his sort-of speech to Allison outside the skating rink will stick with me; heartbreaking.

I think it was also fitting how Saul remembers the worst parts of Walt. It's stark contrast to Jesse remembering a largely happy meeting with Walt in the ending of el camino. Saul has good reason to remember to worst of Walter. Jesse had his issues with Walter, but he also had a lot of good left in his memories. 

In your “Stray observations,” how dare you omit:

Davis was the restaurant’s sommelier, not a waiter.

i have read somewhere he’s not even a real person and is a character on a tv show. possibly even two tv shows.

I think the point is just that he has a whole bowl of breakfast bars set out for all the special ladies who inevitably find themselves popping into his dining room to get paid early in the morning.

The “new lover” is a hooker, I believe.

See also the movie Sunshine Cleaning, with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt from about a decade back.

Re: Stray Observation 2 = Crime Scene Techs don’t clean crime scenes. There are companies that are specially hired to do that (I had a friend who worked for one of these “biological cleaning” companies... it’s a horrible job). But if you don’t hire someone to do it, then - yup - you’re cleaning up the scene as soon as…

Correction: Half-sister, not step-sister. The chemistry between Mabel and Alice was huge, but so is the “this won’t end well remember Jan” factor. While I don’t think Alice had anything to do with the murder, given that it might have been about a painting, she can’t be ruled out, and at the very least, there are…

She was pretty good as an over the top version of herself in Bojack Horseman.

Was I the only one creeped out by the card in the wallet? While Kevin was having sex with a parade of women over the years, he was keeping a Valentine answered by a 7 year old in his wallet?

I’m married, I hate white wine, and I’ve watched every single episode, so there goes your theory.

My favorite throwaway gag: tiny Elizabeth selects a black outfit from a giant closet filled with nothing but black outfits

Kate Burton as Ian’s wife in this, and John Turturro in Severance saying

Ableism, like most bigotries, isn’t defined by, “Is this person’s diagnosis on some arbitrary list of conditions?”. It’s, “This person is different from me because of her medical status, so I’m going to publicly mock her.”

The first things I remember him in were the TBS sitcom My Boys (which I didn’t ever actively seek out but just seemed to be on when I wanted a lazy watch) and then as Laura Linney’s sweet doctor on The Big C. So while I know he’s played jerks since then, I never really thought it was something he was typecast in...…

Possibly. I think your latter explanation would be most likely— they were just told to hit the bus, not exactly who was on it— and maybe with a side of “once you start shooting up a bus with two people on it, it’s probably bad opsec to leave them alive.”

Is the Culkin hiring a nod to people calling Gemstones a low-rent Succession?

Yup, that’s the one. In the first episode it caught my eye that one of them didn’t seem to be using an Apple device