Saul Goodman ran the same kind of commercials that Jimmy does, though. He can't be too worried about being on the DL.

The Mike of this show is still not the straight-up executioner that he becomes, so there is an arc for him. He doesn't just work for Gus, he loses his Code.

A 13 Hour After School Special.

Still the greatest Christmas Episode of any show, ever.

A lot of times shows like this, especially on HBO, are considered almost auteur works, the vision of a showrunner who’s writing elevates all the other players involved. In this case the writing was good, but it’s everyone else that brought their A-Game, from the visual choices to the sound design and music selection.

Marvel's problem is that they (rightly) promoted their A-Talent writers as a publishing initiative, and then when a lot of them jumped ship it became "Wait, who is this now?" in charge of their big books.

That's when I knew he was going to be Shadow King 2.0, because it's basically Angellus reverting back to Angel right before Buffy sends him to Hell anyway.

Was Clark's son a Featured Extra?

I have to say, Finn Jones grew on me. He wasn't the Danny Rand I expected — and it was a bit annoying how he said "Hand" or "Rand" — but he had an endearing quality that worked well for a fish-out-of-water. With a little more time to fight train, there's no reason the show couldn't be much improved in Season 2.

The biggest problem this show had compared to the other Marvel Netflix series is that the lead character is not as "street" level as the his 3 predecessors. It required a budget that they clearly didn't have, so instead of doing the Capital Cities of Heaven stuff, which is basically the character that modern fans…

So this is a closed-ended series, meaning everything has to be tied up neatly in a bow. That means it has to be a satisfying conclusion, and the Murderer and the Murdered need to be justified.

An aside: That conversation, though, did highlight how relatively easy
an escape was for Celeste to set up, because she has means, and how
near-impossible it would be for so many who lack her financial
situation.

A Drunken Style Drunken Master fight was a clever way to make things interesting on this show's tight budget, but man did this episode look cheap. The set outside Madam Gao's could have been from a Power Rangers episode, except the fight choreography was probably better on MMPR.

Benny and Lenny and King the Beagle and the Devil with Yellow Eyes and the Storybook kid were all the Shadow King.

What Bimpy said. "Lenny" was just a costume the Shadow King wore to make David feel comfortable. He could have used Mister Rogers or the Dalai Lama.

Right. Real Lenny died, but Head Lenny was a construct of the Shadow King in David's mind.

If ever a show deserved a proper post-season, episode-by-episode recap with the showrunner like Vanderwerff used to do, this is it.

Thanks, that's awesome of you!

So Lenny was real. She died in the Pilot. The Shadow King manifested itself as her because David trusted and felt comfortable around her.

I wonder if this show got renewed after Beauty and the Beast took in all the money because they didn't want to lose Dan Stevens.