No, it's not just you. I think many TV critics have come to this place where anything that involves race or heritage becomes Problematic, and they don't bother to delve beyond the surface of the matter, or applying any critical thinking to it, instead just doing the minimum to generate a thinkpiece.

I thought the same thing at first, but another commenter pointed out that Jimmy not knowing his account number was almost certainly a lie, since he had been on the phone all day and talking about it. (And lying about that would get the agent to search by "McGill," and thus already put Chuck in the conversation before…

I've been thinking the more likely answer is that the story of Chuck's mental illness will go wider and make the McGill name toxic. (That, and/or when Jimmy returns to practicing law, he doesn't want to bring his elderly law practice back and focus solely on criminals, so he doesn't return to being Jimmy McGill.)

Don't worry, having interacted with him elsewhere, I can reassure you that he is in fact an asshole.

Also, I just realized I may have gotten you confused with another pro-Chuck poster with a similar name. SalonKitty? My mistake about that.

I believe the latter interpretation is correct: Chuck thinks Jimmy's degree is lesser because it is not prestigious. (Ironically, of course, Chuck might have had an easier time of getting his degree, since he presumably wasn't working full-time at the same time.) I don't think there's any indicator that Jimmy's degree…

We still don't know the truth about what happened with the store. We saw Jimmy stealing from the till once, but we also saw Mr. McGill giving money away to scam artists. How do you know which of the two is more liable? You don't. But you believe Chuck's story. But Chuck isn't a reliable witness because his resentment…

Er… I think it's pretty clearly a Cain and Abel story, or was, but that Chuck is Cain and Jimmy is Abel.

Go Topes!

It should be about 2003 now in the story timeline.

I don't think people dislike Chuck because he's mentally ill. They dislike him because he's so obviously motivated by resentment of Jimmy, and he's too cowardly to face up honestly to that for so long, letting Jimmy take care of him while he undermines him behind the scenes. (Not something you'd expect from someone…

Yeah, for sure. Once he said that, his intent was clear, but as the best con men know, the best lies are rooted in truth, and the truth of Jimmy's recent experiences and feelings about them was a major part of his lie.

It's not just you. I feel like so much of the show is just lifted from better works, or references better works, that I had to just stop watching.

The fact that Jimmy could cheat his way into law while Chuck had to work for it was the final straw

Chuck has resented his brother since he was nine years old and tried to hold him down ever since just because Mom liked him better. At least you didn't say the people who don't agree with you "have something seriously wrong with them" this week.

This is kind of what I was thinking. Chuck having higher premiums— HHM will figure out a way to deal. But Chuck being uninsurable? That might be the impetus to force him out.

It was for charity!

The great thing about it, though, is that everything he said about what he'd been through is true.

Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid.

I do really like this show (after souring on it a bit during that end of S1 / beginning of S2 stretch), but I do want to say— anyone reading the comments, if you aren't watching Great News, go catch up on Hulu! It's already been renewed for season 2, and it's another Fey/Carlock-produced sitcom (with former 30 Rock…