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Loved the random observations. I truly hope they are saving Carl up for some dramatic satisfying demise as he is just tremendously annoying. Yes, him and Spenser are annoying, but at least Spenser seems useful.

Do I detect sarcasm?

I was going to ask about this, she is a real user isn't she? She's got him coming over to babysit, inventing shoot outs on her street, buying her houses. She's not fooling Mike. He is playing along for the good of the grand daughter. Recall that in BB he is saving all his money to give an inheritance to his grand

But IS it Howard's punishment of Kim? Recall how Howard has been puppet to Chuck's puppet master in the past when it came to keeping Jimmy out of the practice when he passed the bar/got his papers to practice … and all along it was Chuck. I recall there was a scene where Howard appeared to want to promote Jimmy but

I agree, he's easy to hate and Jimmy's loyalty to his essential well being is a credit to Jimmy. I was galled when Chuck said "I appreciate you staying last night, I hope you know if the tables were turned I'd do the same for you". I think he believes he would, I wonder myself … would he? I can't help but feel there

You're absolutely right - maybe she builds a team to serve the account, but they need regulatory, they need commercial/contract support etc. But for now its just her, with no resources, no inhouse research team - all the things a big firm offers. If they were highly cash constrained and she offered a crazy discount,

Great review! I have one issue for discussion. I don’t agree with this sentence **—-Jimmy’s pilfering from the till and ruining his father (a story confirmed, or at least made plausible, by the cold open of “Inflatable”).—-** My take on this scene was not that Jimmy was responsible for his father’s financial