I have a friend with a decades long career in the industry. I asked him once which actor’s public persona was most ad odds with what they’re actually like in person. His answer, instantly, was Bill Murray. Said he worked on films with him where he was a total nightmare, but would step off set and be photographed that…

You don’t even know what he’s accused of yet, and already you’re just so angry that anyone would dare to get him in trouble.

Or ask Lucy Liu about how he was on the set of Charles Angels

Tales from the Borderlands sequel (Hurrrayyyyyy!!!!)... written by different people and starring different characters (...huh).

“New characters”

Is this really the sequel it deserves? I think most people wanted to have the same cast as the previous game and the same writers. This sequel provides neither.

It’s going to rapidly change, that’s for sure. You’ve got some stars already calling for no pyro on set, and switching to digital. It wouldn’t be difficult. You use a special, gas-propelled mock weapon to similar the recoil action of the weapon, and digitally add smoke and discharge. It’s bog standard stuff now,…

There are productions that just do it all in post. Several directors/studios said in the wake of the Rust incident that that’s what they’ll do going forward. The argument against is mostly about authenticity and aesthetics, that it’s hard to fake things like recoil and the sparks from blanks look great on camera.

He processes the situation and immediately arrives at the right answer. Yes, maybe Campbell was right about the eventual risk. But that risk was less than firing Draper and losing a bunch of clients, or letting Draper fire Campbell (who would have immediately gone public).

My favorite part is while Cooper says “who cares” here, he actually secretly stores away this information until he needs to weaponize it against Don in S3. Mad Men did such a good job with stuff like this.

I really love the arc of the first season of Mad Men. This reveal to Burt could of been the climax we thought the season was building up to, and then Robert Morse just downplays it so beautifully and wisely.

How to Succeed is my favorite musical, and Morse was the quintessential Finch—just a perfect balance of unctuousness, mischievousness, and charm. Loved him in Mad Men as well, and his reading of “Mr. Campbell, who cares?” is probably my favorite moment in the series.

NM OSHA hit them with the max, which is all they could do within the law. But this report gives the Hutchens family a huge boost in their lawsuit. Having a government safety agency wholly roast the production for pure negligence carries a ton a weight.

I didn’t get the feeling that Lalo was intimidated/stunned by her at all—-more like, he couldn’t prove what she was saying was false in that moment, and he could see a use for her in the future, or at least he saw no benefit to slaughtering both Jimmy and Kim at that moment.

It’s true and I expected it, Jimmy doesn’t like violence, literal or even used in words, he rather con people with a smile or at least even self-pity (which he did to get rid of the Kettleman problem in season one. Kim acted like an enforcer here. She gained a hell lot of self-confidence during her almost year at…

...except for the 20 pro bono cases.

I was just as disturbed as Jimmy! I think Kim’s public defender work is evidence enough of her compassion, but with the Kettelmans, she had to play Bad Cop to Jimmy’s Good Cop. I really enjoyed the Kettlemans this episode (“press 9 to dail out”) but I was losing my patience with their stubborness too. Kim went hard on…

—The moment when Saul and Kim arrive at the courthouse and they give each other that hand squeeze. Aaaw.

She saw what the Kettlemans were doing to vulnerable people, like the little old lady she sees in the parking lot. So she does have compassion - just not for the Kettlemans.

I’ll follow along here for the season. But folks, if Donna Bowman’s writing on BB/BCS meant anything to you over the years- as it very much does to me- I’d encourage you to check out her new home for tonight’s episode and the rest of season 6 to come. You might recognize someone else there too.