that she was only looking out for Mesa Verde’s best interests, and that’s a lie by omission.

We need a Mythbusters episode of them testing out Gus’ method for blowing up his restaurant. After thinking about it, it might come out “plausible” because I remember reading a story a year or two ago about a KFC that literally blew up overnight because of a gas malfunction.

I saw ‘How you chew and walk’

Next season is supposed to be 13 episodes, if that helps.

It’s become impossible for me not to comment weekly on the craftsmanship of this show. The scene with Nacho and Gus setting up the arson at Los Pollos Hermanos was just a masterclass of shots, angles, close-ups, and wide. With just the perfect music accompaniment, a jaunty latin tune.

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…

I was thinking about that too. Jimmy wouldn’t have anyone to fall back on either, but I just wonder if Kim has ever had a close friendship similar to what Jimmy had with Marco. There hasn’t been enough information given about her past for us to know.

What a beautiful and pensive episode. I believe the next one is directed by Vince Gilligan, so....get ready.

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