It is like working for a company that makes its performance metrics vague so they can arbitrarily fire people. They have ratings like “does not meet expectations”, “meets expectations” and “exceed expectations” but don’t tell you what the expectations are until your yearly review.

I don’t have an answer for these questions but I do like your comment for making my mind open up about it.

That’s a pretty good point, actually. Maybe men need new “guidelines” on how to be a man, because the current ones are toxic and unfair to them. I sometimes think society insists that men are more defined by what they aren’t—women. Stuff like, “real men don’t like pink, real men don’t cry, real men are attracted to…

.....”fine for its time?”...what a weird take

Why am I not suprised that you think S5 is just ‘fine’.

Both the writers adn the actress have said they were referencing AOC

nobody’s gonna read this, but i felt like the ending was a bit cowardly, and i wanna articulate why before this entire series falls into my personal memory hole.

Just for the readers who claim that projecting AOC onto the Newman character is completely arbitrary from the viewers’ part :

Hmm?

As a conservative,

If that’s what you took away from my post you either a.) thought I was calling you a Nazi in which case maybe you should think about why that is, b.) are an actual Neo-Nazi and really got mad about it, or c.) are cruising comment threads all over this website in order to own the libs that even slightly badmouth Trump,…

Stop dividing the country with your better ideas on addressing the climate, poverty and healthcare!

Now excuse my xenophobia as I call you a Russian bot.

Ten years. Ten years of no criminal activity, ten years where he put himself through law school, ten years of a dead-end job in a mail room. Yes, Jimmy had a tendency to regress. But at a certain point Chuck needed to acknowledge that that wasn't happening anymore.

Chuck's rant at the end there perfectly sums up why I'll never buy that Jimmy is "just as bad" or whatever. Chuck's insistance that he "saved" Jimmy, that he "has to be stopped"—if Chuck had just given Jimmy a chance, if he'd loved and supported him instead of spending what Howard acknowledges was ten years breaking…

The one thing Chuck never expected was Jimmy to be emotionally honest. He's never faced Jimmy's love of him despite his hatred of Jimmy, and he's never faced the psychosomatic truth of his illness. Jimmy breaking him down was a brutal act that Chuck forced him to by threatening the livelihoods of people Jimmy loves.

I fall more and more in love with Kim Wexler every episode.

Haha die Chuck die!!!!

By the same token, you don't make a heroic effort and put your health in danger just to screw over your brother's girlfriend. Or let your bother take care of you for years without a single moment of gratitude. Or secretly sabotage your brother for years while making yourself look like the good guy.

Too often in the real world, the difference between villainy and redemption is the efforts of those close to you.
Jimmy may have destructive impulses, but Chuck's inability to see anything beyond them is driving this dynamic. Just as your inability to see any of Jimmy's redeeming qualities drives your conclusions.
There…

"his flawlessly moral, flawlessly ethical,
generally-perfect-in-every-way brother who tries to keep him from doing
the terrible shit he wants to do, given the limitations of his own
mental health."